Yi-Ting Chung

Yi-Ting Chung (she/her) is a fervent ramen eater and a History Ph.D. candidate in the fields of East Asia and transpacific history. As a Han settler born and raised in Taiwan, her concern lies in the marginalized communities who were excluded, sacrificed, and forgotten in the making of the Japanese empire. Her current research direction examines how the colonial subjects of the Japanese empire—Taiwanese and Koreans—traversed the Pacific while treading the complex boundaries of nation, empire, and race between Japan and the US in the first half of the twentieth century. 

Yi-Ting is also deeply passionate about teaching and dedicated to bettering her pedagogy. At Stanford, she designed and taught the class “Between Empires: Modern History of Taiwan.” She also served as President of the North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA) from 2024 to 2025.