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Richard Smith
Richard Smith

POSITIONS: Current (Rice University): George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities; Professor of History; Director of Asian and Global Outreach (Center for Education); James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy Scholar; Co-Founder of and Co-Adviser for the Baker Institute’s Transnationational China Project (http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~tnchina/) Current (Other): Adjunct Professor, Center for Asian Studies, University of Texas, Austin, Texas; Adjunct, Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Past (Rice University): Master of Hanszen College (1982-1987); Director of Asian Studies, 1987-2004; Interim Director of the Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Center for Asian Studies, 2007-2008; Associate Director of the Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Center for Asian Studies, 2009. Areas of Interest: Chinese history and culture; comparative/global history. Research and Teaching: My research and teaching interests continue to be primarily in Chinese intellectual and social history, as well as comparative history (China and Japan). My most recently published book, Mapping China and Managing the World: Cosmology, Cartography and Culture in Late Imperial Times appeared in November of 2012 as part of the Routledge Press series titled Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship.

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