HYI Alumni News: Spring 2026

Chi-keung Chan (Visiting Scholar, 2022–23) was recently appointed Associate Editor of Philosophical Explorations: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Mind and Action. He has also been serving as President of the Chinese Association of Philosophy since November 2025.

Jules Zhao Liu (HYI Chinese Politics Training Program Visiting Fellow, 2016-17) is author of “Disaster, death, and religion: The resurgence of ghost drama in China, 1961–1965” in History and Anthropology, 2026.

Guoxiang Peng (Visiting Scholar, 2007-08) was recently elected as a Member of the Academia Europaea for 2026. Professor Peng was elected to the section “Philosophy, Theology, and Religious Studies” and is also affiliated with the section “Social Change and Social Thought.”

Trang Phan (Visiting Scholar, 2020-21) is co-editor (with Sakach, An.) of Research and Teaching Vietnamese as a Second Language: A Global Perspective (Springer), and is co-author of three chapters in the volume. She is also author of “From Vision to Discourse: The Grammaticalization of the Perception Verb Thấy in Vietnamese (13th–20th C.)” in Languages 11(1); and co-author (with Gennaro Chierchia) of “Putting three pieces of a puzzle into place: Classifiers–plurals–articles in Vietnamese” in Simpson, A. (ed.), New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages: Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang.

Joowon Yuk (Visiting Scholar, 2025-26) is co-author (with Minkyung Koh) of “한국의 유학생 정책으로 본 교육- 노동-이주 연계와 유학생의 ‘지역정주 노동자’화” (“The Education-Labor-Migration Nexus and International Students in South Korea”) in 경제와 사회 Economy and Society, 149, pp. 296 – 326.