Advisor: Mark Elliott

Ben Hales entered Harvard’s History and East Asian Languages (HEAL) program in 2024. He researches the modern history of China’s relationship with Central Asia, focussing in particular on settler-indigenous and sedentary-pastoral relations from the 1940s...

From Dynasty to Nation: A Historiography of the Dueling Portraits of Nguyễn Huệ and Nguyễn Ánh

 

Annie Zhanling Wang is a social historian of late imperial China and Inner Asia, with a focus on gender, family relations, voice, and empire. She has written about friendships between Manchu women in Beijing and Han women in Jiangnan in the eighteenth...

From Integration to Isolation: Xinjiang Cotton and Commercial Networks (1759-1890)

J. Arya Moallem received his B.A in Science, Technology, and Society from Colby College and a Masters of Theological Studies with a concentration in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School. His research focuses on historical geography, geopolitics...

The Muslim Emperor of China: Everyday Politics in Colonial Xinjiang, 1877-1933

The Manchu Transformation of Li: Ritual, Politics, and Law in the Making of Qing China, 1631-1690

Making Texts in Chinese Villages: Textual Production in Rural China During the Ming-Qing Period

Carbon Technocracy: East Asian Energy Regimes and the Industrial Modern, 1900-1957

Between Patron and Priest: Amdo Tibet Under Qing Rule, 1792-1911