Overview
My research focuses on gender history, history of the body, history of medicine, and intellectual history in late imperial China. I am specifically interested in women's virtues, and the interaction between people's practice and related discourses, aiming to understand the changing gender relations and gender order.
ADVISOR : TJ Hinrichs
Research Focus
RESEARCH FOCUS
My previous research includes the long-lasting academic controversy of the faithful maiden cult in late imperial China; how the bureaucratic system of praising chaste and filial women designed, worked, and developed in Ming, China; female historians and their historical works in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, etc.
Currently, I am working on an extreme action of self-destruction practiced by a filial son/daughter in imperial China, gegu (flesh-slicing), which was believed to have magical curative effects on his/her parent's illness.
KEY WORDS:
Late Imperial China
Gender History
History of Medicine
History of the Body
Intellectual History