Columbia University, PhD 2019
Columbia University, MA 2012
Tsinghua University, BA 2010
Assistant Professor of History
Columbia University, PhD 2019
Columbia University, MA 2012
Tsinghua University, BA 2010
My research interest includes material culture, history of technology, and gender in early modern China. I am interested in the connections between knowledge, technology, and power. My current book project, tentatively titled From Tin to Pewter: Craft and Statecraft in Qing China, examines the transmissions of technology and changes in the culture of statecraft in China from 1700 to 1850s. By tracing the itinerary of tin, I explore how imperial expansion and global trade affected knowledge production and transmission, gradually changing the culture of statecraft from Confucian didacticism to technocratic statecraft. Before joining NYU, I was a pre-doctoral fellow at Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin, Germany)