HYI Alumni News: Summer 2026

Chi-keung Chan (Visiting Scholar, 2022–23) is author of “Confucius, Ritual, and Shared Moral Agency” in Philosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 3 (2026).

Chen Fei (Asia-Pacific Studies Training Program Visiting Scholar, 2020-21) is author of the monograph China Reborn, 1895–1912: Localism, Japanese Knowledge, and the Qing Empire’s Reconfiguration (Oxford University Press, 2026); and the articles “The Transpacific Travel of Theories of Imperialism,” in The Historical Journal 69, no.1 (2026): 156–176; and “The Art of Survival: Spontaneous Organization and Autonomous Action among Shanghai Residents during the COVID-19 Lockdown,” in International Journal of Asian Studies, FirstView (2026): 1–19.

Chen Tuo (Ricci-HYI Joint Visiting Researcher, 2023-24) is author of 在中国发现西学：明末清初思想文化的世界背景 (Discovering Western Learning in China: The Global Context of Late Ming and Early Qing Intellectual History), published by Shanghai Guji Publishing House, 2026.

Geri Jiebu (Visiting Scholar, 2025-26) is author of 《敦煌吐蕃历史文书文本标注与语法研究》(Textual Annotation and Grammatical Study of Dunhuang Tibetan Historical Documents), published by China Social Sciences Press in 2026.

Hoang-Yen Nguyen (Visiting Scholar, 2020-21) is co-author (with Ku, Y. C. and Chuang, C. C.) of “Buddhism and the Masses in Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Comparative Study of the Sun Wukong Belief in Malaysia and Vietnam” in Politics and Religion Journal (Special Issue on Southeast Asia Religions and Politics, ed. Tho Ngoc Nguyen), 19(2), 350–376.

An English-language translation of Fumika Sato (Visiting Scholar, 2011-12)’s book, 女性兵士という難問 (The Conundrum of the Female Soldiers), has been published by Trans Pacific Press.

Porranee Singpliam (Visiting Scholar, 2024-25) is author of Transformations of Sexuality and Gender in the Thai Perspective: Politics, Media, and Citizenship, published by Chulalongkorn University Press, 2026. She is also author of “Thai women parliamentarians’ self-presentation on social media and the politics of affinity” in South East Asia Research 34(1): 1-18, and “An analysis of neoliberalism and the reconfiguration of gender in the Thai political domain” in TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia 14(1): 132-148.