HYI Alumni News: Summer 2026

Seema Alavi (Ingalls Fellow, 2005) was elected as an International Fellow to The British Academy, in the Section ‘Early Modern History to 1850.’

Chi-keung Chan (Visiting Scholar, 2022–23) joined the Division of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in August 2026. He has been awarded the 2026 Ta‑You Wu Memorial Award (吳大猷先生紀念獎) by Taiwan’s National Science and Technology Council, an honor widely regarded as one of the highest for young scholars across disciplines in Taiwan. He is also a co-author of “Ritualizing Grief: Mixed Affective Complexes in Early Confucian Mourning,” published in Topoi (2026) and “Confucius, Ritual, and Shared Moral Agency” in Philosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 3 (2026).

Chen Fei (Asia-Pacific Studies Training Program Visiting Scholar, 2020-21) is author of the monograph China Reborn, 1895–1912: Localism, Japanese Knowledge, and the Qing Empire’s Reconfiguration (Oxford University Press, 2026); and the articles “The Transpacific Travel of Theories of Imperialism,” in The Historical Journal 69, no.1 (2026): 156–176; and “The Art of Survival: Spontaneous Organization and Autonomous Action among Shanghai Residents during the COVID-19 Lockdown,” in International Journal of Asian Studies, FirstView (2026): 1–19.

Chen Tuo (Ricci-HYI Joint Visiting Researcher, 2023-24) is author of 在中国发现西学：明末清初思想文化的世界背景 (Discovering Western Learning in China: The Global Context of Late Ming and Early Qing Intellectual History), published by Shanghai Guji Publishing House, 2026.

Geri Jiebu (Visiting Scholar, 2025-26) is author of 《敦煌吐蕃历史文书文本标注与语法研究》(Textual Annotation and Grammatical Study of Dunhuang Tibetan Historical Documents), published by China Social Sciences Press in 2026.

Tianhu Hao (Visiting Scholar, 2023-24) is editor of 中世纪与文艺复兴研究（十三） (Medieval and Renaissance Studies No. 13) (2025) and 中世纪与文艺复兴研究 （ 十 四）(Medieval and Renaissance Studies No. 14) (2026). He is also author of “On the Dating and Source of OED Quotations” in ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews 39.1 (2026); a review of Lee Morrissey, Milton’s Late Poems: Forms of Modernity in Milton Quarterly 59.3 (October 2025); “Impressions of My Visit to Oxford” in Popular Tribune no. 11, 2025: 56-59; and co-author (with Wu Yarong) of “Mobility and Belonging: Geographical Space and Identity Reconstruction in Pericles, Prince of Tyre” in Journal of Henan University (Social Sciences), no. 6, 2025: 78-84.

Jiyan Ilbrink (RSEA Fellow, 2012-14) is author of “China’s Middle Period in Global Present – Wang Anshi as Model ‘Confucian’ for World Governance?” in China and the World: New Perspectives on Classical Topics, eds. Ksenia Radchenkova and Franz Winter, Leiden: Brill, 2026, 65-104. She is also organizer of an upcoming workshop on “Can Poetry Heal? Lessons from Medieval China.”

Joon-Hwan Kim (Visiting Scholar, 2003-04; Associate, 2012-13 and 2019-20) is editor, translator, and annotator of 『김기림 전집, 원문비평』 (The Complete Works of Ki-Rim Kim, Textual Criticism). Volume 2, 소설, 희곡 (Fiction and Drama) was published in February 2026 and Volume 3, 산문 (Prose) was published in April 2026.

Kuroda Akinobu (Visiting Scholar, 2014-15) has appointed as a Yushan Fellow by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan and will be teaching at National Taiwan Normal University for the next three years.

Hoang-Yen Nguyen (Visiting Scholar, 2020-21) is co-author (with Ku, Y. C. and Chuang, C. C.) of “Buddhism and the Masses in Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Comparative Study of the Sun Wukong Belief in Malaysia and Vietnam” in Politics and Religion Journal (Special Issue on Southeast Asia Religions and Politics, ed. Tho Ngoc Nguyen), 19(2), 350–376.

An English-language translation of Fumika Sato (Visiting Scholar, 2011-12)’s book, 女性兵士という難問 (The Conundrum of the Female Soldiers), has been published by Trans Pacific Press.

Jeongsoo Shin (Visiting Scholar, 2024-25) is author of “From Daoist to Pure Land Paradises: Pond Gardens in Silla and Heian Palaces” in Religions 17, no. 7: 835. 1-21, part of a special issue on “Origins and Development of the Pure Land Tradition Through the Lens of Sacred Site Transference.”

Porranee Singpliam (Visiting Scholar, 2024-25) is author of Transformations of Sexuality and Gender in the Thai Perspective: Politics, Media, and Citizenship, published by Chulalongkorn University Press, 2026. She is also author of “Thai women parliamentarians’ self-presentation on social media and the politics of affinity” in South East Asia Research 34(1): 1-18, and “An analysis of neoliberalism and the reconfiguration of gender in the Thai political domain” in TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia 14(1): 132-148.

In Hee Song (Visiting Fellow, 2016-17) is author of the object essay “Lotus Motifs in the Goryeo Celadon Tradition” for the exhibition catalog of “Ten Kings of Hell: The Afterlife in Medieval Korea” (Yale University Press, 2026), while she also assisted with the editing. The exhibition will be open to the public from October 11, 2026 through January 3, 2027, at the Cleveland Museum of Art, with a two-day symposium linked to the exhibition titled “The Rise of the “Ten Kings of Hell” on the silk road” taking place in November 20 and 21, 2026.

Theara Thun (NUS-HYI Joint Doctoral Scholar, 2012-16) is recipient of the 2026 Association of Mainland Southeast Asia Scholars (AMSEAS) Early Career Book Prize for Epistemology of the Past: Texts, History, and Intellectuals of Cambodia, 1855–1970. The prize recognizes the best first book on a Mainland Southeast Asian Studies topic by an early career scholar. He is also is author of “Has a Tradition Ever Been Lost? Exploring ‘Residual Knowledge’ in Cambodia’s Humanities and Social Sciences Textbooks” in Educational Philosophy and Theory, April 2026, 1–15.

Haiyan Wang (Visiting Scholar, 2025-26) is co-author (with Chunyan Huang and Liangen Yin) of “How Public Opinion Monitoring Services Are Reshaping Chinese Media” in The China Quarterly.

Won Woo-hyun (Visiting Scholar, 1982-83) was awarded as an Honorable SNU LAW School alumnus on May 28, 2026. It was awarded at the General Assembly of the SNU Law School Alumni Association. His book, 은퇴후 쿼바디스 (Quo Vadis after Retirement) was published in its revised third edition by Davida Publishing Co.

Zhang Longxi (Doctoral Scholar, 1983-87) is co-editor (with Sheldon Lu) of a special issue of the Journal of World Literature, which was then published as a book, Comparative Literature and China (Leiden: Brill, 2026).