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I am a historian who uses Chinese-language materials to tell the story of ordinary people's lives on both broad and comparative scales as well as in the nitty-gritty details. Currently, I am working on SSHRC-funded projects related to suicide in late imperial and modern China and the global responses to COVID-19 within the Sinosphere. Additionally, I am collaborating with Letian Zhang from Fudan University on a two-volume book about rural life during the early Mao years. My published articles explore themes of gender, sexuality, deviancy, and everyday life in imperial and 20th-century China. At the University of Toronto St. George, I teach undergraduate and graduate courses covering Chinese history from prehistory to the 21st century, with specific offerings in sexuality and gender. I also run an informal Chinese History Graduate Group and participate in the department's Faculty & Postdoc Writing Workshop. I welcome anyone interested in graduate study, research assistantships, independent research, or joining the graduate group writing workshop to contact me directly.
Department of Sociology