China

Rebecca Wu studies Chinese legal history, focusing on the late imperial and the Republican periods. 

Rebecca graduated from Princeton University in 2025 with an A.B. in History (magna cum laude); her thesis on petitioning practices in late-Ming China was...

Mengyuan Li 李梦媛 received her B.A. in Chinese History from Nankai University and her M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia. Her Master's thesis examines the intellectual development of the prominent seventeenth-century Chinese...

• Regions: China; Eurasia; Europe; Iberia; Japan; Low Countries
• Times: 16th to 18th centuries
• Themes: Cultural History; History of the Book; History of Religion; History of Science; Intellectual History

Daniel Said Monteiro received his Ph.D. in...

• Regions: Britain; China; England; Europe; France; Holy Roman Empire; Scotland
• Times: 14th to 17th centuries
• Themes: German Literature; History of Religion; Intellectual History; Philosophy; Political History; Reformation

Haidun Liu studies the...

Janet Gyatso works on intellectual history and literature in early modern Tibet. Her books include Being Buddhist in a Human World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (2015) and Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of...

Region: China
Time: 16th century; 17th century; 18th century; 19th century
Theme: Chinese Literature; Cultural History; History of Science; Intellectual History

Joo-hyeon Oh is a Ph.D. candidate from Harvard’s East Asian Languages and Civilizations program...

• Region: China; Eurasia; Europe
• Time: 17th century
• Theme: Cultural History; Intellectual History

Yuval Givon is a historian of the early modern period, specializing in the communication between Western Europe and China during the seventeenth century...

Yitian Li works on the intellectual and social history of early modern China. Her dissertation focuses on statecraft theories and practice from a local perspective during the Southern Song, the Yuan, and the early Ming dynasties. She is also broadly...

Region: Africa; Atlantic World; Britain; Caribbean; China; Eastern Mediterranean; England; Eurasia; Europe; France; Holy Roman Empire; Iberia; Italy; Japan; Mediterranean; Middle East; Pacific World; South Asia
Time: 14th century; 15th century; 16th...