Biography
As a historian of Late Imperial China (1368-1911), my research examines the relationship between ethnic policies, material culture, and gender relations in the High Qing period (1680-1820). My work asks how the Manchu court, the minority rulers of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), implemented ethnic policies by constructing a material world and how men and women’s lives were influenced and transformed by the changing material culture. My first book, titled Luxurious Networks: Salt Merchants, Stat
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