Asia
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Carol Benedict
Research Interests: China, Chinese Medicine
Selected Publications:
- Carol Benedict. Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1996.
Christine Kim
Research Interests: Modern Korea, Empire studies, East Asian history
Manuscript in Progress: "The King Is Dead: The Monarchy and National Identity in Modern Korea"
James Millard
Research Interests: Late Imperial China, Central and Inner Asia, Xinjiang, Mongolia, Tibet, Frontiers, Ethnicity
Selected Publications:
- James Millward. Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang. New York: Columbia University Press; London: C. Hurst, Co., 2006. New Qing Imperial Hist
- New Qing Imperial History: The Making of Inner Asian Empire at Qing Chengde. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. (Chief editor; with assistance from Ruth Dunnell, Mark Elliott and Philippe Forêt)
Jordan Sand
Research Interests: Modern Japan, Social reform, Domesticity
Selected Publications:
- Jordan Sand. House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Howard R. Spendelow
Research Interests: China, East Asia
Current Project: "Russia's South Manchurian Adventure: The Liaodong Leasehold and China's Resistance to Imperialism, 1889-1905"
Nancy Bernkopf Tucker
Research Interests: U.S. Diplomatic, U.S.-East Asian Relations
Selected Publications:
- Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, Strait Talk: US-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with China (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009).
- Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, ed. Dangerous Strait: The U.S.-Taiwan-China Crisis. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
- Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, ed. China Confidential: American Diplomats and Sino-American Relations, 1945-1996. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.
M. Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J.
Research Interests:
Christianity in China and Japan
Selected Publications:
The Samurai and the Cross: Reinventing Christinaity in Early Modern Japan, New York: under contract with Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2013.
In the Circle of the Galleon: Early Missionary Printing and the Visual Arts in Asia and the Americas, (edited), Leiden: soon to be under contract with Brill, forthcoming 2013.
Christianity and Cultures: Japan and China in Comparison (1543-1644), edited, Rome: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu.





