Iona Man-Cheong

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RESEARCH INTERESTS: Associate Professor in the History Department, and an affiliate of the Cultural studies program and the Women's Studies program. Her major field of expertise is Late Imperial (Ming-Qing period) and Modern China. Her current research interests focus on migration and the Chinese Diaspora, especially relating to Britain and the production of British identity; Chinese maritime history and transnationalism; and the development of the Chinese community in Britain. Her previous research has included a socio-cultural study of imperial Chinese examination system; and women and gender in Chinese history. SCHOLARLY WORKS: The Class of 1761: Examinations, State and Elites in Eighteenth-century China (Stanford University Press, 2004). Fair Fraud and Fraudulent Fairness: The 1761 Avoidance Case in Late Imperial China. Bridging Differences/Crossing Boundaries: Minority and National Histories with/in a Post-Colonial Agenda, in Radical History Review. Unlock by Bei Dao, Eliot Weinberger (Translator), Iona Man-Cheong (Translator), New Directions, 2000.

The Class of 1761

April 12, 2013

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1893383.The_Class_of_1761 The Class of 1761: Examinations, State, and Elites in Eighteenth-Century China by Iona D. Man-Cheong …

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