Ari Fahimi is a third-year double majoring in Chinese and Middle Eastern Studies. He is researching the role religion plays within the Zuozhuan, an ancient Chinese commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals, which are said to record the terse judgments of Confucius. In doing so, Ari hopes to highlight the “weirder” parts of the text—things like ghosts, dragons, and deities—that are often underexamined due to the general scholarly interest in the more rationalist-esque rhetoric within the text. After completing this, he hopes to spend his fourth year in China, and in the future to pursue research in Sino-Iranian relations, either modern or ancient.