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 specialty is state-society relations in the Ming period (1368-1644). A graduate of Cornell University (1986, B. A. in Asian Studies with Distinction in All Subjects), Yale University (1988, M. A. in East Asian Studies), and Columbia University (1999, Ph.D. in History with Distinction), she taught at Southern Methodist University before coming to UCSD in 2005, with a year as Visiting Assistant Professor in Modern Chinese History at Columbia. She is currently the President of the Society for Ming Studies.

Major Publications

• A Tale of Two Melons: Emperor and Subject in Ming China, Hackett Publishers, 2006.
• 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.
• Review essay on Roger V. Des Forges, Cultural Continuity and Political Change in Chinese History, in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 64.1 (2004): 211-222.
• Long Live the Emperor: The Uses of the Ming Founder Across Six Centuries of East Asian History. Forthcoming edited collection.

Courses Taught

• HILD 10. East Asia: The Great Tradition: Early History and Cultures of China and Japan. Offered Fall 2006. Description (pdf) (word)
• HIEA 122. Late Imperial Chinese Culture and Society. Offered Spring 2006.
• HIEA 164/264. Seminar in Late Imperial Chinese History. Offered Spring 2006. Description (pdf) (word)

Poems

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