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Associate Professor: Late Imperial
China; Frontiers and Military Institutions of the Qing Dynasty
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Atrium 204 - 973/720-2816
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| Education |
| Ph.D. University of Washington, 1996 |
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| Selected Bibliography |
The Sichuan Frontier and Tibet: Imperial Strategy in the Early Qing , University of Washington Press, 2009 http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/DAISIC.html
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“Civilians Go into Battle: Hired Militias in the White Lotus War, 1796-1805,” Asia Major (Academia Sinica, Taipei), Volume 22 (2009), Part II, forthcoming |
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| "Military Finance in the High Qing Period: An Overview,” in Nicola Di Cosmo, editor, Military Culture in Imperial China, Harvard University Press, 2009: 296-316, 380-382 |
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| “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 |
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| "A Disguised Defeat: The Myanmar Campaign of the Qing Dynasty," Modern Asian Studies ( Cambridge University Press), Volume 38, Part 1 (2004): 145-188 |
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| "The Qing State, Merchants and the Military Labor Force in the Jinchuan Campaigns." Later Imperial China 22:2 (December, 2001): 35-90 |
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| "To Nourish A Strong Military: Kangxi Emperor's Preferential Treatment of His Military Officials." War and Society 18:2 (October, 2000): 71-91; 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 |
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| Fellowships and Awards |
Membership at the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, 2009 |
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| First Book Subvention, Association for Asian Studies, 2008 |
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Visiting Scholar in the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, January 2002 |
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| The Small Grant Program, Association for Asian Studies, 2001, 2004 |
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The K. C. Hsiao Fellowship, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, 1991-1992, 1992-1993 |
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The Chester Friz Scholarship, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, 1987-1991, 1993-1995, |
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| Research in Progress |
Blood Spouting, Silver Pouring: The White Lotus War in Late Imperial China, 1796-1805 , book-length monograph, to be completed in 2010 |
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| Qing Generals: The Demise of a Military Aristocracy in Eighteenth Century China , book-length monograph, at drafting stage |
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“Reaching the Empire’s Limits: The Qing Invasion of Nepal in 1792,” article, under revision |
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| Courses Offered |
| HIST 101 Foundations of Western Civilization |
HIST 102 The West and the World |
| ASN 201 Introduction to Asian Studies |
ASN 270 East Asian Civilization |
HIST 370 Traditional China |
HIST 371 Modern China |
HIST 375 The Chinese Communist Revolution |
| HIST 376 Korean History: From the Beginnings through the Twentieth Century |
HIST 460 Seminar in East Asian History |
HIST 470 Women and Revolution in China |
HIST 538 Graduate Seminar: Empires |
HIST 539 Graduate Seminar: War and Revolution |
HIST 665 Graduate Seminar: Chinese History and Civilization |
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