Team Member
members of the lab or group
Xiangjun “Sean” Feng 馮相郡
Email: fengxiangjun@berkeley.edu, seanfeng@um.edu.mo
Sean is an Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Macau. He got a PhD in Chinese at UC Berkeley and did postdoctoral research at the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto. In June 2023, he received an Insight Development Grant (IDG) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to develop the project “Radio Culture in China, 1923-1949.” In March 2024, this project received an ACLS/Luce Early Career Fellowship in China Studies (long term). In addition to radio studies, Sean has published on other topics and is finalizing a dissertation-turned book manuscript on the occult in early modern and modern China. Please see his department page and his academia.edu site for more samples of his research.
Sean has also written the novel 傅蘭雅秘笈 (John Fryer’s Secret Scroll)—200,000 Chinese characters—a historical mystery about John Fryer’s (1839-1928) fiction contest in Shanghai (1895-1896) and the rediscovery of the lost fiction manuscripts in 2006 at UC Berkeley. Email him for a copy of the manuscript if you are interested!
Student Academic Assistant: Dorothy Dai
Email: qinyidai@student.ubc.ca
I am Dorothy Dai, a recent graduate from UBC, majoring in Asian Area Studies. My interests include Sinophone literature and gender studies. In the project “Radio Culture in Modern China,” my primary role was to curate a brief list of noteworthy segments in archival radio magazines and provide observations and textual analysis.
Student Academic Assistant: Sze Sze Yap
Email: yapszesze@gmail.com
Sze Sze Yap is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of History, UBC. Her research interests lie in late imperial/early modern China, intellectual history and history of book. In the “Sinophone Radio Studies” project, she assists in researching about radio broadcast in Southeast Asia’s Sinophone communities, particularly in Singapore.
Website Engineer: Shiran Zhang 张石然
Email: zsr060540@gmail.com
Shiran Zhang is a Software Engineer from Google. She also has passion in literature. In the project “Radio Culture in Modern China,” she helps build the website and develop a digital archive for all collected materials.
Research Assistant: Rui Yang 杨睿
Email: u3642567@connect.hku.hk; yangrui560@gmail.com
Rui Yang received a bachelor’s degree in Electronic Information Engineering from CUHK-Shenzhen and an MA in Chinese Historical Studies from HKU. She is interested in modern Chinese history, the history of science and technology, digital humanities, and AI-assisted programming. Tools and platforms she has built are collected at ray-bot-ai.github.io, including a full-text search of the Shanghai Municipal Police Files, 1894–1949.
In the “Sinophone Radio Studies” project, she plans to devise an OCR pipeline, a full-text search function, an AI search agent and other features.