Kobzeva, Maria

My research interests include medieval Chinese narrative prose, development of historiography in Tang, and representation of non-Han people. My dissertation explores the connections between compilation of the Jin shu 晉書 and self-representation of the emperor Tang Taizong. I …

Liu, Lu

I am a PhD candidate in the department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UW-Madison. My dissertation, “Away/With the Pest: Biosocial Abjection and Subject Formation in China, 1930s-1980s.” explores how the constant pest-making in modern Chinese history enacts …