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
Cong Chen
Research Interests: Japanese cultural studies
Chu Deng
Research Interests: Chinese cinema and culture
Ningning Huang
Research Interests: Chinese literature, Chinese opera
Xinglu Jiang
Research Interests: modern Chinese literature, contemporary Japanese culture
Lun Jing
Research Interests: Japan's post-war cultural and social history
Kiduck Kim
Research Interests: history and international trade
Chao Lang
Research Interests: comparative law, Chinese history
Qiyu (Faye) Lu
Research Interests: Chinese literature, film and media, urban culture, social and migrational movement, critical theory
Boyang Ma
Research Interests: economics, development, anthropology of China
Chuanhui Meng
Research Interests: modern Chinese literature and film, queer studies, diaspora and film
Keshu Pan
Research Interests: interactions between Western philosophies and traditional Chinese values
Shuning Pan
Research Interests: comparative study of Japan and China, contemporary Japanese art
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
Xinyi Wu
Research Interests: Chinese women's economic participation and gender issues, economic and social background of Chinese feminism
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
Ran Zhang
Research Interests: women's rights issues among East Asian countries
Xing Zhang
Research Interests: society, culture, modernization of China
Yifan Zhang
Research Interests: modern mass culture in Japan and China and Western influence on these cultures
Yicheng Zhao
Research Interests: economics, public policy, and government of China
