Congratulations to our student affiliates – including current and former Graduate Student Associates and Shum Fellows – who are graduating from Harvard University this year! Owing to the ongoing challenges posed by COVID-19, this year’s commencement ceremony was held online instead of in-person. Nevertheless, the Fairbank Center would like to celebrate our graduating student affiliates (and one staff member!):
Shuang Frost, Anthropology
“Moralizing Disruption: China’s Ride-Hailing Revolution”
Ming Tak Ted Hui, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
“Writing Empire: Culture, Politics, and the Representation of Cultural Others in the Mongol-Yuan Dynasty”
Xiaoxuan Li, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Jingyu Liu, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
“The Unimpeded Passage: The Making of Universal Salvation Rites and Buddho-Daoist Interactions in Medieval China”
Huijun Mai, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
“Thinking Things: the Material Turn in Song (960-1279) Literary Culture”
Kyle Shernuk, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
“Becoming Ethnic and Chinese: Sinophone Transculturation at the Millennial Turn”
Austin Strange, Government
“Domestic Authority and Foreign Economic Policies in Chinese History”
James Gethyn Evans, Regional Studies East Asia (A.M)
Thesis: “The Third World’s Maoist Revolution”