Yanqiu Zheng
Yanqiu Zheng joined St. Lawrence University in January 2024, when a major snowstorm welcomed him to the North Country during his first week. A proud southerner from mainland China, he attended Peking University in Beijing and was an exchange student in Sweden and Taiwan before coming to study and work in the United States. With multidisciplinary training in philosophy, education, and history, Yanqiu received his Ph.D. in modern Chinese history from Northwestern University. Drawing upon his own study abroad experience and previous teaching and research expertise in China in the world, he looks forward to further promoting the Asia and Pacific programs in the CIIS portfolio and developing relevant courses in Asian studies.
Publications
(forthcoming) In Search of Admiration and Respect: Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875-1974 (University of Michigan Press, Columbia University Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute series)
"Chinese Tofu in Cold War Taiwan: Gendered Cosmopolitanism and Contested Chineseness," Global Food History 10, no. 2 (2024): 224-43