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Mark C. ElliottCurriculum vitae

Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History,Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Department of

HistoryVice Provost for International Affairs, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138telephone 617 496 5343 / facsimile 617 496 6040 / [email protected]

EducationPh.D., History, University of California, Berkeley, 1993Senior Advanced Research Student, People’s University of China, Beijing,

1990Research Student, Institute for the Study of the Languages and Cultures of

Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, 1987-1990M.A., East Asian Studies, Yale University, New Haven, 1984General Research Student, Liaoning University, Shenyang, 1982-1983Inter-University Program in Chinese Language Studies, Taipei, 1981-1982B.A., History summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Yale University, New

Haven, 1981

Areas of specializationHistory of China, especially China after 1600; Inner Asian history;

Manjuristics

Professional experience2015- Vice Provost for International Affairs2013-2015 Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies2010-2011 Acting Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies2010-2011 Acting Chair, Harvard China Fund2004- Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History,

Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

2003-2004 Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

2002-2003 Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann

Arbor2000-2001 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of East Asian

Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

1999-2003 Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Santa

Barbara

Mark C. Elliott / Curriculum Vitae 2

1993-99 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

Professional organizationsAssociation for Asian StudiesAmerican Historical AssociationSociety for Qing StudiesManchu Studies Group

Language aptitudesEnglish (native); Modern Chinese, Japanese, French, Polish (reading,

speaking); Classical Chinese, Manchu, Classical Mongolian, Russian, Italian, German

(reading)

PublicationsBooks Emperor Qianlong: Son of Heaven, Man of the World. Library of World Biography

series. Longman/Pearson, 2009. Korean translation, October 2011. Chinese translation, May 2014.

New Qing Imperial History: The Making of Inner Asian Empire at Qing Chengde. With James Millward, Ruth

Dunnell, and Philippe Foret. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.

The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China. Stanford: Stanford University

Press, 2001. Paperback edition, 2003. Korean translation, 2009.

The Bordered Red Banner Archives in the Toyo Bunko I: Introduction and Catalogue, with Kanda Nobuo, et al. Tokyo:

Toyo Bunko, 2001.

Catalogue of the Manchu-Mongolian Collection of the Harvard-Yenching Library. Volume in Harvard-Yenching

Bibliographic Series. Under contract with Guangxi Normal University Press. (in preparation)

Imperial China: A Very Short History. Under contract with Oxford University Press. (in preparation)

Articles and book chapters“The Case of the Missing Indigene: Debate over a ‘Second-Generation Ethnic

Policy’.” The China Journal 73 (January 2015).


“Abel-Rémusat, la langue mandchoue et la sinologie.” Comptes Rendues de l’Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 2014.2 (April-June), pp. 973-993.

“Frontier Stories: The Periphery as Central in Qing History.” Frontiers of History in China 9.3 (December 2014), pp. 336-360.

“Chuantong Zhongguo shi yige diguo ma” 「传统中国是一个帝国吗」(Was traditional China an empire?). Dushu 《读书》2014.1.

“Ershiyishiji ruhe shuxie Zhongguo lishi: ‘Xin Qingshi’ yanjiu de yingxiang yu huiying” 「21 世纪如何书写中国历史：“新清史”研究的影响与回应」(Writing Chinese history in the 21st c.: the influence and response to the “New Qing History”), with Ding Yizhuang 定宜庄. In Peng Wei 彭卫 ed., Lishixue pinglun《历史学评论》(Critical Historical Review), vol. 1 (Beijing: SSAP, 2013), pp. 116-146.

“The Real China Model.” International Herald Tribune, 13 November 2012.

available at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/opinion/the-real-china-model.html

“The Historical Vision of Shengshi.” China Heritage Quarterly 29 (March 2012). Available at www. chinaquarterly.org.

“Guanyu xin Qingshi de jige wenti” “关于新清史的几个问题”, in Liu Wenpeng et al., eds., Qingdai zhengzhi yu guojia rentong 《清代政治与国家认同》(Politics and national identity in the Qing) (Beijing: Renmin daxue cbs, 2012), pp. 3-15.

“Hushuo: The Northern Other and the Naming of the Han Chinese.” In Thomas Mullaney, et al., eds., Critical Han Studies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012) pp. 173-190.

“National Minds and Imperial Frontiers: Inner Asia and China in the New Century.” In William Kirby, ed., The People’s Republic of China at 60: An International Assessment (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011), pp. 401-412.

“The Qianlong Emperor and His Age.” Introductory essay in Nancy Berliner, ed., The Emperor’s Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010), pp. 32-50.

“On the Jiu Manzhou dang 舊滿洲檔 and Manbun rôtô (Manwen laodang) 滿文老檔.” Commentary Project for the Civilization Archive of the Center for Central Eurasian Studies, Seoul National University (2010). http://cces.snu.ac.kr/eng/sub2/sub2.html

“Shindai Manshûjin no aidentitii to Chûgoku tôchi”“清代満洲人のアイデンティティイと中国統治”(Manchu identity and rule in the Qing). In Okada Hidehiro, ed.,


Shinchô to ha nani ka『清朝とは何か』(What was the Qing?), Special Number 16 of Kan: History, Environment, Civilization (Tokyo: Fujiwara shoten, 2009), pp. 108-123.

“Yoroppa, Beikoku ni okeru Manshûgaku: kako, genzai, mirai” (Manchu studies in Europe and the United States: Past, Present, Future.” Tôyô bunka kenkyû 10 (March 2008), pp. 1-17.

“Manshû tôan to shin Shinchô shi” “満洲档案と新清朝史” (Manchu archives and the new Qing history). InHosoya Yoshio, ed., Shinchôshi kenkyû no aratanaru chihei 『清朝史研究の新たなる地平』(New perspectives on Qing historical research) (Tokyo: Yamakawa, 2008, pp. 124-139.

“In Memoriam: Frederic Wakeman, Jr., 1937-2006.” China Quarterly 189 (March 2007).

“La Chine moderne: les mandchous et la définition de la nation.” Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales,

November-December 2006, pp. 1447-1477.

“Manwen dang’an yu xin Qingshi”「滿文檔案與新清史」 (Manchu archives and the new Qing history).

National Palace Museum Quarterly 『故宮博物院季刊』, December 2006, pp. 1-18.

“The Manchus as Ethnographic Subject in the Qing.” In Joseph Esherick, Madelein Zelin, and Wen-hsin

Yeh, eds., Empire, Nation, and Beyond: Chinese History in Late Imperial and Modern Times. Berkeley:

Institute of East Asian Studies, 2006.

“Ethnicity in the Qing Eight Banners.” In Pamela Kyle Crossley, Helen Siu, and Donald Sutton, eds., Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China. Berkeley and Los Angeles:

University of California Press, 2006.

“Whose Empire Shall It Be? Manchu Figurations of Historical Process in the Early Seventeenth

Century.” In Lynn Struve, ed., Time and Temporality in the Ming-Qing Transition. Honolulu: University

of Hawai’i Press, 2005.

“Manchus and the Hunt,” with Chia Ning. In James Millward, Ruth Dunnell, Mark Elliott, and Philippe

Foret, eds., Qing Inner Asian Empire at Chengde. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon,

2004.


“Qianlong’s Ode to Mukden” and “Manchus and Tigers and Bears.” In Chuimei Ho and Bennet Bronson, eds.,

Splendors of China’s Forbidden City: The Glorious Reign of Emperor Qianlong (London and New York:

Merrell Publishing in association with the Field Museum, 2004). “Highlights of the Manchu-Mongolian Collection,” with James Bosson. In Patrick Hanan, ed., Treasures of the

Yenching: Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Harvard-Yenching Library Exhibition Catalogue. Cambridge:

Harvard-Yenching Library, 2003.

“Qingdai Manzhouren de minzu zhuti yishi yu Manzhouren de Zhongguo tongzhi”「清代满洲人的民族主体意识与满洲人的中国统治」(Manchu identity and Manchu rule in China). Qingshi yanjiu『清史研究』2002.4.

“Identity Construction and Reconstruction: Naming and Manchu Ethnicity in Northeast China, 1749-1909,” with Cameron Campbell and James Lee.

Historical Methods 35.3 (Summer 2002).

“The Eating Crabs Youth Book.” In Susan Mann and Yu-yin Cheng, eds., Under Confucian Eyes:

Documents on Gender in East Asian History. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California

Press, 2001.

“The Manchu-Language Archives of the Qing and the Origins of the Palace Memorial System.” Late

Imperial China 22.1 (June 2001).

“Shindai hakki seido to Manshûjin no aidentitii”“清代八旗制度と満洲人のアイデンティティイ”(The

Eight Banner system and Manchu identity in the Qing). Manzokushi kenkyû tsûshin 『滿族史研究通

信』10 (2001).

“The Limits of Tartary: Manchuria in Imperial and National Geographies.” Journal of Asian Studies

59.3 (August 2000).

“Manchu Widows and Ethnicity in Qing China.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 41.1 (January

1999).

“Manchu Language and Ethnicity in the Qing.” In Da-li-zha-bu et al., eds., Qingzhu Wang Zhonghan


jiaoshou bashiwu, Wei Qingyuan jiaoshou qishi shouzhen xueshu lunwen ji 『庆祝王钟翰教授八十五，韦庆远教授其七十寿辰学术论文集』(Festschrift honoring the 85th birthday of Prof.

Wang Zhonghan and the 70th birthday of Prof. Wei Qingyuan). Beijing: Huangshan

chubanshe, 1999.

“Vocabulary Notes from the Manchu Archives 2: On the booi.” Saksaha: A Review of Manchu Studies 3

(1998): 18-21.

“Vocabulary Notes from the Manchu Archives.” Saksaha: A Review of Manchu Studies 1 (1996): 7-12.

“Manchu (Re)Definitions of the Nation in the Early Qing.” Indiana East Asian Working Paper Series on

Language and Politics in Modern China 7 (1996).

“Chûgoku no dai’ichi rekishi tôankanzô naikaku to kyûchû Manbun tôan no gaijutsu”“中国の第一歴史档案

館藏内閣と宮中満文档案の概述” (An outline of the Manchu holdings of the Grand Secretariat and

Imperial Palace archives at the No. 1 Historical Archives, Beijing). Tôhôgaku『東方学』 85 (January

1993), pp. 147-157.

“Turning a Phrase: Translation in the Early Qing Through a Temple Inscription of 1645.” Aetas Manjurica 3

(Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1992), pp. 12-41.

“Research in the No. 1 Archives.” China Exchange News 19.3-4 (Fall-Winter 1991). “Bannerman and Townsman: Ethnic Tension in Nineteenth-Century Jiangnan.” Late Imperial China

11.1 (June 1990), pp. 36-74.

“Blazing New Trails: Notes from Manchuria.” China Exchange News 11.2 (June 1983).

Reviews“Re-Orienting the Manchus: A Study in Sinicization,” by Pei Huang. Journal of the

Economic and Social History of the Orient 54 (Dec 2011): 584-588.

“Qing Governors and Their Provinces: The Evolution of Territorial Administration in China, 1644-1796,” by R. Kent Guy. Journal of Asian Studies 70.2 (Nov 2011).


“China’s Last Empire: The Great Qing,” by William T. Rowe. Journal of Military History 74.4 (October 2010), pp. 1269-1270.

“Reconfiguring Chinese Nationalism: How the Qing Frontier and Its Indigenes Became Chinese,” by James Leibold. American Historical Review 113.5 (December 2008).

“Asian Borderlands: The Transformation of Qing China’s Yunnan Frontier,” by C. Patterson Giersch. Journal of Asian

Studies 67.1 (February 2008).

“China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia,” by Peter C. Perdue. Inner Asia 8 (2006).

“Holy War in China: The Muslim Rebellion and State in Chinese Central Asia, 1864-1877,” by Hodong Kim. Harvard

Journal of Asiatic Studies 66.1 (June 2006).

“The Cambridge History of China, vol. 9, part 1, The Ch’ing Dynasty to 1800,” edited by Willard J. Peterson. Journal

of Asian Studies 64.4 (November 2005).

“Saving the World: Chen Hongmou and Elite Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century China, by William T. Rowe.”

Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 63.1 (June 2003).

“Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China,” by Laura Hostetler. Journal of the

Economic and Social History of the Orient 46.4 (December 2003).

“Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928, by

Edward Rhoads.” The Historian 64.3/4 (Spring/Summer 2002).

“New Light on Manchu Historiography and Literature: The Discovery of Three Documents in Old Manchu Script, by

Tatiana Pang and Giovanni Stary.” Journal of Asian Studies 60.4 (November 2001).

“The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions,” by Evelyn S. Rawski. Journal of

Interdisciplinary History 31.1 (Summer 2000).

“Manshûgo bungo bunten” 『満洲語文語文典』, by Yoshihiro Kawachi. Saksaha 4 (1999). “Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in Early Qing China: The Formation of a Tradition,” by David Ownby. China


Review International 5.1 (Spring 1998): 225-229. “Spider Eaters: A Memoir,” by Rae Yang. Journal of Asian Studies 57.3 (August 1998): 844-846. “Manchuria: An Ethnic History,” by Juha Janhunen. Saksaha: A Review of Manchu Studies 2 (1997): 47-48.

“The Cambridge History of China, vol. 6, Alien Regimes and Border States,” edited by Herbert Franke and Denis

Twitchett. Journal of Asian Studies 55.1 (February 1996): 146-149.

“Orphan Warriors: Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World,” by Pamela Kyle Crossley. China

Quarterly July 1991.

Translations“A Manchu Strange Tales, by Jakdan.” China Heritage Quarterly 19 (September

2009). http://www.chinaheritagequarterly.org/

“Rhyme in Manchu Court Poetry of the Qing,” by Shen Yuan and Mao Biyang. Saksaha 4 (1999).

“The Founding Legend of the Qing Dynasty Reconsidered,” by Matsumura Jun. Memoirs of the Research

Department of the Toyo Bunko 55 (1997): 41-60.

“Directed Marriage (zhi-hun) and the Eight Banner Household Registration System among the Manchus,” by

Ding Yizhuang. Saksaha: A Review of Manchu Studies 1 (1996): 25-30.

“Ming-Qing Studies in Japan: 1992,” by Yamamoto Susumu. Late Imperial China 14.2 (December 1993).

“Ming-Qing Studies in Japan: 1988,” by Iwai Shigeki. Late Imperial China 12.1 (June 1991): 100-114.

Papers and talks presented“A Reflection and Response to the Debate on the New Qing History.” Department

of Asian History, Seoul National University, 11 January 2016.

“The Imperial Turn and Its Meanings for Chinese History” 帝国转向及其对中国历史的意义 (in Chinese). Department of History, Tsinghua University, 11 December 2015.

“Was China an Empire?” First JESHO Lecture, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 13 October 2015.

“The Qing as a Conquest Dynasty.” Mt. Holyoke College, 12 February 2015.


“Abel-Rémusat and Some Early Thoughts on Translating from Chinese.” Workshop, “China in Translation: Theory, History, Practice.” Harvard University, Cambridge, 21 November 2014.

“Abel-Rémusat and the Secret History of Sinology’s Origins.” Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University, 20 November 2014.

“The Case of the Missing Indigene: Current Discussions of Ethnic Policy Reform in China.” China Studies Program, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, 13 November 2014.

“Locating China Under Heaven.” Conference, “Chinese Ways of Thinking: Imagining the Global,” London School of Economics, 26 June 2014.

“Discovering Empire in China.” International Institute for Asian Studies, University of Leiden, 23 June 2014.

“Abel-Rémusat, la langue mandchoue et la sinologie.” Keynote address at conference, “Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat et ses successeurs: Deux cents ans de sinologie française en France et en Chine.” Collège de France, Paris, 13 June 2014.

“Legal Pluralism and Empire in ‘Imperial’ China.” Keynote address at conference, “Constructing Diversity: Ethnicity and Legal Culture in Chinese History,” Bryn Mawr College, 5 April 2014.

“Discovering Empire in China.” Central Asia Program, UCLA Asia Institute, Los Angeles, 3 March 2014.

“Discovering Empire in China.” Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 18 February 2014.

“Discovering Empire in China.” Colloquium on Empires: Domination, Collaboration, and Resistance, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University, 17 February 2014.

“The Return of the Native: The Debate over a ‘Second-Generation’ Ethnic Policy.” New England China Seminar, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, 19 November 2013.

“The Return of the Native: The Debate over a "Second-Generation" Ethnic Policy.”

Institute of East Asian Studies Distinguished Speaker Series, University of California, Berkeley, 28 October 2013.

“Was Traditional China an Empire?” Tan Lark Sye Memorial Lecture 3, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 5 September 2013.


“The New Qing History: Influence and Response” (新清史研究的影响与回应) (in Chinese). Institute of Ethnic Studies, Central Minorities University 中央民族大学, Beijing, 28 August 2013.

“The ‘New Qing History’ and Its Reception in China.” Tan Lark Sye Memorial Lecture 2, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 22 August 2013.

“The Qianlong Emperor in Triumph and Tragedy” (乾隆皇帝: 胜利与悲剧) (in Chinese).

Tan Lark Sye Memorial Lecture 1, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 17 August 2013.

“The New Qing History: Influence and Response” (新清史研究的影响与回应) (in Chinese). Department of History, Nanjing University, 9 May 2013.

“Was China an Empire?” (传统中国是一个帝国吗?) (in Chinese). Institute for

Humanistic Research, Fudan University, 7 May 2013.

“The New Qing History: Influence and Response” (新清史研究的影响与回应) (in Chinese). Institute for Humanistic Research, Fudan University, 6 May 2013.

“Was China an Empire?” Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Salon Public Lecture, Washington University in St. Louis, 22 April 2013.

“Imperial Thinking and the New Qing History.” Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University, 8 April 2013.

“Nation-making in China: Between History and Politics.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Diego, 23 March 2013.

“‘Imperial Thinking’ and the New Qing History.” Tôyô Bunko, Tokyo, 10 December 2012.

“Global Perspectives in the Debate over Chinese Ethnic Policy” (从全球视野看当前中国民族政策的争论) (in Chinese). Presented at conference, “Political Reforms and the Multiethnic Polity of China, or How to Understand China’s ‘Second Generation Nationality Policy’,” 国际学术会议, 中国的政治改革与少数民族的权益: 如何理解所谓的“第二代民族政策,”Shiga University 兹贺大学, Hikone 彦根, Japan, 8 December 2012.

“‘Imperial Thinking’ and the New Qing History.” University of Iowa, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, 1 October 2012.

“Was China an Empire?” Workshop, “Borderlands: Imperialism, Colonialism, Environment, and Culture.” Vilnius, 22 September 2012.

“The Reinvention of the Manchus: An Imperial People in Post-Imperial China.” 73rd

Annual Morrison Lecture, Australian National University, Canberra, 20 June 2012.


“‘Imperial Thinking’ and the New Qing History.” University of Hong Kong, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, 28 May 2012.

“Other Stories: The Frontier in Qing History.” Keynote address at international workshop, “Defining the Jecen: The Evolution of the Qing Frontier, 1644-1918.” Hong Kong University and Hong Kong Baptist University, 25 May 2012.

“Qing History a Century After Empire: A Chinese Historikerstreit?” Center for Chinese Studies, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 May 2012.

“Inner Asia and the New Qing History.” Conference, “The Past and Present of Inner Asian Studies – Towards Defining Places, Nomenclature and Approaches.” Australian National University, Canberra, 23 March 2012.

“Remaking the Manchus, Remaking China.” Workshop, “1911-2011: Revolution and its Legacy in China,” Free University of Berlin, Berlin, 16 December 2011.

“100 Years After the 1911 Revolution, Why Is Qing History Still So Political?” History Department Workshop, Syracuse University, Syracuse, 14 October 2011.

“Hu shuo: The Northern Other and the Naming of the Han Chinese.” Center for Chinese Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, 12 May 2011.

“What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Ethnicity?” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Honolulu, 31 March 2011.

“Dangerous Gardens: Portraits of Retreat and Rulership in the Qing.” International symposium, “Artful Retreat: Garden Culture of the Qing Dynasty,” Harvard University and Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem, 12 November 2010.

“Periphery as Center: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Manchu Studies.” Research Institute of Korean Studies, Korea University, Seoul, 24 August 2010.

“A Few Questions about the ‘New Qing History’” (關於新清史的幾個問題) (in Chinese). International conference, “Politics and National Identity in the Qing Dynasty,” Beijing, 9-11 August 2010.

“Hu, Hua, and Han: Some Considerations of Terms and Categories.” International conference, “Inner Asia and China: Cultural and Historical Connections,” Harvard University, 23-25 April 2010.

“A New Frontier in Xinjiang: State Control and Uyghur Dissent” (with Rian Thum). Boston University, 6 April 2010.


“A Few Questions about the ‘New Qing History’” (關於新清史的幾個問題) (in Chinese). Borderlands Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, December 2009.

“History in the Making of Modern Xinjiang.” New England China Seminar, Harvard University, 9 October 2009.

“The Old Silk Road in China Today: The Fate of Xinjiang.” Griffith Asia Institute

Asia Perspectives Series, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 23 July 2009.

“Hu shuo: The Northern Other and Han Ethnogenesis.” Chinese Studies Association of Australia Annual Conference, Sydney, 10 July 2009.

“Imperial Minds and National Frontiers: Inner Asia and China in the New Century.” Symposium, “The PRC at 60: An International Assessment,” Fairbank Center, Harvard University, May 2009.

“Hu shuo: The Northern Other and Han Ethnogenesis.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 2009.

“The New Qing History.” Department of History, Seoul National University, Seoul, July 2008.

“The Manchu Collection at the Harvard-Yenching Library.” Symposium in Honor of Alfred K’ai-ming Ch’iu (1898-1977), Harvard University, October 2008.

“Manchu Language and Culture.” Queens Library, Flushing Branch, New York City, September 2008.

“Hu shuo: The Northern Other and Han Ethnogenesis.” Keynote address,

Conference on Critical Han Studies, Stanford University, April 2008.

“Ming Taizu in the Manchu Mind.” China Humanities Seminar, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, April 2007.

“Ming Taizu in the Manchu Mind.” Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, February 2007.

“The Ming in Manchu Memory.” Conference, “The Sense of the Past among Inner Asian Peoples,” Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, March 2007.

“The Manchus, the Ming, and Modern China.” Philip Thomas Lincoln Memorial Lecture in Chinese Studies, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan, April 2007.

“The Manchus and Modern China.” International History Seminar, Department of History, Harvard University, March 2007.


“Bringing Down the Great Wall: The Manchus and Modern China.” Southern Methodist University, Deparment of Religious Studies, March 2007.

“Bringing Down the Great Wall: The Manchus and Modern China.” Annual So-Koo Lecture, Michigan State University, March 2007.

“Yoroppa, Beikoku ni okeru Manshûgaku: kako, genzai, mirai” (Manchu studies in Europe and the United States: Past, Present, Future.” International Symposium, “Frontiers of East Asian Studies” Gakushuin University, Tokyo, January 2007. (in Japanese)

“The Conquest Dynasties of Twentieth-Century China.” Conference celebrating the career of Frederic E.

Wakeman, Jr., on his retirement. Berkeley, May 2006.

“Hung Up on Hûng U: Manchu Views of Ming Taizu.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San

Francisco, April 2006.

“Manchu-language Archives and the New Qing History.” Second International Colloquium on Ch'ing

Archives, Taipei, November 2005. (in Chinese)

“Manchu-language Archival Record Books in the Harvard-Yenching Library: A Brief Introduction.” Second

International Conference on Manchu Studies, Harvard University, May 2005.

“Paintings, Portraits, and Politics at the Qing Court.” In conjunction with the exhibit, “Worshiping the

Ancestors.” Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, January 2004.

“Genre and History in the Ode to Mukden.” International Conference on Manchu Studies, Portland State University, May 2003.

“The Mongol Subaltern: Coloniality and Nationality in the Qing.” Central Eurasian Studies Society annual

conference. Harvard University, October 2003.

“The Few, the Proud, the Manchus: Thoughts on Ethnicity in Early Modern China.” Conference, “Race and

Nation, Identity and Power: Ethnic Systems Around the World.” University of California, Santa Barbara, February 2002.


“Female Mobility at the Qing Court.” Conference, “Gender in World Historical Studies.” University of

California, Davis, December 2001.

“Identité mandchoue et pouvoir d’une minorité en Chine.” Centre d’Études de la Chine moderne et

contemporaine, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, June 2001. (in French)

“Identité mandchoue et pouvoir d’une minorité en Chine.” Institut d’Asie orientale, Université de Lyon,

June 2001. (in French)

“Les Qing comme État successeur des Liao, des Jin, et des Yuan: la conscience historique mandchoue durant

la période précédant la conquête.” Centre d’Études de la Chine moderne et contemporaine, École

des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, June 2001. (in French)

“The New Manchu History, or, What Does It Mean to be Qing?” Centre d’Études de la Chine moderne et

contemporaine, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, June 2001.

“Brothers in Arms? Mongols in the Manchu Empire.” Indo-Mongolian Society, New York University, May

2001.“Manchu Identity and Minority Rule in China.” Department of History, Yale University, April 2001.

“Manchu Identity and Minority Rule in China.” Department of History, University of Michigan, February

2001.

“The Eight Banners and Manchu Identity in the Qing.” Conference on Qing Society and the Eight Banners:

Approaches and Sources, Institute for the Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo

University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, December 2000.“The Qing as a Successor State of the Liao, Jin, and Yuan: Manchu Historical Consciousness in the Pre-

Conquest Period.” Committee on Inner Asian & Altaic Studies, Harvard University, October 2000.

“Manchu Identity and Manchu Rule in China.” Department of History, Nihon University, Tokyo, June

2000. (in Japanese)


“Early Manchu Palace Memorials and the Origins of the Qing Palace Memorial System.” Manzokushi

kenkyûkai (Association for Manchu and Qing Studies) Annual Meeting, Fukuoka, June 2000.

“The Eight Banners and Manchu Identity in the Qing.” Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica,

March 2000. (in Chinese)

“Minority Rule and Manchu Identity in the Qing.” Department of History and Center for East Asian

Studies, Stanford University, March 2000.

“The Limits of Tartary: Frontier and Region in the Qing Imperial Imagination.” Center for Chinese

Studies, University of California, Berkeley, March 2000.

“The Limits of Tartary: Frontier and Region in the Qing Imperial Imagination.” Conference, “Regional

Imaginings of Society in East Asia,” Institute for the Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa,

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, November 1999.

“The Limits of Tartary: Frontier and Region in the Qing Imperial Imagination.” Conference, “Spatial

Identities in Asian History,” University of Colorado, Boulder, June 1999.

“Manchu Historical Consciousness in the Early Qing.” Conference, “The Qing Formation in World and

Chinese Time,” Indiana University, Bloomington, June 1999. (presented abstract in absentia).

“China and Human Rights.” Forum Commemorating the Tenth Anniversary of June 4th, sponsored

by Santa Barbara chapter of Amnesty International, June 1999.

“Minority Rule and Manchu Identity in the Qing.” Department of East Languages and Civilizations,

Harvard University, April 1999.

“China on the Cusp: The Twentieth Century and Beyond.” UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center

Conference, "Cultural Production in Turn-of-the-Century China," February 1999.

“Eighteenth-Century Ideas of ‘China’ and the ‘Unified Polyethnic State’.” Seminar, “From Late Imperial

to Modern Chinese History: Views from the Eighteenth Century,” UCLA Center for Chinese


Studies, November 1998.

“Why Should the Sinologue Study Manchu? (Or Mongolian? Or Tibetan? Or . . . ?)” International

Symposium on Non-Chinese Sources for Late Imperial Chinese History, University of

California, Santa Barbara, March 1998.

“The Manchus as Ethnographic Subject in Qing biji Writings.” Conference, “Empire and Beyond:

Historical China from the Ming to the Republic,” Center for Chinese Studies, University of

California, Berkeley, December 1997.

“Widows and Widow Chastity in the Qing Eight Banners.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting,

Chicago, March 1997.

“The Manchus in Their Own Words: Language and Identity in the Qing.” International Symposium on

Qing Archival Sources, Tokyo, December 1996.

“Ethnicity in the Qing Eight Banners.” China Colloquium, University of California, Irvine, June 1996.

“Ethnicity in the Qing Eight Banners.” ACLS Conference, “Ethnic Identity and the China Frontier:

Changing Discourse and Consciousness,” Dartmouth College, May 1996.

“Ethnicity and Its Uses in Late Imperial China.” China Colloquium Seminar, University of Washington,

May 1995.

“Mapping the Qing State: All Under Heaven?” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Washington,

D.C., April 1995.

“Manchu (Re)Definitions of the Nation in the Early Qing.” Symposium, “Empire, Nation, and Region:

Reconsidering the Chinese World Order,” Center for Chinese Studies, University of California,

Berkeley, March 1995.

“Ethnicity and its Uses in Late Imperial China.” IHC New Faculty Lecture Series, University of California,

Santa Barbara, November 1994.


“Introduction to the Background and Use of the Manchu Language.” NEH Summer Institute, Reading

the Manchu Summer Palace at Chengde, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 1994.

“Manchu History and the Problem of Ethnicity in Late Imperial China.” University of California, San Diego,

May 1994.

“Lexicography in Kuldja: Preliminary Notes on a Russian-Manchu Dictionary of 1890.” American Oriental

Society (Western Branch) Annual Meeting, Berkeley, October 1993.

“Working with the Manchu Archives of the Qing.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting,

Washington, D.C., April 1992.

“An Outline of the Manchu Holdings of the Grand Secretariat and Imperial Palace Archives at the No. 1

Historical Archives, Beijing.” Third Symposium, “Prospects and Problems of Qing Archival

Research,” Institute for the Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo, February 1991.

“Qing Historical Archives from the Perspective of American Sinology,” Second Symposium, “Prospects and Problems of Qing Archival Research.” Institute for the Languages and

Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo, December 1989.

Other professional activityCo-organizer (with Carla Nappi, Yulian Wu, and Elif Akçetin), ACLS Workshop,

“Translating Manchu in the Qing,” Cambridge, 15-17 May 2015.

Keynote address at China Education Symposium, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2 May 2015.

Interview, “US Higher Education and China,” Dialogue, CCTV news program hosted by Yang Rui, 19 March 2015. http://english.cntv.cn/2015/04/10/VIDE1428613333687758.shtml

Co-organizer (with David Wang and Uganda Sze-pui Kwan), international symposium, “Translating China,” Cambridge, 21 November 2014.

Welcoming remarks, Harvard China SEED on Citizenship and Social Innovation, “Historical Perspectives on Reform-era China,” 5 August 2014.

http://english.cntv.cn/2015/04/10/VIDE1428613333687758.shtml


Chair and discussant at panel, “Ethnic Identities and Diversities,” at Conference on Middle Period China, 7 June 2014.

Co-organizer (with David Wang), international workshop, “Unpacking China,” Cambridge, 25-26 April 2014.

Keynote panel member, “Can China Lead?” at Harvard China Forum, Cambridge, 19 April 2014.

Discussant at panel, “New Perspectives on Manchuria,” Workshop on “Making and Unmaking Manchukuo,” Cambridge, 11 April 2014. (also served as faculty sponsor)

Discussant at panel, “Knowledge and the Manchu Book,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 29 March 2014.

Participant in forum, “Bridging between Disciplines: Humanities General Education in University Education,” Harvard-HKUST Project on Humanities Education for Non-Humanities Undergraduates, Hong Kong, 13 January 2014. (repeated in Shanghai, 17 January 2014)

Founder and President, Manchu Studies Group (2013-), website URL www.manchustudiesgroup. org

Co-convener, 2nd Tibet Governance and Practice Forum, “Conservation, Resource Management and Local Governance in Tibet: Challenges and Prospects in Policy Perspective,” Shanghai, 10-12 August, 2013.

Keynote speaker, Annual East Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference, Harvard University, February 2013.

Co-organizer (with William Kirby, David Wang, and Eugene Wang), international conference, “China After Empire: 1911 Remembered, Cambridge, 3-5 November 2011.

Presented talk, “Ethnographic History and Ethnicity in History,” at Symposium in honor of James L. and Rubie Watson, Cambridge, 30 September 2011.

Co-organizer (with Victor Seow), “Empire and Beyond: Manchuria in the Modern World: A Workshop on Trends and Developments in the Study of Manchurian History,” Cambridge, 6-7 May, 2011.

Co-organizer (with William Kirby and David Wang), international workshop on the Humanities, Harvard Center Shanghai, 17-18 March 2011.

Commentator, book workshop for Henrietta Harrison, “The Missionary’s Curse and Other Tales: A Catholic Village in China, 1650-2000,” Cambridge, 26 February 2011.

http://www.manchustudiesgroup/


Discussant, Annual East Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference, Harvard University, February 2011.

Co-organizer (with Eugene Wang and Nancy Berliner), international symposium, “Artful Retreat: Garden Culture of the Qing Dynasty,” Harvard University and Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem, 11-12 November 2010.

Presented talk, “The Taiping Civil War and the Chinese Empire of Suffering,” at Symposium on “Empires and Republics of Suffering in Asia: Asian Perspectives on Drew Faust's Republic of Suffering,” 5 November 2010

Participant, Joint Workshop on Problems in Chinese Studies, co-sponsored by the Australian National University Centre on China in the World and Simian Research Institute, Fudan University, Suzhou, 18-19 September 2010.

Discussant, “International Workshop on Minority Groups in the U. S. and China,” Tufts University, June 25-27, 2010.

Participated in “Changing, Challenging China” roundtable discussion. Published in Harvard Magazine March-April 2010.

Discussant at panel, “Ethnic Politics in the Northern Borderlands in Imperial China,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 26 March 2010.

Presented talk, “China's Inner Asian Frontier and National Security,” Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) Conference, 20 February 2010.

Recorded podcast, “China and the Silk Road in the Modern World,” part of Primary Source China Curriculum Project, May 2009.

Hosted visit by representative delegation of the National Qing History Project, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, December 2008.

Presenter at Primary Source Summer Institute, “Nomad and Sedentary on the Silk Road,” August 2008. (repeated October 2008)

Participant in Tibet Open Forum, Harvard University Asia Center, April 2008.


Discussant at panel, “Wutaishan and the Imperial Center,” at conference, “Wutaishan and Qing Culture,” Rubin Museum of Art, New York City, May 2007.


Chaired panel, “Space and Object: Interpreting Tangible and Abstract Transactions on Qing China’s Northwestern Frontier,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Boston, March 2007.

“Qianlong and the First Jinchuan Campaign,” gallery lecture in conjunction with the exhibition, “China Looks West,” Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, September 2006.

Discussant at panel, “Poetry and Poetics in Political and Regional Contexts,” at conference, “Traditional

Chinese Women through a Modern Lens,” Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard

University, June 2006. Chair and discussant (with Paul Cohen) at panel, “China Studies in the United States,” at conference,

“Reviewing the Past, Projecting the Future: Harvard-Yenching Institute’s Contribution to the

Advancement of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Asia,” Harvard University, June 2006.

Discussant at panel, “Korean History at Its Borders,” at Tenth Annual Korean Graduate Student Conference,

Harvard University, April 2006.


Discussant at panel, “Revolt and Coercion,” at Con-IH 2004 (Harvard Annual Graduate Student Conference),

“Empires and Imperial Control in Comparative Historical Perspective, March 2004.

Chair and discussant at panel, “View Manchu: Visual Culture and the New Qing History,” Association for

Asian Studies annual meeting, New York, March 2003.

Chair and discussant at panel, “Borderland Elites, Imperial Contexts,” Association for Asian Studies annual

meeting, Washington, DC, March 2002.

Discussant at panel, “Interaction and Ambiguity on the Northern Chinese Frontier,” American Historical

Association annual meeting, San Francisco, January 2002.

Chaired panel, “Nationhood in Borderlands: The Legacy of the Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere,”


panel at Association for Asian Studies annual meeting, Chicago, March 2001.

Chaired panel, “Cartographic Narratives in the History of North America,” American Historical Association

annual conference, Boston, January 2001.

Referee and reviewing activity Late Imperial China, European Journal of East Asian Studies, Journal of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics; Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Journal of Asian Studies, Modern China, American Historical Review, Journal of Military History, Modern Asian Studies, Comparative Studies in Society and History, European Journal of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, CHINOPERL (Chinese Performing Arts and Literature) Papers, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Chinese Historical Review, Nations and Nationalism, Routledge, Harvard East Asia Center Publications, Rowman & Littlefield, University of Hawai’i Press, Houghton-Mifflin Co., Scholastic Books, University of California Press, Princeton University Press, Harvard University Press, Columbia University Press

Referee for tenure and promotion cases in the Department of Art History, University of California, Berkeley; Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University; Department of History, New York University; Department of Anthropology, City University of New York; Department of History, George Mason University; Department of Religious Studies, Southern Methodist University; Department of History, Yale University; Department of History, Stanford University; Department of History, University of Michigan; Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz; Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington; Department of East Asian Languages, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University

ConsultingAcademic tour leader, Harvard Alumni Association Travel: tour of Mongolia, June

2013Consultation for Meketa Investment Group, Boston and San Diego, 2011-2014Consultation for Zeit Zeichen (German radio program), on 300th birthday of the

Qianlong emperor, August 2011Academic tour leader, Harvard Alumni Association TravelAdvisor on exhibition, “The Qianlong Emperor and His Gardens,” Peabody Essex

Museum, June 2009-September 2010External Reviewer, Department of Asian Studies, Oberlin College, October 2008Historical consultant, Peabody Essex Museum, April 2006.Academic tour leader, Far Horizons Archaeological and Cultural Trips (San

Anselmo, CA): tour of Silk Road, August-September 2005; repeated August-September 2007.

Consultation for BBC and New York Times on story of so-called “Manchu haplotype,” October 2005.


Special appointmentsTan Lark Sye Visiting Professor of Chinese Language and Culture, Nanyang

Technological University, Singapore (Aug-Sep 2013)Professorial Fellow, Centre for the Study of China in the World, Australia National

University, Canberra (Jan-Jun 2012)Visiting Professor, Seoul National University International Summer Institute (July-August 2008)Maitre de conférences, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (June 2001)Research Fellow, Institute for the Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of

Foreign Studies (1999-2000)Visiting Scholar, Department of History, Nihon University, Tokyo (1999-2000)

Editorial appointments Member, Editorial board, Brill Inner Asia Library (2013-present)Member, Editorial board, Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review (2010-present)Member, Editorial advisory board, Chinese Studies in History (2008- present)Member, Editorial advisory board, Inner Asia (2005-present)Member, Editorial board, Harvard Asia Center Publications (2003-2015)Member, Editorial board, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (2003-present)Member, Editorial board, International Journal of Asian Studies (2002-2009)Member, Editorial board, Saksaha: A Review of Manchu Studies (1996-2015)Member, Region VI Committee, Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Studies (1997-2003)

Academic awards and fellowships2014 Henry Luce/ACLS Collaborative Reading Workshop Grant (with

Elif Akcetin, Carla Nappi, and Yulian Wu)2012 Coordinate Research Program Fellowship, Harvard-Yenching

Institute (with Yizhuang Ding, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

Weatherhead Center Faculty Small Grant, “Reinventing the Manchus: An Imperial

People in Post-Imperial China,” (with Yizhuang Ding, Chinese Academy of

Social Sciences)2010 Walter Channing Cabot Fellow2009 Conference grant from the Weatherhead Center for

International Studies (withTerry Martin, History, Harvard)

2006-2007 O’Neill Research Grant, Davis Center1999-2000 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral

Fellowship for ForeignResearchers


Japan Ministry of Education Supplemental Research Grant for Visiting Foreign

Scholars, with Naoto Katô1997-1998 ACLS/SSRC International Postdoctoral Fellowship1997-1998 University of California Regents’ Humanities Junior Faculty

FellowshipACLS Grant for Conferences, Workshops and Planning

Meetings (co-p.i.)UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Collaborative

Project Grant, with Naoto Katô, IHC Resident Fellow

1996-1997 Chinese Fellowship for Scholarly Development, Committee on Scholarly

Communication with China (with Prof. Ding Yizhuang, Institute of History,

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Peking)UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Fellowship, with

Ding Yizhuang1995-1996 UCSB Academic Senate Faculty Research Grant

UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Fellowship1994-1995 UCSB Academic Senate Faculty Research Grant1993-1994 UCSB Academic Senate Faculty Research Grant, with Luke Roberts1991-1992 Mabelle McLeod Lewis Dissertation Fellowship

Pacific Cultural Foundation Writing Grant in Chinese Studies1989-1990 Fellowship for Advanced Study and Research, Committee on

ScholarlyCommunication with the People's Republic of China

1987-1989 Japanese Ministry of Education [Monbushô] FellowshipACLS Fellowship for Dissertation Research Abroad in Chinese

Studies1986-1987 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, University of

California, Berkeley1985-1986 Institute of East Asian Studies Fellowship, University of

California, Berkeley1984-1985 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, University of

California, Berkeley1983-1984 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Yale University1982-1983 Fellowship for General Advanced Study and Research,

Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People’s Republic of

China1981-1982 ITT International Fellowship [Fulbright] to Taiwan (Stanford

Center)

TeachingUndergraduate coursesChina: Traditions and Transformations (with Peter Bol)


History of Modern China, 1600-1911History of Modern China, 1911-presentProseminar in Modern Chinese HistoryWomen in Late Imperial ChinaChina’s Last EmperorBeyond the Great Wall: History of Relations between China and Inner AsiaHistorical and Musical Paths on the Silk Road (with Richard Wolf)China and the West

Graduate coursesTopics in Early Modern Chinese HistoryChinese Readings in HistoryResearch Seminar in Late Imperial Chinese HistoryIntroduction to Sources for Late Imperial China Introduction to Sources for Manchu StudiesHistory of Relations between China and Inner AsiaConquest Dynasties (Qing, Yuan)Women in Imperial China and Inner AsiaElementary/advanced ManchuElementary/advanced classical Mongolian

Graduate advising2015-2016 PhD advisor, Hale Eroglu (IAAS, Harvard)

PhD advisor, Sakura Christmas (History, Harvard) (with Ian Miller) – tenure-track

at Bowdoin CollegePhD advisor, Devin Fitzgerald (HEAL, Harvard)PhD advisor, Eric Schluessel (HEAL, Harvard)PhD advisor, David Porter (HEAL, Harvard)PhD advisor, Xin Wen (IAAS, Harvard)PhD advisor, Joshua Freeman (IAAS, Harvard)PhD advisor, Lei Lin (IAAS, Harvard) (with Leonard van der

Kuijp)PhD advisor, Hua Rui (HEAL, Harvard)PhD advisor, Anne-Sophie Pratte (IAAS, Harvard)PhD advisor, Sarah Primmer (EALC, Harvard)PhD dissertation committee, Ilsoo Cho (HEAL, Harvard)PhD dissertation committee, Zhang Zhan (NELC, Harvard)PhD dissertation committee, Kathryn Dooley (History, Harvard)PhD dissertation committee, Greg Afinogenov (History,

Harvard)PhD dissertation committee, Miya Qiong Xie (Comparative

Literature, Harvard)PhD examination committee, Yi Lu (History, Harvard)PhD examination committee, Hyeok Hweon Kim (HEAL,

Harvard)AM advisor, Nick Drake (RSEA, Harvard)


2014-2015 PhD advisor, Hale Eroglu (IAAS, Harvard)PhD advisor, Kwanghoon Yu (EALC, Harvard)PhD advisor, Macabe Keliher (HEAL, Harvard) (with Michael

Szonyi)PhD advisor, Sakura Christmas (History, Harvard) (with Ian

Miller)PhD advisor, Devin Fitzgerald (HEAL, Harvard)PhD advisor, Eric Schluessel (HEAL, Harvard)PhD advisor, David Porter (HEAL, Harvard)PhD advisor, Xin Wen (IAAS, Harvard)PhD advisor, Joshua Freeman (IAAS, Harvard)PhD advisor, Lei Lin (IAAS, Harvard) (with Leonard van der

Kuijp)PhD advisor, Hua Rui (HEAL, Harvard)PhD advisor, Anne-Sophie Pratte (IAAS, Harvard)PhD dissertation committee, Zhang Zhan (NELC, Harvard)PhD dissertation committee, Kathryn Dooley (History, Harvard)PhD dissertation committee, Greg Afinogenov (History,

Harvard)PhD dissertation committee, Miya Qiong Xie (Comparative

Literature, Harvard)PhD dissertation committee, Marten Soderblom Saarela

(History, Princeton)PhD examination committee, Wenjiao Cai (HEAL, Harvard)PhD examination committee, Ilsoo Cho (HEAL, Harvard)AM advisor, Nick Drake (RSEA, Harvard)

University service and miscellaneous professional contributions 2015-2016 Vice Provost for International Affairs

Director, John King Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesChair, Committee on the PhD in History and East Asian

Languages Member, Dean’s Faculty Resources CommitteeMember, Admissions Committee, History Department

2014-2015 FAS Faculty CouncilDirector, John King Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesChair, Committee on the PhD in History and East Asian

Languages Director of Graduate Studies, Committee on the PhD in Inner

Asian and Altaic Studies

Co-Chair, Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate Programs Task Force

Member, Dean’s Faculty Resources CommitteeMember, GSAS Graduate Policy CommitteeHarvard Horizons Faculty Fellow Member, China Strategy Group, University Development Office


Member, Faculty Advisory Committee on Global InstitutesMember, Steering Committee, Harvard China FundMember, Steering Committee, Asia CenterMember, Science Center Atrium and Cabot Library Faculty

CommitteeMember, Academic Program Committee, EALCMember, Admissions Committee, History Department

2013-2014 FAS Faculty CouncilDirector, John King Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesChair, Committee on the PhD in History and East Asian



Member, GSAS Graduate Policy CommitteeMember, Harvard-Yenching Institute Faculty Advisory

CommitteeMember, Steering Committee, Harvard China FundMember, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies CommitteeMember, Science Center Atrium and Cabot Library Faculty

Committee

2012-2013 (on leave fall 2012)Chair, Committee on the PhD in History and East Asian



Member, GSAS Graduate Policy CommitteeMember, Harvard Horizons Selection Committee Chair, Fung Library Implementation Working GroupMember, Executive Committee, Fairbank Center for Chinese

StudiesMember, Harvard-Yenching Institute Faculty Advisory

CommitteeMember, Steering Committee, Harvard China FundMember, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies CommitteeMember, Committee on General EducationMember, Committee on the AM in Regional Studies – East Asia