Graduate students at APSI have a diverse array of disciplinary and regional interests, resulting in a robust and dynamic academic community within and beyond the classroom. Graduates go on to professional careers in such fields as business, education, law, media, and nonprofits or pursue doctoral degrees at some of the world’s most prestigious universities.
Si Cen
Research Interests: role of NGOs in ethnic minority communities in China, Chinese media
Yiyi Cui
Research Interests: Japanese society and Sino-Japanese relations
Chu Deng
Research Interests: Chinese cinema and culture
Rong Fan
Research Interests: Japanese society, relations between the U.S. and East Asia
Zihan Feng
Research Interests: Sinophone writings, female writers in 20th Century China, film adaptations of literary works
Xinglu Jiang
Research Interests: modern Chinese literature, contemporary Japanese culture
Lun Jing
Research Interests: Japan's post-war cultural and social history
Tojiro Kataya
Research Interests: intersection of politics and transnational popular culture in the 1990's, Japanese pop music in Hong Kong and Taiwan
Kiduck Kim
Research Interests: history and international trade
Nian Liu
Research Interests: digital media, television and the Internet and its effects on diverse social values in East Asia
Xiaoning Lu
Research Interests: environmental history of East Asian countries, environmental issues
Boyang Ma
Research Interests: economics, development, anthropology of China
Chuanhui Meng
Research Interests: modern Chinese literature and film, queer studies, diaspora and film
Ruoyao Pan
Research Interests: Sino-Japanese relations, history, education and politics of language
Shuning Pan
Research Interests: comparative study of Japan and China, contemporary Japanese art
Ruojin Sa
Research Interests: preservation of Northeastern Asian ethnic minories
Di Song
Research Interests: foreign relations, economics, Japan
Yi Sun
Research Interests: contemporary Chinese literature
Mier Tai
Research Interests: comparative history and culture of East Asia, ethnic diaspora
Keyun Tian
Research Interests: queer narratives, postcolonial conditions and historical traumas in literary and visual texts of mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
Dingding Wang
Research Interests: East Asian literature, film, and culture
Wenyi Wang
Research Interests: political economy and social development in China and other East Asian countries
Yatong Wang
Research Interests: modern Japanese literature and popular culture, including anime and otaku culture
Xinyi Wu
Research Interests: Chinese women's economic participation and gender issues, economic and social background of Chinese feminism
Kaiyang Xu
Research Interests: international relations, film and communication studies
Ningxin Xu
Research Interests: post-Shaman psychic culture/community in rural Northeast China
Yumin Yang
Research Interests: modern Chinese literature and cinema
Gusen Yi
Research Interests: Hunan and the story of Hunanese during the Chinese Revolution through the 20th Century
Fei Yuan
Research Interests: Japanese and Chinese people’s political participation from a cultural perspective through ethnography methodology
Han Zhang
Research Interests: Chinese media and society, gender issues
Haoyue Zhang
Research Interests: Chinese cinema and Asian animation
Tianxing Zhang
Research Interests: historical and cultural exchange between Japan and China and Western influence on Japan and China
Ran Zhang
Research Interests: women's rights issues among East Asian countries
Yinglu Zhang
Research Interests: urban sociology of China
Xiao Zhou
Research Interests: state-society of authoritarian countries, social movement and social stratification in China
Yiyu Zhou
Research Interests: economics and policy studies among East Asian countries and China
