Jiyan Qiao is an assistant professor at the Institute for Area Studies.

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Fields of interest

• Intellectual history;
• middle period China;
• Song Dynasty;
• political thought;
• comparative political theory

Research

Jiyan Qiao (Ph.D. Leiden, A.M. Harvard) is an intellectual historian of middle period China, focusing on political thought in the Song Dynasty. She is writing a set of two books on Su Shi, discussing his classical commentaries and echoing-Tao Qian poems respectively, as well as how they relate to each other in Su’s oeuvre. 

Grants and awards

2024: KU Leuven, “Zhengming” workshop attendance grant  
2020-21: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Postdoctoral Fellowship
2019: London School of Economics, Political Theory conference attendance grant
2016: Queen Mary University of London, Intellectual History training grant 
2012-14: Harvard University, Harvard-Yenching Institute Fellowship            

Courses taught

BA1 Institute for Area Studies: Core Course Area Studies
BA1 Leiden University College: Social Theory in Everyday Life
BA2 International Studies: Economy – East Asia; Research Methods - Visual Analysis
BA2 Leiden University College: Qualitative Research Methods
BA3 China Studies: The Reform of Wang Anshi
BA3 International Studies: Thesis Seminar East Asian B - Past and Present 
MAAS and ResMA: Advanced Readings in Classical Chinese
MAIR: Core Course Culture and Politics

MA theses supervised

ResMA: Zijian Fan, “An Alternative Neo-Confucianism – Zhang Shi Learning and the Intellectual Transitions between Northern and Southern Song China,” cum laude
MAAS: Naomi Bergshoeff, “Beyond Morality: The Joyful Way of Confucius,” cum laude 

Open to supervise

Chinese thought and literature from early to middle period; ideas and social, economic and cultural practices in contemporary China

Publications