Joanna Waley-Cohen

(Eleanor) Joanna Waley-Cohen (born 10 June 1952) is a professor of history and chair of the Department of History at New York University. She specializes in early modern Chinese history, Chinese imperial culture, and China and the West.^[1]

Biography

She is the daughter of Sir Bernard Waley-Cohen (1914-1991), 1st Baronet, a former Lord Mayor of London. She was educated at Cranbourne Chase School and the University of Cambridge, and earned her PhD in 1987 at Yale University.^[1] She joined the faculty of New York University in 1992.^[2] She was named a Collegiate Professor in 2008.^[3] She is a past senior fellow of the Research Center for Urban Cultural History at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.^[4]

In addition to her books, she has published articles on Chinese law, politics, foreign relations, and culinary culture.^[2] She is a frequent presenter at academic seminars and symposia, such as at Yale University,^[2] Columbia University,^[5] and Marymount Manhattan College,^[6] as well as appeared as expert on Chinese culinary history.^[7] She is quoted in mainstream press as an expert on Chinese military and cultural history.^[8]

Bibliography

The Sextants of Beijing: Global Currents in Chinese History (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1999; paperback, 2000; French translation 2002)
Exile in Mid-Qing China: Banishment to Xinjiang, 1758-1820 (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1991)
The Culture of War in China; Empire and Military in the Eighteenth Century (London: IB Tauris, 2006)
'The New Qing History' in Radical History Review, Winter 2003
'Military Ritual and the Qing Empire' in N. di Cosmo, ed., Warfare in Inner Asian History (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002) 405-444
'War and Empire-Building in Eighteenth-Century China' in International History Review (special issue on Manchu imperialism) XX. 3 (June 1998), 336-352
'A Brief History of Hong Kong', in Picturing Hong Kong, 1842-1910 (New York: Asia Society, 1997), 15-26
Commemorating War in Eighteenth-Century China (Modern Asian Studies 30.4)
'China and Western Technology in the Late Eighteenth Century' in American Historical Review 98.5 (December 1993) 1525-1544
'Chinese Taste' in Food: A History of Taste, ed. Paul Freedman (London: Thames and Hudson, 2006)

References

^ ^a ^b "Joanna Waley-Cohen". New York University Department of History. http://history.as.nyu.edu/object/joannawaleycohen.html. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Spring 2011 Franke Lecture Series Begins January 31". Yale University. http://www.yale.edu/whc/calendar/pdf/joannawaleycohenpressrelease.htm. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
^ "Jane Burbank and Joanna Waley-Cohen are Named Collegiate Professors". New York University Department of History. January 2009. http://history.fas.nyu.edu/docs/IO/10377/January09newsletter.pdf. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
^ "Past Senior Fellows". University of Massachusetts, Boston. http://www.rcuch.umb.edu/faculty/index.html. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
^ "Modern China Seminar (Columbia University): Recent Years' Presentations". Columbia University. 2010. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/seminars/ModChina/oldtopix.htm. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
^ "Symposium Explores 'China in the Cultural Imaginary: Inside and Out'". Marymount Manhattan College. 5 October 2010. http://www.mmm.edu/cgi-bin/MySQLdb?MYSQL_VIEW=/news/view_one.txt&newsid=1672. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
^ "Past Events: 2005-06 Season". Culinary Historians of New York. 2011. http://www.culinaryhistoriansny.org/events.html. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
^ "Symbolic Meaning of Poppies". The World. 10 November 2010. http://www.theworld.org/2010/11/10/symbolic-value-of-poppies/. Retrieved 11 February 2011.

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