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Associate Professor

• Affiliation(s)

  • Center for Chinese Studies
    Center for Japanese Studies

• Fields of Study

  • Late imperial and modern China
  • legal, political and institutional history of China
  • Sino-Japanese relations
  • the treaty ports of East Asia

• About

  Selected Publications:
  
  Grounds of Judgment: Extraterritoriality and Imperial Power in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011)
  
  "The Legacies of Ming Taizu in Japan." In Long Live the Emperor: The Uses of the Ming Founder across Six Centuries of East Asian History, edited by Sarah Schneewind, 329-44. (Minneapolis: Society for Ming Studies, 2008)
  
  "Excavating Extraterritoriality: The 'Judicial Sub-Prefect' as a Prototype for the Mixed Court in Shanghai." Late Imperial China 24, no. 2 (2003): 156-82.

• Education

  • PhD, Harvard University, 2006

• Awards

  • Yong K. Kim '95 Memorial Prize, 2006

• Research Areas of Interest

  • Late imperial and modern China; legal, political and institutional history of China; Sino-Japanese relations; the treaty ports of East Asia

• Selected Publications:

• Books

  • (2011) Grounds of Judgment: Extraterritoriality and Imperial Power in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan