Recent Scholarly Writing

“The Qing Response to the Miao Kings of China’s 1795-7 Miao Revolt.” 

Hmong Studies Journal 17 (Forthcoming Spring 2017).

Review of Wang Wensheng, White Lotus Rebels and South China

Pirates: Crisis and Reform in the Qing Empire (2014). The Historian

Journal 78.2 (Summer 2016). 370-1.

“Perspectives in American Research on China’s Qing Frontiers.” Fu Jen

Historical Journal 33 (March 2015): 1-44.  

Rethinking the Decline of China’s Qing Dynasty: Imperial Activism and

Borderland Management at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century. New

York and London: Routledge Press, Asian States and Empires Book

Series, 2015.

“Fortified Walls and Social Ordering in China’s Late Eighteenth-Century

Revolts.”  In Chinese and Indian Warfare – From the Classical Age to

1870.  Peter Lorge and Kaushik Roy, eds. New York and London:

Routledge Press, 2014.

“China in European Dress: The Qing Legation, Halliday Macartney, and

Representation of China in the British Press, 1877-1896.” Fu Jen Journal

of Historical Studies 31 (Sept.2013): 251-308.

“Geomancy and Walled Fortifications in Late Eighteenth-Century

China.” Journal of Military History 76.2 (April 2012): 373-393. A&HCI
 

“Qing Highland Precedent, Yan Ruyi, and the Defense of the Guangdong

Coast, 1804-1805.”  Asia Major 23.2 (2010):1-32.
 

“Southern Shaanxi Border Officials in Early Nineteenth Century

China.”  T’oung Pao: Journal of Oriental Studies95.1-3 (2009):

120-166.  A&HCI

“Cooperation at Empire’s Edge: British Observers and Kashgar’s Early

Twentieth-Century Middle Ground.”  Journal of Ching Yun

University 30.1 (Jan. 2010): 183-207. 
 

“Qing Reconstruction in the Southern Shaanxi Highlands: State

Perceptions and Plans, 1799-1820.”  Late Imperial China 30.1 (June

2009): 85-118.  A&HCI
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Dynastic Decline, Heshen, and the Ideology of the Xianyu

Reforms.”  Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies 38.2 (June

2008): 321-255.  Taiwan Humanities Citation Index
 

“Causes of Jin Yong’s Success in Reform Era China.”  The Journal of

Ching Yun University 28.1 (March 2008): 157-172.
 

“New Order on China’s Hunan Miao Frontier, 1796-1812.” Journal of

Colonialism and Colonial History 9.1 (Spring 2008).  1-26. 

Lectures, Symposia, Conference Participation

“Directions in North American Research on Qing Frontiers.” Workshop

on New Trends in Qing Research. National Zhongzheng University

History Department, Taiwan. 20 November 2015.

“Content Based Language Teaching and Sheltered Content Instruction:

Using English in the FJU History Department.”  Fu Jen Catholic

University History Department Conference on Pedagogy and Academic

Research. Xinzhuang, New Taipei City, Taiwan. 7 January 2015.

“Perspectives in North American Research on Qing Frontiers.” The 10th

International Symposium on the History of Cross-Cultural Exchange:

Fu Jen University.  Xinzhuang, New Taibei, Taiwan.  15 November

2014.

Discussant for Chen You-hsin, “The Fifth Dalai Lama’s Trip to the Qing

Court.”  The International Symposium on Culture-Exchanges & 50th

Anniversary of the Fu Jen Catholic University History Department:

Inheritance and Accommodation.  Fu Jen University.  Xinzhuang, New

Taipei, Taiwan.  10 November 2013.

“American Political Cartoons as a Source for Historical Study.”  Fu Jen

University History Department Third Annual World History Workshop:

Visual and Historical Sources.  Xinzhuang, New Taibei, Taiwan.  16

March 2013.

Discussant for Tatiana Pang, “Manchu Studies in Russia in the 18-19th

Centuries.”  The Seventh Fu Jen University International Sinological

Symposium: The Contribution of Russian Sinology to the Knowledge of

China.  Xinzhuang, New Taibei, Taiwan.  23 November 2012.

“China in European Dress: Halliday Macartney, the Qing Legation, and

Relations with the British Press, 1877-1896.”  The 8th International

Symposium on the History of Cross-Cultural Exchange: Life, Work, and

Language.  Fu Jen University.  Xinzhuang, New Taibei, Taiwan.  17

November 2012.

“Fortified Walls and Social Ordering in China’s Early Jiaqing Revolts.”  Invited Talk.  Academia Sinica, Institute of Modern History.  Nangang, Taiwan.  26 November 2010.

“Hunanese and the Shaping of Modern Xinjiang.”  Continuity and Change: Central Asia in the Post Soviet Era.  Ching Yun University Center for Eur-Asian Studies.  Zhongli, Taiwan.  15 November 2010.

“Fengshui Humor in Late Imperial China.”  Academic Conference on Culture and Space Mangement.  Ching Yun University Center for Eur-Asian Studies.  Zhongli, Taiwan.  1 May 2010.

Discussant for Liao Wenxiang, He Yuan, and Sun Pixiang. Conference on Central Asia’s Choice for Foreign Relations: Autonomy or Dependence? Ching Yun University Center for Eur-Asian Studies.  Zhongli, Taiwan.  7 January 2010.

“Cooperation at Empire’s Edge: British Observers and Kashgar’s Early Twentieth-Century Middle Ground.”  Ninth International Taiwan and Central Asian Forum.  Ching Yun University Center for Eur-Asian Studies.  Zhongli, Taiwan.  26 November 2009.  

“Geomancy and Defensive Fortification in Late Eighteenth Century China.”  The Thirteenth Annual Workshop on Ottoman Material Culture: War and Devastation in the Ottoman and Qing Empires.  Istanbul, Turkey.  11-13 June 2009.

“Popular American Perceptions of Central Asia.”  Conference on the Impact of the World Financial Crisis on Central Asia’s Economic and Political Situation.  Ching Yun University Center for Eur-Asian Studies.  Zhongli, Taiwan.  7 May 2009.  

“Fengshui as a Weapon.”  Fifth Chinese and Western Feng-Shui Comparative Forum.  Ching Yun University Center for Eur-Asian Studies.  Zhongli, Taiwan.  9 April 2009.   

“The Historical Transformation of Kazakh Clans.”  Ching Yun University, Center for Eur-Asian Studies, 2008-2009 Weekly Lecture Series.  27 November 2008.  

“Afāqī Khwāja Resistance in Chinese Central Asia, 1759-1866.”  Eighth International Taiwan and Central Asian Forum.  Ching Yun University Center for Eur-Asian Studies.  Zhongli, Taiwan.  23 October 2008. 

“Fengshui and Defensive Fortification in Qing China.”  Fourth Chinese and Western Feng-Shui Comparative Forum.  Ching Yun University Center for Eur-Asian Studies.  Zhongli, Taiwan.  3 April 2008.  

Discussant for Derhuey Lee, “Xuanzang on the Silk Road.”  Eighth International Taiwan and Central Asian Forum.  Ching Yun University Center for Eur-Asian Studies.  Zhongli, Taiwan.  23 October 2008.