History

Sei Jeong Chin is a historian of modern China, specializing in political, social and cultural history as well as legal history in 20th century China. She is currently working on a new project on the Chinese propaganda during the Korean War (1950-1953). At the same time, she is revising her dissertation into a book manuscript, which explores the transformation of the media culture and its impact on the changes of the relations between the state and the political dissidents from the Nationalist period (1927-1949) to the early PRC (1949-1957).

She received her B.A. and M.A. from Ewha Womans University, and Ph.D. from Harvard University. She worked as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the U.S. (2007-2008) and taught various courses on Chinese history. During her graduate years at Harvard, she spent a year in China as a visiting scholar at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and did her field research in various cities including Shanghai, Suzhou, Nanjing, Chongquing in China and Taibei in Taiwan. 

Jishun Zhang is a professor of history at East China Normal University and an adjunct professor of Fudan University. She earned her BA (1982) and MA (1985) at Beijing Normal University and a PhD in Law from Fudan University in 1998. She taught at Fudan University from 1985-2000 and was a visiting scholar at the Institute of East Asian Studies, UC-Berkeley (1994-1995).  Professor Zhang jointed ECNU in 2000. Her research focuses on the history of urban Shanghai during the ROC and PRC periods. She has published the book Chinese Intellectuals’ Views on America, 1943-1953 (1999) and numerous  articles. 

Yang Luwei is a MA student in history at Nankai University, Tianjin, China. He received his B.E. from Nankai University in 2010. His research interests broadly span cultural history, gender study and medical history in Modern China, from late imperial period to 1950s. He is now researching the cultural history of pain in childbirth and the campaign and propaganda of the Soviet painless childbirth in 1950s China.

Liu Yanwen is a PhD student in the Department of History, East China Normal University. Her dissertation is on “Water conservancy, society and politics: the study of Yintao Water Project in Gansu Province (1958-1962)”. Her research interests include modern Chinese history, particularly the Great Leap Forward and Famine and the "Four Clean-Ups" movement. 

Chen Guiming is a PhD candidate in the History Department at Sun Yat-sen University. His doctoral dissertation focuses on the social and cultural history of Gujiao District, Shanghang County, West Fujian from the Late Qing to the 1950s. Combining methods from history and anthropology, and using both official and local records, it explores the specific manifestation of modern political power at the local level and local responses. Ultimately, it aims to shed light on the relationship between the Communist political culture and the transformation of rural society.

Mr. Theara Thun was born in Kampong Cham province, Cambodia. In 2008, he received a Bachelor’s Degree in History from the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP), Cambodia. In 2009, he received a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation to pursue an M.A. in Southeast Asian Studies at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. Returning to Cambodia in July 2011, he was recruited as a lecturer in the Department of History of the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP). In August 2012, he was awarded a HYI-NUS Joint Doctoral Scholarship. His research interests include the cultural and political history of mainland Southeast Asia.

Sittithep Eaksittipong, a lecturer in the Department of History, Chiang Mai University, got his BA in Political Science from Chulalongkorn University and MA in History from Chiang Mai University. His research interests include East Asian studies, Thai studies, and Chinese overseas especially the Chinese ethnic in Thailand. He is currently studying for his PhD in History at the National University of Singapore with the NUS-HYI Joint Doctoral Scholarship. His PhD thesis is on ‘Sino-Thai Historiography.’