Program

Mellon Fellow, 1984

Project

The Alienated Academy: Higher education in the Republican China

Abstract

Program

ACLS Fellowship Program, 2004

Project

Past Against Present: Writing History in Mao's China

Department

History

Abstract

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.