Yacong specializes in the history and archaeology of early China. She is a Ph.D. candidate interested in comparative studies between the Han China and ancient Roman empire, particularly in terms of lived experience of women and foreigners under imperialism. Her dissertation is a comparative study of Han China and the Roman Empire that explains how imperial authority traveled through four linked arenas: imperial women and marriage politics, imperial tours, frontier communities, and long-distance exchange.
INSTRUCTOR
HIST 184A History of China
GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT
HIST 2A World History; HIST 2B World History; HIST 4A Ancient West Asia; HIST 4A Global Rome; HIST 4C Modern Europe; HIST W 80 Chinese Civilization; ARTHI W6R/WRIT W6R Rome the Game; ARTHI 6H Arts of the Ancient Americas
Panel Organizer & Panelist: Association for Asian Studies 2023 Annual Conference
Title of Presentation: The Imperial Tour: A Ruling Strategy in the Han and Roman Empires
Panelist: Archaeological Institute of America/Society for Classical Studies 2024 Joint Annual Meeting
Title of Presentation: Astrologers and Occultists in the Courts of Rome and Han
Speaker: Kin and Clan in Roman Antiquity: New Perspectives on the Roman Family (Loyola Marymount University) 02/2025
Title of Presentation: Dynamics of Imperial Family and the Gendered Politics of Empire: A Comparison of early Roman and Han Empires