Yifan Zheng
· Historian of Ancient ChinaUniversity of Washington · History
Active 1992–2025
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About
Yifan Zheng is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Washington, specializing in the social, legal, and institutional history of ancient China. His research examines how legal and administrative practices shaped the lives and identities of people across the social spectrum in the Warring States, Qin, and Han periods, with particular attention to marginalized groups and frontier regions. He is currently working on a manuscript for his first book, which analyzes excavated manuscripts, transmitted texts, and archaeological materials to explore how early imperial governments identified, categorized, and managed populations. The book aims to reconstruct state mechanisms such as registration systems, penal labor regimes, and frontier control, illustrating how these groups navigated state authority and reshaped societal boundaries in early Chinese society. Zheng's approach adopts a bottom-up, periphery-to-center perspective, using case studies of peripheral towns to explore the practical implementation of imperial policies. He joined the University of Washington in Autumn 2025 after serving as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National University of Singapore. His previous academic experiences include visiting scholar positions at Kyoto University and the Yuelu Academy. His future research plans involve integrating geographical, economic, and environmental factors and extending his chronological scope into the early medieval period to develop a broader…
Research topics
- Cardiology
- Medicine
- Internal medicine
- Pathology
- Biology
Selected publications
Engineering the multiscale complexity of vascular networks
Nature Reviews Materials · 2022-05-31 · 249 citations
reviewOpen accessThe Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation · 2022 · 29 citations
Microvascularization in 3D Human Engineered Tissue and Organoids
Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering · 2025-05-01 · 8 citations
reviewOpen accessThe microvasculature, a complex network of small blood vessels, connects systemic circulation with local tissues, facilitating the nutrient and oxygen exchange that is critical for homeostasis and organ function. Engineering these structures is paramount for advancing tissue regeneration, disease modeling, and drug testing. However, replicating the intricate architecture of native vascular systems-characterized by diverse vessel diameters, cellular constituents, and dynamic perfusion capabilitie…
Mind over scaffold: Vascular network-inspired scaffolds for functionally mature neural organoids
Cell Biomaterials · 2025-05-01 · 1 citations
articleOpen accessSenior authorEndothelial Cell Transcription Modulation in Cerebral Aneurysms After Endovascular Flow Diversion
Annals of Biomedical Engineering · 2024-08-02 · 1 citations
articleOpen access
Recent grants
Rebuilding the glomerular filtration barrier by regenerating adult podocytes
NIH · $855k · 2015–2017
3D human-based microvessel bed for the study of Plasmodium falciparum interacting with vessel wall
NIH · $2.3M · 2015–2020
Rebuilding the glomerular filtration barrier by regenerating adult podocytes
NIH · $858k · 2015–2020
Frequent coauthors
- 50 shared
Triantafyllos Chavakis
- 49 shared
Carl G. Gahmberg
University of Helsinki
- 49 shared
Thalia Papayannopoulou
University of Washington
- 49 shared
Stefanie Dimmeler
Goethe University Frankfurt
- 49 shared
Eun Young Choi
Seoul National University
- 49 shared
DaRue A. Prieto
- 49 shared
Christian Weber
- 49 shared
Line Fraemohs
RWTH Aachen University
Education
- 2008
PhD, Biomedical Engineering
University of Michigan
- 2002
B.S, Engineering Thermophysics
University of Science and Technology of China
Awards & honors
- Tang Post-Doctoral Research Award, Tang Center for Early Chi…
- Townsend Dissertation Fellowship, Townsend Center for the Hu…
- Koo Fellowship for Outstanding Graduate Students in East Asi…
- Chiang King-kuo Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship,…
- David N. Keightley Fellowship for Early China, Graduate Divi…
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