Alan Dai

Alan Dai is a PhD student in cultural and comparative studies. He studies how literary production and linguistic expression shaped—and were shaped by—the negotiation of cultural identity and political ideology during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Past and present research interests include: the history of bilingual periodicals in and between China, Japan, Vietnam, and Asian diaspora communities in Hawai’i and North America; the use of Literary Sinitic by pan-Asianists, anti-colonialists, and anarchists; the late Qing expansion of Shanxi piaohao to overseas markets; early twentieth-century literary exchanges between Vietnam and Korea; Esperanto in East Asia (especially in Cold War China); Ryukyuan independence activism in post-World War II Taiwan; and the comparative study of Sinophone receptions of Western thought.