David G. Atwill, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, member of the Committee for Early Modern Studies (CEMS)
413A Weaver
814-865-1218
dga11@psu.edu
"I am a historian of late imperial and modern Chinese history. My research has largely centered on the ethno-religious identity of the Muslim Chinese (or Hui) in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan. I have published several articles on this topic and most recently a monograph entitled The Chinese Sultanate: Islam, Ethnicity and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwestern China, 1856-1873 (Stanford University Press). My new project on Lin Zexu examines the late imperial conceptions of China's borderlands, ethnicity and self through one of China's most famous officials in the early nineteenth century."
Current or Recent Undergraduate Courses
World History to 1500
Modern East Asia
Nineteenth Century China
Twentieth Century China
Current or Recent Graduate Courses
Islam's Orient: Islam, Nationalism and Ethnic Violence in China
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