Originally from Swatow in Southern China, Xintong received her Bachelor of Law in diplomacy from Beijing Foreign Studies University. During the Pandemic, she served as a research assistant at the Institute for Global History of her Alma Mater. While at Columbia and LSE, she passed the Hindi language placement exam and built up knowledge about postcolonial theory, Chinese history, Islam in Southeast Asia, South Asian historiography, inter Asian history, and East African history. Thanks to the supervision of Manan Ahmed and Ronald C. Po and the fellowship/award by our program, she was able to conduct her archival research in Singapore and write a dissertation on British Singapore’s legal imaginations of women during the interwar period. Currently, Xintong is a PhD student specializing in Southeast Asian history at Cornell University. Her research interests circle around inter-Asian transoceanic connections, historical geography, science and technology, as well as gender and sexuality.
