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Office Hours:
Retired, Spring 08
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Degrees, Specializations & Interests:
A.B., Trinity College; M.A., Yale University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University.
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Areas of Specialization
Chinese history, Mongolian history, East Asian history, Central Asian history. Research interests: China under Mongolian rule, 13th-14th centuries; Chinese-Mongolian-Russian relations, 19th-20th centuries.
Courses Taught
Modern East Asia; Imperial China; Modern China; Readings in Chinese History; Writing and Research, China; Mongolia Past and Present: Culture, Society, Literature; Nomads of Eurasia
Books published
Pages from the Past: the 1910 Moscow Trade Expedition to Mongolia (EastBridge, 2007).
Mongolian Rule in China: Local Administration in the Yuan Dynasty (Harvard Univ. Press, 1989).
Co-author, The Modernization of Inner Asia (M.E. Sharpe, 1991).