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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Tobie Meyer-Fong\, Professor of History and until recently 
 Director of the East Asian Studies program at Johns Hopkins University\, i
 s broadly interested in the history of China from 1600 to the present.  He
 r previous work draws upon a wide range of sources to explore responses to
  war in the 17th and 19th centuries.  Recently she has been juggling sever
 al projects\, including one that features a survivor of the Taiping civil 
 war who circumnavigated the globe in 1876 and one that explores her mother
 -in-law's recollections of childhood in the Zhoushan archipelago during th
 e 1940s from the vantage point of family life\, emigration\, and the islan
 d's rapid 21st century urbanization.  She has also written about images of
  the Qing dynasty (and the Chinese past more generally) in contemporary Ch
 ina. Professor Meyer-Fong is the author of two books.  The first\, Buildin
 g Culture in Early Qing Yangzhou\, describes the construction of cultural 
 landmarks and the re-creation of elite identities in the city of Yangzhou 
 after the Manchu conquest. The second\, What Remains: Coming to Terms with
  Civil War in Nineteenth-Century China\, deals with the devastating emotio
 nal\, cultural\, and social impact of the Taiping rebellion. She served as
  editor of the journal Late Imperial China for twelve years ending in 2018
 .
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