Associates in Research

Research interests: Existential philosophy, ritual and visual culture of Daoism, and philosophy of truth and the subject

Research interests: Early modern China's social, cultural, and legal history; East Asian maritime history

Research interests: Chinese book culture; Ming-Qing history

Research interests: Chinese business environments, China's economy, comparative capitalism, business groups

Research interests: Cosmopolitan and environmental bases for rethinking the Sinosphere; Intersectional cosmopolitanism in Taiwan; Women in the 17th–21st centuries: marriage and kinship, footbinding, household economies, public-sphere visibility, rural-to-urban migrants; Identities: ethnic, gender, national, and cosmopolitan; China and Taiwan

Research interests: Writing up research on a 12th-century temple Yan-shan Si.

Research interests: The personal history of China’s “only-children” pursuing higher education, career opportunities and life exploration in America.

Research interests: Environmental, social and legal history; late imperial and modern Chinese history; history of Tibet and northwest China

Research interests: Comparative politics and political economy, with a regional focus on China

Research interests: origins of Chinese Daoism; early Chinese thought

Research interests: authoritarianism, security, surveillance, state-society relations in East Asia, Chinese foreign policy

Research Interests: Development of the home care / home health care industries in China

Research interests: The collapse of Chiang Kai-shek’s China, 1944-1948: hyperinflation and its consequences

Research interests: Sino-Vietnamese Naval History

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