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
Chengwei Chen
Research Interests: how urbanization influences East Asia, such as gentrification and international immigration issues
Yiyi Cui
Research Interests: the implications of comfort woman issues in contemporary society
Rong Fan
Research Interests: how Chinese and Japanese investment in Malaysia influence local society
Zihan Feng
Research Interests: Sinophone writings, female writers in 20th Century China, film adaptations of literary works
Ya Guo
Research Interests: religious studies in China
Tojiro Kataya
Research Interests: intersection of politics and transnational popular culture in the 1990's, Japanese pop music in Hong Kong and Taiwan
Chengjia Liu
Research Interests: premodern East Asian legal and cultural history; political and economic issues in the modern Chinese society
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
Xuehao Ma
Research Interests: cultural industries, business in pop culture, international business, international finance and food industries in Asia
Ruoyao Pan
Research Interests: how non-state, civil society actors (historians and religious institutions) work in the process of historical reconciliation in East Asia
Ruojin Sa
Research Interests: games in China and its functional future
Dingding Wang
Research Interests: East Asian literature, film, and culture
Wenyi Wang
Research Interests: industrial policy-making and practices in China
Yatong Wang
Research Interests: modern Japanese literature and popular culture, including anime and otaku culture
Robert Werder
Research Interests: digital anthropology specifically in relation to social media, censorship, and their connection to identity in China
Kaiyang Xu
Research Interests: international relations, film and communication studies
Ningxin Xu
Research Interests: critical animal studies
Yingzhi Xu
Research Interests: demography and migration, with primary emphasis on the population of China and health issues
Yumin Yang
Research Interests: female Japanese colonial writers in Manchuria
Aixin Yi
Research Interests: contemporary authoritarianism, contention politics, and national identities
Li Yi
Research Interests: comparative studies in East Asian Buddhist art styles around the sixth and the seventh century
Yaming You
Research Interests: the history of East Asian international relations
Haoyue Zhang
Research Interests: Chinese cinema and Asian animation
Renxia Zhang
Research Interests: Sino-Japanese relationship
Tianxing Zhang
Research Interests: empire discourse in contemporary China and East Asia
Yinglu Zhang
Research Interests: Internet-based anthropological research on the emotional needs embedded in the consumption behavior of Chinese girls who ever bought “virtual lovers”
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
Yiyu Zhou
Research Interests: a comparative study of women trafficking in China and India
