Jiyan Qiao is an assistant professor at the Institute for Area Studies. Trained across disciplines on three continents, she coordinates the core course Area Studies and teaches mainly BA research methods and MA classical Chinese.

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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

2012-14, Harvard-Yenching Institute Fellowship
2020-2021, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

Publications