Junghwan Ryoo is a PhD program candidate, holding 2025 Fulbright Grant. Ryoo’s research spans topics around Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History of China’s Middle-period, particularly on the transition from the Period of division to the Period of Unification and on the Tang-Song transition.Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures – Chinese History focus Thesis: “Southerner Elites in the Sui-Tang Period Chang’an: A Case Study of Yan Zhitui’s Lineage”
Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures – Chinese History focus Thesis: “Southerner Elites in the Sui-Tang Period Chang’an: A Case Study of Yan Zhitui’s Lineage”
Sep. 2022–May. 2024
Thesis: “Return and the Stay of Shandong Aristocrats who entered the Guanzhong region (ruguan Shandong shizu 入關山東士族’) after the Unification of the North China in 577.”
Sep. 2018–Feb. 2022
Thesis: “Formation of the Formality in Envoy Exchange during the Northern and Southern Periods.”
Mar. 2011–Aug. 2018
Sep. 2016–June. 2017
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Master’s Thesis, Seoul National University, 2022.
Presented at the 2022 Spring Conference of the Society of Asian Historical Studies
Apr. 30th, 2022
Presented at the 2024 Columbia EALAC GradCon
Oct. 18–19th, 2024
Accepted to be presented at the 2025 AAS Annual Conference
Mar. 13–16th, 2025
Thesis: “Formation of the Formality in Envoy Exchange during the Northern and Southern Periods.”
Mar. 13–16th, 2025
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