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Cao Xiangchen
Peking University
Cao Xiangchen is a senior undergraduate law student at Peking University. She’s especially interested in international criminal law and represented Peking University at the International Criminal Court Moot Court Competition and won the champion in the National Round. She has been the group coordinator of the Silk Road SOAR Youth Leadership Program, a one-year intensive student leadership program focusing on the development of China, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Furthermore, she has volunteered at “Seeds of Hope Children’s Home Bali” and taught language classes to orphans in Indonesia. As a core member of Legal Aid Association, not only does she realize that legal assistance is often the only lifeline available to people facing life-altering consequences, but the judiciary is the last line of defense for social justice. She is firmly convinced by the quote “If you want peace, work for justice.” She hopes to contribute to the discussions, broadening her capacity for critical analysis from a foreign perspective at the EPIIC Symposium.
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Waldemar Jaszczyk
Peking University
Waldemar Jaszczyk is a British-Polish graduate from King’s College London, where he received the first-class honors degree in History and International Relations. The degree allowed him to study the international system and its dynamics through the complementary lens of social and political sciences. He is currently studying at Peking University as a part of the PKU-LSE double graduate degree in International Affairs. His research interests include geopolitics, the changing character of international involvement in civil wars and the impact of the Cold War legacy on the modern conflicts in the Third World. Waldemar is a keen volunteer, participating in the organization of many international mass events that support cross-cultural and cross-generational cooperation and exchange, such as the Europeade, the European Rover Challenge or E(x)plory Science Festival. His volunteering experience at the Imperial War Museum, the National Archives and the British Museum furthered his understanding of how international conflicts shaped the world that we live in and how historical themes and concepts cross national boundaries. He wants to provide his inter-disciplinary approach towards analyzing the challenges facing today’s world to the discussions at EPIIC 2020. He also hopes to engage in a positive, even if heated, debates and discussions with a group of diverse and open-minded people. Waldemar spends his free time writing, reading detective stories, horrors, watching movies and running.
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Xuelai Li
Peking University
Xuelai (Sally) Li is a senior at Peking University majoring in Finance and minoring in Computer Science. She has completed internships across consulting, banking and sales & trading before finally confirming her interest in research. Having gained solid academic background through exchange semester at the University of Hong Kong within the Department of Mathematics and a summer session at Columbia University, she started her academic road by cooperating with professor in different fields. Sally has prior experience in international trade, political economy, institutional theory as well as public policy. She was selected as the participant of Stanford UGVR program and did summer research there. In the future, Sally would like to shed light on how institutions and the political climate affect entrepreneurial activities. Outside the classroom, Sally is engaged in a variety of international communication activities and plays an important role in them. She enjoys making friends with people from different backgrounds and exchanging views about the world. She has been to more than 15 countries and is going to explore more in the future. Sally is excited to be a part of EPIIC and hopes to have a rewarding experience there.
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Liu Yalin
Peking University
Liu Yalin is a second-year undergraduate student at Peking University majoring in International Relations and will be pursuing a degree in International Political Economy at Waseda University in 2020 under the PKU-Waseda Double Degree Program. She is from Singapore and was a recipient of the Bicultural Studies Programme organized by Singapore’s Ministry of Education, equipping her with a deep understanding of China. Since then, she further developed an interest in China-East Asia relations, participating in various summits where she was awarded the Outstanding Delegate Award in the China-ASEAN Youth Summit 2019. She seeks to further her research in Japan-China-ASEAN relations during her stay at Waseda University in Year Three. Outside of curriculum, Yalin was also a member of her college’s Students Council where she chaired the Co-Curriculum-Activities (CCA) Leaders Symposium, serving as a platform for CCAs to voice out their problems to the school, and has successfully helped many CCAs to improve their funding issues. Yalin is also actively engaged in giving back to the society where she took on the role of the President of Operation Smile Nanyang to raise awareness of children suffering from cleft lips. Furthermore, as a Singaporean studying overseas, Yalin is also part of the Singapore Students Association (Beijing) Executive Committee where she organized various events to bring overseas Singaporeans together in Beijing. During her free time, Yalin enjoys playing the piano and has dedicated most of her childhood in practicing piano where she passed her piano Grade 8 ABRSM examinations with distinction.
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Jianzhang Lu
Peking University
Jianzhang is currently a second-year undergraduate student majoring in Japanese and International Studies at Peking University. Having spent 2 years of his childhood in Manhattan, New York, he has an immense interest in discovering more about the global community and wishes to take up a future academic path focusing on East Asia’s complex and intriguing international relations. He has also been an active member of Peking University’s international social clubs, namely SICA and Asian International Model United Nations, with an experience of designing and directing a model UN committee. He has also participated as a delegate in JING Forum 2018, an academic platform linking Peking University and the University of Tokyo. He is currently studying at Waseda University’s School of Political Science and Economics for a double-degree program. At the same time, he is devoted to volunteer activities and holds a passionate love for giving speeches - having volunteered as a tutor at Beijing’s Dandelion School for migrant workers’ children and having won First Place in Beijing’s English Speech Contest for University Students. Jianzhang believes mutual understanding is vital in the age of globalization and has a keen interest regarding nationalism in East Asian countries. He is very excited to discuss with fellow excellent representatives of EPIIC at Tufts.
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Yanjun Ni
Peking University
Yanjun Ni is currently in his first year of Master of Finance program and has just received a Bachelor of Law degree in June 2019. Yanjun is determined to pursue a career in investment banking or private equity and has interned in related institutions as JD.com, PingAn Capital and Goetzpartners, during which he gained a lot of insight into China’s e-commerce industry and new economy. Yanjun also has great interest in social issues because of his undergraduate major, philosophy, politics and economics, from which he studied systematically economic theory both in micro and macro levels and classical political philosophy theory from Plato to Rousseau. Furthermore, he tries to understand and form his own explanation for the growth miracle of China and effectiveness of its current political systems. Driven by his curiosity for different culture and social condition in other countries, Yanjun has engaged in multiple international communication programs, most of which consist of in-depth discussion with peers from multicultural backgrounds. He initiated discussion on Competition and Social Justice with Japanese students in JING Forum, and coordinated the project of InterACT, a corporate-governance research program sitting Chinese and French students from PKU and MINES ParisTech at the same table. In his spare time, he is really addicted to all kinds of literature, including classic novel, drama, and movies.
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Wen Wen
Peking University
Wen Wen is a junior undergraduate majoring in sociology, and she is also pursuing a dual-degree in economics. She is part of the honours program for young academics in social sciences, Yan-Fu Project, through which she encountered and has developed friendship with excellent peers from different disciplines. She’s never content with a single specific discipline, instead, she takes pleasure in combining the wisdom of sociology, economics, psychology, history and political science. She believes that social phenomena are interrelated with each other and need comprehensive study, especially in contemporary China. Wen’s past 2 years of undergraduate school life was packed with classical social theory tomes as well as intense empirical research training. She has developed skills of both quantitative social statistics and qualitative field study. Joining PKU’s delegation to this splendid high-end international symposium is an incredible and electrifying experience for her. She is looking forward to work with and learn from all the superb delegates. Working hard on her dream to enter graduate school, she will continue to advance her academic thinking, communication and presentation abilities.
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Zhang Haoying
Peking University
Zhang Haoying is a senior student of German language and literature at Peking University, double majoring Chinese language and literature. She’s been an exchange student in Heidelberg University in Germany and nourishes a deep interest in German and European culture, history and society. As a member of PKU Students International Communication Association, she’s strongly interested in global relations and international exchange. She’s played an important role in the organization of numerous cultural exchange activities and academic conferences such as International Cultural Festival 2017, World Congress of Philosophy 2018 and East Asia Cooperation Conference of ZDS 2019. With a strong sense of social responsibility, she always tries her best to help people around and to make more contributions to the society. Not only did she work twice as a tutor for college freshmen, but also conducted an internship at the Investment Promotion Bureau of the local district government. Besides English, she also speaks German and French. She enjoys reading, painting and designing, and won the championship of the 12nd National German Debate Competition. She is really excited with the idea of being able to attend at her first international symposium and looks forward to learn and share perspectives with friends all over the world, working together to make the world a better place with more understanding and less violence.
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