HYI Alumni News: Summer 2025

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).

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.

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).