Dr. Vivien Jiaqian Zhu | Humanities | Best Researcher Award
PhD at Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley, United States.
Education 🎓
Vivien Jiaqian Zhu has pursued a diverse academic path across prestigious institutions. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Japanese Language and Literature at UC Berkeley, where she also received the Regent’s Fellowship. Her Master’s thesis focuses on Kawabata Yasunari’s works, exploring the tactile beauty in his Palm-of-the-Hand Stories. Zhu’s undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley culminated in an honors degree in Comparative Literature and Chinese Language, with a minor in the History of Art. She earned Phi Beta Kappa and other honors during her time at Berkeley. Zhu also studied advanced Japanese at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Yokohama and undertook language programs at Sophia University, Japan. Her academic pursuits also took her to Middlebury College and the Culinary Institute of America. At present, she is also studying Early Modern Japanese Palaeography at the University of Cambridge under the Mitsubishi Research Fellowship.
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