Wen-hsin Yeh

My project is a historical study of competing visions of time in twentieth-century Chinese writing of Chinese history. Anchored on the classical historian Chen Yinke (1890-1969), it pays special attention to Chen's writing, in the 1950s and '60s, of the biography of the seventeenth-century courtesan Liu Rushi against the backdrop of the fall of the Ming dynasty in 1644.