Evelyn Rawski
University Professor
PhD, Harvard University (1968)
University of Pittsburgh
Department of History
3507 Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
412-648-7458
esrx@pitt.edu
Educational Background
B.A. with high honors in economics and distinction in all subjects, Cornell University, 1961
M. A. in East Asian Regional Studies, Radcliffe, 1962
Ph.D. in History and Far Eastern Languages, Harvard University, February 1968
Languages: Chinese, Japanese, French, Manchu, Korean
Predoctoral Awards and Honors
General Motors National Scholarship, 1957-61
B.A. with High Honors in Economics and Distinction in all subjects, 1961
Phi Beta Kappa, 1960
Omicron Delta Epsilon (economics honor society), 1961
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1961-62
National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship, 1962-64
Foreign Area Fellowship, 1964-65
National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship, 1965-67
Employment
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh, 1967-72
Associate Professor, 1973-79
Professor, 1980-1995, University Professor of History 1996-
Research Professor, University Center for International Studies, 1988-
Postdoctoral Awards, Grants, Honors
Summer Research Grant, East Asian Research Center , Harvard University, 1971
Faculty Research Grant, University of Pittsburgh, summer 1972
Grant for Research in Chinese Civilization, American Council of Learned Societies, 1973-74
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1974
Small Grant, Asian Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh, 1977-78
Faculty Research Grant, University of Pittsburgh, summer 1978
National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship, 1979-80
Small Grant, Asian Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh, 1985-86, 1986-87, 1987-88
Research Development Fund grant, University of Pittsburgh, 1986-87
Fellowship in Chinese Studies, Joint Committee on Chinese Studies (ACLS), July 1- December 31, 1989
Guggenheim Fellowship, January 1- June 30, 1990.
University Center for International Studies (University of Pittsburgh) Senior Fellowship, September 1- December 31, 1990
Fellow at Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington , D.C. 1992-93
Yoshida Shigeru International Foundation award, summer 1997.
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2006-07.
Publications
Books:
Agricultural Change and the Peasant Economy of South China, Harvard University Press, 1972.
Education and Popular Literacy in Ch'ing China, University of Michigan Press, 1979.
with David Johnson and Andrew J. Nathan, eds., Popular Culture in Late Imperial China, University of California Press, 1985.
with Susan Naquin, Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century, Yale University Press, 1987.
with James L. Watson, eds., Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China, University of California Press, 1988.
with Bell Yung and Rubie S. Watson, eds., Harmony and Counterpoint: Ritual Music in Chinese Context, Stanford University Press, 1996.
with Murdo J. MacLeod, eds. European Intruders and Changes in Behaviour and Customs in Africa and Asia before 1800. volume 30 in An Expanding World: The European Impact on World History 1450-1800, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1998.
The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions, University of California Press, 1998.
with Jan Stuart, Worshiping the Ancestors: Chinese Commemorative Portraits. Stanford University Press, June 2001.
with Jessica Rawson, eds. China: The Three Emperors, 1662-1795, London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2005.
Articles and reviews:
"Technological Innovation and Cotton Textiles in Traditional China," Ch'ing-shih wen-t'i 3.2(1974):43-49.
"Agricultural Development in the Han River Highlands," Ch'ing-shih wen-t'i 3.4(1975):63-81.
"Popular Religion in East Asia," review article, Peasant Studies Newsletter 4.4(1975):2-6.
"Ming Society and the Economy," Ming Studies 2 (1976):12-19.
"'Sprouts of Capitalism' --- A New Transplant?" Ming Studies 4(1977):7-8.
"Social Change in Chinese Society," Peasant Studies Newsletter 6.4(1977):150-153.
"Collections of Primary Sources for Research in Ming-Qing Socioeconomic History," in Ming and Qing Historical Studies in the People's Republic of China, ed. Frederic Wakeman, Jr. (Berkeley: Center for Chinese Studies, 1980), pp. 63-72.
"History from Two Dimensions: A Historian's View of the Symposium," in Chinese Social and Economic History from the Song to 1900: Report of the American Delegation to a Sino-American Symposium ed. Albert Feuerwerker (Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, 1982), pp. 65-68.
"Functional Literacy in Nineteenth-century China," in Literacy in Historical Perspective, ed. Daniel P. Resnick (Washington: Library of Congress, 1983), pp. 85-103.
"Elementary Education in the Mission Enterprise ," in John K. Fairbank and Suzanne W. Barnett, eds., American-Chinese Interaction: Literary Mission Work in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985), pp. 135-151.
"Economic and Social Foundations of Late Imperial Culture," in Popular Culture in Late Imperial China, pp. 3-33.
"The Ma Landlords of Yang-chia-kou in Late Ch'ing and Republican China,", in Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China, ed. Patricia Ebrey and James L. Watson (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986), pp. 245-73.
with Susan Naquin, "Topics for Research in Ch'ing History," Late Imperial China 8.1 (1987):187-204.
"Popular Culture in China ," in Ching-i Tu, ed., Tradition and Creativity: Essays on East Asian Civilization (New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1987), pp. 41-65.
"The Imperial Way of Death," in Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China, ed. James L. Watson and Evelyn S. Rawski (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), pp. 228-253.
"Property Rights in Land in Ch'ing China," Proceedings on the Second International Conference on Sinology, comp. Academia Sinica (Taipei , 1989), pp. 357-82.
"Competitive Markets as an Obstacle to Economic Development," in The Second Conference on Modern Chinese Economic History, comp. Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, 1989, I:289-311.
"The Social Agenda of May Fourth," in Perspectives on Modern China: Four Anniversaries, eds. Kenneth Lieberthal, Joyce Kallgren, Roderick MacFarquhar, and Frederic Wakeman, Jr. (Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1991), pp. 139-57.
"Ch'ing Imperial Marriage and Problems of Rulership," in Rubie S. Watson and Patricia B. Ebrey, eds. Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), pp. 170-203.
"Research Themes in Ming-Qing Socio-economic History - The State of the Field," Journal of Asian Studies 50.1 (1991): 84-111.
(with Pamela K. Crossley) "A Profile of the Manchu Language in Ch'ing History," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 58.1 (1993): 63-102.
"The Creation of an Emperor in Eighteenth-Century China," in Bell Yung, Evelyn S. Rawski, and Rubie S. Watson, eds. Harmony and Counterpoint: Ritual Music in Chinese Context (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996), pp.150-74.
"Re-envisioning the Qing: The Significance of the Qing Period in Chinese History," Journal of Asian Studies 55.4 (1996): 829-50.
"Burying the Emperor and His Family," in Chuimei Ho and Cheri A. Jones, eds. Life in the Imperial Court of Qing Dynasty China, published in Proceedings of the Denver Museum of Natural History ser. 3, no. 15 (1998): 95-103.
"Pursuing Social History Through the Archives: Historical Detection as a Research Mode," in Symposium on Chinese Historical Archives, pp. 298-312. Taipei: Academia Historica, 1998.
"Inner and East Asia : The Historical Context of Cultural Exchange," in the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, v. 7: East Asia, ed. Robert Provine, Yoshihiko Tokumaru, and J. Lawrence Witzleben (New York: Routledge., 2002), 9-37.
"The Non-Han Peoples in Chinese History," The East Asian Library Journal X, no. 1 (2001): 197-222.
"China in Turmoil: Economy, Society, and Politics During the Qing Conquest," in Michael Butler, Julia B. Curtis, and Stephen Little, Treasures from an Unknown Reign: Shunzhi Porcelain, 1644-1661. Alexandria, Va., Art Services International, 2002.
"Recent Scholarly Trends in Ming-Qing History," in Dai Yikai Chugoku shigaku kokusai kaigi kenkyu hokoku shu Chugoku no rekishi sekai-togo bi shisutemu to tagen tedi hatten (The collected research reports of the First International Conference of the Chinese Historical Studies Association, The Chinese historical world-integrated system and pluralistic development), ed. Chugoku shigaku kai, pp. 109-39. Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan University Press, 2002.
"Re-imagining the Ch'ien-lung Emperor: A Survey of Recent Scholarship," The National Palace Museum Research Quarterly 21.2 (2003): 1-29.
"The Qing Formation and the Early-Modern Period," in The Qing Formation in World-Historical Time, ed. Lynn A. Struve (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2004), pp. 207-41.
"Qing Publishing in Non-Han Languages," in Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China, ed. Cynthia Brokaw and Kai-wing Chow (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), pp. 304-31.
"The ‘Prosperous Age’: China in the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns," in China: The Three Emperors, 1662-1795, ed. Evelyn S. Rawski and Jessica Rawson (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2005), pp. 22-40.
"Territories of the Qing," in China: The Three Emperors, 1662-1795, ed. Evelyn S. Rawski and Jessica Rawson (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2005), pp. 156-60.
Book Reviews in:
American Historical Review
China Quarterly
Economic Development and Cultural Change
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
History of Education Quarterly
Journal of Asian Studies
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Journal of Social History
Library Journal
Research in Progress
"Book Culture in Qing Inner Asia," presented at Books in Numbers: A Conference in Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of Harvard-Yenching Library, October 17-18, 2003. A revised version of the paper will be published in a conference volume edited by Wilt Idema.
Family Matters: China and Its Neighbors in Northeast Asian History. Case studies of the contemporary dispute between the two Koreas and China over “ownership” of Koguryo, a northeast Asian state which collapsed in 668 AD; of political legitimacy—Japanese and Korean adaptations of Chinese Confucian models of rulership in the Choson (1392-1910) and Edo (1600-1868) periods; conflicting claims of moral leadership—Japanese and Korean responses to the Jurchen/Manchu conquest of Ming China in the mid-seventeenth century; and realpolitik—the Japanese invasion of Korea (1592-1598) and its repercussions in northeast Asian geopolitics examine the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean primary and secondary sources to move beyond the nationalist discourse of contemporary historiography and analyze the long historical relations among the Chinese, Korean, and Japanese states.
Professional Activities
Member, Ad Hoc Committee on the Role of Women in the Association for Asian Studies, 1970-71.
Member, ACLS Subcommittee on Ming and Ch'ing Studies, 1972-75.
Participant, Workshop on Media and Politics ( China ), Columbia University, 1974-76.
Member, Editorial Board, Ming Studies, 1976-86
Member, Editorial Board, Peasant Studies Newsletter, 1977-80.
Elected member, China Inner Asia Council and Board of Directors, Association for Asian Studies, 1976-79.
Consultant, Modernization of China Project, Princeton University, 1977-79.
Associate, University Seminar on Modern East Asia: China, Columbia University, 1977-80.
Member of American Delegation of Ming-Ch'ing Historians to the People's Republic of China, summer 1979, sponsored by the U. S. National Academy of Science and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Participant in Chinese-American symposium on "Chinese Social and Economic History from the Song to 1900," held in Peking , October 26 - November 1, 1980, and sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Committee on Scholarly Communications with the People's Republic of China.
with David Johnson and Andrew Nathan, organizers of a conference on "Values and Communication in Chinese Popular Culture," sponsored by the Committee on Studies of Chinese Civilization, American Council of Learned Societies, January 1981.
Member, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, 1979-
Member, Subcommittee on Grants for Research in Chinese Civilization, Committee on Studies of Chinese Civilization, ACLS, 1979-81.
Member, Committee on Studies of Chinese Civilization, ACLS, 1980-82
Member, Joint Committee on Chinese Studies, ACLS/SSRC, 1982-84
Chair, Joint Committee on Chinese Studies, ACLS/SSRC, 1984-87
Co-chair, with James L. Watson, of a conference on "Ritual and the Social Significance of Death in Chinese Society," funded by the Joint Committee on Chinese Studies (ACLS-SSRC), held January 1985.
Elected to Council, Center for Social History, Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, 1985-87.
Member, Social Sciences and Humanities Panel, Committee on Scholarly Communications with the People's Republic of China, 1988-89.
Committee on the John K. Fairbank Prize, American Historical Association, 1991-93 (chair, 1992-94).
Member, American editors, Sinica Leidensia (E.J. Brill, Leiden), 1992-
Co-organizer, with Bell Yung and Rubie Watson, of a conference on "Chinese Ritual Music: Expressions of Authority and Power," May 1993, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The conference volume has been published by Stanford University Press.
Associate Editor, Encyclopedia of Social History, ed. Peter N. Stearns (New York: Garland Publishing, 1994).
Member of the core faculty in a summer institute (funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities) on Tibetan Buddhism and Chinese Culture, held at Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 27 to July 29, 1994. The co-organizers of the workshop were Ruth Dunnell and Donald Lopez.
Participant, "Conference on Modern Historical Archives," organized by Frederic Wakeman Jr. and Wen-hsin Yeh, Berkeley, California, August 19-21, 1994 . This conference was sponsored by the Committee on Humanities and Social Sciences of the ACLS/SSRC and Academia Sinica, Republic of China.
Vice-President, Association of Asian Studies, 1994-95; President, 1995-96.
Discussant, "Narratives, Arts, and Rituals: Imagining and Constructing Nationhood in Modern East Asia," conference held at University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign, November 14-17, 1996 .
Discussant, roundtable on "Chinese Nationalism in the Eighteenth Century," held at New York University, February 11, 1997 .
Association of Asian Studies delegate, American Council of Learned Societies, 1997-
Conducted an external evaluation with two other specialists of the East Asia Program at the University of Hawaii , Manoa Campus, at the invitation of Dean Willa Tanabe, School of Hawaiian , Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Hawaii , from November 5-7, 1998 .
Discussant, Ming Court Culture Conference, sponsored by Princeton University and the Geiss Foundation, Princeton, June 12-13, 2003.
National Screening Committee (China), Fulbright Fellowships, December 2003.
China/Taiwan Research Review Committee, Fulbright Scholar Program, October 22, 2004, December 5, 2005.
Chair, Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate History Leadership Team, 2003-2005. The Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh is one of ten Partner Departments in a three-year project on doctoral education reform sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Education.
"Adventures in the Graduate Curriculum," a panel at the AHA Workshop on Graduate Education, annual meeting of the American Historical Society, Seattle, WA, January 6, 2005.
"Making Graduate Education Work: Rethinking the Doctorate through the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate," annual meeting of the American Historical Society, Seattle, WA, January 7, 2005.
Evaluation of the History Program at Binghamton University of S.U.N.Y. system, April 20-21, 2005.
Evaluation of East Asian Studies Program at Duke University, October 2005.
Member of Nominating Committee, American Historical Association, 2006-2008.
Papers Presented
"Ming Society and the Economy," Association for Asian Studies, March 1976.
"Education and the Transmission of Moral Precepts," conference on High Culture and Popular Culture in East Asia, Harvard University, August 1978.
"Regional Variations in Elite Residence, Consumption, and Investment," conference on Urban-Rural Networks in Chinese Society, sponsored by the Joint Committee on Contemporary China, SSRC, August 1979.
"Education and Mobility in Republican China," presented at the Berkeley Regional Seminar, April 1986.
Lectures on "Education and Popular Literacy in Ch'ing China," delivered at: Princeton University, Yale University, Columbia University, the University of Michigan, and at the Triangle East Asian Colloquium in Raleigh, North Carolina, 1976-1978. Lectures at: Columbia University, November 1984 and Cornell University, November 1985 ("Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century"); Rutgers University, February 1986 ("Popular Culture in China"); University of Chicago, November 1987 and University of California, San Diego, January 1988 ("Life-Cycle Rituals and Popular Culture in Ch'ing China), Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo, June 1990 ("American Studies of Ch'ing Socio-economic History"), Research School of Pacific Affairs, Australian National University, July 1992 ("Manchuria, Inner Mongolia and Tibet Today from the Perspective of Qing History"); Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, February 1993 ("Court Society in Eighteenth-Century China"); Modern China Seminar, Georgetown University, March 1993 ("The Conquest Elite"); Howard Wechsler Memorial Lecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 1993 ("Ritual and Rulership in Late Imperial China"); New England Conference, Association for Asian Studies, October 1994 ("Ritual and Rulership in East Asia"); New York Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, September 16, 1995 ("The Qing Origins of Ethnic Nationalism in Contemporary China"); Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Lewiston, Idaho, September 29, 1995 ("The Qing Origins of Ethnic Nationalism in Contemporary China"); Southwest Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Waco, Texas, October 14, 1995 ("Rituals of Rulership in Qing China"); Middle Atlantic Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Towson, Maryland, October 21, 1996 ("The Qing Origins of Ethnic Nationalism in Contemporary China"); South East Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Knoxville, TN, January 13, 1996 ("Rituals of Rulership in Qing China"), Bates College, March 14, 1996 ("The Qing Origins of Ethnic Nationalism in Contemporary China"); Annual Meeting, Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 11, 1996 ("Re-envisioning the Qing: The Significance of the Qing Period in Chinese History").
With Jan Stuart, presentation of our "Qing imperial portraits" project to the Seminar on Visual Dimensions of Chinese Culture, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University , November 20, 1998 . I also presented a version of this talk to the colloquium in the History of Art and Architecture Department on March 2, 1999 ."Viewing Qing History Through Its Art," presented at the University of Pennsylvania under the auspices of its Center for East Asian Studies, March 25, 1999; "Viewing Chinese History Through Art," at "Frontiers of Knowledge," Concord, New Hampshire, October 24, 1999."The Ancestral Gaze: Portrait Traditions in East Asia ," presented at the Asia Center seminar, Harvard University , December 10, 1999. "The Non-Han Peoples in Chinese History," presented at a symposium accompanying the exhibition, "Visible Traces: Rare Books and Special Collections from the National Library of China," Queens Borough Library, New York, February 19, 2000; "Spreading the Word: Non-Han Publishing in the Qing Period," presented at the China Humanities Seminar, Harvard University, February 7, 2000. "Rituals of Rulership in East Asia," "The Non-Han Peoples in Chinese History," presented at the symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition, "Visible Traces: Rare Books and Special Collections from the National Library of China," February 19, 2000 at Flushing, New York. "Recent Scholarly Trends in Ming-Qing History," presented at the First International Conference on Chinese History, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, September 14-17, 2000 . "Tibetan Buddhist Objects at the Qing Court ," presented at the Institute of Asian Studies/Princeton Colloqium , "Qing History (1600-1900) Through Things," November 3-4, 2000 at Princeton University . "The Manchu Hongloumeng," written for a workshop April 27-29, 2001 at the University of Pennsylvania, organized by Matthew Sommer and Tina Lu, on this famous eighteenth-century novel. Gallery talk, "Traditions of Portraiture in Ancestral China and Contemporary America," a workshop for K-12 educators co-sponsored by the Asian Studies Center, University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh and the Andy Warhol Museum, February 8, 2003.
"Property Rights in Land in Ch'ing China," presented to the Second International Conference on Sinology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 29-31, 1986 .
"Local Elites in Republican China: A Survey of Recent Work," presented at the U.S.-Japanese Historians' Conference, Occidental College, August 16-19, 1987.
"Late Imperial Marriage: The Emperor as Wife-Giver and Wife-Taker," presented at a conference (January 1988) on "Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society," organized by Rubie Watson and Patricia Ebrey, and funded by the Joint Committee on Chinese Studies, ACLS-SSRC.
"Competitive Markets as an Obstacle to Economic Development," presented at the Second Conference on Modern Chinese Economic History, convened by the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, in Nankang, Taiwan, January 1989.
"Chinese Culture and the Ch'ing Court," presented at the 1989 Ohio State University College of Humanities Symposium, March 3-5, 1989 .
"The Social Agenda of May Fourth," presented at the Four Anniversaries China Conference, organized by the centers at the University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University, and the University of Michigan, September 10-15, 1989.
Participant in Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation's Institute on World History, July 1992.
"Music and Rulership in Qing Accession Rituals During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," presented at a seminar, University of Michigan , March 17, 1993. A revised version was presented at a conference on "Chinese Ritual Music: Expressions of Authority and Power," organized by Bell Yung, Rubie Watson, and Evelyn Rawski, May 1993, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
"Rituals of Rulership in East Asia," Reischauer lectures delivered at Harvard University in April, 1994.
"Rituals of Rulership in China under the Qing Dynasty," presented at the Walter Annenberg Seminar, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, January 19, 1995.
"The Conquest Elite and Its Role in Qing Administration in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," presented at the conference on "Royal Power and Bureaucratic Systems in East Asia," Seoul, Korea, October 14-18, 1997.
"Qing Publishing for the Non-Han World," presented at the conference, "Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China," held June 1-5, 1998 at Timberline Lodge, Oregon.
Discussant at panel, "Maps, Boundaries and Human Geographies in Chinese History: Middle Period and Late Imperial," at the International Convention of Asia Scholars, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, June 25-28, 1998 .
With Jan Stuart, to present our "Qing imperial portraits" project to the Seminar on Visual Dimensions of Chinese Culture, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, November 20, 1998 .
Discussant, "Ethnicity, Society and Cross-Border Cultures in Southwest China: Past and Present," organized by the Center for East and Southeast Asian Studies at Lund University, Lund, Sweden, Mary 25-28, 2000.
Panelist for National Endowment of the Humanities, Division of Public Programs, April 3, 2001 in Washington, D.C.
"Worshiping the Ancestors: Chinese Ritual and Commemorative Portraits," an exhibition at the Sackler Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. June-September 2001. Jan Stuart, Associate Curator and I were the co-organizers of the exhibition.
"Re-thinking the Qing: Eighteenth-century China in an Early Modern World," Sivert O. and Majorie Allen Skotheim Lecture, Whitman College, October 24, 2002 .
Discussant, panel on "Medicine, Modernity and Cultural Politics," in conference on "Asian Medicine: Nationalism, Transnationalism and the Politics of Culture," organized by Joseph S. Alter, Pittsburgh, PA, November 15, 2002.
Participant, Roundtable on "The Intersection of the Discipline of History and Area Studies," at the annual meeting, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, November 22, 2002.
"Re-imagining the Qianlong Emperor: A Survey of Recent Scholarship," Keynote speaker at " China and the World in the 18 th Century - Academic Workshop," sponsored by the National Palace Museum, Taipei, December 13-14, 2002.
"The Ritual Context of Chinese Ancestor Portraits," in "Beyond Commemoration: Portraits in East Asia and America," symposium held at the Andy Warhol Museum,Pittsburgh, February 1, 2003.
"Politics in the Shunzhi Era," in "Treasures from an Unknown Reign: Shunzhi Porcelain," symposium held at the University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia, March 22, 2003.
"Book Culture in Qing Inner Asia," a paper presented at "Books in Numbers," a conference in celebration of the 75 th anniversary of the Harvard-Yenching Library, October 17-18, 2003, Harvard University .
Panelist, National Screening Committee for Fulbright Program administered by the Institute of International Education, New York, December 1, 2003.
Discussant, panel on “Manchu Acculturation: New Sources for Studying Change in the Qing,” annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, March 4, 2004.
"Women in the Qing Court," address delivered at the Field Museum, Chicago, July 28, 2004 during the exhibition, “Splendors of China’s Forbidden City: The Glorious Reign of Emperor Qianlong.”
"Research Trends of East Asian Studies and Their Challenges to East Asian Librarians," address delivered at Luce Summer Institute for East Asian Librarians, University of Pittsburgh, August 1, 2004.
"Scholarly Trends in China Studies" address delivered at annual meeting of the Western Branch of the American Oriental Society, Portland, Oregon, October 16, 2004.
"Manchu Ethnicity, Emperors and Politics in Late Imperial China," presented at the Triangle East Asia Colloquium, Duke University, February 19, 2005.
"Unwilling Vassal: The Choson-Manchu Relationship," presented at the Second International North American Conference on Manchu Studies, Harvard University, May 27-28, 2005.
Courses Taught
Traditional East Asia (undergraduate survey course)
Modern East Asia (undergraduate survey course)
Chinese socio-economic history
Late imperial China (Qing)
Modern China (including post-1949)
Asian-Americans in the United States
Food and Culture in History
History reading seminar for majors
History of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism (Honors College course)
Graduate reading and research seminars:
"Research Methods" (History 2401);
"Chinese Studies Since 1950" (History 2403);
"Chinese Ritual Music in Social Context," taught with Bell Yung and Rubie Watson in the Music Department, fall 1991
"Comparative Nationalisms," taught with Hugh Kearney, fall 1996, 1997; with Irina Livezeanu, fall 2003
"European Imperialism, 1450-1750," taught with Seymour Drescher, fall 1997
"Historiography of Modern Imperialism," taught with Seymour Drescher, fall 2001
"Capitalism in World History," taught with Werner Troesken, spring 2002
"East Asian Portraiture in Ritual Context," taught with Karen Gerhart, in History of Art and Architecture Department, fall 2002
"Capitalism and Empire" (core seminar) taught with Richard Oestreicher, spring 2005
