HYI Alumni News: Summer 2025

Chi-Keung Chan (Visiting Scholar, 2022-23) is author of “Enactive Moral Agency in Wang Yangming” in International Philosophical Quarterly (Volume 64, Issue 3); and “When Cognition Goes Wrong: LIU Zongzhou’s Moral Psychology of Evil” in Dao (Volume 24, Issue 3).

Hiro Fujimoto (Visiting Fellow, 2016-17) is co-editor (with Aya Homei and Ellen Gardner Nakamura) of “Medical Women in the Japanese Empire: Sources and Critique” (Routledge, 2025).

Ming-sho Ho (Visiting Scholar, 2018-19) is author of “Be Water: Collective Improvisation in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Protests” (Temple University Press, 2025).

Luong Thi Hong (Visiting Scholar, 2024-25) is author of “The Voices of Young Vietnamese Women Volunteers during the Vietnam War” in Cold War Asia: Unlearning Narratives, Making New Histories (edited by Masuda Hajimu, published by The University of North Carolina Press Chapter Hill, 2025). She is also co-author (with Ha Hai Hoang) of “Dancing with the wind: the diplomacy of communist bloc economic aid to North Vietnam, 1954-1975” in The Historian 87(1).

Naofumi Nakamura (Visiting Scholar, 2021-22) is author of “Trading Locomotives: The Global Economy and the Development of Japan’s Railroads, 1869–1914” (Columbia University Press, 2025), published with support from the HYI Alumni Publication Grant.

Nishit Kumar (Chinese Studies in India Visiting Fellow, 2019-20) is author of the chapter “Representation of Chinese and Indian Literature in World Literature Through the Lens of the Nobel Prize: Models of Reception and Cultural Politics” in 漢學的跨領域交談：華裔學志青年學者文集 (Interdisciplinary Conversations in Sinology: A Collection of Essays by Young Scholars), edited by Sonja Mei Ting Huang and published by Fu Jen Catholic University Press, 2025.

Nguyen To Lan (Visiting Scholar, 2013-14) has been selected as a Patra Kappert Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), University of Hamburg, Germany.

Nguyen Vu Hoang (Doctoral Scholar, 2009-12) is author of Race, Resilience, and Vietnamese Americans in New Orleans: The Unmaking of Home (Springer, 2026).

Tang Xiaobing (Visiting Scholar, 2017-18) is author of 行走在裂隙当中：知识人与二十世纪中国 (Moving in the Gap: Intellectuals and Twentieth-Century China), published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press.

Theara Thun (NUS-HYI Joint Doctoral Scholar, 2012-16) is author of “Becoming Paṇḍit: Religious Teachings, Diploma Politics, and Doctoral Education in Post-War Cambodia” in Critical Asian Studies, 57(2); and “Embodied National History: Leaders, Regime Change, and Regional Historiographical Trends of Independent Cambodia” in International Journal of Asian Studies 22(1).

Shu-Li Wang (Visiting Scholar, 2021-22) is author of “In Search of National Ancestors: Heritage, Identity and Placemaking in China” (Cambridge University Press, 2025).

Bin Yang (Visiting Scholar, 2011-12; Associate, 2022) is author of 《江南以南： 被湮没的严州府 》(South to the Yangzi Delta: The Submersion of Yanzhou Prefecture), published by Shanghai Yiwen Chubanshe in July, 2025. He is also author of 《哪吒、龍涎香與坦博拉：全球史的九炷香》(Nezha, Ambergris, and Mt. Tambora: The Nine Tales to Global History) (with a new preface), published by Chung Hwa Book CO., May, 2025 (with a simplified Chinese version,《全球史的九炷香: 哪吒、龙涎香与坦博拉 (The Nine Tales to Global History: Nezha, Ambergris, and Mt. Tambora)》published in Beijing by Zhongxin Chubanshe, Feb., 2025. He is the author of “The Making of Elixir: Ambergris, Emperor Jiajing, and the Portuguese Settlement at Macao in 1557” in Journal of World History 36.1: 1-20, and the book chapter “The Red Guards in Burma, 1960s-80s” in Cold War Asia: Unlearning Narratives, Making New Histories (edited by Masuda Hajimu, published by The University of North Carolina Press Chapter Hill, 2025).