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Yulian Wu is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Michigan State University. His research focuses on Late Imperial China, particularly examining the relationships between ethnic policies, material culture, and gender relations during the Qing dynasty. Wu's work highlights how the Manchu court and minority rulers implemented ethnic policies that influenced the material world in the lives of men and women. His book titled 'Luxurious Networks: Salt Merchants, Status, Statecraft in Eighteenth-Century China' provides an in-depth analysis of the transformation in the social and political status of Huizhou salt merchants in relation to the Manchu court's ethnic policies. Wu's ongoing research includes a book project tentatively titled 'Crafting Jade: Construction of Objects in Eighteenth-Century China,' which explores the production and consumption of nephrite jade and its symbolic meanings within Confucian ideology.
Department of Psychology