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… and Manchuria and created the Liao Dynasty, a rival to China’s Song Dynasty. The Kitans, who were the first people … the need to invent their own script to define the Kitan identity. They created two scripts by borrowing from the … graduate research focuses on the conquest dynasties in China founded by nomadic peoples such as the Kitans and the …

… and patterns of life, illustrating how they experienced citizenship and decolonization. Even as nascent citizenship regimes and divergent political trajectories of …

… Tsu , a cultural historian and literary scholar of modern China, was recently appointed the Jonathan D. Spence … Tsu’s capacity to illuminate histories of science and culture, and was hailed in the Times for showing how … Nationalism, and Literature: The Making of Modern Chinese Identity, 1895-1937” (Stanford University Press, 2005), has …

… Dongguan to Delhi: Urbanization and the Environment in China and India Karen Seto This course will explore … We consider the relationships between place, belonging and citizenship in shaping contemporary identity practices and discourses. Readings are primarily …

… Shuang Fu focuses on Chinese literature and textual culture in the 1st millennium, particularly Turfan and … book project, Women’s Literacy Practices in Late Medieval China, traces women’s engagement and involvement in … an undergraduate seminar, “Writing and Textual Culture in China and Beyond.” Woo Chang Kang received his Ph.D from New …

… commoner history, documentary forgery, and material culture. Her current work focuses on socioeconomic networks … empire in Fall 2019. David Porter is a historian of China who focuses on questions of empire, state-making, and identity in the Qing and early Republican periods. He …

… Travel & Research Grant to support 2 months of research in China. The title of her project was, “Proximity to Heavy … pollution and congenital heart defects (CHD) in Lanzhou, China. I am also interested in the interaction between air … pollution accounted for 3.1 million deaths and 3.1% of disability-adjusted life years from 1990-2010. However, some …

… Literature, is a cultural and literary historian of modern China. Tsu is the first person to become a tenured professor … for her wide-ranging and original approach to Chinese culture and history in a global context. Tsu is the author of … Nationalism, and Literature: The Making of Modern Chinese Identity, 1895-1937” and “Sound and Script in Chinese …

… emphasizing that “this creates a feeling of inferior citizenship”. In terms of political rights, before 2020, all …