Yuan-Heng Mao
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
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Yuan-Heng Mao’s dissertation project examines the formation and transformation of Jiangxi literati networks and their ideas of state and local society throughout the Yuan (1271-1368) and Ming (1368-1644) dynasties, with a particular interest in central Jiangxi.
Research interests: late imperial China; literati communities; social transformation