East and Central Asia

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Carol Benedict

Research Interests:

China
Chinese medicine

Selected Publications:

Carol Benedict. Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1996.

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Christine Kim

Research Interests:

Modern Korea
Empire studies
East Asian history

Manuscript in Progress:

"The King Is Dead: The Monarchy and National Identity in Modern Korea"

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James Millward

Research Interests:

Late Imperial China
Central and Inner Asia
Xinjiang

Mongolia
Tibet
Frontiers
Ethnicity

Selected Publications:

James Millward. Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang. New York: Columbia University Press; London: C. Hurst, Co., 2006.


New Qing Imperial History: The Making of Inner Asian Empire at Qing Chengde. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. (Chief editor; with assistance from Ruth Dunnell, Mark Elliott and Philippe Forêt)

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Jordan Sand

Research Interests:

Modern Japan
Social reform

Domesticity

Selected Publications:

Jordan Sand. House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004.

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Howard R. Spendelow

Research Interests:

China
East Asia

Current Project:

"Russia's South Manchurian Adventure: The Liaodong Leasehold and China's Resistance to Imperialism, 1889-1905"

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Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

Research Interests:

U.S. Diplomatic
U.S.-East Asian Relations

Selected Publications:

Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, ed. Dangerous Strait: The U.S.-Taiwan-China Crisis. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.


Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, ed. China Confidential: American Diplomats and Sino-American Relations, 1945-1996. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.

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John W. Witek, S.J.

Research Interests:

East Asia
China
Japan

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