2024 Graduate Student Research Travel Grant
The 2024 Graduate Student Research Travel Grant goes to Song Hong, third-year doctoral student at Stanford University.
Dissertation: “The Insect Matters: White Wax, Environment, and the Society in Qing Southern Sichuan”
Song Hong’s project examines the importance of insect wax in understanding the social and economic lives in Qing-era southern Sichuan, a frontier region characterized by transregional trade and/or transnational exchanges of labor, knowledge, and profit. Hong’ proposal isdetailed and thoughtful, containing information on the relevant historiography, methodology, and significance of his study as well as the justification for the need to conduct further archival research in Beijing and Sichuan.