- Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Years of Affiliation: Graduate Student Associate from 2020-2021
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