Director, East Asia Center
Associate Professor of Chinese Language & Literature
Ph.D. Chinese (University of Michigan)
Fields: Classical Chinese Language, Literature, and
Cultural
History; Digital Humanities
Professor Kinney received a
B.A.
in Chinese Language and Civilization from Oakland University.
She went on to study modern and classical Chinese for several years in Taipei, Taiwan,
where she attended the Stanford Center (I.U.P.) for Chinese Language
Studies. After
completing graduate studies at the University
of Michigan, she attended Peking University,
Department of History and Archaeology under the auspices of the
Committee on
Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China.
She is
the author of Representations of
Childhood and Youth in Early China
(Stanford University Press), The Establishment of the Qin and Han
Empire
(with Grant Hardy), The Art of the Han Essay and edited and
contributed
to Chinese Views of Childhood. She has also published articles
in
journals such as T'oung Pao, Early China, and Archaeology.
Her research is centered on the literature and cultural history of
early China,
with
special emphasis on gender, specifically, the Lienu zhuan (Traditions
of Exemplary Women). At present, her
research interests are also focused on exploring new ways to engage in
sinological scholarship using methodologies drawn from the digital
humanities. She
is director of Traditions of Exemplary Women: A Digital research
Collection
for the Study of Women in Early China,
which has received generous support from the National Endowment for
the
Humanities, the Delmas Foundation, The Luce Foundation, and the
American
Council of Learned Societies.
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