HYI Alumni News: Fall 2025

Hao Tianhu (Visiting Scholar, 2023-24) is editor of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, No. 12. Hangzhou: Zhejiang University Press, 2025; and author of the articles “从德洛尼《纽伯利的杰克》看弥尔顿《失乐园》的现代性——为纪念王佐良先生逝世三十周年而作” (“On the Modernity of Milton’s Paradise Lost from the Perspective of Thomas Deloney’s Jack of Newbury: Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of Wang Zuoliang’s Decease”), in Foreign Literature, no. 3, 2025; and co-author (with Wu Yarong) of “Greece Reinvented: Shakespeare’s ‘Greek Plays’ as a Subgenre,” in Multicultural Shakespeare vol. 30 (45) (2024).

Wenkai He (Visiting Scholar, 2016-17)’s book, Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023) was shortlisted for the J. David Greeenstone Book Prize in the section of Politics and History of American Political Science Association in 2024 and shortlisted for the Gregory Luebbert Book Award in the section of Comparative Politics of American Political Science Association in 2025.

Huynh Thi Ngoc Tuyet (Visiting Scholar, 1996-97) is co-author of “Behind the Myth of ‘Business Partnerships’: Vulnerable App-Based Drivers in Urgent Need of Legal Protection in Vietnam” (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2024).

Wei-wen Roger Liao (Coordinate Research Scholar, 2025) is co-author (with Wei-Cherng Sam Jheng) of “A tale of two EVENs” in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 43(3), 2025.

Satoshi Narihara (Visiting Scholar, 2023-24) and Jiyeon Lee (RSEA Fellow, 2023-25) are authors of the chapter “Wokeism in Japan: Tensions around Social Minorities and Navigating Human Rights” in Tracking Global Wokeism (Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, ed.), Brill, 2025.

Nguyen Vu Hoang (HYI Doctoral Scholar, 2009-12) is author of “Sense of Community in Collective Living Quarters in Hanoi: Changes and Restructuring” in Journal of Mekong Societies, 21(2).

Sunyoung Park (HYI Research Scholar, 2011-12) has published a general-interest book titled Oxford Insights, which encapsulates her research and life experiences at the University of Oxford (published by Yidam, 2025).

Helin Wu (Indian Studies in China Program Visiting Scholar, 2023-24) interviewed former HYI Director Elizabeth J. Perry in a piece entitled “回顾与展望：哈佛燕京学社的百年沉浮” (Prospective and Retrospective: The Harvard-Yenching Institute’s Eventful Century), published in the Journal of Modern Chinese History《近代史学刊》.