Yuewei Wang is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Asian Studies. She completed her BA at Bryn Mawr College in 2018 and her MA at Columbia University in 2020. Both her undergraduate and master’s theses are about the Japanese literary legend Abe no Seimei. She is primarily interested in recreation and retelling, specifically why some literary figures sustain popularity over centuries and how such characters’ narratives evolve as sociological conditions change. She also explores the rhetoric of dehumanization/demonization of the female body in Japanese tales of the supernatural, and the use of oracles in late imperial Chinese fiction and drama.