Research Interests
- Qing Imperial and Inner Asian History
- Borderland Knowledge and Intellectual History
- Knowledge Production and Circulation
- Censorship, Propaganda, and Political Communication
- Manchu Language Studies
Education
M.A. East Asian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
B.A. History, Tunghai University 東海大學, Taiwan
Grants
2026 UIUC Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant ($5,000)
2024 UIUC EALC Late Spring Research Fellowship ($5,000)
2023 UIUC EALC Summer Research Fellowship ($2,000)
Awards and Honors
2026 Best Chinese Language Teaching Assistant Award, Department of EALC, UIUC
2025 Toby Award for Best Graduate Research Paper on Premodern East Asia
Paper Title: “Manchu Refinement of Hanyu Phonology and Its Limits: From Elucidation of Phonology to Wang Zhao’s Phonetic
Script”
Courses Taught
Teaching Assistant
Fall 2026 Popular Cultures of Contemporary East Asia (Professor: Belinda Qian He)
Fall 2025 The Chinese Language (Professor: Yunwen Su)
Guest Lecture: “Chinese Dialects and Regionalects in Popular Songs” (Facilitating Learning Excellence Award)
Spring 2025 Popular Cultures of Contemporary East Asia (Professor: Jingling Chen)
Guest Lecture: “Chinese LGBTQ Movies and Family Relationship” (Teacher Ranked as Excellent by Their Students)
Fall 2024 Popular Cultures of Contemporary East Asia (Professor: Gian-Piero Persiani)
Guest Lecture: “Slash Fandom and Fujoshi” (Teacher Ranked as Excellent by Their Students)
Instructor of Record
Spring 2026 Intermediate Chinese II (Perfect 5.0/5.0 FLEX student evaluation rating)
Spring 2024 Elementary Chinese II (Teacher Ranked as Excellent by Their Students)
Fall 2023 Elementary Chinese I (Teacher Ranked as Excellent by Their Students)
Spring 2023 Advanced Chinese II (Teacher Ranked as Excellent by Their Students)
Fall 2022 Advanced Chinese I (Teacher Ranked as Excellent by Their Students)
Additional Campus Affiliations
Academic Service
2024–26 Co-Chair, Asian Studies Group at Urbana-Champaign
Organized academic workshops, including preparing funding applications, communicating with faculty speakers, scheduling meetings, and coordinating event logistics.
Coordinated IShare, a graduate student research presentation series, by recruiting presenters, reserving venues, and organizing presentation sessions.
Maintained the organization’s website and prepared meeting agendas, minutes, and administrative records.
Recent Publications
Kim, Loretta 金由美, Monica Chang Kin-Ian 曾健欣, Eric Suen Sen-kit 孫晨傑, Zhou Chengyi 周乘伊, Huo Ran 霍然, and Eugenia Kim 金尚美. “Materialising the Intangible: Building and Analyzing a Digital Lexicon of Non-Han Names from Records of Northeast China” 「無形から具体へ: 中国東北の記録に基づく非漢族人名デジタル索引の構築と分析」Manzokushi kenkyū 満族史研究 (Journal of Manchu and Qing Studies), volume 21 (Dec. 2022): 1–29.