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Yuanchong Wang

Associate Professor
University of Delaware
211 John Munroe Hall
Newark, DE 19716
 

Biography

Yuanchong Wang specializes in late imperial and modern Chinese and East Asian history.  He joined the Department of History at the University of Delaware in fall 2014 after he received his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He received his M.A. from Peking University in 2006 and B.A. from Shandong University in 2002.

His first book, Remaking the Chinese Empire: Manchu-Korean Relations, 1616–1911, was published by Cornell University Press in 2018. This book examines China’s development from an empire into a modern state through the lens of Sino-Korean political relations during the Qing period. Incorporating the Chosŏn Dynasty of Korea (1392–1910) into the historical narrative of the Chinese empire under the Qing Dynasty of China (1636/1644–1911), the book demonstrates that the Manchu regime used its relations with Chosŏn Korea to establish, legitimize, and consolidate its identity as the civilized center of the world, as a cosmopolitan empire, and as a modern sovereign state. 

Wang’s current research project examines the frontier policy and state building of late imperial and modern China.

Publications

Books:

Remaking the Chinese Empire: Manchu-Korean Relations, 1616–1911. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018. A 2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

Zhong Mei Xiangyu: Daguo waijiao yu Wanqing xingshuai, 1784–1911 中美相遇:大国外交与晚清兴衰, 1784–1911 (The meeting of China and the United States: Power diplomacy and the rise and fall of Late Qing, 1784–1911). Shanghai: Wenhui chubanshe, 2021.

Articles and Book Chapters

“Revisiting the Forgotten Border Gate: Fenghuang Gate and the Emergence of the Modern Sino-Korean Borderline, 1636–1876.” Chapter 8 in Decoding the Sino-North Korean Borderlands, eds. Adam Cathcart, Christopher Green, and Steven Denney (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021), 169–190. DOI: 10.5117/9789462987562_ch08.

“Shuguo mingfen bian: 1876 nian Zhong Ri jiaoshe Chaoxian diwei wenti zai yanjiu” 屬國名分辯:1876年中日交涉朝鮮地位問題再研究 (Sino-Japanese negotiation over Korea’s status as China’s subordinate country in 1876). Wenxue 問學 (Journal of Simian Institute for Advanced Studies) 2 (Jan. 2020): 53–108.

“Provincializing Korea: The Construction of the Chinese Empire in the Borderland and the Rise of the Modern Chinese State.” T'oung Pao 105. 1-2 (2019): 128–182. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10512P04

“Qingdai Shixianshu yu Zhongguo xiandai tongyi duo minzu guojia de xingcheng” 清代時憲書與中國現代統一多民族國家的形成 (The imperial calendar of the Qing Dynasty and the rise of united multi-ethnic modern Chinese state). Zhongguo shehui kexue中國社會科學 (Social Sciences in China) 269 (May 2018): 185–203.

“Civilizing the Great Qing: Manchu-Korean Relations and the Reconstruction of the Chinese Empire, 1644–1761.” Late Imperial China 38. 1 (2017): 113–154. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/late.2017.0002

“Liyi, tizhi yu zhuquan: 1890 nian Qingchao fu Chaoxian ciji shixing yanjiu” 禮儀,體制與主權:1890年清朝赴朝鮮賜祭使行研究 (Rituals, system, and sovereignty: A study of the Qing Dynasty’s last imperial mission to Chosŏn Korea in 1890). Zhongguo bianjiang xue 中國邊疆學 (Borderland Studies of China) 8 (December 2017): 97–131.

“Claiming Centrality in the Chinese World: Manchu–Chosŏn Relations and the Making of the Qing’s ‘Zhongguo’ Identity, 1616–1643.” The Chinese Historical Review 22. 2 (2015): 95-119. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1179/1547402X15Z.00000000048

“Santiandu ‘Daqing huangdi gongde bei’ man han beiwen zai yanjiu” 三田渡“大清皇帝功德碑”滿漢碑文再研究 (A restudy on the Chinese and Manchu inscriptions of ‘Stele of the Honors and Virtues of Emperor of the Great Qing’). Zhongguo bianjiang xue 中國邊疆學 (Borderland Studies of China) 3 (October 2015): 271-308.

Consider reading my books?:

Remaking the Chinese Empire: Manchu-Korean Relations, 1616–1911. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018. A 2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title.  Find a copy: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501730504/remaking-the-chinese-empire/.  

​Zhong Mei Xiangyu: Daguo waijiao yu Wanqing xingshuai, 1784–1911 中美相遇:大国外交与晚清兴衰, 1784–1911 (The meeting of China and the United States: Power diplomacy and the rise and fall of Late Qing, 1784–1911). Shanghai: Wenhui chubanshe, 2021. Find a copy: https://item.jd.com/12788827.html; http://product.dangdang.com/29189719.html

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