HYI Alumni News: Fall 2024

Jack Meng-Tat Chia (RSEA Fellow, 2009-12) has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore. He has also been named the inaugural Foo Hai Ch’an Monastery Fellow in Buddhist Studies at NUS. In August, he and his colleagues established the NUS Buddhist Studies Group, with him serving as the founding chair.

Shuhua Fan (Visiting Scholar, 1996-97) is author of “Confucius Institutes in the Xi Jinping Era: From Peak to Decline in the United States,” in Xiaobing Li and Qiang Fang, eds., China Under Xi Jinping: A New Assessment (Leiden University Press, 2024).

Joon-Hwan Kim (Visiting Scholar, 2003-04; Associate 2012-13 and 2019-20) is the editor, translator, and annotator of The Complete Works of Ki-Rim Kim, Textual Criticism: Volume 1, Poems—“Beyond the “Territory of the Lyric,” published by Yonsei University Press. September 2024, xiii + 1123 pages.

Nishit Kumar (Chinese Studies in India Visiting Fellow, 2019-20) is author of “The role of “Others” in the Award of Nobel Prize in Literature Case of Mo Yan” in Assonance: A Journal of Russian & Comparative Literary Studies (published by the Department of Russian & Comparative Literature, University of Calicut), No.24, January 2024.

Jaehwan Lim (Visiting Scholar, 2018-19) and Asei Ito (Visiting Scholar, 2022-23) are co-authors (with Hongyong Zhang) of “Uncovering Xi Jinping’s Policy Agenda: Text As Data Approach” in The Developing Economies (2024).