New York University
Department of History
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Joanna Waley-Cohen

Professor of History
Yale University, Ph.D. 1987

Email:  jw5@nyu.edu

Areas of Research/Interest: Early modern Chinese history; China and the West; Chinese imperial culture.

Teaching and Research Interests

Select Publications:

The Sextants of Beijing: Global Currents in Chinese History. New York and London: W.W. Norton, 1999 (Paperback, 2000, French translation 2002)

Exile in Mid-Qing China: Banishment to Xinjiang, 1758-1820 (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1991)

The Culture of War in China; Empire and Military in the Eighteenth Century (London: IB Tauris, forthcoming, 2006)

Selected Articles

"The New Qing History" Radical History Review, Winter 2003

"Military Ritual and the Qing Empire," in N. di Cosmo, ed., Warfare in Inner Asian History. Leiden: E.J.Brill, 2002, 405-444

"War and Empire-Building in Eighteenth-Century China." International History Review (special issue on Manchu imperialism) XX.3 (June, 1998): 336-352

"A Brief History of Hong Kong." In Picturing Hong Kong, 1842-1910. New York: Asia Society, 1997, 15-26

"Commemorating War in Eighteenth-Century China." Modern Asian Studies 30.4

"China and Western Technology in the Late Eighteenth Century." American Historical Review 98.5 (December 1993): 1525-1544

"Chinese Taste" in "Food: A History of Taste" edited by Paul Freedman (London: Thames and Hudson", forthcoming, 2006)

 

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