I grew up in Fujian province, the greenest part of southeast coastal China, and became a big city girl at Renmin University in Beijing. I moved on to sunny San Diego and got my doctorate at that branch of the University of California in 2008. Last year, as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard's Fairbank Center, I worked on "Webs of Power: Three Governors and the Networking of Political Resources, 1900-1915." Currently, as a rookie in Fordham University and New York City, I am learning to embrace the thrills and travails of first year teaching. I enjoy good food, cooking, and running, not necessarily in that order.

Research Interests:
Network studies. History of foreign loan

Teaching Interests:
East Asia in global history. Political economy of modern China

Readings of the Month, May 2010

The Coming Generational Storm, by Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Scott Burns (The MIT Press, 2005).

The ABC of Socialism, by Leo Huberman and Sybil H. May (New York, Monthly Review Pamphlet Series, No.7, 1953).