Associates in Research

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

Research interests: History of acupuncture; history of international trade in materia medica; traditional medicine and intellectual property rights

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

Research interests: rise of Chinese political modernity; transformation of politics, culture, philosophy, and religion in modern China; interplay between traditional Chinese learning and Western philosophy

Research interests: Comparative politics, political economy, state-business relations, capitalism, and economic policies

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

Research interests: Sino-Vietnamese Naval History

Research interests: Canada-China relations; second installment of the John Fairbank biography; China's growing presence and influence in domestic affairs in the Asia Pacific region

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

Research interests: Chinese archaeology; Erlitou and Shang cultures; contact between China and Eurasian steppe populations ca 2000 B.C.E; visual syntax in Neolithic painted pottery designs and Shang bronze decor

Research interests: Elite politics; leadership transitions in China; China's financial system; China-Africa investments

Research interests: Modern China, Varieties of Capitalism, Borderlands History, Ethnicity and Inequality, Enterprise Management and the Cultures of Business