HA Myunghui is a Ph. D. candidate in the Department of English Language and Literature at Ewha Womans University in Korea. She is currently working on her Ph. D. dissertation exploring the relationship between the consumption culture and possessive individualism with special attention to the mechanism of possessing and consuming things in the eighteenth century English novel. She also has interests in the homological linkage between the modern economy of the eighteenth century and the rise of the female economic subject. She earned her M.A. and B.A. degrees in English Literature and Language from Ewha Womans University.

IDO Misato is a Ph.D. candidate in the Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies Department, University of Tokyo. She is currently working on her doctoral dissertation on Japanese medieval folding screens. She primarily investigates how people perceived visualized images (such as landscapes) and she places such perceptions in social, historical and political contexts in order to examine how images functioned for the viewer or commissioner. Although she focuses on specific artwork in her doctoral dissertation, her interests include the space in which the artwork was utilized, that is, the arena of religious rituals or space for performing arts such as the tea ceremony and Noh theater. Furthermore, since artwork in medieval Japan cannot be researched without reference to China and Korea, she researches the folding screen from the perspective of the larger East Asian context, making note of the reciprocal relationship between landscape and rituals. While staying at the Harvard-Yenching Institute as a visiting fellow, she is also a collaborative research fellow at the University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy (UTCP). (http://utcp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/data/ido_misato/index_en.php)

KIM Dae Hong is a doctoral candidate at the College of Law, Seoul National University, Korea. His major is legal history, a field of jurisprudence located at the crossing point of law and history. His academic interest focuses on criminal legal systems in pre-modern times. He is trying to find out what crimes were and how they were punished from a legal historic point of view. While at Harvard-Yenching Institute as a Visiting-Fellow, he will concentrate on case studies on sweeping clauses. It is required today that criminal clauses should be clear and accurate, yet some sweeping clauses are found in pre-modern criminal codes. Case studies about sweeping clauses can be one guide for understanding the legal mind in pre-modern times regarding what should be prohibited and punished by law.

KIM Han Sang is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Seoul National University, South Korea. He has worked as a researcher and curator for the Korean Film Archive, and has written several articles on the social history of Korean cinema and propaganda. His research interests include visual propaganda during the Modernization Era in post-colonial Korea, the social history of fatherhood represented in Korean cinema during the Park Chung-Hee regime, and discourse analysis on art and authors.

LEE Hunmi is a Ph.D. candidate in International Relations at Seoul National University, South Korea. Her research aim is to map out a historical structure of knowledge diffusion and examine its political role in East Asia. Accordingly, she focuses on (i) the international and inter-civilizational circulation of significant political issues, books, and ideas, and (ii) the role of a creative reinterpretation intervening in translation by the agents who initiated international transfer. While at the Harvard Yenching Institute as a visiting fellow, she will be working on her doctoral dissertation ('International Origins of the Patriotic Enlightenment of Korea under Japanese Protectorate Rule') designed to reflect the discontinuity of meaning and historical contingencies peculiar to the 'imported-modern' or pre-colonial situation of Korea.

Sylvia W.S. LEE is currently an art history Ph.D. candidate in the Fine Arts Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. During her stay as a visiting fellow, she will work on her doctoral dissertation on garden strategies of elite women in Jiangnan, China in the 17th century. Her other research interests include the relationship between art made for women or created by women and the consumer culture in the Ming dynasty, vernacular Chinese architecture as well as material culture in the Song dynasty. Lee earned her M.A.in Art History from the University of Hawaii and her M.B.A. from University of California, Riverside. Having worked at the Honolulu Academy of Arts and the Art Museum of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, she is now a freelance curator actively promoting and curating exhibitions for young and upcoming Hong Kong visual artists.

SEO Okja is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. As a visiting fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, she will work on her doctoral dissertation on emotional labor in relation to sex work, titled ?Selling Sex, Selling Emotion: An Ethnography of U.S. Military Camptowns in South Korea?. Her research interests include women and militarism, gender and migration, and agency.