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Dean’s Faculty Fellow
It’s my great honor to be named one of seven inaugural Dean’s Faculty Fellows in the College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University for 2019-2021. The fellowship will provide funding and possible leave time that is instrumental for my research for the second book project. I thank my colleagues in the Asian Studies Program, especially Gerald Figal, for the unwavering support!
2017 SEC/AAS article prize
This is belated news: My paper “The Inconvenient Imperial Visit: Writing Clothing and Ethnicity in 1684 Qufu” (Late Imperial China) won a 2017 SEC/AAS article prize.
VU Grant for Digital Teaching and Research
I’m glad to be recipient of a MacroGrant from The Vanderbilt Institute of Digital Learning (VIDL) to support my teaching/research project “Transcultural Learning through Virtual and Performance Spaces.” Through the project, my students and I will explore the circulation of a classical Chinese drama The Orphan of Zhao in different languages; we’ll also stage a performance of the drama at Vanderbilt U.
My costuming book is under contract
My book manuscript Exile to the Stage: Costuming and Personhood in Early Qing Drama has been contracted with Columbia University Press and is scheduled to be published in 2020.
Imagining my future book…
CCK Research Grant for Dead Body Project
I am honored to receive a Research Grant from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation to support my book project Bodies That Still Matter: Forensics and Literature in Late Imperial China 屍體之重：法醫檢驗與明清文學 from 2018 to 2020.
The grant will allow me to make summer trips and conduct research in Asia and America. I look forward to working with literary and legal experts and exploring the intersections between crime literature and medical/legal practices in premodern China.
Class lecture at the University of Chicago
I will give a lecture titled “Authentic Selfies: Posing, Portraiture, and Self-representation in Late Imperial China” on April 24 for the class “The Real and the Fake in Early Modern China” at the University of Chicago. Thank Ariel Fox for the invitation!
