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Teaching Experience
Assistant
Professor of History, University of Richmond, Fall 2002-present
Teaching
Assistant, Social Science Core Curriculum,
University of
Chicago, Winter 1999 and Autumn 1998
Selected Awards and Honors
Bernadotte E.
Schmitt Grant, American Historical Association, 2002
Summer Research
Fellowship, University of Richmond, 2002
Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation Dissertation-Year Fellowship, 2001
MacArthur Scholars
Fellowship, Council for Advanced Studies in Peace and International
Cooperation, University of Chicago, 2000
Rockefeller
Archive Center General Grant, 2000
Center for
Chinese Studies Research Grant, National Central Library, Taiwan, 1999
University of
Chicago Century Fellowship, 1996-1999
Macau
Foundation Graduate Scholarship, 1994-1995
Publications
“Identity
and Diversity: The Complexities and Contradictions of Chinese Nationalism,” in China
beyond the Headlines, Timothy B. Weston and Lionel M. Jensen, eds. (Lanham, MD:
Rowman and Littlefield, 2000), 147-170.
Papers Presented
Conferences and External Colloquia
“Plasticity and Solidarity: Visions of ‘Society’ in Early 20th Century
China,” Deviance and Social Control in Early 20th Century China Workshop,
Fairbank Center, Harvard University, April 12-13, 2003.
“Making Facts, Writing Fictions, and Authoring the Chinese Nation,” The Disunity
of Chinese Science Conference, University of Chicago, Chicago, May 10-12, 2002.
“Investigating and Ordering Chinese ‘Society,’ 1890s-1930s,” The 54th
Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Washington, D.C., April
4-7, 2002.
“From the
Chinese Sages to the Science God: The Rise of the Scientific Survey and the
Question of Chinese Modernity,” Summer Institute, Genealogies of Modernity,
Interdisciplinary Network on Globalization, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands, August 26-31, 2001.
“The Truth is Out There: The Quest for Social Facts and National
Authenticities in Early Twentieth-Century China,” Challenging
State Sovereignty and Identity Conference, University of Chicago, Chicago,
April 27-28, 2001.
Internal Seminars and
Colloquia
“Offsetting Deficiencies: The Quest for Society and Social Facts in China,
1890s-1930s,” China’s Long Twentieth Century Workshop, University of Chicago,
Chicago, April 20, 2001
“Some
Preliminary Thoughts on the Rise of the Social Survey in China,” (in Chinese)
Cultural and Intellectual History Workshop, Institute of History and Philology,
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, June 14, 2000
Other Academic and Professional Experiences
Panel Organizer,
Localizing “Universal Knowledge” and Ordering Society in Modern East Asia, The
54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Washington, D. C.,
April 4-7, 2002
Student Coordinator,
Asia in the World, the World in Asia: Critical Approaches to Transnational,
Colonial, Imperial and Postcolonial Narratives and Identities Workshop,
University of Chicago, 2001
Student
Affiliate, Center for the Study of Politics, History, and the Practice of
Meaning (Wilder House), University of Chicago, October 2000 – July 2002
Junior Visiting
Scholar, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, November
1999 - June 2000
Visiting Scholar, Center for Chinese Studies, National
Central Library, Taiwan, October 1999 - April 2000
