CEAS Faculty Dali Yang and Yuting Dong Named 2024-25 CISSR Faculty Research Fellows

The University of Chicago's Center for International Social Science Research (CISSR) recently announced is 2024-25 Faculty Research Fellos which supports international, transnational, and global research projects that are empiracal in nature.  Among the cohort include Center for East Asian Studies faculty, Dali Yang (William Claude Reavis Professor in the Department of Political Science) and Yuting Dong (Assistant Professor of East Asian History and the College). 

Dali Yang's project, "Fortress China: The Pursuit and Unraveling of the Zero-Covid Regime" extends his research from his recent publication, "Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control." Professor Yang dissects China's Zero-Covid policy regime and examines the interplay between China's stringent public health measures and its political governance, exploring how the Zero-Covid strategy was sustained under Xi Jinping's leadership despite mounting challenges and its eventual collapse under economic strains and public discontent.  Yuting Dong's project, "Mapping Neighborhoods in Japan’s Empire: A Digital Humanities Project on Infrastructure’s Socio-Political Influences," looks at methods of digital humanities to explore how imperial infrastructure reconfigured ethnic relations during Japan’s colonial rule in Manchukuo from 1932 to 1945, as the government erected large-scale physical infrastructure, which led to the breakdown of former communities and generated unprecedented tensions among the diverse ethnic groups in Manchuria. 

To read the full announcement, click here.

The Center for International Social Science Research is an eclectic intellectual community devoted to nourishing empirical, international research across the social sciences. Its Faculty Fellows Program, initiated in 2017, is designed to support social scientists from any discipline, working in any geographic region, regardless of methodological approach. The center provides up to $25,000 for faculty research projects at any stage of development.