Courses Offered:

Pasages to the Modern World, 1500-1775

Passages to the Modern World, 1750 to the present

Premodern China and Modern East Asia (China, Japan, Korea)

Premodern China

Late Imperial China

Modern Japan

Teaching Area: History of East Asia with a specialization in China

Interests: Late imperial and modern Chinese political and society history; China-Taiwan relations; bureaucracy; contemporary Japanese society and politics.

Current Research: Crisis Management and the politics of reform in the constitution of political authority in eighteenth-century China.