HYI Alumni News: Summer 2024

Waka Aoyama (Visiting Scholar, 2013-14) is co-editor (with Ryo Sahashi and Yasuhiro Matsuda) of Asia Rising: A Handbook of History and International Relations in East, South, and Southeast Asia (Springer, 2024).

Tianhu Hao (Visiting Scholar, 2023-24) is editor of 中世纪与文艺复兴研究 （十）(Medieval and Renaissance Studies (No. 10)), published by Zhejiang University Press.

Jie-Hyun Lim (Visiting Scholar, 2002-03) is author of Opfernationalismus. Errinerung und Herrschaft in der postkolonialen Welt (Victimhood Nationalism: Politics of Memory in the Postcolonial World) (Wagenbach Verlag, 2024). From March 2024 – February 2029 he will hold the title of CIPSH Chair & Distinguished Professor at Sogang University. He will also hold a one month professorship at EHESS, Paris in May 2024, and will be the Class of 1955 Distinguished Visiting Professor in Global Studies at Williams College from July 2024 to June 2025.

Atsushi Maki (Associate, 2001 and 2014) is author of Empirical Law and Economics: Price-Fixing and Bid-Rigging Cases in Japan (Routledge, July 2024).

Yuko Nagasawa (Visiting Fellow, 2002-03) is co-author (with Masaru Tonomura) of 〈負の遺産〉を架け橋に文化財から問う日本社会と韓国・朝鮮 (Building Bridges through Negative Legacies: between Japanese and Korean Societies with Korean Cultural Properties in Japan), published by Korocolar.

Hoang Vu Nguyen (Doctoral Scholar, 2009-12) is author of “Sentiments across the Pacific: The Relationship between Vietnamese Catholics in New Orleans and the Homeland” in Journal of Population and Social Studies (JPSS).

Nguyen Hoang-Yen (Visiting Scholar, 2020-21) is co-editor (with Lê Quang Trường and Chen Yi Yuan) of The Envoy Poetry of Nguyễn Dynasty: National Consciousness and Cultural Dialogue (Ho Chi Minh City: National University Publishing House, 2024).

Gang Song (Joint HYI-Ricci Institute Visiting Researcher, 2023-24) published a volume titled  洋字與華文：近代香港與上海的西書翻譯與出版 [Chinese Translations and Publications of Western Books in Hong Kong and Shanghai in the Modern Era](Hong Kong: Commercial Press, 2024). He is also the author of “調適與移植—晚明至清中葉天主教的聖經漢譯” (Adaptation and Transmission: Catholic Bible Translations in Late Imperial China) in Logos & Pneuma: Chinese Journal of Theology (No. 60 Spring 2024), 57-83. He also serves as the Chief Editor of the bi-lingual journal HKU Journal of Chinese Studies (formerly Journal of Oriental Studies), with the recent issue (Vol. 2, No. 1) published in April 2024.

Sophie Ling-chia Wei (Visiting Scholar, 2023-24) is author of “The Many Lives of the Shan Hai Jing: Re-interpretation by Jesuit Translators of the Classic of Mountains and Seas” in Routledge Handbook of East Asian Translation (Ruselle Meade, Claire Shih, Kyung Hye Kim, eds.).

Dadui Yao (Visiting Fellow, 2011-12) is author of “The Influence of Qiu Jun on Jesuit Missionaries and Chinese Christian Texts in Ming–Qing China” in Religions (Special Issue: The Catholic Encounter with Chinese Thought, Society and Politics in the Ming–Qing Dynasties), 2024.