History & Art History

Michael G. Chang received his A.B. in sociology from Princeton University (1992) and his Ph.D. in East Asian history from the University of California, San Diego (2001). He is the author of A Court on Horseback: Imperial Touring and the Construction of Qing Rule, 1680-1785 (Harvard, 2007). He is currently researching the political and material cultures in and through which High Qing rule was constituted, especially as revealed in practices of material exchange at the Qing court. His broader interests include Chinese film and popular culture, comparative empires, ethnicity and race, and socio-historical processes of state formation. He also teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on global history, East Asian history, women's history, and nationalism(s) as well as traditional, modern, and contemporary Chinese history.

Political, social, cultural and economic histories of late imperial China; ethnicity; state-formation; court studies