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Associate Professor: Early Modern China; Frontiers and Military System of the Qing Dynasty
Atrium 209 - 973/720-2816
 
Education
Ph.D. University of Washington, 1996.
 
Selected Bibliography

“A Key Strategic Area: The Sichuan Frontier under the Qing, 1640-1805,” book manuscript, under publisher’s review.

 

“Military Finance in the High Qing Period: An Overview,” in Nicola Di Cosmo, editor, Military Culture in Imperial China, Harvard University Press, forthcoming.

 

Yingyun Shengxi: Military Entrepreneurship in the High Qing Period: 1700-1800,” Late Imperial China ( Johns Hopkins University Press), Volume 26:2 (December, 2005): 1-67.

“To Nourish A Strong Military: Kangxi’s Preferential Treatment of His Military Officials,” reprinted in Kenneth Swope, editor, Warfare in China Since 1600, in the series of International Library of Essays in Military History. Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2005
 
"A Disguised Defeat: The Myanmar Campaign of the Qing Dynasty," Modern Asian Studies ( Cambridge University Press), Volume 38, Part 1 (2004): 145-188.
 
"The Qing State, Merchants and the Military Labor Force in the Jinchuan Campaigns." Later Imperial China 22:2 (December, 2001): 35-90.
 
"To Nourish A Strong Military: Kangxi Emperor's Preferential Treatment of His Military Officials." War and Society 18:2 (October, 2000): 71-91
 
"Shilun yibaliuling-yibaliuer nian Yingguo dui Taipingtianguo zhengce de zhuanibian (From Neutrality to Intervention: The Change of the British Policy towards the Taiping Rebellion, 1860-1862)." Journal of Nanjing University (Humanities and Social Sciences) 1987/3: 124-132 (Reprinted in Digest of Books and Journals: Modern Chinese History. Beijing: People's University Press, 1988).
 
Fellowships and Awards
The Small Grant Program of the Association for Asian Studies, 2001.
 
Applied Released Time Awards, William Paterson University, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003.
 
Career Development Awards, William Paterson University, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002.
 
Research in Progress

 

“Qing Generals: The Demise of A Military Aristocracy in Eighteenth Century China,” book project.

 

“The Militia in the White Lotus War (1796-1804): Myth and Reality,” article, under revision.

 
Courses Offered

HIST 101 Foundations of Western Civilization

ASN 270 East Asian Civilization

HIST 370 Traditional China

HIST 371 Modern China

HIST 375 The Chinese Communist Revolution

HIST 460 Seminar in East Asian History

HIST 470 Women and Revolution in China

HIST 538 Empires

HIST 539 War and Revolution

HIST 665 Graduate Seminar: Chinese History and Civilization