Class of 2021

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Gary Leung received his Bachelor’s degree in Government from the Chinese University of Hong Kong with double minors in Statistics and Philosophy. At Yale, he studied, among other things, Chinese politics and social science research methods. After graduation, he will continue his graduate studies at Yale as a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science.

Jingwen Li graduated from Renmin University in 2018 with a major in Communication and a minor in Philosophy. At Yale, she has focused her studies on History of Science and Medicine. Her current research is on media technologies and sensory impairment. After graduation she will pursue her Ph.D. in the History of Science program at Princeton.

Denise Looi received her BA in International Relations and Music from Tufts University in 2020. At Yale, she was a part of the East Asian Studies program, focusing on Chinese politics, foreign policy and civil-military relations. After graduation, she will return to the Republic of Singapore Air Force as an Air Warfare Officer.

Dylan Siegel received his B.A. in History from U.C. Berkeley in 2016. After college, Dylan spent time as a grant writer at a Southern California nonprofit, moved to Kyoto, Japan for a language program, and worked as a writer and producer at a well-known YouTuber’s news production studio in Los Angeles. At Yale, Dylan has focused on disaster and memorialization in modern Japanese history. After graduating, Dylan hopes to find ways to make academic and intellectual thought more accessible and digestible to a wide audience through new media.

Mindy Su received a B.A. with honors in Political Science from National University of Singapore in 2017. She then worked for the Asia Research Institute, NUS as a research assistant. At Yale, Mindy has focused her studies on modern Japanese and Chinese history. In summer, she will be studying Japanese language with the Inter-University Center, Yokohama on a CEAS grant. She will start her doctoral program in History at Yale next term.

Brian Yuhan Wang, a native of Shenyang, received his Honours Bachelor of Arts from McGill University in Montreal in 2018. At Yale, he explored a variety of topics ranging from foot-binding to Chinese anarchism, and wrote his master’s thesis on short stories in late Qing China. Brian plans to work in Canada after graduation and pursue a doctorate degree sometime later.

Karen Wang is fueled by curiosity and the pursuit of critical history. She has recently completed a bachelor’s degree in Arts Management (Specialist) and Art History (Major) at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include early modern woodblock prints and 20th-century Chinese visual culture. In addition to her academic life, Karen has accumulated hands-on experience in curating photographs taken before and during the Mao era in art museums in China. A true lover of wine, Karen has passed the WSET Level 3 exam with distinction in Toronto in 2016.