- Ph.D.: Freie University of Berlin, Germany, December 1993
- Associate professor. Department of History, Mississippi State University. 2004- present.
Undergraduate coordinator, 2005
Robert Holland Faculty Senator, 20062009
- Assistant professor. Department of History, Mississippi State University. 1999-2004
- Assistant Professor of History, Columbus State University, 1996-1999
- Visiting Scholar, Hoover Institution, Stanford, University, California, 1998
Traditional Chinese culture and literature. Modern Chinese and Taiwanese intellectual history, Qing frontier history, Taiwanese history, Ancient Chinese History
- Books
Die Eroberung von Qinghai unter Berucksichtigung von Tibet und Khams 1717-1727 (German).(The Chinese Conquest of Qinghai with Reference to Tibet and Khams 1717-1727). Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. 365 p. & 5 maps. 1995. Received four reviewed articles.
Lien Heng (1878-1936): Taiwan's Search for Identity and Tradition. 480 p. Research Institute for Altaiic and Oriental Studies, Indiana University. 2005. For a review of my book, please click here
- Articles
"The Imbalance of Virtue and Power in Qing Frontier Policy: The Turfan Campaign of 1731," Etudes Mongoles et Siberiennes. Paris, 1996, pp. 241-264.
"How the Qing Army Entered Tibet in 1728 after the Tibetan Civil War," Zentralasia-tische Studien, 26 (1996): 122-138. (Reviewed).
"On Taiwanese Historical Poetry: Reflections on the Shimonoseki Treaty of 1895," Journal of Asian History, 32/2 (1998): 1-26.
"On Chinese Sacrificial Orations Chi Wen," Monumenta Serica. 50 (2002): 1-33.
"Lien Heng (1878-1936) and the General History of Taiwan," Journal of Third World Studies, 27 (2004): 17-58
"Fighting for His Majesty I: Accretion of the Greater Shang (ca. 1200-1045 BC)" Journal of Chinese Military History 1 (2011)
"Debates and Decision-Making: The Battle of the Altai Mountains in AD 91,"in Peter Lorge (ed,) Debating War in Chinese History, (Leiden: Brill, 2012).
"The Great Migration: Inception of the Zhou Identity," under review.
"On Shiji chapter 22 Table Ten" under review.
- Presented Papers
"The Seventh Dalai Lama in Exile: 1729-1735," presented at the 40th Permanent International Altaistic Conference, Provo, Utah on June 2-3, 1997.
"Lien Heng (1878-1936) as a Poet, Historian and Revolutionary Journalist," presented at the 35th International Conference of Asian and North African Studies, Budapest, Hungary on July 7-12, 1997.
"On Taiwanese Historical Poetry: Reflections on the Shimonoseki Treaty of 1895," presented at the 208th American Oriental Society, New Orleans, April 5th-8th, 1998.
"New light on China-Taiwan-Conflict from a Historical Perspective," presented at the 17th Annual Conference of the Association of Third World Studies, November 18th-21st, 1999, San Jose, Costa Rica.
"Tai-wan tung-shih and Shih chi. A Comparative Study," presented at the 210th American Oriental Society, Portland, Oregon, March 12th-15th, 2000.
"Lien Heng and His Journey in China, 1912-1914 presented at Center for Chinese Studies. Taipei, Taiwan, R.o.C. August 6, 2007.
"Commentary and Criticism of Shiji in Late Imperial China, presented at 218th conference of the American Oriental Society in Chicago, 14-17 March 2008.
"The Concept of Heaven (tian) in Shiji presented at17th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS) at Lund University, Sweden. 6-10 August 2008.
"Changing Conceptions of Self-Identity and the "Other" in the Shiji." Presented at the AHA annual conference in San Diego on the January 9th, 2010.
"The Inverted Text in the Shiji Chapter 22 Table Ten," presented at the 221st meeting of the American Oriental Society, Chicago, March 13th, 2011"
"Perception of the "Foreign" in the Shiji, Hanshu, and Gongyang Ideology" to be presented at the Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu, March 31st, 2011.
Recipient of a two-year research grant, 1997-1998 and1998-1999, from Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, VA. USA.
Recipient of publication subsidies (2004) from Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation/ American Council of Learned Society.
Recipient of Distinguished Leadership and Scholarship Awards. 2003 Association of Third World Studies, October 2003.
Recipient of fellowship for distinguished scholars Center for Chinese Studies. Taipei Taiwan, R.o.C. summer 2007.
Recipient of research grant from Office of the VP of Research. MSU, March 2006 and 2008.
Recipient of the HARP fellowship. College of A&S. MSU. 2007.
Recipient of the Quick Grant. ORED. MSU. August 2008.
East Asian Civilization To 1300; East Asian Civilization Since 1300; China Since 1800; Japan Since 1600; The Far East; The Mongol Empire; Chinese Cultural History; Chinese Military History; The Silk Road.
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