HYI Alumni News: Winter 2025

Seo Hee Im (Visiting Scholar, 2025-26) is author of “Real Estate and the Millennial Romance” in ELH: English Literary History, Volume 92, Number 4, Winter 2025.

Ayumi Inouchi (Linguistic and Semiotic Anthropology Training Program Visiting Fellow, 2021-22) is author of “Koreaish: Aesthetics, Qualia, and the Sensory Emergence of Korea Among Young Japanese Women” in Signs and Society, 2026, 1–19; and co-author (with Ide, Risako; Aoyama, Toshiyuki; Kano Yuko; and Chu, Yeming) of 『ディスコース研究のはじめ方：問いの見つけ方から論文執筆まで』 (Starting Your Research in Discourse Studies: A guidebook for students, in Japanese), Hitsuji Publishing, 2025).

Hyon-Sob Kim (Visiting Scholar, 2014-15; Associate, 2022-23) is author of “Space Group of Korea Building in Seoul and Modern Architecture in Korea,” in Case Studies in Architecture and Landscape: Expanding the Legacy of Peter Blundell Jones (J. Woudstra and X. Ren, eds.), published by Routledge, 2025.

Seong Nae Kim (Visiting Scholar 2015-16) is author of “Memory Politics of Mass Graves and Commemoration: Korea’s Cheju April 3rd Incident” in a special issue of Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident (Vol 47 Sept 2024) on “Vies Des Morts en Asie” (Lives of the Dead in Asia), Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, France. pp 153-184.

Ruby Y.S. Lai (Visiting Scholar, 2025-26) is author of “Towards a Self-Limiting Movement? Feminist advocacy in times of political uncertainty,” in Gender and Politics Reimagined: Centring Oceanic and Asian Lenses (Tanya Jakimow, Margaret Jolly, Sonia Palmieri, and Ramona Vijeyarasa, eds.), Australian National University Press, 2025; “Abortion caringscapes: female homosociality and reproductive healthcare in post-one-child China” in Journal of Gender Studies; and co-author (with Tuen Yi Chiu, HYI Visiting Fellow, 2014-15) of “Understanding Migrant Familyhood through a Relational Spatio-Temporal Framework: Cross-Border Families Navigating Im/Mobilities before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic” in Sociology, 2025.

Naofumi Nakamura (Visiting Scholar, 2021-22) is recipient of the 42nd Ohira Masayoshi Memorial Prize for his monograph Trading Locomotives: The Global Economy and the Development of Japan’s Railroads, 1869–1914 (Columbia University Press, 2025). The award is a prestigious recognition in the field of area studies and international relations in Japan. The book was published with support from the HYI Alumni Publication Grant. Professor Nakamura’s book examines the history of rail in Japan from a global perspective, offering new insight into the connections between the world economy and Japan’s industrialization.

Eva N.S. Ng (Visiting Scholar, 2022-23) is author of Linguistic Disadvantage in Jury Trials: Lessons from Hong Kong and Beyond (Edinburgh University Press, 2025). An author Q&A about the book has been published here.

Nguyen Hoang-Yen (Visiting Scholar, 2020-21) is author of “The Persistence of Literary Sinitic in Colonial Vietnam: A Case Study of Nam Nữ Giao Hợp Phụ Luận 男女交合附論” in Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2025) 25 (2), part of a Special Issue on “Vietnam in the Sinographic Cosmopolis” edited by John Phan and Ross King.

Paehwan Seol (Visiting Scholar, 2023-24) is co-translator (with Yonghun Cho and Hosung Shim) of 『중국은 ‘대국(大國)’인가: 중국과 세계의 800년 역사』, a Korean translation of Great State: China and the World – A History of Mongol and Manchu Rule: Eight Centuries from Yuan to the People’s Republic (Harper, 2020) by Timothy Brook. The translation was published by Marco Polo Publishing Company, 2025.12.30.

Theara Thun (HYI-NUS Doctoral Scholar, 2012-16)’s book, Epistemology of the Past: Texts, History, and Intellectuals of Cambodia, 1855–1970, (University of Hawai’i Press) has received an Honorable Mention for the 2026 Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studies.

Noriko Unno-Yamazaki (Visiting Fellow, 2015-16) is author of イスラームが動かした中国史：唐宋代から鄭和の大航海、現代回族まで (An Islam-Driven History of China: From the Tang-Song Period to Zhenghe’s Voyage to the Contemporary Hui Nationality), published by 中央公論新社 (Chuo Koron Shinsha), December 2025.

Yao Dadui (Visiting Fellow, 2011-12; Associate, 2024-25) has been awarded the Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and will undertake his research visit at Freie Universität Berlin in 2026.

Hitomi Yoshio (Visiting Scholar, 2022-23) is co-translator (with Laurel Taylor) of an English-language version of Sisters in Yellow, by Mieko Kawakami (Knopf, March 2026).

Kaiping Zhang (Visiting Scholar, 2024-25) is co-author (with Bingyan Wang) of “When Health Meets Politics: Selective Gatekeeping of Health Experts in Chinese Media during COVID-19” in Social Science & Medicine, 2025.

Xufeng Zhu (Visiting Scholar, 2008-09) was elected as President of the Asian Association of Public Administration in October 2025. He is currently Dean of the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University.