HYI Alumni News: Spring 2025

Alumni News

Congratulations to our alumni on their recent honors, promotions, and publications!

Ying Du (Visiting Scholar, 2024-25) is author of “Modeling a World Cinema and Shadowing it with Another: Maoist Media Distribution Institutions as Perspective, 1949–1976” in Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.

Asei Ito (Visiting Scholar, 2022-23) and Jaehwan Lim (Visiting Scholar, 2018-19) are co-authors (with Hongyong Zhang) of “Remembering Li Keqiang: Policy Divergence in Zhongnanhai and Its Economic Consequences” in The China Quarterly.

Ido Misato (Visiting Fellow, 2009-10; Associate, 2018-19) is editor of “名所の誕生——「名」を与えられた風景” (The Birth of Landmarks: A Landscape Given a “Name”), Kyoto: Shibunkaku, 2025. She is also author of an article on Japanese folding screens, “When Paravents Become ‘Art’,” which was part of an exhibition on “Paraventi: Folding Screens from the 17th to 21st Century,” shown at the Prada Foundation, Milan in 2024. She is currently involved in an exhibition entitled “Reproductions: Reconstruction, Replication, and Restoration of Japanese Art,” which focuses on the restoration of medieval folding screens (with Professor Akira Takagishi at the University of Tokyo as the main organizer). The exhibition will run from May 10 – June 29, 2025 at The University of Tokyo Komaba Museum.

Hyon-Sob Kim (Visiting Scholar, 2014-15; Associate, 2022-23) is the author of <한국 현대건축 산책> (Promenading Modern Architecture in Korea), a collection of architectural critiques and historical commentaries on twelve buildings built in Korea in the 2000s, published by IU Books, Korea, February 2025.

Sung Eun Kim (Visiting Scholar, 2024-25) is co-author (with Rebecca L. Perlman and Grace Zeng) of “The Politics of Rejection: Explaining Chinese Import Refusals” in American Journal of Political Science 69 (2), 2025. She is also co-author (with Joonseok Yang, Jong Hee Park, and Inbok Rhee) of “Anti-Asian Hate Crimes and American Reputation” in British Journal of Political Science 55 (e77): 1-13.

Akinobu Kuroda (Visiting Scholar, 2014-15) is author of “Old Chinese Coins in Medieval Japan” in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 84/1&2.

Tatsuaki Kuroda (Visiting Scholar, 1993-94) is author of “都市の衰退と再生“(Urban Decline and Regeneration) published by 日本評論社 NIPPON HYORON SHA, March 2025, vii + 171 pages.

Jie-Hyun Lim (Visiting Scholar, 2002-03) is author of Victimhood Nationalism: History and Memory in a Global Age (translated by Megan Sungyoon), Columbia University Press, 2025.

Motonori Makino (Visiting Scholar, 2013-14) is editor of “東洋文庫の100年” (100 Years of the Toyo Bunko), published by 平凡社 Heibonsha in 2025.

Shen Yang (Chinese Politics Training Program Visiting Scholar, 2018-19) is author of “Rethinking the Occupy Movement in Hong Kong: Origins, Processes, and Consequences” (Routledge, 2024).

Zhang Longxi (Doctoral Scholar, 1983-87) is author of World Literature as Discovery: Expanding the World Literary Canon (Routledge, 2024); co-editor (with Omid Azadibougar) of The Routledge Companion to Global Comparative Literature (Routledge, 2025). His recent articles include “Chinese Literature in the Age of World Literature,” Hong Kong University Journal of Chinese Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, March 2024, pp. 1-13; “Borges our Contemporary,” Beoiberística, vol. 8, no. 2, December 2024, pp. 237-249; and “‘The Artifice of Eternity’: Memory, History and Literature,” Journal of the Philosophy of History, vol. 19, March 2025, pp. 43-66.

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