Studies of the Yuanming Yuan Imperial Residence:

 Reigning over the Palace:  The Qianlong Emperor at Yuanming Yuan

 "Qianlong and his Eunuchs:  A Study in Imperial Domestic Power"

Academic Positions

Syracuse University               

Assistant Professor of History       1991-1998
Associate Professor of History      1998-present

Qing History Institute, Renmin University of China

Research Scholar                            1999-2000

Education

Yale University                               
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.                       1985-1991

Boston College Law School           
J.D.                                                  1982-1985

Wesleyan University                         B.A.                                                 1978-1982

Selected and Recent Publications

"To Speak the Unspeakable:  Aids, Culture and the Rule of Law in China" Syracuse J. of Int'l Law 30:2. (Summer 2003), 272-86.

"China's Palace of Memory," The Wilson Quarterly (Winter 2003).

Mourning in Late Imperial China:  Filial Piety and the State (Cambridge University Press, 1999).

"Zou Saizhen", "Wang Su'e", "Li Yuying", "Yang Yuxiang," in Kang-i Sun Chang and Huan Saussy, eds., Women Writers of Traditional China:  An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism (Stanford University Press, 1999).

"The Fifth Relationship:  Dangerous Friendships in the Confucian Context" American Historical Review (December 2000).    

"The Death of the Xiaoxian Empress: Bureaucratic Betrayals and the Crises of Eighteenth-Century Chinese Rule" Journal of Asian Studies 56:3 (August 1997), 708-25.

Selected and Recent Reviews

Joseph P. McDermott, ed., State and Court Ritual in China (Cambridge, 1999), reviewed in American Historical Review (forthcoming)

Evelyn S. Rawski, The Last Emperors:  A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions (California, 1999)  reviewed in Journal of International History. 

Red Azalea, by Anchee Min.   Reviewed in The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 13, 1994, Section H., p. 1. (solicited)

The Stubborn Porridge, by Wang Meng.  Reviewed in The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 8, 1994, Section N, p. 2. (solicited)

Mandate of Heaven, by Orville Schell and China Wakes, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.  Reviewed in The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 13, 1994, Section M, p. 3. (solicited)

Pearl Buck:  A Cultural Biography, by Peter Conn.  Reviewed in The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 17, 1997, Section Q., p. 1, 10. (solicited)

ACLS/CSCC Research Fellowship                                                                 1999-2000
(National Program for Advanced Study and Research in China)

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend                                1993

Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities                            1985-1989

Committee on Scholarly Communications withChina    1988-1989

Yale University Fellowship                                           1985-1987

Yale University Dissertation  Completion Fellowship    1990-1991

 Recent Presentations

Languages

Classical Chinese
Modern Chinese
French
Japanese (moderate)
Manchu (just beginning)