Sophie Volpp is professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature. She works in Chinese literature of the 16th through 19th centuries, and is the author of Worldly Stage: Theatricality in Seventeenth-...Read more about Sophie Volpp
Xiaojie Ma (马晓洁) manages the Center for Chinese Studies' programs, lectures and conferences and administrative matters. She holds a B.A. in English from University of International Business and Economics, and a Master's Degree in Pacific International Affairs from University of California, San...Read more about Xiaojie Ma
Skye VanValkenburgh (吴思凯) manages all aspects of the Visiting Scholar Program at the Center for Chinese Studies (CCS). She earned her B.A. in Chinese from San Francisco State University and is an alumni of the Chinese Language Flagship Program. As part of the Flagship Program, Skye studied...Read more about Skye VanValkenburgh
Jiahe Mei (梅嘉禾) is a Ph.D. candidate in East Asian Languages and Cultures at UC Berkeley. As a cultural historian of modern China, Jiahe explores how perceptual disabilities challenge normative historiography of media...Read more about Jiahe Mei
Elaine Zhu (朱庭萱) currently double majors in Comparative Literature and English as an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley. Their academic pursuits include modern and translated literature in the Sinosphere, with a focus on queer studies.Read more about Elaine Zhu
Helina Li (李幸霖) is an undergraduate student double majoring in English and Computer Science, minoring in Chinese. Her current academic focus is on Chinese modern poetry within its original context as well as in connection to English contexts, and she is particularly interested in poetry's...Read more about Helina Li
