Yamin Xu
- Associate Professor History
I received my B.A. from Nankai University (China), M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from University of California at Berkeley. I had taught in several different universities in both California and Alabama before I joined the Le Moyne faculty here in 2003. Besides World Civilization, I teach East Asian surveys from Neolithic origins to the present. My East Asian seminars are organized around the topics concerning modern East Asian societies, governments, cultures, intellectual traditions, religious practices, gender issues, and international relations. I have valuable firsthand experiences of living and working in China. I receive all kinds of daily information about China in Chinese and keep a close contact with people there. This can help me to bridge the gap between the East and West while teaching in Le Moyne classroom. My research interests primarily focus on late imperial and modern China. I am currently working on a number of projects dealing with issues concerning Chinese state, society, and modernity from a perspective of the city of Beijing.
Education
B.A. from Nankai University (China)
M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from University of California at Berkeley
Publications
Book manuscripts in preparation: Handling 鈥榃icked People鈥� and Civil Strife in Beijing: Changes in Neighborhoods, Urban Space, and Police Institutions, 1640s-1930s. Volume One: Under the Qing; Volume Two: Under the Republic.鈥�
鈥淯rban Communities, State, Spatial Order, and Modernity: Studies of Imperial and Republican Beijing in Perspective.鈥� Feature article, China Review International 15:1, Spring 2009.
鈥淧olicing Civility on the Streets: Encounter with Litterbugs, 鈥楴ightsoil Lords,鈥� and Street Corner Urinators in Republican Beijing.鈥� Twentieth-Century China 30:2 (April 2005): 28-71.
鈥淐onfucianism,鈥� 鈥淭raditional Supervisory System,鈥� 鈥淚mperial Hanlin Academy,鈥� 鈥淗uang Zongxi,鈥� 鈥淕u Yanwu,鈥� 鈥淲ang Fuzhi,鈥� 鈥淩epublican Five-Divisions System.鈥� Articles in Berkshire Encyclopedia of China, 2009.
鈥淩eview on Stephen Haw鈥檚 Beijing鈥擜 Concise History.鈥� China Review International 14:2, Fall 2008.
鈥淩eview on Hanchao Lu鈥檚 Street Criers: A Cultural History of Chinese Beggars.鈥� The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 37:2 (2006): 336-337.
鈥淩eview on Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs: Qing Crisis Management and the Boundaries of State Power in Late Imperial China.鈥� China Review International 10:2 (Fall 2003): 363-368.
Presentations
鈥淐entral Asia, the Next Hot Place: Oil and Global Politics.鈥� Foreign Policy Association Great Decisions Discussion Group, Syracuse, October 2007.
鈥淣eighborhood Management of Qing Beijing and Traditional Configuration of Social and Spatial Order.鈥� New England Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Annual Meeting, November 2006.
鈥淒omestic Order in Flux: Family Violence, Public Opinion and State in Republican Beijing.鈥� New England Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Annual Meeting, November 2005.
鈥淩econfigured Neighborhoods and the Expansion of State Institutions: Social Structural Changes in Beijing and Their Implications, 1800s-1930s,鈥� Association for Asian Studies, Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2005.
鈥淪tructural Changes of Beijing Neighborhoods and Social and Political Implications, 1800s-1930s.鈥� New England Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Dartmouth College, November 2004.
鈥淐rimes against Civility in Public Space: Litterbugs, Street-Corner Urinators, and Misdemeanors in Republican Beijing.鈥� Association for Asian Studies, Annual Meeting, San Diego, March 2004.
