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Yi Wang is an Associate Professor at the Department of History, Binghamton University, specializing in the social and cultural history of late imperial and modern China. Her research emphasizes borderlands studies, trans-regional migration, and nationalism, particularly focusing on Inner Mongolia during the Qing era and the twentieth century.
- PhD, University of Chicago
- MA, Sun Yat-Sen University
- MA, University of Illinois
Her work explores how commercial expansion, land reclamation, and religious proselytism shaped frontier regions. She teaches courses on East Asian civilizations, late imperial China, twentieth-century China, and China's ethnic minorities, alongside graduate seminars on imperialism and nationalism in East Asia.
Her publication Transforming Inner Mongolia (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021) analyzes Han Chinese migration's impact on the Qing frontier. Current research investigates Inner Mongolia's autonomy in the twentieth century, linking nationhood, frontier-making, and knowledge production across East and Inner Asia.
