Fangheyue Ma

Fangheyue Ma is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of South Florida. Fangheyue’s research and teaching interests include cultural sociology, specifically the cultural phenomenon of international tourism, social psychology, particularly the subfields of identity, interaction, and emotion. She is currently working on her doctoral dissertation on Chinese international package tours in the U.S., centering on Chinese tourists’ collective presentation of selves as tourists and Chinese nationals, their emotional experiences, interactional rituals and the construction of meanings during the trip. The dissertation aims to provide a micro-level understanding and reflection of the macro-level topic of globalization and the global economy.

 

Aolan Mi

Aolan Mi is a Ph.D. student in the department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is interested in the literature, visual culture and intellectual history in the 20th century China. Prior to enrolling at IU, she received her M.A in Comparative Literature and her B.A in Chinese Literature and Language from Renmin University of China.

 

Xue Ma

Xue Ma is a graduate candidate (MA Anthropology, 2020) in Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Illinois State University. She previously graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with MS in Finance (2017). Her research is focused on microfinance in rural China, specifically the perception of debt and risk from borrowers’ perspective and the effectiveness of empowerment to women borrowers. She is also interested in topics in women’s studies, globalization and food studies. 

 

Yuan Zhang

Yuan Zhang is a first year PhD student of the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures at UIUC. She is interested in the pre-modern Chinese thoughts in general and works specifically on the border between literature and philosophy. She received her M.A. degree from the University of Alberta, where she spent two years studying pre-Qin Daoism and post-structuralist theories. Currently, she follows Professor Zong-qi Cai and is on her way to delve into the literary and philosophical traditions during the Six Dynasties.

 

Lingxiao Zhou

Lingxiao Zhou is a current M.A. and prospective Ph.D. student in East Asian Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Trained in anthropology and history, Lingxiao’s research focuses on community policing in the PRC and in the U.S.. He is currently working on a project about the local practice of community poliicng in a county in China. At the University of Illinois, he works as a graduate research assistant in the Urbana Police Department. His job is to assit a crime analysist in conducting a survey on public perceptions of police in the Urbana district.

 

Yuefan Wang

Yuefan Wang is a first-year PhD student at the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests lie in premodern Chinese literature, the interaction between words and images, and both premodern and modern poetry. She is working with Professor Zong-qi Cai, focusing on the project “the Production of Culture: Words and Images in the Ming Dynasty.” She got her MA degree at Fudan University where she spent three years studying Confucian classics from pre-Qin to the Song period.

 

Suisui Wang

Suisui Wang is a second-year PhD student of Gender Studies at Indiana University. Before graduate school, he grew up in a small mountainous town by River Zi in Hunan Province, China and graduated from East China Normal University in Shanghai with a bachelor of law in Sociology. An interdisciplinary ethnographer, he is broadly interested in medical humanities, queer STS, and transnational feminism and sexuality studies. His doctoral project tackles the relationship between therapeutic culture and feminist/queer movement in the U.S. and its transpacific uptake in China. He loves eating spicy food.