Center for Chinese Studies

Jiahe Mei is aPh.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 technology and revolutionary literature. Her other interests include medical history, Science and Technology Studies, China-Russia cultural exchanges, and critical theory.

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 Chinese language and culture intensively at National Taiwan University, conducted several summer internships in Taiwan, and completed a yearlong intensive language capstone at Nanjing University, which included a six-month internship as the Program Assistant for the American Councils Chinese Language...