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Susan Naquin
Susan Naquin

Profile: Susan Naquin works on the social and cultural history of early modern and modern China (1600-1900) She earned her Ph.D. in History from Yale University in 1974 and came to Princeton in 1993 after teaching for many years at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Naquin has written about millenarian peasant uprisings, families and rituals, pilgrimages, temples, and the history of Beijing. She is the author of Millenarian Rebellion in China: The Eight Trigrams Uprising of 1813 (1976), Shantung Rebellion: The Wang Lun Uprising of 1774 (1981), and Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400-1900 (2000); the coauthor with Evelyn Rawski of Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century (1987); and the coeditor of Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China (1992). Her interests include the material culture of China in the Ming and Qing periods, and the related topics of museums and collecting. She has a joint appointment in the Department of East Asian Studies. Current Project: Professor Naquin is currently working on religion and regional culture in north China. Teaching Interests: Professor Naquin teaches undergraduate courses on modern East Asia and early modern China, on history and collecting, and on fakes and forgeries. Her graduate courses have dealt with Qing history, religion, and material culture. (1600-1800).

  • Peking

    http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1289026.Peking Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400-1900 by Susan Naquin   The central character in Susan Naquin's…

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