{"id":10578,"date":"2026-05-13T16:13:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/?p=10578"},"modified":"2026-07-13T16:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:16:16","slug":"phd-candidate-aixin-yi-co-organized-panel-at-2026-annual-meeting-of-the-association-for-asian-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/2026\/05\/13\/phd-candidate-aixin-yi-co-organized-panel-at-2026-annual-meeting-of-the-association-for-asian-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD candidate Aixin Yi co-organized panel at 2026 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><span>With support from a CURA Travel Grant, Boston University PhD student Aixin Yi (GRS&#8217;28) traveled to Vancouver in March to present her research at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), the largest international conference in the field.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><span>Yi co-organized the panel <\/span><em><span>&#8220;What Can Christianity Do in a World at War?&#8221;<\/span><\/em><span>, which examined how Christian communities in China and Japan responded to wartime crises through social welfare and cross-border cooperation. She presented her research on Christian rural reconstruction in wartime China, receiving valuable feedback that will inform her dissertation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><span>The conference also provided opportunities to connect with leading scholars in Chinese Christianity, participate in the Chinese Christianity Studies Group, and develop new collaborations. A chance meeting with a descendant of missionaries who served in Sichuan, the focus of Yi&#8217;s dissertation, has already led to the sharing of previously unknown primary source materials. She was also invited to discuss her research on a Chinese Christian podcast, expanding the public reach of her work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Reflecting on the experience, Yi noted that CURA&#8217;s support transformed the conference into &#8220;a significant boost to both my research and professional development.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With support from a CURA Travel Grant, Boston University PhD student Aixin Yi (GRS&#8217;28) traveled to Vancouver in March to present her research at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), the largest international conference in the field. Yi co-organized the panel &#8220;What Can Christianity Do in a World at War?&#8221;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15206,"featured_media":10579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[991],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10581,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578\/revisions\/10581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}