Ph.D., Asian History, Michigan State University, 2002.
Dissertation: Manchu Women in Transition: Gender, Ethnicity, and Acculturation in 17th and 18th Centuries China.
Minor fields: American history; International relations.

M.A., Chinese History, Beijing University, Beijing, China, 1985

B.A., History, Beijing Teacher's College, Beijing, China, 1982

Chinese cultural and social history; Qing history; Gender and ethnicity

Book Manuscript in Progress
Acculturation and Gender: Changes in Manchu Power in Late Imperial China. I discuss the interactions of gender and ethnicity in the process of Chinese-Manchu acculturation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This project is funded by an Affirmative Action Faculty Development Grant.

• "Qing Imperial Women: Empresses, Concubines, and Aisin Gioro Daughters," Palace Women Around World, University of California Press, forthcoming, 2006.
  
  
• "Der Ling: Manchu Princess, Cultural Advisor, and Author," The Human Tradition in Modern China, Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming, 2006.
  
  
• "Remarriage and Chaste Widowhood of Manchu Women in the Qing," New Social History, Vol. 3, Zhejiang renmin chubanshe, China, forthcoming, 2006.
  
  
• "New Social History in China: the Development of Women’s History," The History Teachers, May issue, 2006, 315-323.
  
  
• "Manchu Women in Transition: Gender Relations and Sexuality," North American Conference Proceedings for Manchu Studies, Tunguso-Sibirica series, Otto Harrassowitz, Germany, 2005, 105-130.
  
  
• "Selection of Women for the Qing Imperial Harem," The Chinese Historical Review, 2004:2, 212-222.
  
  
• Book Review: Guo Songyi, Ethics and Living: Marital Behaviors in Qing China, The Chinese Historical Review, 2004:1, 124-128.
  
  
• Co-editor: Ming Historical Records, Beijing: Beijing University Press, 1994.
  
  
• Translation: Linda Cooke Johnson, "The British Huiguan in Shanghai (1843-1854)," Overseas’ Modern Chinese Historical Research, 1994, 1-23.
  
  
• Translation: Timothy B. Weston, "Reconstructing an Image: Education, Culture and Politics of Peking University, 1917—1920," Graduate Students Journal of Beijing University, 1994:3, 66-70.
  
  
• "Tui Bei Tu and Its Historical Value," Historical Documents Research, Vol. 3, Beijing: Yanshan chubanshe, 1993, 160-168.
  
  
• Co-editor: Educator’s Encyclopedia for K-6 Curriculum, Shenyang: Shenyang Publish House, 1993.
  
  
• "Zheng He's Navigation and the Society of Ming Dynasty," Journal of Tsinghua University, 1990:5, no.1, 86-95.
  
  
• "The Nature of the Uprising of Liu Liu, Liu Qi, and Yang Hou in the Ming Dynasty," Journal of Tsinghua University, 1986:1, no. 2, 98-104. 
  
  
• "Huanguan and Taijian," Historical Research, 1983:6, 188-189.

"The Power of Yin:  Chinese women in the 20th Century" Chair and organizer; Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, San Francisco, April 6-9, 2006

"Gender and Racial Boundaries: Examination on Manchu-Han Intermarriage in Qing China" International Conference of Empire, Borderlands, & Border Cultures, California State University, Turlock, March 16-18, 2006.

"New Social History in China: the Development of Women’s History in the recent five years" American Historical Association Annual Conference, Seattle, January 7-9, 2005.

"Qing Imperial Women: Empresses, Concubines, and Aisin Gioro Daughters" Conference of Palace Women around the World, Santa Ana, March 17-21, 2004.

"The Role of Manchu Women in Acculturation: A View of Intermarriage with Chinese" Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, San Diego, March 4-7, 2004.

"Qing Palace Women: From Empresses to Servants" International Conference of Empire and Imperial Cultures, California State University, Turlock, February 27-29, 2004.

"Gender Issue in Manchu-Chinese Acculturation" North American Conference for ManchuStudies, Portland State University, Portland, May 9-10, 2003.

"Manchu Women’s Roles in Constructing Manchu Ethnicity: An Analysis of TheirPositions in Family" American Historical Association Annual Conference, Chicago,January 3-5, 2003.

"Viewing Manchu-Han Cultural Fusion in Qing from the Changes of Women’s Lives"Seminar, Modern Chinese History Institute, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, September 15,2000.

"Manchu Women in Transition: Marriage, Family, and Social Life in the 17th Century"Midwest Conference on Asian History and Culture, Ohio State University, Ohio May 13-15, 2000.

"What Qing Literary Sources Tell Us about Manchu Women" Annual Meeting of theMidwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Michigan State University, East Lansing,September 24-26, 1999.

• Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity grant, California State University, Stanislaus, 2005-2006.
• Elizabeth Anne B. Papageorge Faculty Development Award, 2004-05.
• Affirmative Action Faculty Development Grant, California State University, Stanislaus, 2003-2004.
• Graduate Office Fellowship, Michigan State University, 2001.
• Summer Dissertation Research Award, Michigan State University, 2001.
• Special College Research Abroad Grant, Michigan State University, 2000.
• Outstanding Teaching Award, Tsinghua University, China, 1993.
• Outstanding Teaching Award, Tsinghua University, China, 1991.

Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the United States; 2004-present.