China in World History

General Editors

Bonnie G. Smith

Rutgers University

Anand A. Yang

University of Washington

Editorial Board
Donna Guy
Ohio State University
Karen Ordahl Kupperman
New York University
Margaret Strobel
University of Illinois, Chicago
John O. Voll
Georgetown University
The New Oxford World History
provides a comprehensive, synthetic
treatment of the “new world
history” from chronological,
thematic, and geographical
perspectives, allowing readers to
access the world’s complex history
from a variety of conceptual,
narrative, and analytical viewpoints
as it fi ts their interests.

Paul S. Ropp holds the Andrea B.

and Peter D. ’64 Klein Distinguished

Professorship at Clark University

and is a research associate at

the Fairbank Center for Chinese

Studies at Harvard University. Since

receiving his PhD in Chinese history

from the University of Michigan in

1974, he has taught Chinese and

East Asian history at the University

of Memphis and at Clark University

where he as been since 1985. He

serves on the editorial board of the

Leiden-based journal NanNü: Men,

Woman and Gender in China and

was a senior editor of The Oxford

Encyclopedia of Women in World

History, edited by Bonnie G. Smith

(2008). He has written Dissent in

Early Modern China: ‘Ju-lin wai

shih’ and Ch’ing Social Criticism

(1981), Banished Immortal:

Searching for Shuangqing, China’s

Peasant Woman Poet (2001), and

has edited Heritage of China:

Contemporary Perspectives on

Chinese Civilization (1990), and

co-edited, with Harriet Zurndorfer

and Paola Zamperini, Passionate

Women: Female Suicide in Late

Imperial China (1991).

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