A directory of scholars working in the field of Ming studies.
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| Name & Contact |
Affiliation | Interests & Projects |
|---|---|---|
| C. D. Alison Bailey |
University of British Columbia (Canada) Faculty |
Interests: Law, disorder, violence, filial revenge, history of emotions, literature, statecraft, mourning ritual, Ming loyalism. Projects: Emotions (especially anger); filial revenge and mourning ritual; legal texts; Qiu Jun (statecraft project with Tim Brook et al.). |
| Daniel Bryant 白潤德 website |
University of Victoria (Canada) Emeritus |
Interests: Poetry, Biography, Cheng-te period, history of texts Projects: No current Ming project. Publications include The Great Recreation: Ho Ching-ming (1483-1521) and his World (Brill, 2008, 750 pp.), 何景明叢考 (學生書局, 1997, 428 pp.), reviews, translations, research notes, etc. |
| Peter Bol 包弼德 website |
Harvard University (USA) Faculty |
Interests: history, geography, thought Projects: local cultural history 12-17th century, Ming founding, fifteenth century |
| Aurelia Campbell 金田 |
Lake Forest College (USA) Faculty |
Interests: Architecture of the Ming dynasty, Sino-Tibetan exchange, Buddhist arts, artistic practice and production, environmental and technological history Projects: My current research focuses on the architecture and material culture of four temples constructed under Yongle and Xuande outside the capital: Qutansi and Dachongjiaosi in Qinghai and Gansu, the Daoist architectural complex on Mt. Wudang in Hubei, and Yongningsi in what is now present-day Telin, Russia. It identifies these monuments as important nodes of trans-cultural and trans-regional contact between the early Ming imperial court and remote regions of the country. |
| Katherine Carlitz 柯麗德 |
University of Pittsburgh (USA) Faculty |
Interests: history, art history, gender studies, fiction, drama Projects: intersection of Ming fiction and drama with social and gender history |
| John Dardess |
University of Kansas (USA) Emeritus |
Interests: Ming history Projects: A biography of Xu Jie (1503-1583), based largely on his extensive official letters. |
| Hilde De Weerdt website |
King’s College London (UK) Faculty |
Interests: imperial political culture, urban and environmental history, communication networks, intellecual history, comparative history Projects: My next book-length study examines how information helps form a sense of place, more specifically, how information about places such as the court,the capital, borderlands, and local jurisdictions contributed to the formation of a sense of empire in imperial China. A longer-term collaborative project, “China and the Historical Sociology of Empire”, examines the significance of political literacy and political communication in the maintenance of empire in Chinese history through the digital analysis of correspondence and notebooks. More info at https://chinese-empires.cch.kcl.ac.uk/index.html |
| Jennifer Eichman 艾靜文 |
(USA) Faculty |
Interests: I am a scholar of Buddhist traditions from the 14th c-21st c. I am most interested in the relationship between network and discourse. To that end, I have projects that incorporate epistolary sources, dietary culture, self-cultivation, and philosophical texts. |
| Edward Farmer 范徳 |
University of Minnesota (USA) Emeritus |
Interests: My interests include Ming history in general; gazetteer illustrations; comparative perspectives on Ming history; global perspectives on Ming history. I am also involved in publishing projects related to the Ming history research series. An English translation of Li Guangbi’s Brief History of the Ming Dynasty (1957) is being edited. I have made an English translation of the enclosed map. Projects: I am currently working on an essay on the character and significance of ethnic diversity in the Ming empire |
| Noelle Giuffrida 焦娜薇 |
Case Western Reserve University (USA) Faculty |
Interests: Art History — Daoist paintings, printed books and scriptures from the Ming to early Qing, visual narratives of Daoist figures in the Ming, collection and display of Chinese painting in the U.S. during the 1950s-60s, Sherman Lee’s collecting and exhibitions of Chinese painting at mid-century Projects: selected publications: “Transcendence, Thunder, and Exorcism: Images of the Daoist Patriarch Zhang Daoling in Paintings and Prints” in On Telling Images of China: Essays on Narrative and Figure Painting, edited by Shane McCausland and Yin Hwang (Hong Kong University Press, 2012); “The Right Stuff: Chinese Art Treasures’ Landing in Early 1960s America” in The Reception of Chinese Art Across Cultures, edited by Michelle Y. L. Huang (Cambridge Scholars, 2012) work in progress: “Apotheosis, Ascension, and Intervention: Constructing Visual Narratives for Zhenwu, the Perfected Warrior”; “Imagining Immortal Patriarchs: Portraits of Xu Xun and Lu Dongbin in Ming and Qing China”; Separating Sheep from Goats: Collecting and Displaying Chinese Painting in 1950s-60s America |
| Kenneth Hammond 韓慕肯 |
New Mexico State University (USA) Faculty |
Interests: Intellectual and political culture. Early capitalism in China. Confucian thought and society. Gardens. Biography. Projects: Work on Wang Shizhen 王世貞 and 16th century political and literary culture. Intersections and influences between commercialization and intellectual culture. Wang Shizhen as political actor and the nature of political association in the middle Ming. |
| Robert E Hegel 何谷理 |
Washington University St Louis (USA) Faculty |
Interests: Narrative fiction in classical and vernacular languages; popular and elite theater; book culture, printing, and circulation; illustrated texts. Representations of moral choices and indications of right and wrong in political, ethical/moral, and legal terms. Projects: The early development of the novel during the middle and late Ming; the refinement of conventions and the range of experimentation with the form. |
| Martin Heijdra 何義壯 |
Princeton University (USA) Librarian |
Interests: 1. History of the book, esp. typography 2. Socio-economic history |
| Natasha Heller 賀耐嫻 |
UCLA (USA) Faculty |
Interests: religion, Buddhism, intellectual and cultural history |
| Kayi Ho 何嘉誼 |
UCLA (USA) Grad Student |
Interests: Court painting, Buddhist and Daoist painting, illustrated book, and gender studies Projects: Court production of the Wanli court |
| Ming-shui Hung 洪銘水 |
Brooklyn College-CUNY (USA), Retiree; Tunghai University, Taiwan | Interests: Late Ming literary & Intellectual history; Chinese writers of the May Fourth Era; Taiwanese Classical poetry in Ming-Qing & Japanese colonial periods; Contemporary Taiwan Aboriginal writers Projects: Critics of Neo-Confucianism in Late Ming Book: The Romantic Vision of Yuan Hung-tao, Late Ming Poet and Critic, Taipei: Bookman Books LTD, 1997 Article:「明末文化烈士李卓吾的生死觀」，東海學報 37卷（1998），43-62 |
| Li-ling Hsiao 蕭麗玲 |
Taiwan Faculty |
Interests: Book illustration, Drama, Painting, Poetry, Print culture Projects: Published book: The Eternal Present of the Past: Performance, Illustration, and Reading in the Wanli Period (1573-1619) [Leiden: Brill, 2007] Current: Drama Illustration as Drama Criticism: Political Loyalty vs. Filial Piety in The Late Ming Illustrated Editions of Pipa ji Future Projects: Beyond Words: Pictorial Metaphor in the Ten Bamboo Studio Stationery Catalogue |
| Richard John Lynn 林理彰 |
University of Toronto (Canada) Faculty |
Interests: Chinese literary thought; poetry; literati culture; intellectual history; arts |
| Stephen McDowall 馬蒂文 |
University of Edinburgh (UK) Faculty |
Interests: Ming history and literature; landscape; travel writing; material and visual culture. My first book, Qian Qianyi’s Reflections on Yellow Mountain: Traces of a Late-Ming Hatchet and Chisel, was published in 2009 (Hong Kong University Press). Projects: Nanjing during the Ming-Qing transition; the afterlife of the Ming dynasty. |
| Carla Nappi 那葭 website |
University of British Columbia (Canada) Faculty |
Interests: History of science, medicine, and technology; China; Central Asia; Translation; Manchu language Projects: My research explores the ways translation shaped how the natural world and human bodies, and the relationships between them, were understood, manipulated, and transformed in the context of Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) governance and imperial expansion. Transregional flows and transformations of objects, people, and texts are central to ongoing projects that treat contexts of intellectual and material exchange across Central and Eastern Eurasia. |
| Susan Naquin 韓書瑞 |
Princeton University (USA) Faculty |
Projects: The material culture of temples in North China, Ming and Qing; the cult of Bixia Yuanjun. |
| Ihor Pidhainy 裴海寧 |
Marietta College (USA) Faculty |
Interests: intellectual history; Scholars, exile, biography, women’s lives Projects: Yang Shen, Huang E, families in Ming, Jiajing reign; The Mingshi |
| Bruce Rusk 阮思德 website |
University of British Columbia (Canada) Faculty |
Interests: Cultural history, book history, material culture, especially problems of forgery and authenticity, the status of canonical texts, the circulation and classification of knowledge. Projects: I am currently working on a monograph about how the category of the authentic was defined and debated from the mid-Ming to early Qing, in both scholarly and popular domains. |
| Sarah Schneewind 施珊珊 website |
University of California, San Diego (USA) Faculty |
Interests: Political and religious thought and practice, and social and institutional history. Intellectual and material connections with Europe and early America. |
| Tim Sedo 司徒鼎 |
Concordia University (Canada) Faculty |
Interests: Environmental History, Statecraft, Natural Disasters, Locust Infestations, Environmental Governance and Disaster Management, Historical Entomology, North China Plain, Local History, Water Control, Agrarian History, Early Modern World Projects: I am currently developing two distinct research topics concerning the history of environmental statecraft in Late Imperial China. The first is a full length monograph that examines the history of locusts, locust infestations, and preventative locust control techniques in the Ming and Qing periods and explores the global circulation of these ideas through early modern Jesuit networks. The second examines the historical meanings associated with China’s first fully historical hydro-bureaucrat, Ximen Bao and the various transmutations of his local cult over the late imperial period. |
| Bin Shen 申斌 |
Sun Yat-sen University (China) Graduate Student |
Interests: fiscal history Projects: the transformation of fiscal system between Ming and Qing |
| Roy Sturgeon 罗义 |
Tulane University (USA) Librarian |
Interests: Legal history (esp. free/political speech) Projects: Chinese legal history bibliography/book (all areas & dynasties/eras) Article on free speech in China (past & present) |
| Kenneth Swope 石 康 |
University of Southern Mississippi (USA) Faculty |
Interests: Late Imperial Chinese military, social, political, and diplomatic history. Also international relations in the Ming era and comparative military history. Projects: I have just completed a manuscript on the military collapse of the Ming that will be published in 2013 by Routledge. My next project will be a study of the Ming efforts to annex Annam. After that I plan on writing a collective biography of the late Ming peasant rebel leader Zhang Xianzhong and his lieutenants. My previous monograph focused on Ming efforts against the Japanese in Korea. |
| Tian Yuan Tan 陳靝沅 website |
SOAS, University of London (UK) Faculty |
Interests: drama, sanqu, fiction, literary history, local communities and cultures Projects: Mid-Ming; court theater and entertainment; Tang Xianzu |
| Wu Yinghui 吴颖慧 |
Washington University in St. Louis (USA) Graduate Student |
Interests: Ming and Qing fiction, Chuanqi plays and drama criticism, Kunqu opera, theater and performance, print culture, literati culture during the Ming-Qing transition Projects: I’m working on my dissertation, in which I study the critical treatments of Pipa ji 琵琶記 and Xixiang ji 西廂記 and the physical presentations of the two plays in “paired editions” during late Ming-early Qing period. I explore different types of reading audiences’ responses to the plays as literary fashions and political pressures changed through time, to examine the many layers of the meanings of “canon” and their transformation in late imperial China. |
