An Wang Postdoctoral Fellows

Yu, Xiaohong 于曉虹
PhD, Political Science, Columbia University, 2009
xy2007.cu@gmail.com
Dr. Yu’s research project is “Rule of Law under Authoritarianism - Local Initiative, Institutional Adaptation, and Regime Resilience.” She examines how local courts in China have promoted certain constitutional initiatives during the last decade and how such largely unexpected judicial activism has reshaped the political institutions in the reform era. She will be teaching a comparative course on expansion of judicial powers in the Department of Government, in spring semester.  

Zhang, Enhua 張恩華
Assistant Professor of Chinese, University of Massachusetts Amherst
PhD, Literature, Columbia University, 2007
Enhua.zhang86@gmail.com
Dr. Zhang’s research project is “Cartographies of Revolution: Space, Politics, and Cultural Representation in Modern China,” which demonstrates how revolution as a spatial practice works through literature and culture in modern China. She examines cultural representations associated with four spatially significant revolutions: the Land Reform in the 1920s, the Long March, the Mainland-Taiwan split in 1949, and the Cultural Revolution.

China and the World Postdoctoral Fellows

Han, Donglin 韓冬臨
PhD, Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2009
donglin2006@gmal.com
Dr. Han uses unique public polling data to investigate the content of nationalist opinion in China, including among returned students and scholars, and attentive publics. He traces the effect on foreign policy making and investigates the economic, demographic, and educational characteristics of individuals that affect nationalist sentiment.

Ye, Min 葉敏
Assistant Professor of International Relations, Boston University
PhD, Politics, Princeton University, 2007
ye@bu.edu
Dr. Ye uses social network theory to examine how Indian domestic industry and overseas Chinese capital influenced the approaches to FDI liberalization in India and China respectively. She has a forthcoming book, co-authored with Kent Calder, titled The Making of Northeast Asia.