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Associate Professor: Late Imperial China; Frontiers and Military Institutions of the Qing Dynasty
Atrium 204 - 973/720-2816
 
Education
Ph.D. University of Washington, 1996
 
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

 

  “Civilians Go into Battle: Hired Militias in the White Lotus War, 1796-1805,” Asia Major (Academia Sinica, Taipei), Volume 22 (2009), Part II, forthcoming

 

"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
 
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
 
"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; 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
 
Fellowships and Awards

Membership at the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, 2009

 
First Book Subvention, Association for Asian Studies, 2008
 

Visiting Scholar in the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, January 2002

 
The Small Grant Program, Association for Asian Studies, 2001, 2004
 

The K. C. Hsiao Fellowship, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, 1991-1992, 1992-1993

 

The Chester Friz Scholarship, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, 1987-1991, 1993-1995,

 

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

 

Qing Generals: The Demise of a Military Aristocracy in Eighteenth Century China , book-length monograph, at drafting stage
 

“Reaching the Empire’s Limits: The Qing Invasion of Nepal in 1792,” article, under revision

 

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