Dr. Huiying Chen

Biography

Huiying Chen is an Assistant Professor in the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University, specializing in Chinese History and Early Modern History. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2021, focusing on the history of China from the 1600s, with a methodological orientation towards history cartography, book history, and printing, as well as the early modern world. Before joining Purdue, she taught at the University of Maryland, College Park, and served as a Visiting Fellow in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. Furthermore, she was a Predoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Her dissertation, supported by a Mellon Fellowship, focused on original sources and earned her the Graduate Student Paper Prize from the China Inner Asia Council Association for Asian Studies. She is currently completing a book manuscript that explores the everyday experiences of travel in 17th, 18th, and 19th-century China. Her research interests include the circulation of science and technologies that enabled increased flows of people, goods, and ideas throughout history. Recent Publication: Chen, Huiying. 2024. “The Pragmatic Way: Managing Streets Qing Beijing.” Journal Urban History.

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