VINCENTS.LEUNG
UniversityofPittsburgh
DepartmentofHistory
5250LibertyAve,#203,Pittsburgh,PA15224
[email protected]•+1-617-230-9853
ACADEMICPOSITIONS
UniversityofPittsburgh,Pittsburgh,PA
AssistantProfessor,DepartmentofHistory,2011-Present
NewYorkUniversity,NewYorkCity,NY
VisitingResearchScholar,InstitutefortheStudyoftheAncientWorld,2014-2015
EDUCATION
HarvardUniversity,Cambridge,MA
Ph.D.,EastAsianLanguagesandCivilizations,November2011 HarvardUniversity,Cambridge,MA
A.M.,RegionalStudies—EastAsia,May2002
UniversityofMassachusettsatAmherst,Amherst,MA
B.S.,summacumlaude,MathematicsandEconomics,February2000
B.A.,summacumlaude,ChineseLanguageandLiteratures,February2000
PhiBetaKappa
FELLOWSHIPSANDAWARDS
FacultyResearchScholarshipProgram,UniversityofPittsburgh,2016-2017
FacultyResearchFellowship,HumanitiesCenter,UniversityofPittsburgh,2013-2014
FairbankCenterGraduateStudentAssociateFellowship,HarvardUniversity,2009-2011
CertificateofDistinctioninTeaching,DerekBokCenter,HarvardUniversity,2005&2010
GraduateSocietyDissertationCompletionFellowship,HarvardUniversity,2008-2009
GraduateStudentCouncilSummerResearchGrant,HarvardUniversity,2007
PresidentialAwardforAchievementinInstructionalTechnology,HarvardUniv.,2007
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ForeignLanguagesandAreaStudies(FLAS)Grant,U.S.Dept.ofEducation,2006-07 ForeignLanguagesandAreaStudies(FLAS)Grant,U.S.Dept.ofEducation,2005-2006
HarvardSummerFellowshipforJapaneseLanguageStudy,HarvardUniversity,2004
JosephFletcherMemorialAwardforMaster’sThesisHonorableMention,HarvardUniv.,2002
HonorsDean’sAwardforExcellenceofHonorsThesis,Univ.ofMassachusettsAmherst,2000 PUBLICATIONS
Bookmanuscripts,journalarticles,andbookchapters
WhyHistoryMattered:ThePoliticsofthePastinEarlyChina.[Bookmanuscriptunderreview
atCambridgeUniversityPressandHarvardUniversityPress]
EmpireandThings:AHistoryofEconomicThoughtinEarlyChina.[Bookmanuscriptunder
preparation]
“BadWriting:CursiveCalligraphyandtheEthicsofOrthographyintheEasternHan.”
BehavingBadlyinEarlyandMedievalChina,ed.N.HarryRothschildandLeslie
Wallace.Honolulu:UniversityofHawai’iPress.[Bookchapterforthcomingin2017]
“OntheChuciasaLiteraryArtifactoftheSpatialPoliticsoftheHanEmpire.”[Journal
articleunderreviewattheJournalofAmericanOrientalSociety]
“APoeticRectificationofNames:Onthe‘Fu’ChapteroftheXunzi.”[Journalarticleunder
reviewattheInternationalCommunicationofChineseCulture]
“Mozi.”TheOxfordHandbookofAncientChina,7/6000-300BCE,ed.Elizabeth
Childs-Johnson.Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress.[Bookchapterforthcoming]
“TheFormerHanEmpire.”RoutledgeHandbookonEarlyChineseHistory,ed.PaulR.Goldin.
London:Routledge.[Bookchapterunderreview]
Bookanddissertationreviews
ReviewofLiangCai,WitchcraftandtheRiseoftheFirstConfucianEmpire(StateUniversity
ofNewYorkPress,2014).JournalofChinesePhilosophy.[Forthcomingin2017]
ReviewofJackChenandDavidSchaberg,eds.,IdleTalk:GossipandAnecdoteinTraditional
China(BerkeleyandLosAngeles:UniversityofCaliforniaPress,2013).Social
History40.1(2015),106-107.
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“StudyingAncientWorldHistoryin20th-CenturyChina.”AreviewofXinFan’sdissertation
TheMakingofanAlienatedPast:TheStudyofAncientWorldHistoryinTwentieth-
CenturyChina(IndianaUniversity,2013).DissertationReviews.April28,2015.
(http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/11511)
“SimaQianandtheAuthor-Function.”AreviewofEstherKlein’sdissertationTheHistoryofa
Historian:PerspectivesontheAuthorialRolesofSimaQian(Princeton,2010).
DissertationReviews.March4,2014.(http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2279)
“HuntingandEasternHanTombReliefs.”AreviewofLeslieWallace’sdissertationChasing
theBeyond:DepictionsofHuntinginEasternHanDynastyTombReliefs(25-220CE)
fromShaanxiandShanxi(UniversityofPittsburgh,2010).DissertationReviews.
January24,2013.(http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2174)
Encyclopediaarticle
“Cosmology.”EncyclopediaofModernChina,ed.DavidPong.Detroit:CharlesScribner’s
Sons,2009.366-68.
INVITEDLECTURES
“SpecterofthePast:RemembranceandAmnesiaundertheRiseoftheQinEmpire.”East
AsiaCenter,UniversityofVirginia.October7,2016.
“TheRiseoftheQinEmpireandtheEndofHistoriographyinEarlyChina.”Instituteforthe
StudyoftheAncientWorld,NewYorkUniversity.April14,2015.
“WhyHistoryMattered:OnthePoliticsofthePastinEarlyChina.”ColumbiaEarlyChina
Seminar,ColumbiaUniversity.March6,2015. “TheBurningoftheBooks:InnovationsandAmnesiainEarlyChina.”BucknellUniversity.
April4,2014.
“AnEmpirewithoutaPast:LegalismandBureaucraticAmnesiainEarlyChina.”Humanities
Center,UniversityofPittsburgh.March20,2014.
“MeninExile:TowardsaHistoryofHumanisminEarlyChina.”DepartmentofEastAsian
LanguagesandLiteratures,UniversityofOregon.February16,2014.
“WhyEarlyChinaMatters:OntheCuriousDiscoveryofOracle-Bonesin1899.”Chinese
StudiesResearchColloquium,UniversityofPittsburgh.September13,2013.
“TheConfucianAnalectsandtheInventionoftheHumaninEarlyChina.”AsiaOverLunch
LectureSeries,UniversityofPittsburgh.March6,2013.
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“HomelessandStateless:WritingtheHumaninEarlyChina.”ChineseLiteratureLecture
Series,YaleUniversity.January27,2012.
“SpecterandAmnesia:LawandHistoryinEarlyChina.”DepartmentofHistory,University
ofPittsburgh.January22,2011.
CONFERENCEPRESENTATIONS
“TheCuriousConstitutionofAntiquityinModernChina:OntheDiscoveryofOracleBones
in1899,ForExample.”44thAnnualMid-AtlanticRegionalAASConference.October
9-11,2015.
“BestServedCold?RevengeandResentmentasPoliticalToolsinEarlyMedievalJapan”
Paneldiscussant.44thAnnualMid-AtlanticRegionalAASConference.October9-11,
2015.
“FoundinTranslation:AConferenceontheWorldHistoryofScience,ca.1200-1600.”Panel
chair.UniversityofPittsburgh.October10–12,2015.
“ExcavatedTextsandEarlyChineseEmpires.”Panelorganizerandchair.Inaugural
AAS-in-AsiaConference,NationalUniversityofSingapore.July17-19,2014.
“InscribingtheWorld:GlobalArt,GlobalHistory,Pedagogy.”Paneldiscussant.Second
GlobalHumanitiesWorkshop,UniversityofPittsburgh.April5,2013.
“AntiquityRehabilitated:JiaYi’sPoliticsasaScienceofthePast.”AssociationforAsian
StudiesAnnualConference,SanDiego,California.March21-24,2013.
“DefiningandRedefiningFriends:LiteraryRepresentationsofFriendshipinTraditional
ChineseGenres.”Paneldiscussant.NewEnglandAssociationforAsianStudies,
October20,2012.
“‘EarlyChina’asanExtra-traditionalPast:TheDiscoveryofOracle-BoneInscriptionsin
1899.”WritingaNewLiteraryHistoryofModernChina:AWorkshop.Harvard
University.April22-23,2011.
“EmpireandTime:QinEmpireandtheLegalistTradition.”20thAnnualGraduateStudent
ConferenceonEastAsia,ColumbiaUniversity.February4-5,2011.
“TheProblemwithHistoryinEarlyLegalistWritings.”14thAnnualSoutheastEarlyChina
Roundtable,UniversityofKentucky.November12-14,2010.
“TheLocationofEmpire:SpatialCriticismintheHuainanzi.”13thAnnualHarvardEastAsia
SocietyGraduateStudentConference,HarvardUniversity,February26-28,2010.
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“HomelessandStateless:HumanismandHistoryinEarlyChina.”FairbankCenterGraduate
AssociatesLectureSeries,HarvardUniversity,February23,2010.
“TheSpecterofthePast:LawandHistoryundertheQinEmpire.”TheUnfinishedWorkof
Interpretation,HarvardUniversity.May28,2009.
“EmpiresinEarlyChina.”JoukowskyInstituteforArchaeologyandtheAncientWorld,
BrownUniversity.November24,2008.
“ThePoliticsofHistoryinEarlyChina.”2ndAnnualProspectusConference,EastAsian
LanguagesandCivilizations,HarvardUniversity.May5,2008.
“TheContentoftheForminthe‘Fu’ChapteroftheXunzi.”NewEnglandAssociationof
AsianStudiesRegionalConference,UniversityofNewHampshire.October7,2007.
“EarlyHanImperialismandSimaQian’sMotiveforHistoriography.”10thAnnualHarvard
EastAsiaSocietyGraduateStudentConference,HarvardUniversity.March9-11,
2007.
“Onthe‘Fu’ChapteroftheXunzi:TextandContextintheReadingofEarlyChineseTexts.”
IntergenerationalGraduateStudentConferenceonDiversityinEastAsia,University
ofMassachusettsatAmherst.May5-6,2006.
“TheInstitutionandPerversionofNames:Onthe‘Fu’ChapteroftheXunzi.”Placesand
Spaces:TheAestheticsofPlaceandDisjunctureinChineseLiterature,Harvard
University.January13,2006
CONFERENCEORGANIZATION
Co-Organizer
SpatialImaginationinEarlyandMedievalChina.Co-organizingwithGarretOlberding(The
UniversityofOklahoma).UniversityofPittsburgh.May26-27,2017.
Empire,Ethics,andTradition:AnInternationalConferenceontheHanDynasty.Co-
organizedwithMichaelIng(IndianaUniversityBloomington).Universityof
Pittsburgh.May23-24,2014.(http://handynasty.org/).
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GraduateOrganizer
ManuscriptCultureintheChineseTradition.OrganizedbyXiaofeiTian(HarvardUniversity).
HarvardUniversity.May14-16,2010.
LiuAn’sVisionofEmpire:NewPerspectivesontheHuainanzi.Co-organizedbyMichaelPuett
(HarvardUniversity)andSarahQueen(ConnecticutCollege).HarvardUniversity.
May30-31,2008.
MedievalChinaTextReadingGroup.OrganizedbyXiaofeiTian(HarvardUniversity).
HarvardUniversity.December15,2007.
AWorkshoponKineticVisioninEarlyMedievalChina.Co-organizedbyXiaofeiTian
(HarvardUniversity)andYuan-juLiu(AcademiaSinica).HarvardUniversity.May
25-26,2007.
PowerofWords:TheInterpretationofPremodernChineseLiteratures.OrganizedbyWilt
Idema(HarvardUniversity).HarvardUniversity.October27-29,2006.
StudyingtheDailyMedium:NewspapersasSubjectandSourceinRepublican-EraChina,
1911-1949.Co-organizedbyEileenChow(HarvardUniversity)andTimothyWeston
(UniversityofColorado-Boulder).HarvardUniversity.May28-29,2005.
AWorkshopontheEasternJin.Co-organizedbyMichaelPuett(HarvardUniversity)and
XiaofeiTian(HarvardUniversity).HarvardUniversity.May6-7,2005.
SPEAKERSERIESORGANIZATION
Co-Organizer
PittsburghHistoryDepartmentColloquium.Withco-chairMollyWarsh,AssistantProfessor,
HistoryDepartment,UnivesityofPittsburgh.Aspeakerseriestobeinauguratedin
September2016.
GraduateOrganizer
ChinaHumanitiesSeminar.Speakerseriesonpre-modernChinesestudies,withchairsWilt
Idema(2006-2008)andWai-yeeLi(2008-2010),HarvardUniversity.September
2006–May2010.
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TEACHINGEXPERIENCE
UniversityofPittsburgh
• AncientWorlds[comparativesurveyofancientEurasianempires]
• AncientChina[surveyfromprehistorytotheHanempireofancientChina]
• ChineseThought[surveyofearlyChineseintellectualhistorytotheHanempire]
• EastAsianCivilizationto1800[surveyofpremodernChina,Japan,Korea]
• TextsandContexts:CoreSeminar[grad.seminaronculturalstudiesmethodology]
HarvardUniversity
ClassicalChineseEthicalandPoliticalTheory(Instructor:MichaelJ.Puett)
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TeachingFellow,Fall2009;HeadTeachingFellow,Fall2006
AwardedtheCertificateofDistinctioninTeachinginFall2009
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TeachingFellow,Spring2005
AwardedtheCertificateofDistinctioninTeachinginSpring2005
TheChineseLiterati(Instructor:PeterK.Bol)
IntroductiontoEastAsianCivilizations(Instructor:MichaelJ.Puett)
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HeadTeachingFellow,Fall2005;TeachingFellow,2004
SeniorThesisTutor,EastAsianStudies
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M.Wallner’sthesisonLeibniz’swritingsonearlyChinesephilosophy,2010-2011
J.Wanger’sthesisoncooksandcookinginearlyChineseliterature,2008-2009
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Educationaltechnologyconsultantforfacultyandstudentsinthehumanities
CreationofwebapplicationsforEastAsianstudiescourses(seebelow)
RecipientofthePresidentialAwardforAchievementinInstructionalTechnologyin
2007foroutstandingleadershipinpromotingwebpedagogyinEastAsianstudies
LeadTeachingFellow,EastAsianLanguagesandCivilizationsDepartmentandtheBok
CenterforTeachingandLearning,2007-2008.
DIGITALHUMANITIES
DigitalHumanitiesFellowship
PresidentialInstructionalTechnologyFellow
AcademicTechnologyGroup,HarvardUniversity,2005-2011
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WebApplications(aselectedlist)
EighteenSongsofaNomadFluteScroll(http://goo.gl/x4Xz),HarvardUniv.,Fall2009
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SupervisedateamofwebdesignerstocreateanonlineversionoftheMingdynasty
paintingEighteenSongsofaNomadFlute(Hujiashibapai
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CommissionedbyMichaelSzonyi(Harvard)forhisclassesonLateImperialChina
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TheQingDocsWiki(http://goo.gl/diaP),HarvardUniversity,Fall2008
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Supervisedateamofwebdesignersandprogrammerstocreateawikiforthe
graduatestudyofQingdynastyhistoriographicaldocumentsattheuniversity
CommissionedbyMarkElliott(Harvard)forhisseminaronQingdocuments
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TheQingmingScroll(http://goo.gl/OU77),HarvardUniversity,Fall2007
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Collaboratedwithateamofwebdesignersandprogrammerstocreateanonline
versionoftheSongdynastypaintingQingmingshanghetu
CommissionedbyMichaelSzonyi(Harvard)forhisclassesonLateImperialChina
WebPedagogyPresentations
“TeachingwithTechnology.”Dept.ofHistory,UniversityofPittsburgh.Sept.18,2011.
“TheQingmingScroll:ADemonstration.”SeminaronDesigningandProducingMediafor
Education,GraduateSchoolofEducation,HarvardUniversity.March22,2009.
“TeachingwithTechnology.”DudleyHouseSeminar,HarvardUniversity.March22,2007.
“WebApplicationsinEastAsianStudies.”WebPedagogiesSeminar,HarvardUniversity.
March10,2006.
Webmaster
SocietyfortheStudyofChineseReligionsofficialwebsite(http://isites.harvard.edu/k7027),
underthesocietypresidentsMichaelJ.Puett(HarvardUniversity,2006-2008)and
JamesRobson(HarvardUniversity,2008-2011).
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UNIVERSITYANDPROFESSIONALSERVICES
(attheUniversityofPittsburgh,unlessotherwisenoted)
Member,SocietyfortheStudyofEarlyChinaAnnualConferenceOrganizingComm.2016.
Member,ChinaCouncil.2012–Present.
Member,AsianStudiesCenterFacultyAdvisoryBoard.2016–Present.
Member,SearchCommitteefortheMellonChair.HistoryDepartment.2016-2017.
Convener,TextsandContextsThematicGroup.HistoryDepartment.2015-2016.
Member,SearchCommitteefortwoEastAsianHistorians.HistoryDepartment.2014-2015.
Member,FacultyGrantsOversightCommittee.AsianStudiesCenter.2011-2016.
Member,GraduateStudentGrantsOversightCommittee.AsianStudiesCenter.2011-2016.
Member,SearchCommitteeforaVisitingEastAsianHistorian.HistoryDepartment.2012-2013.
Member,GraduateCommittee.HistoryDepartment.2012-2013.
Member,PlanningandBudgetCommittee.HistoryDepartment.2012-2013&2015-2016.
Member,TeachingSeminarCurriculumCommittee.HistoryDepartment.2011-2012. LANGUAGES
ClassicalChinese(fullproficiency)
MandarinChinese(near-nativefluency)
CantoneseChinese(nativefluency)
Japanese(advancedreadingandintermediatespeaking)
French(readingonly)
PROFESSIONALASSOCIATIONS
Member,AssociationforAsianStudies
Member,AmericanHistoricalAssociation
Member,SocietyfortheStudyofEarlyChina
Member,EarlyMedievalChinaGroup
Member,T’angStudiesSociety
MemberandWebmaster(2006-2011),SocietyfortheStudyofChineseReligions