Department of East Asian Studies -- New York University
 
 

JOANNA WALEY-COHEN

 

Professor of History

Ph.D. 1987, Yale.
M.Phil. 1984, Yale.
M.A. 1977, Girton College, Cambridge.
B.A. 1974 (Chinese Studies), Girton College, Cambridge.

Office: 53 Washington Square South, Rm 521
Telephone: 212-998-8645
Email: joanna.waleycohen@nyu.edu

 
Research Interests
Early Modern China; China and the West; Chinese Imperial Culture; Chinese Social and Cultural History

Selected Publications

 

Books:

The Culture of War in China: Empire and the Military under the Qing Dynasty (London: IB Tauris, 2006)

The Sextants of Beijing: Global Currents in Chinese History. New York
and London: W.W. Norton, 1999 (Paperback, 2000, French translation 2002)

Exile in Mid-Qing China: Banishment to Xinjiang, 1758-1820 (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1991)

Selected Articles:

"Celebrity Chefs of the Chinese Past," in Flavor and Fortune (2007, forthcoming)

"China under the Wanli Emperor" in E. Lyoubimova, ed., The World in 1607 (Jamestown, VA: Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation) (2007)

"Taste and Gastronomy in China," in P. Freedman, ed., Food: A History of Taste (London: Thames and Hudson) (Nov 2007)

"The New Qing History" Radical History Review, Issue 88 (Winter 2004), 193-206

"A Brief History of Hong Kong." In Picturing Hong Kong, 1842-1910. New York: Asia Society, 1997, 15-26

China and Western Technology in the Late Eighteenth Century." American Historical Review 98.5 (December 1993): 1525-1544

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