I am currently accepting prospective MA and PhD students studying the social and cultural history of modern China. I am particularly attentive to applications that place the student’s research in a global context and show an interest in engaging with different world regions, actors, or ideas.
Some of my present and former graduate students have researched the following topics:
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- The history of birth control in twentieth-century China
- Children and childhood in wartime China
- Metrology and the standardization of weights and measures
- The fate of Confucianism in post-1949 China and Taiwan
- Environment and pollution in Gansu
- Anti-snail fever campaigns in Guangdong
- Factionalism in the Democracy Wall movement
- Competing colonialisms in Tianjin and Shanghai