个人简介

EducationPh.D., Sept. 1998-August 2004, Northeastern University, Boston, MAPh.D., Program, 1996 -1998 (incomplete), Renmin University of China, BeijingM.A., Chinese History, 1994 -1996, Renmin University of China, BeijingB.A., Chinese History, 1990 -1994, Renmin University of China, BeijingProfessional Experience08/2017 – Present, Associate Professor, University of Macau07/2010 – 07/2017, Associate Professor (Tenured), National Univ. of Singapore08/2011– 06/2012, Visiting Scholar, The Yenching Institute, Harvard University12/2005 – 06/2010, Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore07/2005 – 11/2005, Lecturer, Renmin University of China, Beijing2004 – 2005, Visiting Assistant Professor, The College of William & MaryCourses Regularly TaughtTeaching FieldsGlobal/World HistoryChinese HistorySoutheast Asian History

研究领域

Chinese HistoryWorld History (Sino-Southeast Asian-Indian triangular Interactions)History of Science, Technology and MedicineCurrent ProjectsThe Gu （蛊）: Disease, Witchcraft and Sorcery, Love Magic, and Chinese Empire Building (book manuscript)Red Guards in Burma (1960s-1980s): an Oral History

近期论文

MONOGRAPHCowrie Shells and Cowrie Money: A Global History. Routledge, December 2018.饶宗颐新加坡大学执教考 (Jao Tsung-I in Singapore (1968-1973): Life, Research, and Chinese Scholar Diaspora), Hong Kong: Jao Tsung-I Petite Ecole, Hong Kong University, summer 2018.Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE – 20th Century CE). N Y.: Columbia University Press, 2009 (Hardcopy)._______. 2008 (Gutenberg-eBook: http://www.gutenberg-e.org/yang/index.html). ENGLISH JOURNAL ARTICLES“Introduction to the Special Issue on the 50th Anniversary of the Launch of the ‘Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution’,” (Co-authored with Wang Yuan) Modern China Studies 23.2 (Summer 2016): 1-5 (English); 7-9 (Chinese).“Under and Beyond the Pen of Eileen Chang: Shanghai, Nanyang, Huaqiao, and Greater China.” Frontiers of History in China, 2016, 11(3): 458-484.“Cadres, Grain, and Sexual Abuse in Wuwei County, Mao’s China (Mid-1950s – Early 1960s).” Co-authored with Shuji Cao) Journal of Women’s History No.28, issue, 2 (Summer 2016): 28-57.“Grain, Local Politics and the Making of Mao’s Famine in Wuwei, 1958–1961.” (Co-authored with Shuji Cao) Modern Asian Studies, 49: 1675-1703. “Mt. Tambora, Climatic Changes, and China’s Decline in the Nineteenth Century.” (Co-authored with Shuji Cao & Yushang Li), Journal of World History Vol. 23, no. 3 (Sept. 2012): 587–607.“The Bengal Connections in Yunnan.” China Report, Vol. 48, No. 1&2 (Feb. & May 2012, Special Issue: Studies on India-China Interactions Dedicated to Professor Ji Xianlin 1911-2009): 125-146.Featured Review of Coming to Terms with the Nation, Ethnic Classification in Modern China. By Thomas S. Mullaney, with a foreword by Benedict Anderson. Berkeley, Los Angles and London: University of California Press, 2011, American Historian Review Vol. 116, no. 4 (October 2011): 1068-1071. “The Rise and Fall of Cowry Shells: The Asian Story.” Journal of World History, Vol. 22, no. 1(Mar. 2011): 1-26.“The Zhang on Southern Chinese Frontiers: Disease-Construction, Environmental Changes, and Imperial Colonization.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 84, No. 2 (Summer 2010): 163-192.“‘We Want to Go Home!’ – The Great Petition in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, 1978-1979.” The China Quarterly, vol. 198 (June 2009), pp. 401-421; Chinese translation with revisions, titled “‘Ningke shatou, yeyao Huijia’ – 1978-1979 Xishuangbanna Zhiqing daqingyuan shuping,” Modern China Studies, Vol. 20. No. 1 (Jan. 2013): 99 -141.“Central State, Local Governments, Ethnic Groups, and the Minzu Identification in Yunnan, 1950s-1980s.” Modern Asian Studies, Volume 43, part 3 (May 2009): 735-770.“Horses, Silver, Cowries: Yunnan in a Global Perspective.” Journal of World History, Vol. 15, no. 3 (September 2004): 281-322.EDITED ISSUE/VOLUMEYang Bin & Wang Yuan, eds., “Special Issue on the 50th Anniversary of the Launch of the ‘Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution’.” Modern China Studies 23.2 (Summer 2016), pp. 234.BOOK CHAPTERS“Ethnicity.” In The Making of the Human Sciences in Late Imperial and Modern China, ed. Howard Chiang, Brill (forthcoming in 2019).“Cowry Shells in Eastern Eurasia.” in The Silk Road: Long-Distance Trade, Culture, and Society: Interwoven History, the inaugural issue of Association for Central Asian Civilizations & Silk Road Studies, Cambridge, MA, USA: Cambridge Institutes Press, 2014, pp.1-32.“The Bay of Bengal Connections to Yunnan.”In Pelagic Passageways: The Northern Bay of Bengal before Colonialism,ed. Rila Mukherjee, Primus Books, New Delhi, 2011, pp. 317-342.“Frontier, Chinese Incorporation, and Global Perspective.” in World History: Global and Local Interactions, ed. Patrick Manning, Markus Wiener Publishers, 2006, pp. 31-46.BOOK REVIEWSThe Eurasian Core and its Edges: Dialogues with Wang Gungwu on the Historyof the World. By Ooi Kee Beng. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2015. pp. 254. Map, Illustrations, Index. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 48.1 (Feb. 2017): 146-149.Beyond Borders: Stories of Yunnanese Chinese Migrants of Burma. By Wen-Chin CHANG, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2014, pp. 278. Maps, Figures, Glossary. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Vol. 47, no. 2 (June 2016): 304-305.Prosperity’s Predicament: Identity, Reform, and Resistance in Rural Wartime China. By Isabel Brown Crook and Christina Kelley Gilmartin with Yu Xiji, compiled and edited by Gail Hershatter and Emily Honig. Rowman & Littlefield, 2013, 325 pages (Hardcopy). http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=41325.Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine: Disease and the Geographical Imagination in Late Imperial China. By Marta E. Hanson, London and New York: Routledgc, 08/ 2011. 288 pages. Asian Ethnology 72.1 (Spring 2013): 143-44.Birds and Beasts in Chinese Texts and Trade: Lectures Related to South China and the Overseas World. By Roderich Ptak, Harrassowitz Verlag & Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz GmbH & Co. KG, Wiesbaden (Maritime Asia Volume; 22), 2011, Plates 10, pp. x, 140. East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine no. 37 (2013-2014): 107-110.Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road. By Johan Elverskog. Philadelphia & Oxford: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010, pp. 352. Journal of World History, Volume 22, no. 4 (December 2011): 825-828.The Sichuan Frontier and Tibet: Imperial Strategy in the Early Qing. By Dai Yingcong. Seattle & London: University of Washington Press, 2009, pp. 352. Chinese Historical Review (Autumn 2010): 240-243.Southeast Asia in World History. By Craig A. Lockard. Oxford University Press, 2009. Asia Pacific World, Volume 1, no. 2: 131-133.Amid the Clouds and Mist: China’s Colonization of Guizhou, 1200-1700. By John Herman. Harvard University Press, 2007. The Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Volume 10, iss. 2 (Fall 2009): N.A.CHINESE PAPERS & ESSAYS“出走前的汪精卫和服刑中陈璧君 (Wang Jingwei before His Flee and Chen Bijun in Prison).”Modern China Studies, Vol. 25, Issue 2 (2018): 71-84.“Early Egypt from Seals of Scarabs（金龟子印中的古埃及）.” Second Prize, the 2016 International Forum on non-Chinese Seals and Sealings, The Xiling Sealing Society (西泠印社2016年“篆物铭形——图形与非汉字系统印章国际学术研讨会”二等奖)，《篆物铭形—图形与非汉字系统印章国际学术研讨会论文集》，西泠印社编，杭州：西泠印社出版社， 2017年， 76-94。“Law Codes in Chang Mai, Cowrie Shells, and Asian Cultural Interactions （清迈法典、海贝和亚洲的文明交流）” ，纪 贇译， 《中印关系的视野和前景》， 沈丹森、孙英刚 编，上海：复旦大学出版社，2016， 167-181。“Men or Rats? Recent Debates on the Collapse of the Easter Island, I &II (人鼠之争—复活节岛毁灭的新探索 （上、下）” ，《社会学家茶座 Forum of Sociology》 2012 年第1期, 74-80 ；第2期， 115-120。