Nellie Yang

Nellie Yang (楊婷) received her BA in Chinese Literature from National Taiwan University and worked for a year in the cultural promotion industry prior to starting her PhD studies at Yale. Her research interest lies in fictions of the late imperial period, particularly their intersection with natural history and their imagination of the exotic. Having studied Manchurian, Tibetan, and Mongolian in college, she is also interested in investigating the literary embodiment of the relationship between Zhongyuan and the peripheries.