Department of History
Western Kentucky University
BOOKS
Pirates in the Age of Sail. New York: W.W. Norton, March 2007.
Like Froth Floating on the Sea: The World of Pirates and Seafarers in Late Imperial South China. Berkeley: University of California, Institute of East Asian Studies, China Research Monograph 56, 2003.
Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs: Qing Crisis Management and the Boundaries of State Power in Late Imperial China. Co-edited with Jane Kate Leonard. Ithaca: Cornell University, East Asian Studies Monograph 114, 2003.
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
"Sea Bandits in the Canton Delta, 1780-1839," International Journal of Maritime History (December 2005)
"State, Community, and Pirate Suppression in Guangdong Province, 1809-1810," Late Imperial China (summer 2006).
"Demons, Gangsters, and Secret Societies in Early Modern China," East Asian History (June 2004).
"Subcounty Officials, the State, and Local Communities in Guangdong Province, 1644-1860," in Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs (2003).
"The Golden Age of Chinese Piracy, 1520-1810," Dongnan xueshu. (Fuzhou, China) 2002 (in Chinese).
"Criminals or victims? An analysis of the composition and social backgrounds of Guangdong pirates from 1795 to 1810," in Essays in Chinese Maritime History, vol. 7. Taipei: Academia Sinica, 1999 (in Chinese).
"Women, Family, and Ch'ing Law: The Potential of Recent Research," Research in the History of Modern Chinese Women (Academia Sinica), Summer 1997.
"Scourges on the People: Perceptions of Robbery, Snatching, and Theft in the Mid-Qing Period," Late Imperial China (1995).
"Brotherhoods, Secret Societies, and the Law in Qing-Dynasty China." In David Ownby and Mary Somers Heidhues, eds., Secret Societies Reconsidered: Perspectives on the Social History of Modern South China and Southeast Asia. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1993.
"Archival Research in Qing Legal History," Late Imperial China. Co-authored with Nancy Park. (1993).
"Peasants, Heroes, and Brigands: The Problems of Social Banditry in Early 19th-Century South China," Modern China (April 1989).
Enjoyable Fieldwork in the Mountains of Huaping County, Yunnan
AWARDS AND GRANTS
Fulbright Senior Scholar Award for research on violence and gender relations on the Taiwan frontier in the Qing dynasty, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2001-2002.
American Council of Learned Societies grant for an international workshop on "Qing Crisis Management and the Bonds of Civil Community, 1600-1914," co-organized with Professor Jane Leonard (University of Akron), Cumberland Falls State Park, Kentucky, October 8-11, 1998.
Fulbright Senior Scholar Award for research on crime and social disorder in South China in the 18th and 19th centuries, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 1995-1996.
Western Kentucky University Faculty Research Fellowships for the study of crime and law enforcement in early modern China, conducted in the Qing dynasty archives in Beijing and Taipei, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2005.
Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship for research on Chinese social and legal history conducted in the People's Republic of China, 1990.
National Program of the Committee on Scholarly Communication with China, Research Fellowship (administered by the National Academy of Sciences) for research in China on "Bandits, Secret Societies, and Qing Law," 1990.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel to Collections Grant for research in Taiwan on Chinese legal history in 1989.
Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship
for research on "Bandits, Brotherhoods, and Ch'ing Law in Kwangtung,
1790-1840," in Taiwan and China,
1984-1985.
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