I am a doctoral student in the Program in History of Science, Department of History at Princeton University. My research focuses on the history of systems of thought, their modalities of cross-cultural interaction, and the relevant epistemological problems. Presently, my main analytic prism for exploring these issues is the history of science and medicine in modern China, with a topical emphasis on gender, sexuality, and the body. I have a number of forthcoming publications and upcoming scholarly presentations. I have also won several awards and academic honors to date. My deep interest in theory and history prompted me to form the History & Theory Reading Group, which is based in the New York Metropolitan area, and to found its official online journal, Critical Studies in History. Below is an overview of my academic profile.
Course Preceptor, Department of History, Princeton University, Spring 2009 Course Title: "Gender and Sexuality in Modern America" (with Margot Canaday)
Visiting Student, Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2010 Research Topic: "Castration and Sex Change in China"
Andrew Mellon Foundation Research Fellow, Needham Research Institute, 2010 Research Topic: "Western Reproductive Anatomy in Late Qing & Republican China"
Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, 2008-09 Research Topic: "Sex Change, Medical Science, and the Popular Press in Taiwan"
Ph.D. Princeton University, in History, expected 2011 M.A. Princeton University, in History, 2008 M.A. Columbia University, in Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences, 2006 B.S. University of Southern California, magna cum laude in Biochemistry, 2005 B.A. University of Southern California, magna cum laude in Psychology, 2005
"China Trans Formed: Sex Change, Medical Science, and Chinese Cultural Modernity" is the first serious study of the history of sex change and sexology in modern China.
"Homoromance and China Modern" is a commissioned review essay on the following books: Lisa Rofel, Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture (Duke University Press, 2007); Helen Leung, Undercurrents: Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong (University of British Columbia Press, 2008); Wenqing Kang, Obsession: Male Same-Sex Relations in China, 1900-1950 (Hong Kong University Press, 2009); Loretta Ho, Gay and Lesbian Subculture in Urban China (Routledge, 2010); Fran Martin, Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Culture and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary (Duke University Press, 2010); and Travis Kong, Chinese Male Homosexualities: Memba, Tongzhi, and Golden Boy (Routledge, 2010).
"Queer Sinophone Cultures" is a collaborative study of the interacting norms, currents, and politics of Chineseness and Queerness in Sinophone cultural production (esp. in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and other Sinitic-language communities). A roundtable panel on this theme, sponsored by the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History, took place at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. Under the co-editorship of Larissa N. Heinrich and myself, a special issue journal publication will result from this joint endeavor that builds on and extends Shu-mei Shih's original contribution, Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific (University of California Press, 2007), through the lens of queer studies. Invited contributors, apart from Larissa and myself, include Kenneth Chan (Northern Colorado), Walter Jen-Hao Hsu (Cornell), E.K. Tan (Stony Brook), Chunchi Wang (National Dong Hwa), Yin Wang (UC San Diego), and Lily Wong (UC Santa Barbara).
History and Historical Epistemology of Biology, Medicine, and the Human Sciences
Gender, Sexuality, and the Body in Regional and Global Perspectives
Modern Chinese, East Asian, and United States History
Critical Theory and Quantitative Methodology in the Social Sciences
Intro Article on "Queer Sinophone Cultures"
Short Essays on "Transnational Queers in China"
Book Chapter on "Trans Formations in Sinophone Culture"
Book Introduction for Transgender China
Book Conclusion for Making Chinese Medicine
Encyclopedia Entries for Biographical Dictionary of People's Republic of China
Encyclopedia Entries for Cultural Sociology of East Asia
Review Essay: "Homoromance and China Modern"
Book Review of Please Select Your Gender
Book Review of Heartland TV
Book Review of Maoist Model Theatre
Book Review of English Literary Sexology
Book Review of The Genial Gene
American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM), Member, 2007-
American Culture Association (ACA), Member, 2007
American Historical Association (AHA), Member, 2007-
Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS), 2007-
Chinese Studies Association of Australia (CSAA), 2009-
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History (CLGBTH) [formerly Committee on Lesbian and Gay History (CLGH)], Lifetime Member, 2006-
Forum for the History of Human Science (FHHS), Member, 2006-
History of Science Society (HSS), Member, 2006-
International Society for Cultural History (ISCH), Member, 2008-
International Society for the History of Eeast Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (ISHEASTM), Member, 2008-
International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB), Member, 2009-
Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love (SPSL), Member, 2008-
Somatechnics Research Centre of Macquarie Univ., Research Associate, 2008-
Conference Co-Organizer, with Carla Nappi and Volker Scheid, The (After)Life of Traditional Knowledge: The Cultural Politics and Historical Epistemology of East Asian Medicine, School of Life Sciences, University of Westminster (London, United Kingdom: 20-21 August 2010). -- Invited Participants: Vicanne Adams, Bridie Andrews-Minehan, Daniel Asen, Howard Chiang, Sienna Craig, Keiko Daidoji, John DiMoia, Judith Farquhar, TJ Hinrichs, Elisabeth Hsu, Kuang-chi Hung, Eric Karchmer, Sean Hsiang-lin Lei, Angela Ki Che Leung, David Luesink, Carla Nappi, Leon Antonio Rocha, Volker Scheid, Fabien Simonis, Hilary Smith, Soyoung Suh, Daniel Trambaiolo, Ayo Wahlberg, and Yi-li Wu -- Sponsored by a Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange Conference and Seminar Grant in the European Region and a British Arts and Humanities Research Council Research Networking Grant
Conference Organizer, Trans Ventures: Trans/Formations of Gender in Sinophone Culture, Program in East Asian Studies, Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey: 2 May 2009). -- Advisor: Ben Elman; Invited Participants: Daniel Burton-Rose, Ta-wei Chi, Howard Chiang, Ben Elman, David Eng, Larissa Heinrich, Helen Leung, Susan Naquin, Carlos Rojas, Gayle Salamon, Tze-lan Sang, Joan Scott, and Susan Stryker -- Sponsored by Princeton University’s Program in East Asian Studies, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Department of History, Program in the Study of Women and Gender, Program in History of Science, and Department of English
Conference Co-Organizer, with Nathan Ha, Apparatus XY: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Gender, Sexuality, and Science, Program in History of Science, Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey: 4 April 2008). -- Advisor: Angela Creager; Invited Participants: Hsiao-wen Cheng, Howard Chiang, Angela Creager, Sandra Eder, Nadia Guidotto, Nathan Ha, Jenny Higgins, Tereasa Maillie, Amrita Pande, and Sarah Richardson -- Sponsored by Princeton University’s Program in History of Science, Program in the Study of Women and Gender, Graduate School, Department of History, and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies
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