Asian Art Editor Moving On

Tom Mullaney
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Dissertation Reviews bids farewell to Michelle Wang, Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Georgetown University, who served as Field Editor for our Asian Art History series during the 2012-13 season. We wish Michelle all the best in her future endeavors, and thank her for her outstanding work.

We will be announcing new and exciting plans for Asian Art History — and History of Art more generally — very soon. Stay tuned!

Image: Stone Work at the Sun Temple at Konark. Photograph by Jyotirmaya, Wikimedia Commons.

Post written by: Tom Mullaney

Thomas S. Mullaney is Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History at Stanford University, having received his Ph.D. in History in 2006 from Columbia University. He is the author of Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China (University of California Press, 2011, Foreword by Benedict Anderson). This book charts the history of China’s 1954 Ethnic Classification project (minzu shibie), a joint social scientific-Communist state expedition wherein a group of ethnologists, linguists, and Party cadres traveled to the most ethnically diverse province in the People’s Republic to determine which minority communities would and would not be officially recognized by the state. He is also principal editor of Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation and Identity of China’s Majority, a pathbreaking volume that examines China’s majority ethnonational group. He is currently writing the first-ever global history of the Chinese typewriter, one of the most significant and misunderstood technological innovations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.