CHANG Eun Ha is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate School of International Studies at Yonsei University, Korea. While staying at the Harvard-Yenching Institute as a Visiting Fellow, she will be working on her doctoral dissertation on the North Korean famine and international humanitarian assistance. Her other research interests include international migration and refugee studies, forgiveness in international conflict resolution and international minority rights. She earned her M.A. in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. Prior to that, she worked with McKinsey & Company in Seoul.

CHO Eunjoo is a Ph.D. candidate of sociology at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. Her academic interests include social movements and contentious politics; comparative historical approach and methodological issues in the social sciences; modernity and nationalism in East Asia; and transformation of gender structure and capitalism. She is currently doing her dissertation research on the population control implemented by the state. With a focus on the South Korea case, she looks at how bio-politics/power of a modern state is at work and analyzes the mechanism which generates modern subjects and the nationalist governmentality.

DINH Hong Hai received his M. Phil. in Philosophy from the Faculty of Arts, University of Delhi, India, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the Institute of Human Studies, Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences, Viet Nam. His academic interests focus on Asian culture and symbolic anthropology. While staying at the Harvard-Yenching Institute as a Visiting Fellow, he will be working on the symbols of Katu, an ethnic minority living in Quang Nam and Thua Thien-Hue, Vietnam, Sekong and Savanakhet, Laos.

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.

LEE Soyoung is a Lecturer as well as a Ph.D. candidate at College of Law, Korea University, Korea. She earned her M.A. in Jurisprudence from Korea University. As a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, She will be working on her dissertation, "Normal Family Ideology in Korean Legal Culture: a genealogical approach towards Controversial Legal Issues related with the Family".

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.

LIU Chun is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government and Public Administration, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. She had studied public administration in Shenzhen University and then political theory in Sun Yat-Sen University where she earned her Master degree. She is also a 2001 graduate of the Jones Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies (HNC) and a visiting fellow of CECMC/EHESS, Paris. Her research interests include intellectual history, civil society theory and practice, democratization and collective actions with Greater China as her area of concentration.

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.

TRAN Thi Phuong Hoa is currently a research fellow at the Institute of European Studies, Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences, Vietnam. She earned her B.A. in ethnography from University of Social Sciences and Humanities, HCM City, and her M.A. in English from Hanoi University of Foreign Studies, Vietnam. While staying at the Harvard-Yenching Institute as a Visiting Fellow, she will be working on her dissertation titled "Franco-Vietnamese Schools in Tonkin (1906-1945)".