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Legal history; Sino-Western interactions in the realms of law, religion, and trade in late imperial and modern China; transnational history and colonialism; southwest China
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, East Asian Civilizations (2023-25)

PhD'23 (East Asian history), University of Chicago

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Legal history; Sino-Western interactions in the realms of law, religion, and trade in late imperial and modern China; transnational history and colonialism; southwest China

DISSERTATION

Western Privileges in Chinese Eyes: A Social History of Extraterritoriality in Qing China Sichuan