Michael Chang
Associate Professor
Michael G. Chang received his A.B. in sociology from Princeton University 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) as well as articles in Late Imperial China and an edited volume, Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922-1943 (Stanford, 1999). He is currently engaged in research for a second project concerning the political and material cultures in and through which High Qing rule was constituted, especially as revealed in practices of material exchange. His broader interests include Chinese film and popular culture, comparative empires, ethnicity and race, political culture, material culture, and socio-historical processes of state formation. He also teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on global history, East Asian history, women’s history, and Chinese nationalism(s) as well as traditional, modern, and contemporary Chinese history.
Research Interests
Late Imperial and Modern China; ethnicity; social and cultural history
Office Hours (Fall 2008)
R 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Contact
Email: mchang5@gmu.edu
Phone: 703.993.1564
Office: Robinson Hall B 377C