关于我
高中毕业之后，我在北京语言大学留学了一年。回国之后，我在威廉玛丽大学的专业是东亚学。大三时，我又到了北京留学，在北大修了几门课。 最后，我选择当中国现代史的教授。在弗吉尼亚大学当研究生的时候，我又回到了中国，在上海和东北做了研究。我研究的题目跟抗日战争的博物馆有关。在2020年的秋天我毕业了，毕业之后在威廉玛丽大学和美国大学教了一些历史课。再说，我也得到了威尔逊中心中国奖学金。 今年秋天，我在乔治华盛顿大学埃利奥特国际事务学院教“韩日关系：历史问题“的一门课，也在继续做一些研究。 有空时，我喜欢提高我的外语能力，也喜欢读小说、爬山、游泳。 EDUCATION
University of Virginia Department of History - PhD (fall 2020), MA (fall 2016) The College of William and Mary - BA (spring 2012) LANGUAGES (read/speak/write)
English (native language), Mandarin Chinese (fluent), Spanish (fluent), Japanese (professional), Russian (intermediate). PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS AND MEMBERSHIPS
Stephen M. Kellen Term Member, Council on Foreign Relations National Committee on U.S.-China Relations Education Ambassador, Council on Foreign Relations Research Affiliate, East Asia Center, University of Virginia Phi Beta Kappa SELECT INVITED TALKS
March 2025. "Complicity and Cold War Politics" at the National Defense University, College of International Security Affairs. December 2024. “Memorializing the Mukden Incident: Northeastern Scholars and China’s New World War II Timeline.” University of Tokyo, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia. December 2024. Beyond a ‘Site of Memory’: The Puppet Emperor Palace Museum.” Crises, Heritage, and Societal Resilience. Organized by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, Nichibunken, and the Research Center for Global Risk, Nagasaki University. October 2024. Panelist for New Book Forum: Sarah. B. Castro, Mission to Mao: US Intelligence and the Chinese Communists in World War II. The Second World War Research Group North America and the Society for Intelligence History. March 2024. “The “Date Debate” – Northeastern Scholars and China’s New World War II” at the National Defense University, College of International Security Affairs December 2023. “Historical Memory and National Identity in Mongolia,” State Department, Foreign Service Institute September 2023. Moderator for Ian Johnson, Book Talk on Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future, Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service |
About Me
Initially, I decided to study Mandarin Chinese during my junior year in high school. This serendipitously led me to take a gap year after high school graduation, during which I took intensive language courses at Beijing Language and Culture University. After returning to the United States, I decided to major in East Asian Studies at the College of William and Mary. I returned to Beijing again my junior year of college to further hone my language skills, and took several undergraduate courses at Peking University. Ultimately, I decided I wanted to pursue a career as a historian of modern China. I enrolled as a PhD candidate at the University of Virginia and lived in China again in summer and fall of 2017 to conduct research as a Fudan University fellow in Shanghai and Northeastern China on museums that commemorate the War of Resistance against Japan. I defended my dissertation in the fall of 2020, and have since taught multiple courses at Georgetown University, the College of William and Mary, and American University. This fall, I am returning to the Elliott School to teach my course on "Korea-Japan Relations: The History Issue" and continuing to work on several research projects. In my spare time, I enjoy practicing my foreign language skills, reading novels, swimming, and hiking. 
RECENT CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP ACTIVITY
September 2025. Discussant, "Workshop on the Social (Re)Construction of War and History in Korea," George Washington Institute for Korean Studies, Washington, DC. April 2025. Discussant, Ideological Entanglements in Global Economics, Global Political Thought Conference, Association for Global Political Thought, Washington, DC. March 2025. Chair, Transregional Colonial and Commercial Interactions of Northeast Asia in Manchuria: From the Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century. Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Columbus, OH. January 2025. Imperial Entanglements: Empire and the Cold War in East Asia. Panel paper “Complicity and Cold War Politics: The Long Shadow of Unit 731 in Sino-U.S. Relations.” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York City, NY. June 2024. “Complicity and Cold War Politics.” Globalized Memorial Museums, “Travels beyond the Holocaust: Memorialization, Musealization, and Representation of Atrocities in Global Dialogue.” 10th Annual Conference of the Historical Dialogues, Vienna, Austria. April 2024. “The Date Debate: How the CCP Rewrote China’s World War II.” Reproducing remembrance. Nationalism and Memory: The ASEN (Association of Ethnicity and Nationalism) Conference 2024 “Memory Studies,” Edinburgh, UK. March 2024. Narrating the Nation-State: Historical Memory and Ideology in Modern East Asia. Panel paper “Marxism and the Mukden Incident: Dialectical Materialism and China’s World War II Timeline” presented at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Seattle, WA. |