#  Yi Lu 

 

 



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**Yi Lu** is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Harvard University. A historian of modern China, he is interested in the nexus of information, authority, and memory. His dissertation, “The Dustbin of History: Archival Politics in Modern China,” traces the history of official records in twentieth-century China as they were transformed from state secrets to street collectibles to scholarly resources. Blending historical, ethnographic, and digital methods, the project studies bureaucratic governance as a material practice and reflects on the praxis and ethics of history. A second project will explore epistolary exchanges and social networks in socialist China.

 

 

 





 

 

- ## Discipline
    
     [History](/disciplines/history)
- ## Fellowship
    
     [Interdisciplinary Dissertation Completion](/fellowship/interdisciplinary-dissertation-completion)
- ## Fellowship Year
    
     [2019 - 2020](/fellowship-year/2019-2020)
- ## Role
    
     [Fellows](/role/fellow)