Associate Professor, Corcoran Department of History
Ph.D., University of California - Los Angeles

Fields: Late Imperial and Modern China

Current director of the East Asia Center at the University of Virginia and asssociate editor of the jounal Modern China.  Teaches survey courses on Late  Imperial and Modern China along with seminars on peasant rebellions, law and society,  students in twentieth-century China, the Cultural Revolution, and the city of Shanghai. Author of Talons & Teeth: County Clerks and Runners in the Qing Dynasty (Stanford University Press, 2000). Research interests include county-level administrative practice and the exercise of social power in local communities, state-society relations, urban history, law,  and judicial procedure. Currently engaged in a monographic examination of  the judicial reveiw system and the use of evidence therein during the Qing Dynasty. 

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