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.

Amporn Jirattikorn (Visiting Scholar, 2022-23) is author of “Chinese Fandom of Thai Boys’ Love Dramas: Shipping the Queer Romance and Fan Service Practices” in Global Media and China (2025); “Reclaiming Youth and Desire: Alternative Civility and Japanese Middle-Aged Women’s Fandom of Thai Boys’ Love Dramas” in Asian Studies Review (2025); and co-author (with Nora Viikmaa) of “Queer dialogues with the global south: Western fans and the appeal of Thai boys’ love” in European Journal of Cultural Studies. The research was supported by a HYI a Cross-National Interdisciplinary Research Grant. An article by Ying-kit Chan & Tong King Lee, entitled “The “Y” phenomenon: dystopia, utopia, and heterotopia in Thai boys love media” and published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, was also supported by the grant.

Ha-kyoung Lee (HYI Visiting Fellow 2013-14; Associate, 2022) is author of “Roles and Challenges of Legal Officials During King Chŏngjo’s Reign” in Journal of Korean Studies, Volume 31, Issue 1 (March 2026).

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.

Shen Yang (Chinese Politics Training Program Visiting Fellow, 2018-19) is author of “Contesting Nationalism: Global Citizenship and Chinese Identity in Hong Kong” in Nations and Nationalism, and co-author (with Derek Huo) of “The Economic Consequences of Protest Repression: the Case of Business Activism in Hong Kong” in Political Behavior 47, 1901–1923.

Nobuko Yamazaki (African History and Cultures Training Program Visiting Scholar, 2022-23) is author of 国境を使いこなす―ウガンダ北部ウェスト・ナイル紛争後の開発と周縁性のポリティクス (Beyond Borders: Development and the Politics of Marginality in the West Nile Sub-region, Post-Conflict Uganda), published by Kyoto University Press in March 2026.

Dadui Yao (Visiting Fellow, 2011-12; Associate, 2024-25) is author of “Writing Mission and Narrating Faith: Liang Fa’s Diary and the Formation of Christian Narrative in Chinese Writing” in Religions as part of the Special Issue on “Drawing a Roadmap for Research on the History of Christianity in Modern China.”

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.

Jinjin Zhang (Science Technology and Society in Asia Training Program Visiting Fellow, 2025-26) is co-author (with Yiyang Xiao) of “‘No longer our place’: TikTok refugees and the politics of digital migration to Xiaohongshu” in New Media & Society (2025) and author of a book review of Urban Migrants in Rural Japan: Between Agency and Anomie in a Post-growth Society, by Susanne Klien, in the Hong Kong Journal of Japanese Studies 2: 74–76.