Joanna Waley-Cohen

PhD Yale University 1987; MA Cambridge University 1977; BA Cambridge University 1974

Joanna Waley-Cohen is Julius Silver Professor of History at NYU and Provost, NYU Shanghai. She is author of several books and articles on early modern Chinese history especially on Chinese global connections, legal history, political culture, and gastronomy.

“On the Militarization of Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Qing Empire.” Common Knowledge, 2006

“Religion, War and Empire-Building in Eighteenth-Century China.” International History Review, 1998

“Commemorating War in Eighteenth-Century China.” Modern Asian Studies, 1996; republished in Kenneth Swope, ed., Warfare In China since 1600. Ashgate, 2006

“China and Western Technology in the Late Eighteenth Century.” American Historical Review, 1993; republished in Michael Adas, ed., Technology and European Overseas Enterprise: Diffusion, Adaptation and Adoption. Ashgate, 1996

“Politics and the Supernatural in Mid-Qing Legal Culture.” Modern China, 1993; Chinese translation, Karen G. Turner, Gao Hongjun and He Weifang, eds., Recent American Academic Writings on Traditional Chinese Law: Selected Translations. Chinese University of Political Science and Law Press, 1996

“Banishment to Xinjiang in Mid-Qing China.” Late Imperial China, 1989