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Research Interests<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Business History; Material Culture Studies; Chinese History; Nineteenth-Century U.S. History<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Education<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ph.D., History, University of Georgia, 2017
M.A., History, Nankai University, 2009
B.A., History and B.S., Economics, Nankai University, 2006<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Projects<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My current projects explore tea consumption in the post-Revolutionary United States, Chinese tea corporations from the late nineteenth century to the present, the trade and consumption of Chinese Nankeen, and the law of credit instruments in late imperial and Republican China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Publications
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Books<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Popular history tells the story of how the tea boycott during the American Revolution caused a transition in American taste from tea to coffee, making the young country a coffee-drinking nation. In truth, Americans did not give up their tea so easily, and the United States grew to be the second-largest importer of tea from China. This World in a Teacup<\/strong><\/em> is the first book to detail the American tea consumption and trade with China after the American Revolution through the early twentieth century. Diverging from British black tea traditions, U.S. consumers preferred green tea, cultivated a particular taste for Oolong tea, and invented the English Breakfast Tea brand to market Chinese black tea. Placing American tea consumption in the context of trade finance, this book explains how the circulation of credit instruments, such as promissory notes, bills of exchange, and checks, challenged the conventional understanding of China\u2019s economy as a primitive system and how the power structure of American, British, and Chinese tea trade in the credit economy reshaped American tea consumption patterns.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Peer-Reviewed Articles<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018Flying Cash\u2019: Credit Instruments on the Silk Roads<\/a> (Link to Academia<\/strong>),\u201d in Jefferey Lerner and Yaohua Shi ed., The Silk Roads: From Local Realities to Global Narratives<\/em> <\/strong>(Oxford, U.K.: Oxbow Books, 2020), 237-264.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGreen Gold and Paper Gold: Seeking Independence through the Chinese-American Tea Trade, 1784-1815 (Link to Academia<\/strong><\/em>)<\/a>,\u201d Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal,<\/em><\/strong> 16, no. 1 (2018): 151-191. (Reprinted in Chinese in Nankai shixue<\/em><\/strong>, vol. 27, no.1 (2019): 265-306.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Courses Taught<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

HIST1502\/LBST2102 Chinese Food<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HIST 4002\/5002 Capitalism in China?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HIST3002 Made in China: Modern Chinese History in Objects<\/strong> (Students’ Online Exhibitions<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HIST2600 U.S.-China Trade in the 19th Century<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HIST2201 Modern East Asia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

LBST2301 History of the Silk Road<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Awards and Fellowships<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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External Awards and Grants<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

2024<\/u> Project Award, James P. Geiss & Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024<\/u> Alvin Achenbaum Travel Grant, Hartman Center, Duke University David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023 <\/u>Research Travel Grant, William & Mary Special Collections Research Center<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021<\/u> NEH-MHS Long Term Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities & <\/strong>Massachusetts Historical Society<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020<\/u> Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018  <\/u>Outstanding Overseas Students Award, China Scholarship Council
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2017<\/u>  Short-Term Fellowship, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
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2016<\/u> Gilder Lehrman Fellowship, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
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2016<\/u> Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship, National Museum of American History<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016 <\/u>Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEARS) Short-Term Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2015<\/u>  Peabody Essex Museum Phillips Library Research Fellowship, Peabody Essex Museum<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014<\/u>  New England Regional Fellowship, New England Regional Fellowship Consortium<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Internal Awards and Grants<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

2025<\/span> Free Expression & Constructive Dialogue Task Force Mini-Grant, UNC Charlotte<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024<\/span> Free Expression & Constructive Dialogue Task Force Mini-Grant, UNC Charlotte<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023<\/span> Honors Course Planning Grant, UNC Charlotte<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022<\/u> Capitalism Studies Course Development Grant, UNC Charlotte<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021<\/u> Frances Lumsden Gwynn Award, UNC Charlotte<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021<\/u> Junior Faculty Development Award, UNC Charlotte <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018<\/u> Faculty Research Grant, UNC Charlotte<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018<\/u> Excellence-in-Research Award, University of Georgia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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