Joanna Waley-Cohen

(Eleanor) Joanna Waley-Cohen is Professor of History at New York University, where she has taught since 1992. Born 10 June 1952, daughter of Sir Bernard Waley-Cohen, Bt. Educated Cranborne Chase School, and a graduate of Cambridge and Yale universities, she specialises in Chinese history.

Publications

The Sextants of Beijing: Global Currents in Chinese History. New York and London: W.W. Norton, 1999 (Paperback, 2000, French translation 2002)

Exile in Mid-Qing China: Banishment to Xinjiang, 1758-1820 (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1991)

The Culture of War in China; Empire and Military in the Eighteenth Century (London: IB Tauris, forthcoming, 2006)"The New Qing History" Radical History Review, Winter 2003

"Military Ritual and the Qing Empire," in N. di Cosmo, ed., Warfare in Inner Asian History. Leiden: E.J.Brill, 2002, 405-444

"War and Empire-Building in Eighteenth-Century China." International History Review (special issue on Manchu imperialism) XX.3 (June, 1998): 336-352

"A Brief History of Hong Kong." In Picturing Hong Kong, 1842-1910. New York: Asia Society, 1997, 15-26

"Commemorating War in Eighteenth-Century China." Modern Asian Studies 30.4

"China and Western Technology in the Late Eighteenth Century." American Historical Review 98.5 (December 1993): 1525-1544

"Chinese Taste" in "Food: A History of Taste" edited by Paul Freedman (London: Thames and Hudson", forthcoming, 2006)

External links

* [http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/joannawaleycohen NYU Faculty Page]
* [http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/AuthorBiography.aspx?AuthorId=28 The Globalist Contributor Bio]