Background
Waley-Cohen, Joanna was born on June 10, 1952 in London, England. Daughter of Bernard Nathaniel and Joyce Constance Ina Waley-Cohen.
Waley-Cohen, Joanna was born on June 10, 1952 in London, England. Daughter of Bernard Nathaniel and Joyce Constance Ina Waley-Cohen.
Bachelor, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1974. Master of Arts, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1977. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1987.
As Provost, she serves as New York University Shanghai’s chief academic officer, setting the university’s academic strategy and priorities, and overseeing academic appointments, research, and faculty affairs Her research interests include early modern Chinese history, especially the Qing dynasty. China and the West; and Chinese imperial culture, especially in the Qianlong era.
Warfare in China and Inner Asia.
Chinese culinary history. She has received many honors, including archival and postdoctoral fellowships, including those from the American Council of Learned Societies.
Goddard and Presidential Fellowships from New York University. And an Olin Fellowship in Military and Strategic History from Yale. She received her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in Chinese Studies from Cambridge University, then took a degree in law.
Waley-Cohen"s books include The Culture of War in China: Empire and the Military under the Qing Dynasty (IB Tauris, 2006).
The Sextants of Beijing: Global Currents in Chinese History (World War Norton, 1999). And Exile in Mid-Qing China: Banishment to Xinjiang, 1758-1820 (Yale University Press, 1991).
Her current scholarly projects include a revised history of imperialism in China, a study of daily life in China c.1800, and a history of culinary culture in early modern China. Nicholas Doctorate. Kristof welcomed Sexants in the New York Times as "sensibly organized and engagingly told" but "In the end, I disagreed with much of the thesis of this book, but that is not to say that I disliked lieutenant
On the contrary, I probably liked it more for disagreeing with lieutenant
Partly because of the boldness of the argument, it is stimulating and refreshing.."
Her 2003 article "New Qing History" summarized American revisionist scholarship in history of the Qing dynasty and gave it the name New Qing History which has come into widespread use.
(The Sextants of Beijing: Global Currents in Chinese Histo...)
(Banishment to Zinjiang ranked second in severity only to ...)
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Member of Royal Asiatic Society, Association for Asian Studies, American History Association.
Married Keith Bradoc Gallant, May 30, 1977. Children: Christopher Gallant, Isabel Gallant.