A directory of scholars working in the field of Ming studies.
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| Name & Contact |
Affiliation | Interests & Projects |
|---|---|---|
| Ina Asim 康怡諾 |
University of Oregon (USA) Faculty |
Interests: Chinese pre-modern history; Song; Ming; urban studies; material culture; archaeology; visual culture Projects: Completing a study on Ming Nanjing; digital projects on Chinese paintings, other works of art (textiles; jade) and Chinese gardens in various states of completion. |
| C. D. Alison Bailey |
University of British Columbia (Canada) Faculty |
Interests: Law, disorder, violence, filial revenge, history of emotions, literature, statecraft, mourning ritual, Ming loyalism. Projects: Emotions (especially anger); filial revenge and mourning ritual; legal texts; Qiu Jun (statecraft project with Tim Brook et al.). |
| Kathlene Baldanza |
Pennsylvania State University (USA) Faculty |
Interests: Social and cultural history; foreign relations. |
| Peter Bol 包弼德 web · email |
Harvard University (USA) Faculty |
Interests: history, geography, thought Projects: local cultural history 12-17th century, Ming founding, fifteenth century |
| Katharine Burnett 陶幽庭 web · email |
University of California, Davis (USA) Faculty |
Interests: Chinese art history/visual and material culture from late Ming to contemporary; issues of originality and individuation in Ming; late Ming art historiography; painting, calligraphy, ceramics, textiles, etc. History and culture of tea; historical development of the teapot; the spread of Chinese tea culture (outside of East Asia) along the maritime trade routes, 1550-1800. Projects: Article forthcoming: “Decadence Disrupted: Arguing Against Decadence in Late Ming Art History,” for special issue: “Comparative Decadence in the Jiajing and Wanli Eras of the Ming,” Ming Studies. Articles in preparation:”What Originality Looks Like in 17th Century Painting and Calligraphy in the Tsao Family Collection” for LACMA exhibition catalogue; “The Surprisingly Little We Know about Teapots and Trade Routes: Visual Evidence for Trade in Tea and Teapots from China to Vietnam in the Ming Dynasty” ; “Strange-Figure Painting of Seventeenth-Century China”; Book on Wu Bin 吳彬 (ca. 1543- ca. 1626) |
| Aurelia Campbell 金田 |
Lake Forest College (USA) Faculty |
Interests: Architecture of the Ming dynasty, Sino-Tibetan exchange, Buddhist arts, artistic practice and production, environmental and technological history Projects: My current research focuses on the architecture and material culture of four temples constructed under Yongle and Xuande outside the capital: Qutansi and Dachongjiaosi in Qinghai and Gansu, the Daoist architectural complex on Mt. Wudang in Hubei, and Yongningsi in what is now present-day Telin, Russia. It identifies these monuments as important nodes of trans-cultural and trans-regional contact between the early Ming imperial court and remote regions of the country. |
| Katherine Carlitz 柯麗德 |
University of Pittsburgh (USA) Retired |
Interests: history, art history, gender studies, fiction, drama Projects: intersection of Ming fiction and drama with social and gender history |
| Chi-keung Chan 陳志強 |
National Taiwan University (Taiwan) Faculty |
Interests: Song Ming Neo-Confucian Philosophy, Philosophy of Wang Yangming and his followers, The Theory of Evil Project: Book Published: On Evil: Thinking Through the Wang Yangming School of Late Ming Neo-Confucianism Ongoing Project: Habit as Second Nature: The Problem of Evil in Qing Confucianism |
| Hsiu-fen Chen 陳秀芬 web · email |
National Chengchi University (Taiwan) Faculty |
Interests: Ming-Qing History, with special interests in medicine, mind/body, sex/gender, the literati and urban cultures; Religious healings of Daoism, Buddhism and shamanism in Ming China. Project: Unruly Mind – Emotions, Madness and Medicine in Ming-Qing Society (book project). Xu Wei’s illness, madness and the Late Ming society; Human body parts as medicine in Ming history; Yangsheng knowledge and body techniques; Medical exchanges between Ming China and Jeoson Korea. |
| Chen Kaijun 陳愷俊 |
Brown University (USA) Faculty |
Interests: literature, history of technology, material culture |
| Monica Klasing Chen 陳茉尼 |
Leiden University (Netherlands) Graduate Student |
Interests: Art History, Memory Studies, Art Theory, Calligraphy Theory, Classical Chinese, Practical Knowledge, Print Culture Project: My current project, titled “Memorable Arts: The Mnemonics of Painting and Calligraphy in Late Imperial China,” investigates memorization strategies that were employed in the fields of painting and calligraphy, with a focus on the Ming and Qing dynasties. The project takes a social-historical approach to analyze memory aids composed by scholars and craftsmen in textual and visual formats. It discusses the changing role memory played in society by analyzing the circumstances under which mnemonic texts were composed and how they developed over time. |
| Shiau-Yun Chen |
Cornell University (USA) Graduate Student |
Interests: Gender history, Legal history, History of Emotion, Violence and Family Project: The major focus of my studies has been on the often surprising ways in which gender ideology are woven into patriarchal systems, focusing on the late imperial China. My master thesis focuses on the cultural history of female avengers in Ming dynasty, discussing the conflicts between revenge as a moral obligation and revenge as a violent behavior which was not only against social order, but also against the ideal image of subjugated women. My dissertation explores the negotiation of power and gender politics in domestic space. I will focus on the ways in which women’s violence that was woven into the family structure, and the ways in which the state sanctioned and attempted to suppress women’s violence in late imperial China. |
| Claude Chevaleyre 施振高 web · email |
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (France) Graduate Student |
Interests: Social history, human bondage, law, judicial history and practice, disorder and revolt, Qi Biaojia Project: Writing a dissertation on the nature and status of bondservants, I’m also interested in judicial practice and society as it appears through the reading of judicial casebooks. I also have a strong interest in local violence at the end of the dynasty. Future projects will focus on the figure of Qi Biaojia, on economic and social history. |
| Desmond Cheung 張海浩 |
Portland State University Faculty |
Interests: Ming history, the history of Sino-European encounters and influences, early modern world Project: The creation and representation of city sites in Ming Hangzhou, Ming statecraft thought |
| Ilsoo Cho 趙一水 |
Harvard University Research Fellow |
Interests: Korean history, Ming-Chosŏn relations, Qing-Chosŏn relations, Korea-Japan relations, Korean state ideology in late Chosŏn Project: Imperial loyalism in pre-modern Japan, Korean foreign policy during the seventeenth century, proto-nationalism in Korea and Japan |
| Timothy Clifford 柯靖銘 |
University of Pennsylvania (USA) Graduate Student |
Interests: Late imperial Chinese literature and literary theory; book history in East Asia; the classical Chinese essay Project: My current research focuses on classical prose anthologies of the Ming and early Qing. |
| Sean Cronan 孔尚恩 |
UC Berkeley (USA) Graduate Student |
Interests: Early Ming government and society, maritime defense, customs stations, Ming-Southeast Asian trade, the tributary system Project: I am currently working on three projects in Ming studies. The first focuses on diplomacy in the Early Ming and the grand strategy of the Hongwu and Yongle periods. The second traces the development of customs stations along the Grand Canal and shibosi offices along the coast as means of integrating commercial revenue into systems of state financing in the late Ming and early Qing. The third focuses on the civil government of the Hongxi and Xuande reigns. |
| Hilde De Weerdt web |
King’s College London (UK) Faculty |
Interests: imperial political culture, urban and environmental history, communication networks, intellecual history, comparative history Projects: My next book-length study examines how information helps form a sense of place, more specifically, how information about places such as the court,the capital, borderlands, and local jurisdictions contributed to the formation of a sense of empire in imperial China. A longer-term collaborative project, “China and the Historical Sociology of Empire”, examines the significance of political literacy and political communication in the maintenance of empire in Chinese history through the digital analysis of correspondence and notebooks. More info at https://chinese-empires.cch.kcl.ac.uk/index.html |
| Joe Dennis 戴思哲 |
University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) Faculty |
Interests: Social, legal, and book history Projects: I am currently working on several projects: One is a history of legal education in China. Another is on schools in borderlands, and a third is on the circulation of books. I recently completed a book manuscript on the writing, publishing, and reading of local gazetteers. |
| Rui Ding 丁睿 |
University of British Columbia (Canada) Graduate Student |
Interests: Material culture; foreign relations; political ceremonies and rituals Projects: I’m currently working on an article about the food offerings in sacrificial ceremonies in the Ming court and the political and social agencies regarding the process of selecting, transporting, and distributing food offerings and rewards. |
| Peter Ditmanson 戴彼得 |
Oxford University (UK) Faculty |
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| Jennifer Eichman 艾靜文 |
(USA) Faculty |
Interests: I am a scholar of Buddhist traditions from the 14th c-21st c. I am most interested in the relationship between network and discourse. To that end, I have projects that incorporate epistolary sources, dietary culture, self-cultivation, and philosophical texts. |
| Christopher Eirkson 愛維 |
Franklin & Marshall College (USA) Faculty |
Interests: History of empires, military history, Yuan-Ming connections, Eurasian history, world history, political history Projects:I am revising my dissertation on the legacy of the Mongol Yuan dynasty in early Ming dynasty imaginations of empire. I study how early Ming rulers and statesmen understood, interpreted, and applied the Mongol Yuan legacy as they negotiated the various boundaries (physical and otherwise) of the new Ming polity. |
| Jun Fang 方骏 |
Huron University College (Canada) Faculty |
Interests: Political, military, and social history of 13th-17th century China Projects: Annotated translation of Mao Xiang’s Yingmeian yiyu |
| Qin Fang 房琴 |
McDaniel College (USA) Faculty |
Interests: Ming and Qing local histories (Jiangnan and Huizhou), environmental history, gender and family, situated knowledge in Ming and Qing, etc. Projects: Transformation of Iron Painting and Jiangnan Literati Networking; Production of the Novel “Hong Long Meng” Via Album Painting and Folk Arts in the 19th century; Haining Seawall Projects and Its Impact on Local Environment in Late Imperial China |
| Edward Farmer 范徳 |
University of Minnesota (USA) Emeritus |
Interests: My interests include Ming history in general; gazetteer illustrations; comparative perspectives on Ming history; global perspectives on Ming history. I am also involved in publishing projects related to the Ming history research series. An English translation of Li Guangbi’s Brief History of the Ming Dynasty (1957) is being edited. I have made an English translation of the enclosed map. Projects: I am currently working on an essay on the character and significance of ethnic diversity in the Ming empire |
| Michael Farris 傅立山 |
Tunghai University 東海大學 (Taiwan) Graduate Student |
Interests: Intellectual History, philosophy, interactions with Europe/North America, religious and/or philosophical syncretism. Projects: The effects of cultural bias on Chinese philosophical concepts from a historical perspective. |
| Ruiying Gao | University of Kansas (USA) Graduate Student |
Interests: Art History and Visual Culture; History of the Book; History of Science and Medicine Projects: Materia Medica (Bencao) Images in the Ming |
Anne Gerritsen 何安娜 web · email | University of Warwick (UK) Faculty |
| Noelle Giuffrida 焦娜薇 |
Case Western Reserve University (USA) Faculty |
Interests: Art History — Daoist paintings, printed books and scriptures from the Ming to early Qing, visual narratives of Daoist figures in the Ming, collection and display of Chinese painting in the U.S. during the 1950s-60s, Sherman Lee’s collecting and exhibitions of Chinese painting at mid-century Projects: selected publications: “Transcendence, Thunder, and Exorcism: Images of the Daoist Patriarch Zhang Daoling in Paintings and Prints” in On Telling Images of China: Essays on Narrative and Figure Painting, edited by Shane McCausland and Yin Hwang (Hong Kong University Press, 2012); “The Right Stuff: Chinese Art Treasures’ Landing in Early 1960s America” in The Reception of Chinese Art Across Cultures, edited by Michelle Y. L. Huang (Cambridge Scholars, 2012) work in progress: “Apotheosis, Ascension, and Intervention: Constructing Visual Narratives for Zhenwu, the Perfected Warrior”;”Imagining Immortal Patriarchs: Portraits of Xu Xun and Lu Dongbin in Ming and Qing China”; Separating Sheep from Goats: Collecting and Displaying Chinese Painting in 1950s-60s America |
| Noa Grass 高諾雅 |
Tel Aviv University (Israel) Postdoc |
Interests: State formation, public finance, money, and fiscal policy in Ming China. My interest in these topics, in this particular era, stems from the unique trajectory of Chinese political economy during the late imperial period. This trajectory contradicts the process of state formation in Western Europe that provided the empirical and conceptual ground for sociological, economic, and political theories of modernity. Within a Eurasian-wide recalibration of state and society after the black death and the fall of the Mongol empire, the new regime in China rebuilt the economy from a tradition of political and economic thought, adopting certain principles and rejecting others. It did so while responding to particular environmental and economic circumstances. I am skeptical of interpretations of this three-centuries-long dynasty, as a time of governmental failure. My goal, therefore, is to better understand the process of state formation and management according to the theoretical framework and material conditions of the time, and contribute to a new appreciation of this period in Chinese and world history. Projects:My current research examines different aspects of government finance and management in the fifteenth century, before the advent of silver. In 2017 I published a paper in the journal Ming Studies that offers a critical reading of the official narrative concerning the commutation of the grain tax into silver. I show how the account masks, rather than reveals, the historical process of silverization that led to a deep change in the conduct of state finance.Taking a detour from narrow financial issues, I am currently writing a paper on the horse administration during the Yongle reign which, according to contemporary reports, led to an enormous increase in the number of horses under government management. This is a vital aspect of Yongle’s northern strategic policy that has not yet been acknowledged. The effort to create a significant cavalry force impacted foreign relations, border trade, and the management of military colonies and pasturage in the first half of the fifteenth century. The scope and ambition of this project can be seen as a northern parallel to the maritime voyages, intended to broadcast the superiority of the Ming throughout the world.I am also writing a book on the fiscal, political, and social aspects of the early Ming government expense budget, focusing on official salaries, military rations, and princely stipends. Looking at fiscal policy from the point of view of expenses rather than revenue is useful in examining Ming state finance since the dynasty did not place emphasis on increasing revenue but on managing expenses. The state’s struggle to maintain regular payments to state servants and imperial kin within a limited revenue base was all the more challenging in the face of fiscal and monetary crisis. The book elaborates on the nature of this crisis as ensuing from the collapse of the early self-sufficiency economic model, the deterioration of its only official currency, paper money, and the dearth of metal-based currencies. |
| Scott Gregory 葛思平 |
National University of Singapore (Singapore) Faculty |
Interests: I am interested in the development of vernacular fiction and the interactions of the genre with the changing culture of the printed book. Projects: I am currently researching commercially-printed”benchao” historical fiction of the late Ming that depicts events from the dynasty’s early years. |
| Yiming Ha 哈一鳴 web · email |
UCLA (USA) Graduate student |
Interests: Yuan and Ming military history, institutional history, nomadic history, comparative Eurasian state formation, military-fiscal state Projects: My current dissertation research explores the imposition of a demonetized mode of military service that was dependent on self-sufficient and self-replicating hereditary military households by the Mongol-Yuan and the adoption of this military system by the Ming. It stresses the Ming’s inheritance of Mongol institutions and policies and looks into how both the Yuan and the Ming dealt with similar issues, using very similar methods, within the military that arose due to long-term socio-economic changes. It seeks to revise our understanding of Yuan and Ming military history by demonstrating the state’s adaptability in responding to different challenges and by arguing that despite institutional constraints, both the Yuan and the Ming were very successful in keeping the military intact. Additionally, I am also interested in positing the Ming within a Eurasian framework. As one of the several post-Mongol imperial formations that arose in the late 14th century, the Ming shares many similarities with other Eurasian polities, most notably the Timurids and Muscovy. By comparing practices of these other polities concerning military mobilization and organization, I hope that my project will allow for a better understanding of the Mongols’ institutional legacy in China and will bring clarity to links and issues that are not immediately clear from studying China in isolation. |
| Kenneth Hammond 韓慕肯 |
New Mexico State University (USA) Faculty |
Interests: Intellectual and political culture. Early capitalism in China. Confucian thought and society. Gardens. Biography. Projects: Work on Wang Shizhen 王世貞 and 16th century political and literary culture. Intersections and influences between commercialization and intellectual culture. Wang Shizhen as political actor and the nature of political association in the middle Ming. |
| Rivi Handler-Spitz 韓若愚 web · email |
Macalester College (USA) Faculty |
Interests: Late Ming literature, essays, history of education, intellectual history, East-West comparative literature Projects: interactions between students and teachers (mentors & disciples), recorded conversations 語錄 (yulu) |
| Feng He 何峰 |
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Germany) Graduate Student |
Interests: Art history and material culture, including ceramic, painting, book illustration, gendered materials, antiquarianism, and social actors. Projects: My dissertation project focuses on Ming and Qing porcelain in early modern German collections, and the role of East Asian monumental porcelain in the reshaping of European antiquarianism during the long eighteenth century. Past projects includes painting and patronage in Nanjing during the transition of Ming and Qing dynasties, socialist-realism artists trained in Shanghai meishu zhuanke xuexiao (上海美術專科學校, 1959-), and global reception of ‘Coromandel’ lacquer screens produced during the late Ming and early Qing China. |
| Feng He 何峰 |
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Germany) Graduate Student |
Interests: Art history and material culture, including ceramic, painting, book illustration, gendered materials, antiquarianism, and social actors. Projects: My dissertation project focuses on Ming and Qing porcelain in early modern German collections, and the role of East Asian monumental porcelain in the reshaping of European antiquarianism during the long eighteenth century. Past projects includes painting and patronage in Nanjing during the transition of Ming and Qing dynasties, socialist-realism artists trained in Shanghai meishu zhuanke xuexiao (上海美術專科學校, 1959-), and global reception of ‘Coromandel’ lacquer screens produced during the late Ming and early Qing China. |
| Robert E Hegel 何谷理 |
Washington University St Louis (USA) Retired Faculty |
Interests: Narrative fiction in classical and vernacular languages; popular and elite theater; book culture, printing, and circulation; illustrated texts. Representations of moral choices and indications of right and wrong in political, ethical/moral, and legal terms. Projects: The early development of the novel during the middle and late Ming; the refinement of conventions and the range of experimentation with the form. |
| Martin Heijdra 何義壯 |
Princeton University (USA) Librarian |
Interests: 1. History of the book, esp. typography 2. Socio-economic history |
| Natasha Heller 賀耐嫻 |
UCLA (USA) Faculty |
Interests: religion, Buddhism, intellectual and cultural history |
| Roland L. Higgins 夏樂南 Follow on Academia.edu |
Faculty (retired) | Interests: Late Imperial China (Song-Qing), political, diplomatic, and military history, including, Sino-Japanese (esp. tribute-trade, diplomacy, and war), Sino-Mongol (trade and war), Sino-Korean (tributary relations), and Sino-European relations (China’s views of Jesuits, Portuguese and international maritime trade), Northern border and Coastal Defense, the Ming Great Wall, Urban and other Strategic Fortifications, Chinese Maritime History, Piracy and Smuggling, Shipbuilding, Archaeology, Zheng He’s voyages, Harbors and Ports from Zhejiang to Guangdong, and the Silk Road. Field Experiences: I have retraced the route of Zheng He’s ships by water from Nanjing as far as to the Red Sea and have explored Northern China’s frontier overland from the Yalu River through Inner Mongolia as far as Dunhuang in Gansu. I have explored maritime East Asia by sea from Kobe through Shimonoseki to Pusan, to Keelong, Taibei, Tainan, Dalian, Hangzhou, Ningbo and Putuo Island, Hong Kong, Macau, the Yangzi from Nanjing to Shanghai, and the Grand Canal from Hangzhou to Suzhou. Projects: Northern frontier and coastal defense as it relates to tribute and trade, smuggling, piracy and raiding, strategic and military concerns; decision-making, central policy and local practice. (cf. doctoral dissertation,”Piracy and Coastal Defense in the Ming Period: Government Response to Coastal Disturbances, 1523-1549,” overview in Ming Studies 10,”Pirates in Gowns and Caps”; “Deserts and Islands: The Last Attempt by Ming Dynasty Border Officials to Reclaim Control of Two Strategic Regions, 1547-49,” presented at the Conference on Chinese Frontier History, sponsored by the Ecole Française d’Extrême Orient at Academia Sinica, Taipei (unpublished, 2006). Ongoing:”Rumor in Nanjing: Contextualizing the Anti-Christian Persecution of 1616-21.” Preliminary: “Frontier Control and Imperial Expansionism in World History: the Example of Ming China’s Yongle Emperor Crossing the Boundaries of Land and Sea.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the World History Association, Capital Normal University, Beijing, July 2011. |
| Kayi Ho 何嘉誼 |
UCLA (USA) Grad Student |
Interests: Court painting, Buddhist and Daoist painting, illustrated book, and gender studies Projects: Court production of the Wanli court |
| Hu Xiaobai 胡箫白 |
University of Pennsylvania (USA) Graduate Student |
Interests:Urban Culture; Popular Religion; East Asian Knowledge Circulation; Comparative Frontier History Projects: My current research focuses on urban culture of Ming-Qing Nanjing and Sino-Tibetan relations during the Ming and early-Qing time. |
| Amy Huang 黃書梅 |
Brown University (USA) Graduate Student |
Interests:Landscape paintings, print culture, Late Ming culture, collecting practice, Ming-Qing”transition” Projects: Late Ming-Early Qing Nanjing paintings |
| Hu Yongguang 胡永光 |
James Madison University (USA) Faculty |
Interests: Civil Service Examinations, Governmental Education, Neo-Confucianism, Early Ming Society |
| Ming-shui Hung 洪銘水 |
Brooklyn College-CUNY (USA), Retiree; Tunghai University, Taiwan | Interests: Late Ming literary & Intellectual history; Chinese writers of the May Fourth Era; Taiwanese Classical poetry in Ming-Qing & Japanese colonial periods; Contemporary Taiwan Aboriginal writers Projects: Critics of Neo-Confucianism in Late Ming Book: The Romantic Vision of Yuan Hung-tao, Late Ming Poet and Critic, Taipei: Bookman Books LTD, 1997 Article:「明末文化烈士李卓吾的生死觀」，東海學報 37卷（1998），43-62 |
| Li-ling Hsiao 蕭麗玲 |
Taiwan Faculty |
Interests: Book illustration, Drama, Painting, Poetry, Print culture Projects: Published book: The Eternal Present of the Past: Performance, Illustration, and Reading in the Wanli Period (1573-1619) [Leiden: Brill, 2007] Current: Drama Illustration as Drama Criticism: Political Loyalty vs. Filial Piety in The Late Ming Illustrated Editions of Pipa ji Future Projects: Beyond Words: Pictorial Metaphor in the Ten Bamboo Studio Stationery Catalogue |
| Jiang Yonglin 姜永琳 |
Bryn Mawr College (USA) Faculty |
Interests: Chinese Law; Chinese ethnicity; Chinese identity Projects: Legal culture in the late Ming; Miao law and culture since the Ming dynasty |
| Kun Jiao 焦堃 |
Wuhan University (Canada) Faculty |
Interests: The Yangming school and the political history of the Ming; relationship between Ming China and Korea Projects: The Yangming school and the partisan conflicts at the Ming court; Intellectual exchanges and diplomatic disputes between Ming China and Korea during the Wanli Korean War. |
| Philip Kafalas 高化嵐 |
Georgetown University (USA) Faculty |
Interests: Late-imperial non-fiction prose, especially personal reminiscences and memoirs; the subjective elements of biji; architecture, place and dream as structuring written memory of self; literary depictions of music making. Projects: The Songchuang mengyu 松窗夢語 of Zhang Han (張瀚 1510-1593) as a form of memoir that draws on categories of knowledge from leishu (encyclopedias) to depict its author’s experience of the world. |
| Theresa Kelleher |
Manhattanville College (USA) Faculty |
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| Macabe Keliher web · email |
West Virginia University (USA) Faculty |
Interests: Law, political organization, ritual Projects: Legal, political, and cultural developments in the Yuan-Ming-Qing, with a particular emphasis on the construction and transformation of late imperial political systems. A second project currently in the works focuses on military centralization in the Ming and Qing. |
| Elizabeth Kindall 金漪妮 web · email |
University of St. Thomas (USA) Faculty |
Interests: landscape painting, topographical/place painting, function and visual experience in art, Huang Xiangjian 黃向堅, southwest China, Ming-Qing transition Projects: painted”geo-narratives” of specific places in Ming China |
| Chunghao Kuo 郭忠豪 |
NYU (Taiwan) Graduate Student |
Interests: Material culture, Food culture, Animal culture Projects: Food Study in Early Modern China |
| Sunkyu Lee 李善圭 |
UCLA (USA) Graduate Student |
Interests: Northern and Maritime Border, Late Ming Intellectual History, History of Cartography Projects: I am currently working on my dissertation, which focuses on the idea and the visualization of border in sixteenth century China. I examine gazetteers, military manuals, printed and illustrated maps depicting the northern and maritime border of Ming China. My research aims to show the evolving idea of a single, continuous borderline encircling the entire Ming territory in relation to the court’s military reform, the increasing scholarly interest in statecraft affairs, and the development of printing culture. |
| Yuhang Li 李雨航 |
University of Wisconsin at Madison (USA) Faculty |
Interests: Gender and material practice, the cult of Guanyin and image making, women artists, history of Chinese textile and costume, opera and Chinese visual culture |
| Ivy Maria Lim 林美玲 |
National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) Postdoc |
Interests: Ming history in general, but particularly social history, lineage and genealogies in the Jiangnan region and maritime history (especially relating to the wokou). Projects: Market towns in Jiangnan and the writing of their histories in late imperial China. |
| Haiwei Liu 刘海威 |
University of Southern California (USA) Graduate Student |
Interests: Early Ming politics; the Yuan-Ming transition Projects: Construct political legitimacy during the Yuan and early Ming periods |
| Jing Liu 劉晶 |
Syracuse University (USA) Graduate Student |
Interests: Ming China, Ming-Qing transition, Northeast Asian history, maritime history, borderlands. Projects: Ming China and Chosŏn Korea’s maritime interactions in the sixteenth and the early seventeenth centuries. |
| Peng Liu 劉鵬 |
Columbia University (USA) Graduate Student |
Interests: My research is concerned with the intersection of late imperial Chinese fiction and Daoism. I examine how the Chinese novel uses religious elements to narrate the story, which makes religious ideas accessible to common readers, thereby bridging the gap between religious and secular discourses. |
| Yiqing Lin 林毅青 web · email |
Columbia University (USA) Graduate Student |
Interests: History of Science, Knowledge and Technology (Mining, Metallurgy, Shipbuilding), Social History (Local Elites, Migrant Communities), Human Geography (Cultural Landscape), Maritime History, Migrant History, Urban History, Frontier History, Local Gazetteers, History of Paleontology Projects: Overseas Fujianese Networks since 1500; Landscape and Cultural Space of Jinan in Ming Dynasty; Inland Migrants and Travelers in Yunnan in 16th and 17th centuries |
| Chentong Lu |
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (China) Faculty |
Interests: Premodern intellectual history, religions, art history Projects: 14th century Confucianism, Daoism, Song Lian |
| Lex Jing Lu |
Clark University (USA) Faculty |
Interests: Early Ming political cultural history; Chinese physiognomy; history of beauty and masculinity; appearance politics; prognostication. |
| Weiwei Luo |
Columbia University (USA) Graduate Student |
Interests: Legal history, religion, communications, material culture, economic history. Projects:Ongoing: the publication and communication of financial information in late imperial China; inheritance in legal practices. Past: Buddhist monasteries in the 16th to 18th centuries. Future: an intellectual and cultural history of fortune telling in the Ming and Qing periods |
| Edward Luper 劉華 |
Independent scholar (UK) | Interests: Xu Wei (1521-1593), Li Zhi (1527-1602), Taizhou School, moral autonomy and individualism, eccentricity and madness, literati painting and culture, persona construction, material culture Projects: My past research focused heavily on Xu Wei and his construction of various personas through poetry. I am currently researching the poetry of Li Zhi and also late Ming material culture. |
| Richard John Lynn 林理彰 |
University of Toronto (Canada) Faculty |
Interests: Chinese literary thought; poetry; literati culture; intellectual history; arts |
| Ma Linfei 马躏非 |
Art School of Renmin University (China) Faculty |
Interests: Dong Qichang’s influence on the painting and art theory in the early Qing Projects: I have focused on the art history of the Late Ming from my advanced degree study to now. My doctoral dissertation is”Research on Dong Qichang.” In thfollowing years, I have gradually published articles:”Southern and Northern Schools of landscape painting, raised by Dong Qichang – the view on history of literati painting,””The influence of literature thoughts of the middle of Ming Dynasty on Dong Qichang ‘ s arts,””Confucianism in Dong Qichang’s arts theory,” and so on. At present, I pay close attention to Dong Qichang’s influence on the painting and art theory in the early Qing. |
| Ma Zoudan 馬奏旦 |
University of British Columbia (Canada) Graduate Student |
Interests: Ming History, Social History, East Asian International Relations, Choson Korea Projects: Ming-Qing transition, local history of Liaodong/ Manchuria/ Northeast China |
| Alastair Ewan Macdonald |
SOAS (UK) Graduate Student |
Interests: Vernacular fiction, translation Projects: I am currently working on researching the competing cultural mores evident in Ling Mengchu’s Erpai collections. |
| Stephen McDowall 馬蒂文 |
University of Edinburgh (UK) Faculty |
Interests: Ming history and literature; landscape; travel writing; material and visual culture. My first book, Qian Qianyi’s Reflections on Yellow Mountain: Traces of a Late-Ming Hatchet and Chisel, was published in 2009 (Hong Kong University Press). Projects: Nanjing during the Ming-Qing transition; the afterlife of the Ming dynasty. |
| Neil McGee 梅冠群 |
Columbia University (USA) Graduate Student |
Interests: religion, Daoism, social and cultural history |
| Harry Miller 米海瑞 |
University of South Alabama (USA) Faulty |
Interests: Late Imperial China Projects: Historical Fiction, Translation |
| Sander Molenaar website · email |
International Institute for Social History (Netherlands) Postdoc |
Projects: Impact of coastal violence on state-society relations, influence of the maritime world in Ming society, digital exploration of local gazetteers, blue humanities, travel writing Projects: Sander Molenaar is a postdoctoral researcher in the project ‘The Lives and Afterlives of Imperial Material Infrastructure in Southeastern China’, which is part of a large-scale collaborative project on the social and regional histories of material infrastructures (roads, bridges, city walls (1000-1800)) under the supervision of prof. Hilde De Weerdt. His PhD research at Warwick University was concerned with the impact of coastal violence on state-society relations during the mid-Ming period (ca. 1450-1600). |
| Christian Murck |
Geiss Hsu Foundation (USA) Director |
Interests: US-China relations; intellectual history; art history |
| Carla Nappi 那葭 web · email |
University of British Columbia (Canada) Faculty |
Interests: History of science, medicine, and technology; China; Central Asia; Translation; Manchu language Projects: My research explores the ways translation shaped how the natural world and human bodies, and the relationships between them, were understood, manipulated, and transformed in the context of Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) governance and imperial expansion. Transregional flows and transformations of objects, people, and texts are central to ongoing projects that treat contexts of intellectual and material exchange across Central and Eastern Eurasia. |
| Susan Naquin 韓書瑞 |
Princeton University (USA) Faculty |
Projects: The material culture of temples in North China, Ming and Qing; the cult of Bixia Yuanjun. |
| Margaret WS Ng 黃薇湘 web · email |
College of Wooster (USA) Faculty |
Projects: History of medicine, gender, body, pain, techniques |
| Barend Noordam web · email |
Leiden University (Netherlands) Graduate Student |
Interests: Military history; violence, state & society; empire/state formation; armies & society; intercultural perceptions & interactions; early modern Europe-Asia interaction (political, diplomatic & military); technological & cultural transfer; transculturation Projects: Qi Jiguang (1528-1588): his writings, military innovations and recruitment policies in the context of the frontier defense of a sixteenth century empire. His policies and ideas will be put in the wider context of early modern Eurasian imperial frontier armies and technological change. In addition I will address the question to what extent he was representative of the military elites at this period, or if his figure was indicative of new developments in civil-military relationships. |
| Quincy Ngan web · email |
Yale University (USA) Faculty |
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| Lina Nie 聶麗娜 |
University of Southern California (USA) Graduate student |
Interests: Maritime exchanges among China, Korea, and Japan from ninth to fifteenth centuries. . |
| Chang Woei Ong 王昌偉 |
National University of Singapore Faculty |
Interests: Social and Intellectual history of middle period and late imperial China Projects: Neo-Confucianism, Literati Societies in 16th-18th century East Asia |
| Huiping Pang 彭慧萍 |
Stanford University (USA) Graduate Student |
Interests: Ming politics & collecting culture |
| Elke Papelitzky 林珂 web · email |
NYU Shanghai (China) Postoc |
Interests: Global history, Ming and early Qing foreign relations, history of knowledge, history of cartography, maritime history, historiography Projects: I am currently revising my dissertation where I examined late Ming writings about the whole world. For my next project, I am studying maritime knowledge on early modern maps in China and Japan and how literati had access to and adapted the knowledge, including a study of the connections and a comparison between Chinese and Japanese cartographic cultures. |
| Hieu Phung 馮明孝 |
Independent scholar | Interests: My research focuses on premodern history of Vietnam and environmental history of preindustrial societies in Asia. I am interested in the early to mid Ming period, with an emphasis on the Ming empire’s expansion. I am also interested in history of science, technology, and environment during the Ming dynasty. Projects: The title of my book manuscript is Water Sphere, Wet Rice and the Vietnamese State in the Fifteenth Century. I argue that the local environment in fifteenth-century Vietnam necessitated the performance of new ideas and the development of new technology, which had been introduced from other places such as traditional China. Specifically, this project focuses on the relationship between the Vietnamese state’s agricultural scheme that prioritized wet rice crops and its commitment to water-related issues, such as the construction of river dikes and investigations into precipitation. |
| Yasushi OKI 大木康 |
University of Tokyo (Japan) Faculty |
Interests: Ming and Qing Literature. Society and culture of the late Ming and early Qing Jiangnan; topics such as Print Culture, Courtesans, Civil Service Examinations etc. Projects: Late Ming and early Qing Literati, Feng Menglong, Mao Xiang etc. OKI, Yasushi and Paolo Santangelo. Shan’ge, the ‘Mountain Songs’. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2011. |
| Anna Pawlowski |
Stanford University (USA) Graduate Student |
Interests: Art history, late Ming/early Qing figurative painting, Buddhist art, popular religion and lay belief Projects: My current project analyzes the Buddhist paintings of the devout lay believer and elite gentleman Wu Bin (c. 1543-1626), re-contextualizing his images as simultaneously sites of social discourse for elite, lay Buddhists and the monastic community and repositories of an individual’s understanding of popular religion and Buddhist thought. |
| Ihor Pidhainy 裴海寧 |
University of West Georgia (USA) Faculty |
Interests: intellectual history; Scholars, exile, biography, women’s lives Projects: Yang Shen, Huang E, families in Ming, Jiajing reign; The Mingshi |
| Jennifer Purtle 裴珍妮 |
University of Toronto(Canada) Faculty |
Interests: Chinese painting and other arts of the Song-Ming dynasties. Projects: Principally I study artistic geographies and artistic mobility – that, how, and why artists and objects move, and what happens when they do. In a forthcoming book, Peripheral Vision: Fujian Paintings in Chinese Empires, 909-1646, I explore the production of paintings in, and by natives of China’s Fujian province, as well as their circulation in a succession of Chinese empires. I am currently midway through a new project,”Forms of Cosmopolitanism in the Sino-Mongol City.” This project, which connects China to many other parts of the medieval world, also provides the scholarly foundation for the Getty Connecting Art Histories grant,”Global and Postglobal Perspectives on Medieval Art and Art History,” of which I am Principal Investigator. |
| Bruce Rusk 阮思德 web · email |
University of British Columbia (Canada) Faculty |
Interests: Cultural history, book history, material culture, especially problems of forgery and authenticity, the status of canonical texts, the circulation and classification of knowledge. Projects: I am currently working on a monograph about how the category of the authentic was defined and debated from the mid-Ming to early Qing, in both scholarly and popular domains. |
| Kathleen Ryor 赖凯玲 |
Carleton College (USA) Faculty |
Interests: The painting, calligraphy and poetry of Xu Wei (1521-93) and its relationship to discourse on the body in the late Ming; military patronage of the arts and military culture in the late Ming; Zhe School painting; mid to late Ming art criticism and theory; relationship between Ming garden culture, painting, horticulture and medicine. |
| Sarah Schneewind 施珊珊 web · email |
University of California, San Diego (USA) Faculty |
Interests: Political and religious thought and practice, and social and institutional history. Intellectual and material connections with Europe and early America. |
| Tim Sedo 司徒鼎 |
Concordia University (Canada) Faculty |
Interests: Environmental History, Statecraft, Natural Disasters, Locust Infestations, Environmental Governance and Disaster Management, Historical Entomology, North China Plain, Local History, Water Control, Agrarian History, Early Modern World Projects: I am currently developing two distinct research topics concerning the history of environmental statecraft in Late Imperial China. The first is a full length monograph that examines the history of locusts, locust infestations, and preventative locust control techniques in the Ming and Qing periods and explores the global circulation of these ideas through early modern Jesuit networks. The second examines the historical meanings associated with China’s first fully historical hydro-bureaucrat, Ximen Bao and the various transmutations of his local cult over the late imperial period. |
| Bin Shen 申斌 |
Sun Yat-sen University (China) Graduate Student |
Interests: fiscal history Projects: the transformation of fiscal system between Ming and Qing |
| Joanna Handlin Smith 韓德玲 |
Harvard-Yenching Institute at Harvard University (USA) Independent scholar |
Interests: Late Ming and early Qing social-intellectual history Projects: Early Qing social networks, friends, and trust, with late Ming cases as a contrast. |
| Immanuel Spaar 石善也 website email |
University of Wuerzburg (Germany) Faculty |
Interests: Intellectual history, Ming historiography, intersection of orality and writing, language of the Neo-Confucians, the Four Books Projects: PhD dissertation on the Ming thinker Luo Rufang (1515–1588); aside from this project, I started to take interest in Ming notebooks (biji), especially from the 16th century. |
| Lynn Struve 司徒琳 |
Indiana University (USA) Emerita |
Interests: Intellectual, cultural, and political history of late Ming and early Qing Projects: biography of Huang Zongxi |
| Roy Sturgeon 罗义 |
Tulane University (USA) Librarian |
Interests: Legal history (esp. free/political speech) Projects: Chinese legal history bibliography/book (all areas & dynasties/eras) Article on free speech in China (past & present) |
| Kenneth Swope 石 康 |
University of Southern Mississippi (USA) Faculty |
Interests: Late Imperial Chinese military, social, political, and diplomatic history. Also international relations in the Ming era and comparative military history. Projects: My monograph on the military collapse of the Ming was published in 2014. I published a sequel to that on Zhang Xianzhong the Ming-Qing conflict in southwest China, entitled On the Trail of the Yellow Tiger, (2018); the edited volume, “The Ming World” (Routledge, 2019); and most recently, Struggle for Empire: The Battles of General Zuo Zongtang (2024, Naval Institute Press). My current project is a study of the Three Feudatories Revolt, forthcoming from Routledge in 2026. |
| Michael Szonyi 宋怡明 |
Harvard University (USA) Faculty |
Interests: Local history of southeast China; family, lineage and kinship; local cults; connections between China and southeast Asia; Cold War in Asia, especially Quemoy Projects: Social history of military households (军户) and garrison communities （卫所) in Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong; piracy and anti-piracy campaigns in mid-Ming; tax and corvee systems; interest in Ming in contemporary China |
| Minoru Takano 高野実 email · web |
University of British Columbia (Canada) Graduate Student |
Interests: Old Phraseology 古文辭, Former and Latter Seven Masters 前後七子, Registers of Language between Literary/Classical and Vernacular/Secular, Authorship, Genres, Anthology as Canon Projects: Authorship of Tang Poetry Anthology Tangshi xuan 唐詩選 attributed to Li Panlong 李攀龍 (1514-1570), Emphasis on Vernacular and Secular Songs by Old Phraseology |
| Aaron Throness 宋德明 email · web |
University of British Columbia (Canada) Graduate Student |
Interests: political history of Ming China between the 15th and 16th century. Specific areas of focus include the geographic statecraft thought of Qiu Jun 邱濬 (1421-1495); court controversies including the Tumu Incident 土木之變 in 1449 and its afterlives; and political interactions between Ming princes 藩王 in Huguang Province 湖廣省 and the operatives in the central court. Projects: I am presently involved in a number of research projects. The most recent investigates invocations of the Tumu Incident in 16th century political discourse, and in particular during the tumultuous reign of the Zhengde 正德 (r. 1506-1521) Emperor. I have moreover produced two full-length essays engaging with Ming princes and their political interactions with the central court; both are presently under review with various journals and are in different stages of the review and publication pipeline. In the future, I intend to prepare a dissertation project that looks closely at the ways in which Huguang princes and the Ming state negotiated for, sought after, and compromised to achieve their political interests. |
| Tian Yuan Tan 陳靝沅 web · email |
SOAS, University of London (UK) Faculty |
Interests: drama, sanqu, fiction, literary history, local communities and cultures Projects: Mid-Ming; court theater and entertainment; Tang Xianzu |
| Brigid Vance 范莉潔 |
Lawrence University (USA) Faculty |
Interests: late Ming socio-cultural history; dreams; nightmares; medicine; daily-use encyclopedias; divination; prognostication |
| Cheuk Yee Wai 衞婥怡 |
SOAS, University of London (UK) Graduate Student |
Interests: Fiction, Gender and Sexuality, Erotica, Urban culture, Dress History Projects:My current research focuses on the relationship between late imperial Chinese women and sexual liaisons as represented in late Ming-early Qing erotic fictions. |
| Chelsea Zi Wang 王紫 web · email |
Columbia University (USA) Graduate Student |
Interests: Book culture, information transmission, geography, comparative history, medieval Japan Projects: I am working on a doctoral dissertation that examines how Ming literati’s senses of space were shaped by the forms of transportation, news networks, and book distribution. Specifically, my research focuses on the province of Huguang 湖廣, asking how space was organized within the province, how people and information moved into and out of it, and how people from other regions of the empire represented Huguang’s famous sites in poetry and paintings. |
| Richard Wang 王崗 web · email |
University of Florida (USA) Faculty |
Interests: My research focuses on Daoism, Chinese fiction, and religion and Chinese literature of the Ming dynasty. Projects: Exploring the Daoism and local society in the Ming as well as the religious dimensions of Ming novels. I have published the following books: Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks: Daoism and Local Society in Ming China (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2022), The Prince and Daoism: Institutional Patronage of an Elite (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), The Ming Erotic Novella: Genre, Consumption, and Religiosity in Cultural Practice (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2011), (Collated and ed.) Maoshan zhi 茅山志 (Shanghai: Shanghai Chinese Classics Press, 2016/2018), (Co-ed. with Li Tiangang), Zhongguo jinshi difang shehui zhong de zongjiao yu guojia 中國近世地方中的宗教與國家 (Shanghai: Fudan University Press, 2014), and Langman qinggan yu zongjiao jingshen: Wanming wenxue yu wenhua sichao 浪漫情感與宗教精神：晚明文學與文化思潮 (Hong Kong: Cosmos Books, 1999). |
| Xing Wang 王兴 web · email |
Fudan University (China) Faculty |
Interests: Ming divination and Buddhism (especially Pure Land Buddhism). Gender and culture of the body in Ming dynasty. Projects: Author of Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body (Leiden: Brill 2020). Currently working on a new project of the study of the body and presentation of religious technique in Ming and Qing Buddhist miracle tales. |
| Yizhou Wang 汪一舟 |
Universität Heidelberg (Germany) Graduate Student |
Interests: Ming dynasty paintings and prints, gender issues in Chinese art history, female representations, courtesan and literati culture, urban history, Sino-Japanese art exchange, colour pigments and materiality of Chinese paintings Project: I am submitting my dissertation titled “The Enticing Thatched Hut: Courtesans and Gendered Bodies in Jiangnan Pictorial Spaces (14th-17th centuries)”, dealing with the visual representations of courtesans mainly in the Ming dynasty through the lens of gender. |
| Liuyue Yang 杨柳粤 |
University of Warwick (UK) Graduate Student |
Interests: Chinese porcelain; Material culture in Ming and Qing; Porcelain trade and consumption; Cultural memory and social history of Chinese art Project: PhD dissertation (ongoing): “The Social Life of Porcelain: Domestic Trade and Consumption of Porcelain in Early Modern China.” This project will explore the networks through which porcelain was traded, circulated, and consumed within, across and even beyond the Chinese empire, particularly during the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. It seeks to trace the entanglement between industrial production, commercial activities, and consumer culture in early modern China, through which the commercial networks and mass consumption of porcelain as commodity and consumer goods were evolved. By studying the historical movement of porcelain trade and consumption, the pattern of China’s modernization process in Ming and Qing period will also be investigated. |
| Wei Yang 魏陽 |
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (USA) Faculty |
Interests: Ming intellectual history, literary culture, transformation of Neo-Confucianism, political and institutional changes in the late-Ming. Encyclopedias and popular history books published in the Ming. Projects: Intellectual transformations and institutional innovations related to public opinion and public reasoning in the late Ming |
| Zbigniew J. Wesolowski 魏思齊 |
Kölner Hochschule für Katholische Theologie (Germany) Faculty |
Interests: Chinese thought and philosophy, Chinese religions, in particular Buddhism, history of Western Sinology and Christianity in China, Confucianism, and comparative Sino-Western cultural studies. Project: The idea of “the true” in Classical China. |
| Yinzong Wei |
University of British Columbia (Canada) Graduate Student |
Interests: Intellectual history; Cultural history; History of the book Projects:Marginalia and intellectual history of the late Ming and early Qing period |
| Alexander Wille 魏立德 |
Washington University in St Louis (USA) Graduate Student |
Interests: Illustrated fiction, vernacular fiction, huaben xiaoshuo, Feng Menglong, Gujin Xiaoshuo, narrative theory. Projects: My current research project consists of reading the late Ming vernacular collection Gujin Xiaoshuo by way of its paratext. I have previously studied the role of gardens in Mudan ting and studied the visual development of the Monk Sand in illustrated Ming and Qing editions of Xiyou ji. |
| Wai-ho Wong 黃偉豪 |
Hong Kong Shue Yan University (Hong Kong) Faculty |
Interests: Literature, literary criticism and culture during the Ming-Qing period. Projects: JIN Shengtan金聖歎; Literary Criticism |
| Eloise Wright 芮雪 |
Ashoka University (India) Faculty |
Interests: Late imperial southwest borderlands; local history; language, writing, textual production; spatial history. Projects: My dissertation project is a local history of Dali, Yunnan province, during the Yuan and Ming. I focus on textual production among Dali’s scholar gentry to explore the transformations in their ideas of place, status, and history. |
| Suzanne Wright 芮粟杉 |
University of Tennessee (USA) Faculty |
Interests: Ming – early Qing painting and prints, generally. Projects: Woodblock printed papers for letter and other writing and related imagery in illustrations to printed texts. Woodblock printed cards for drinking games. Currently working on an exhibition of Ming and Qing prints on the theme of gardens with June Li of the Huntington Gardens, etc. for 2015 or 16. |
| Ting-chih Wu 吳挺誌 web · email |
University of Pennsylvania (USA) Graduate Student |
Interests: frontier history; environmental history; imperial political culture; political institution Projects: My current research focuses on land use and residents on the Sino-Mongol borderlands during the Ming period. |
| Jiang Wu 吴疆 |
University of Arizona (USA) Faculty |
Interests: Chinese Buddhism in later periods, Chan Buddhism, Chinese Buddhist Canon, Early modern Sino-Japanese Religious Exchanges, Regional Religious Systems in the Jiangnan area, especially Hangzhou. Project: Transformation of Religious Culture in Late Imperial China Studies on Yinyuan Longqi and his legacy in Japan Formation and Transformation of the Chinese Buddhist canon History of the Jiaxing canon or Obaku/Tetsugen Canon in China, Japan, and the West Regional Religious Systems in Hangzhou (rrs.arizona.edu) Encyclopedia of Hangzhou Buddhist Culture |
| Huiqiao Yao 姚惠橋 |
University of Arizona (USA) Graduate student |
Interests: Late imperial Chinese literature, print culture, intellectual history, history of Confucianism, vernacular narratives, hagiography, biography, literary genres Projects: I am currently working on the hagiographies of Wang Yangming during the late Ming. They include chronicles, illustrated records, drama, fiction, and genealogies depicting Wang’s life events. By investigating their intersections with print culture and intellectual history, I hope to unravel the vernacular Confucian hagiographical tradition in late Ming China. |
| Wu Yinghui 吴颖慧 |
Washington University in St. Louis (USA) Graduate Student |
Interests: Ming and Qing fiction, Chuanqi plays and drama criticism, Kunqu opera, theater and performance, print culture, literati culture during the Ming-Qing transition Projects: I’m working on my dissertation, in which I study the critical treatments of Pipa ji 琵琶記 and Xixiang ji 西廂記 and the physical presentations of the two plays in”paired editions” during late Ming-early Qing period. I explore different types of reading audiences’ responses to the plays as literary fashions and political pressures changed through time, to examine the many layers of the meanings of”canon” and their transformation in late imperial China. |
| Xia Xinyan 夏心言 |
Renmin University of China(China) Graduate Student |
Interests: Chinese traditional drama in Ming Dynasty; The relationship and communication between China（Ming Dynasty）and Japan（Edo Period） Projects: My Master’s thesis was about a rearrangement case of Tang Xianzu’s Ziyu Ji 紫玉记. My recent interests are China-Japan traditional drama interaction in 17th century |
| Xie Yang 解扬 |
History Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (China) Faculty |
Interests: Intellectual history. Social and legal history of Ming China Projects: Statecraft thought. Art history and social transition. Ghost anecdotes and legal history. |
| Xu Han 韩旭 |
emailCentral South University (China) Graduate Student |
Interests: Literature in Yuan and Ming Dynasty, policy and political issue in Ming dynasty. Projects: Regime Legitimacy in the period of Yuan-Ming transition, Climate change in the late Ming dynasty. |
| Xu Sufeng 徐素鳳 |
Bucknell University (USA) Faculty |
Interests: Late Ming courtesan and literati culture; High Qing women poets and companionate marriage; intellectual history in late imperial (Ming-Qing) China Projects: I am currently working on a book manuscript entitled “Lotus Flowers Rising from the Dark Mud: Courtesans, Poetry, and Politics in Late Ming China.” It provides a new explanation for the flourishing of late Ming courtesan and literati culture: the rising prominence of learned and literary courtesans was strongly connected to a new social formation of nonconformist literati, the so-called men of the mountains (shanren 山人) who gained increasing influence and popularity in mid-and late Ming Jiangnan (South of the Yangzi River). These non-official urban elites of Jiangnan fashioned themselves as retired literati, devoting themselves to art, recreation, and self-invention, instead of government office.I also conduct research on the phenomenon of companionate marriage in 18th century China, an era known for the revival of Confucian orthodoxy. It is striking that the central figures behind the propagation of women’s talent in the High Qing were largely prominent officials and/or classical scholars whose names were included in the “Rulin zhuan” 儒林傳 (Biography of Confucianists) in the Qingshi gao 清史稿. Women’s culture, once part of the “artistic and hedonistic counterculture” deeply rooted in late Ming Jiangnan, had become a legitimate part of accepted orthodoxy in the High Qing. Recent scholarship “Domesticating Romantic Love during the High Qing Classical Revival: Poetic Exchanges between Wang Zhaoyuan (1763-1851) and Her Husband Hao Yixing (1757-1829).” Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China 15.2 (2013): 219-64. “The Rhetoric of Legitimation: Prefaces to Women’s Poetry Collections from the Song to the Ming.” Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China 8.2 (2006): 255-89. |
| Jimmy Yu web · email |
Florida State University (USA) Faculty |
Interests: The history of the body in Chinese religions, Buddhist material culture, Chan/Zen Buddhisms, and popular religious movements within the broader context of fifteenth to seventeenth centuries China. Projects: His first book, Sanctity and Self-Inflicted Violence in Chinese Religions, 1500-1700 (Oxford University Press, 2012), explores self-inflicted violence as an essential and sanctioned part of late Ming culture. |
| Xin Yu 余欣 web · email |
Washington University in St. Louis (USA) Graduate Student |
Interests: family; lineage; village life; book history; merchants; Huizhou; the Late Ming; visual and material culture; digital humanities Projects: My current research looks at the formation of printed genealogies as a new genre in the late Ming (1500-1644). Instead of seeing genealogies as primary sources, my research surveys the life history of the primary sources per se, examining their production, preservation, and reception. My research also explores a set of publishing practices that differed from those used in commercial publishing and are omitted in recent scholarship. Finally, by showing how genealogies as objects were viewed and used by semi-literate and illiterate commoners, my research illuminates the meanings of books and book culture in the minds of the illiterate majority of the late-Ming population. My next project continues my interest in knowledge production at the grassroots and investigates the proliferation of written and printed documents in villages from the late-Ming to the Qing. These documents included land contracts, encyclopedias, village histories, diaries, account books, ritual pamphlets, and so forth. Rather than mining economic and social facts from these documents, I treat their production and reproduction as knowledge production practices. This research will show how written and printed culture at the bottom of society transformed people’s everyday life and vice versa.Recent scholarship “Domesticating Romantic Love during the High Qing Classical Revival: Poetic Exchanges between Wang Zhaoyuan (1763-1851) and Her Husband Hao Yixing (1757-1829).” Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China 15.2 (2013): 219-64. “The Rhetoric of Legitimation: Prefaces to Women’s Poetry Collections from the Song to the Ming.” Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China 8.2 (2006): 255-89. |
| Tsing Yuan 袁清 email · web |
Emeritus | Interests: Ming economic history, Southeast Asian connections, Central Asia and Islamic history. Projects: Ming Jiangnan, Huizhou, underwater ceramics archaeology. |
| Judith Zeitlin 蔡九迪 web · email |
University of Chicago (USA) Faculty |
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| Mo Zhang 張墨 web · email |
University of Pennsylvania (USA) Graduate Student |
Interests: Chinese paintings and material culture, the role of local agents in bolstering artistic interactions, geocultural factors in artistic production during the Ming and Qing periods, representations of Chinese gardens and architecture, print culture in relation to social practice, materiality and historical viewing practices, Ming ceramics |
| Ying Zhang 張穎 |
The Ohio State University (USA) Faculty |
Interests: Political history, gender history, history of religion Projects: Ming-Qing transition History of Confucianism in early modern China |
| Francesca Ziglioli |
University of Siena (USA) Graduate Student |
Interests: Early Ming, in particular Zheng He and the voyages of the admiral. I am interested about the political logic connected with the voyages (tributary system and also the role of eunuchs). Projects: I am starting a research on the role of ZHeng He in the modern chinese policy. ZHeng He is been used often by the president Xi Jinping as a model of peaceful connection among different countries. I would like to study the role of Zheng He in the political message of nowadays (the usage of the history in political field) and also try to understand if CHina is reallt planning a peaceful development (see the white peaper of 2011) or if the real plan in the international context is to become an hegemonic power. So, starting by a study on the usage of the history in the political message today (in particular ZHeng He ad a model of international peace), try to understand the intentions of the gouvernement of Xi Jinping in the international panorama |
| Jiajun Zou 鄒嘉俊 |
Emory University (USA) Graduate Student |
Interests: Question of Chineseness in the Ming; evolving conception of 中國; Ming maritime crisis; overseas Chinese Projects: What is China and who is Chinese? How did Ming scholar officials interpreted their past to consolidate a new found identity? |
| Harriet Zurndorfer 宋漢理 |
Leiden University (Netherlands) Faculty |
Interests: Social, economic, and local history; gender studies; history of knowledge. Recent Publications: “Cotton Textile Production in Jiangnan during the Ming-Qing Era and the Matter of Market-Driven Growth” in Billy So, ed., The Economy of Lower Yangzi Delta in Late Imperial China: Connecting Money, Markets, and Institutions (London: Routledge, 2013), pp.72-98. “Wanli China versus Hideyoshi’s Japan: Rethinking China’s Involvement in the Imjin Waeran,” in James B. Lewis, The East Asian War, 1593-1598: International Relations, Violence, and Memory (London: Routledge, 2014), 197-235. “Oceans of History, Seas of Change: Recent Revisionist Writing in Western Languages about China and East Asian Maritime History during the Period 1500-1630,” International Journal of Asian Studies 13.1 (2016): 61-94. “A Conversation with Harriet Zurndorfer” (with Anne Gerritsen), Ming Studies 76 (2017): 80-83. “Contracts, Property Rights, and Litigation – Intermediation and Adjudication in the Huizhou Region (Anhui) in Sixteenth Century China,” in Debin Ma and Jan Luiten van Zanden, eds., Law and Long-Term Economic Change: A Eurasian Perspective (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011), pp. 91-114. “Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Confucian Moral Universe of Late Ming China (1550-1644),” International Review of Social History 56 S (2011), 197-216 |
