PhD, History, University of Washington, Seattle
MA, Chinese Language and Literature, National Taiwan University
BA, Chinese Language and Literature, National Taiwan University
Gender & Sexuality
Chinese Religions and Intellectual History
Chinese Medical History
Premodern Chinese Anecdotal Writing
Song Dynasty (960-1276)
EALC 001: Introduction to Chinese Civilization (Fall 2019)
EALC 008: East Asian Religions
EALC 034: What Is Taoism?
EALC 230/630: Gender and Religion in China
EALC 242/642: Medicine and Healing in China
EALC234/634: Daoist Traditions
EALC 301: Major Seminar: Daoism
EALC 731: Han-Song Medical Texts
EALC 733: Song Dynasty Texts
Book
Divine, Demonic, and Disordered: Women without Men in Song Dynasty China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021.
Refereed Journal Articles
"Before Sexual and Normal: Shifting Categories of Sexual Anomalies from Ancient to Yuan China." Asia Major, (2018) 3rd series, vol. 31.2: 1–39.
"Manless Women and the Sex–Desire–Procreation Link in Song Medicine." Asian Medicine: Journal of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine 13 (2018): 69–94.
“What Was Good Writing (or Reading) in Eleventh-Century China? Rethinking Guwen and Its Relation to Daoxue.” Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture 4:2 (November 2017)
“Authority or Alternative? Rethinking Gender and the Circulation of Medical Knowledge in Song China, 960-1279.” Gender Forum: An Internet Platform for Gender and Women’s Studies, 24 (2009). Cologne, Germany: English Department, University of Cologne.
“A Theme and Its Variations: Reflections on the Theory Traveling from Dai Zhen (1724-1777) to Ling Tingkan (1757-1809) and Zhang Xuecheng (1738-1801)” (In Chinese). Studies in Chinese Literature, 19 (2004). Taipei: Department of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University.
Book Reviews
Review of Man Xu, Crossing the Gate: Everyday Lives of Women in Song Fujian (960-1279) (SUNY Press, 2016). Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China 20 (2018).
Review of Rebecca Doran, Transgressive Typologies: Constructions of Gender and Power in Early Tang China (Harvard University Asia Center, 2016). China Review International 23.2 (2018).
Review of Beverly Bossler, Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity: Gender and Social Change in China, 1000-1400 (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2013). Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China 16.1 (2014).
Work in Progress
Sexual Anomalies and the Temporality of Norms in Medieval China
Core Faculty, Alice Paul Center and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
Affiliated Faculty, Department of Religious Studies
