EAS-MA candidate presents research to peers at an AP Forum event, September 2017
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.
Kaiyi Bi
Research Interests: Chinese economy, culture, and religion
Yiming Cai
Research Interests: film/media studies of Japan; cinematic representation of gender, modernity, and nation
Chengwei Chen
Research Interests: how urbanization influences East Asia, such as gentrification and international immigration issues
Ya Guo
Research Interests: religious studies in China
Chengjia Liu
Research Interests: premodern East Asian legal and cultural history; political and economic issues in the modern Chinese society
Xuehao Ma
Research Interests: Multimedia exposure, tourism and local economic revitalization using Asadora (morning/daytime dramas) as a case study
Yanping Ni
Research Interests: East Asian cinema; sociological research methods
Zhushengyuan Wang
Research Interests: relationship between Chinese high-tech infrastructure and social governance
Robert Werder
Research Interests: digital anthropology specifically in relation to social media, censorship, and their connection to identity in China
Yingzhi Xu
Research Interests: An empirical analysis of heterosexual dating markets in China using data from three main online dating sites
Aixin Yi
Research Interests: The ways Christianity in Wenzhou, China is empowering or undermining Chinese rural migrant workers’ agency, or whether we need a different analytical framework to understand why migrants have increasingly been drawn to Christianity
Li Yi
Research Interests: Images of Buddhist Triads in China, Korea, and Japan in the seventh and eighth centuries
Yaming You
Research Interests: the history of East Asian international relations
Hanye Zhang
Research Interests: pre-modern Chinese imperialism and its modern forms
Renxia Zhang
Research Interests: The history of migrants in the construction of the Xin’an River Hydroelectric Station or the Xin’an River Dam
Zheyuan Zhang
Research Interests: Asian culture and society
Xiao Zhou
Research Interests: The status quo of migrant workers’ collective activism and the role of labor NGOs in the context of authoritarian China
Chuang Zu
Research Interests: geopolitics, international relations in the Asian Pacific region
