Zhengyuan Ling

Advisor: Peter Zarrow

Research Interests: Cultural history of capitalism in East Asia, intellectual and socio-political history of early modern China (late Qing & the Republic), Confucianism in the 20^th century, history of technology (communication & transportation)

Education
M.A., Humanities, University of Chicago, 2022
Master’s Thesis: “Unorthodox Mourning: Sheng Xuanhuai’s Dingyou and the Politics and Technological Transformation in Late Imperial China”

B.A., History (with double-major in International Relations), College of William and Mary, 2020
B.A. Thesis: “Pre-Modern Japanese Proto-Nationalism: A Study of Japanese Confucianism’s Intellectual History”