The East Asian Studies Center has awarded five graduate students and one undergraduate student with Louise Zung-Nyi Loh Memorial Scholarships for academic year 2023-24. The scholarship is awarded to students in any department or major who have an academic specialization and/or research interests in East Asian studies.

• Paul Cockrum, a PhD student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, will travel to Taiwan for research related to his PhD dissertation on Taiwanese sociolinguistics.
• Jin Kim, a PhD student in History, will use his award to help fund a research trip to the National Security Archive in Washington, DC. His research focuses on China’s interaction with Third World countries during the Cold War.
• Samantha Koch, an undergraduate student majoring in Japanese and minoring in General Education, will study at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan for the 2023-24 academic year.
• Yifan Li, a PhD candidate in Art History, will visit libraries at the University of Michigan and Princeton University to help gather material for his dissertation on images of natural and built environments in twentieth-century China.
• Erxin Wang, a PhD candidate researching premodern Chinese theater, will present at the AAS in Asia conference in South Korea (June 2023).
• Keyu Yan is a PhD candidate in Art History. Yan plans to use this scholarship to support archival research trip to the Asia Art Archive in New York.