Research interests: pre-Han Chinese medicine; Chinese medicine in Nationalist China and in the PRC

Research interests: art, architecture, and urban planning in Japan, Korea, China and China's border regions from the 2nd through the 14th centuries

Research interests: women's history in Pre-modern China, family and kinship, local society, material culture, and gender 

Research interests: economic and political history of Tang-Song China.

Research interests: modern Chinese literature and culture in comparative frameworks; translation studies; critical theory; intellectual politics and aesthetic modernity in the 19th and 20th centuries;

Research interests: provision of public goods in rural China; bureaucratic politics of local government; social protest in China since the late 1980s 

Research interests: multidimensional theatre and modern Chinese history

Research interests: US-China pre-college educational exchange; American and Chinese maritime strategies in the western Pacific; models of Asian strategic leadership

Research interests: pre-Han Chinese medicine; Chinese medicine in Nationalist China and in the PRC

Research interests: historical experience of Italy in China; relations between Italy and the PRC  in the broader context of Euro-Chinese relations

Research interests: liberal arts education in Republican and contemporary China; international higher education; Jesuit missionaries' contributions to Chinese history; Chinese philosophy and culture

Research interests: poetry of Wang Xiaoni; translation of contemporary Chinese poetry; translation studies and translation theory; development of creative writing programs in China; poetry of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora

Research Interests: power in the PRC: A Visual Politics Approach

Research interests: painting and empire in early Northern Song China
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