Haihan Jiang

Haihan Jiang is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Toronto. Her research examines how food was recorded, classified, and written about in Manchuria from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Drawing on local gazetteers, administrative records, travel writing, and ethnographic surveys, she is interested in how different genres of text produced different kinds of knowledge about borderland regions, and how these textual practices participated in making frontiers legible. Her work sits at the intersection of food history, the history of knowledge, and borderland studies in late imperial and modern China.