History Department, Harvard UniversityRobinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, MA, 02138Contact
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department. I began the Ph.D program in history in the fall of 2017 after graduating magna cum laude from Brown University, where my honors thesis on Japanese technocrats in wartime Manchuria won the Christian Yegen Thesis Prize. In addition to Chinese, I also speak Japanese and Russian. In leisure time, I am a devout kendo enthusiast. My research interests cover diplomatic and economic connections in Asia during the Cold War. I am currently working on my dissertation titled "Uneast Friends and Covenient Enemies: Sino-japanese Competition and Cooperation in Southeast Asia, 1955-1972." This research explores the economic and diplomatic interactions between China and Japan, and their respective involvement in Southeast Asia from 1950s to 1970s. This study aims to provide new perspectives to the postwar Sino-Japanese relations by highlighting the role regional politics played in this process.