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Liping Wang

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Department of History 939 HellerH

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • East Asian history
  • Imperial China
  • modern Chinese social and cultural history
  • Republican China
  • travel

Publications

  • Women, Marriage and Violence in Post-Mao Rural China: Ancient Legacies, New Age Commercialization or Socialism with Chinese Characteristics?. Wang, Liping, Paul Pickowicz, 2000.
  • Tourism and Spatial Changes in Hangzhou, 1900-1927. Wang, Liping, 1999.
  • Creating a National Symbol: The Sun Yatsen Memorial in Nanjing. Wang, Liping, 1996.

Professional Activities

  • History Department Graduate Studies Committee: 2000 - 2001
  • Graduate Studies Committee, History Department: 1999
  • Japanese History Search Committee: 2000 - 2001
  • "Mega-search" Committee, History Department: 1998 - 1999
  • Editorial board member, The Journal of International Sinology, Beijing
  • Graduate Studies Committee, History Department: 2002
  • PTM Committee, History Department: 1997 - 1998

Awards

  • An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard University, September 1, 2001 - June 30, 2002
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Featured Faculty

  • Gary Cohen Awarded Austrian Medal of Honor

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    Gary Cohen has been awarded the Austrian Medal of Honor (Verdienstkreuz) for Science and Arts, First Class. The ceremony was held at the Austrian Embassy in Washington. He was presented the award by Dr. Christian Prosl, the Austrian Ambassador to the United States.

    Congratulations to Gary! This is a much-deserved recognition of Gary's scholarship on the Habsburg Empire and his leadership of the Center for Austrian Studies.

    November 17th, 2009
  • Regina Kunzel, Lambda Literary Award Recipient

    Regina Kunzel has been awarded the Lambda Literary Award in the category of LGBT Studies for her book Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality. Congratulations Regina.

    June 5th, 2009
  • Donna Gabaccia, Fesler-Lampert Chair

    Tthe Graduate School has appointed Donna Gabaccia to the Fesler-Lampert Chair in Public Humanities for 2009-2010.

    June 5th, 2009

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