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Faculty Fellow, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies
Associate Professor

• Affiliation(s)

  • Center for Chinese Studies
  • Center for Japanese Studies
  • Department of History

• Fields of Study

  • 8th-14th centuries China, (Tang, Song, and Yuan dynasties), text and writing, cities and urban space, representations of imperioal power, ritual, archaelogy

• About

  Christian de Pee is an associate professor of history. He earned his doctorate at Columbia University in New York. His published work contributes to a cultural history of Middle-Period China that accommodates the particularities of period sources. His first book, The Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China: Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth through Fourteenth Centuries, recovers the practice of Middle-Period weddings. His current work traces the emergence of the cityscape into writing during the 11th century.

  Selected Publications:

  “Purchase on Power: Imperial Space and Commercial Space in Song-Dynasty Kaifeng, 960-1127.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 52:4-5 (2009), 760-94

  “Words of Seduction, Lines of Resistance: Writing and Gender in Zheng Xi’s Dream of Spring(1318).” Nan Nü: Men, Women, and Gender in Early and Imperial China 9 (2007), 247-83

  "The Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China: Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth through Fourteenth Centuries" (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007)

• Education

  • PhD, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, 1997
  • MA, Chinese Languages and Cultures, Leiden University, 1991