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Mayshu Zhan
Ph.D. Student in Modern Thought and Literature, admitted Autumn 2023
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy interdisciplinary research examines digital media through the lens of critical race, gender, and sexuality studies. I am primarily interested in investigating how we can leverage the power of media to reinvent and promote social equality. Specifically, my research focuses on digital games and their prosocial influence on 21st- century China.
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Yanhua Zheng
Lecturer
BioYanhua Zheng is a native Cantonese Speaker with more than 10 years of experience in education. She immigrated to the US in 2014 and received her combined B.A. and Masters in Chinese from San Francisco State University, one of the nations top-ranked Chinese language programs. She now lives in Palo Alto with her son and her husband. Yanhua is also an avid reader, writer, and artist.
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Xueguang Zhou
Kwoh-Ting Li Professor of Economic Development and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsInstitutional changes in contemporary Chinese society.
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Yiqun Zhou
Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and, by courtesy, of Classics
BioResearch Areas:
- Chinese and comparative women’s history
- Early Chinese literature
- Ming-Qing fiction
- China-Greece comparative studies
-Reception of classical antiquity in modern China -
Jayden Ziegler
Adjunct Professor, Symbolic Systems Program
BioJayden got his PhD in psychology from Harvard in 2019. His research was on linguistic structure in the mind and brain. Since then, he has worked in AI/ML product development at Apple, Google, and now Alembic Technologies (https://getalembic.com), a marketing analytics startup he jointly leads as the VP of Product. Jayden is passionate about running (https://medium.com/runners-life/what-i-learned-from-running-every-day-straight-for-the-past-7-years-and-counting-6438f9dd03f3), volunteering (https://outintech.com/mentorship-program/), and serial entrepreneurship (https://stupidsimplebudgeting.com).
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Dafna Zur
Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and, by courtesy, of Comparative Literature
BioDafna Zur is an Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University. She teaches courses on Korean literature, cinema, and popular culture. Her book, Figuring Korean Futures: Children’s Literature in Modern Korea (Stanford University Press, 2017), traces the affective investments and coded aspirations made possible by children’s literature in colonial and postcolonial Korea. She is working on a new project on moral education in science and literary youth magazines in postwar North and South Korea. She has published articles on North Korean science fiction, the Korean War in North and South Korean children’s literature, childhood in cinema, and Korean popular culture. Her translations of Korean fiction have appeared in wordwithoutborders.org, The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Short Stories, and the Asia Literary Review.
