Jiyan Qiao is an intellectual historian of middle period China, focusing on Tang-Song political thought. Born and raised up in China, she holds a master’s degree from Harvard and a doctorate from Leiden. Her work has appeared on Journal of Chinese History, Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture, and Zhongguo xueshu. Currently she is preparing her research articles for publication and turning her dissertation into a monograph.

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Research areas

Intellectual history methodology
Middle period China
History of Chinese political thought
Political theory
Wang Anshi
Su Shi

Publications

• Feature book review, A History of Chinese Political Thought, by Youngmin Kim (Polity, 2018), Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture 33 (Feb., 2020), 181-194
• Co-authored article, “Is There a Faction in This List?”, with Hilde De Weerdt, Brent Ho, Allon Wagner, and Mingkin Chu, Journal of Chinese History 4, no. 2 (2020), 347-389 
• Translation, “‘Weary Night’: A Reflection on Embodied Poetics in the Classical Chinese Tradition,” by Michael Fuller, Zhongguo xueshu中國學術 (China Scholarship), 13.2 (no. 38), 2017, 119-37

Education

• Ph.D., Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University, 2021
• A.M., Regional Studies – East Asia, Harvard University, 2014

Fellowships

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2021-22 (declined)
• Harvard-Yenching Institute Fellow, Harvard University, 2012-14

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