Department of History
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive MC 0104
La Jolla, California 92093-0104

Vita

Schneewind teaches Chinese history from the earliest times through the mid-19th century. Her scholarly work explores how people dealt with imperial power, how state power negotiated with society, and how historical texts were constructed and read in political context. She is currently writing a study of the biographies of an early Ming scholar-official executed for corruption and honored as an incorrupt official, Fang Keqin; and is researching the institution of shrines to living men. Her period of specialization is the Ming (1368-1644), which juxtaposed autocracy to commercial prosperity and cultural creativity. She is also interested in Chinese-European intellectual, cultural, and technological exchange from Ming times through the nineteenth century. She is a graduate of Cornell University (1986, B. A.), Yale University (1988, M. A.), and Columbia University (1999, Ph.D.), and is Past-President of the Society for Ming Studies.

Major Publications

• A Tale of Two Melons: Emperor and Subject in Ming China, Hackett Publishers, 2006.
• Long Live the Emperor! The Uses of the Ming Founder across Six Centuries of East Asian History. Society for Ming Studies, 2008.
• Community Schools and the State in Ming China, Stanford University Press, 2006.
• "Visions and Revisions: Village Policies of the Ming Founder in Seven Phases, " in T'oung Pao 87 (2002): 1-43.
• "Competing Institutions: Community Schools and Improper Shrines' in Sixteenth Century China" in Late Imperial China 20.1 (June 1999): 85-106.

Courses Taught

• HILD 10. East Asia: The Great Tradition: Early History and Cultures of China and Japan.
  
• HIEA 122. Late Imperial Chinese Culture and Society.
• HIEA 129. Faces of the Chinese Past.
  
• HIEA 164/264. Seminar in Late Imperial Chinese History.
• HIGR 217A. China Before Buddhism.
• HIGR 218A-B.
  

Poems

• "Our Dead"
• "Inspiration"
• "The Bride One Summer Evening"
• "Minoan Gold"