Alexandra Feldman
Alexandra Feldman (Political Economy, ’22) is a native of Southern California. She first visited Beijing during a 4-week Chinese language immersion program after her sophomore year in high school, and has continued studying both Chinese and Chinese literature since then. While attending Berkeley as a Regents’ Scholar, she became the Head News Editor for the Daily Californian and began writing poetry and short stories. As a Literature and Culture student at the Yenching Academy, Alexandra plans to explore the differences between the Chinese fantasy genre and Western fantasies, looking specifically […]
Jesse Bowens : Yenching Scholars Program
Jesse Bowens is a transfer student to U.C. Berkeley from Las Positas College. She will receive her degree in May 2016 as a Business Administration major from the UC Haas School of Business. Upon graduation, she will attend Peking University to earn a Masters in Chinese Studies with an emphasis in Economics and Management. She currently serve as Scholarships coordinator for the Berkeley Student Foundation, a Cohort Leader for the Haas Cohort Program, and was selected as a CalCPA Emerging Accounting Scholar.
Andrew Boyce : Yenching Scholars Program
“Andrew is an athlete, lawyer, entrepreneur and aspiring policy-maker. He studied politics at the University of California, Berkeley where he was a member of the Division 1 Varsity Water Polo Team. He also studied law at Cambridge University where he was awarded a “Blue” – the one of the University’s most prestigious sporting awards. He was born in New Zealand and grew up in Hong Kong where he attended the Chinese International School. Andrew has represented Hong Kong as a swimmer and water polo player, and hasplayed in the China […]
Blue Fay : Yenching Scholars Program
Blue Fay graduated from UC Berkeley in December 2020 with a BA in Legal Studies and a minor in Chinese. While learning Mandarin, he developed a deep interest in Redology the study of Cao Xue-qins The Dream of the Red Chamber. In the Spring of 2020, he was awarded the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures inaugural YR Chao Prize for an essay titled, The Thirteenth Beauty of Jinling: Suppression and Ephemerality in The Dream of the Red Chamber. Blues love of creative writing was nurtured by the four […]
Issac Levine : Yenching Scholars Program
Isaac graduated from UC Berkeley in 2019 with a BA in Political Economy. He also studied Chinese language throughout his time at Berkeley and was awarded the Huang Scholarship, through which he studied with Princeton-in-Beijing and interned at a small music and media company in Shanghai. He is excited to continue his studies in political economy and Chinese language at the Yenching Academy, where he will concentrate on Law & Society and research youth social and political movements, arts and cultural production, and urban studies in China. He is also […]