Dr Yangwen Zheng
Lecturer in the History of China
yangwen.zheng@manchester.ac.uk
Born and raised in China, my education has taken me from China to the United States (Oberlin College, BA 1995), from France (Universite de Strasbourg) to King's College, Cambridge (MPhil 1997 and PhD 2001). Then I taught and conducted research at the University of Pennsylvania (2002-04) and the National University of Singapore (2004 - 06). This global learning and researching
experience has shaped my intellectual work so far.
Select Publications:
"Swan Lake to Red Girl's Regiment: the Sinicisation of Ballet in China" in The Cambridge Companion to Ballet edited by Marion Kant (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
The Social Life of Opium in China, (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Forthcoming Publications:
Personal Names in Asia: History, Culture and Identity, edited by Zheng Yangwen and Charles J-H Macdonald with a Preface by James C. Scott, National University of Singapore Press (2008)
"Hunan: Laboratory of Reform and Land of Revolution" Modern Asian Studies (2008)
I am currently editing Old Brother: China's Place in Asia (with Anthony Reid) and The Body in Asia: Cosmos and Canvas (with Bryan S. Turner) and finishing up another book titled "A Chinese Century: 1740 - 1840".