Jun Fang
Professor, History
Email: [email protected]
Office Location: HUC V126
Office Phone: (519) 438-7224 ext. 239
B.A. (Nanjing Normal), P.G.C.E. (Hong Kong), M.A. (Nanjing), Ph.D. (Toronto)
Research Interests
A China historian with a primary research focus on the Ming period (1366-1644), I have
published extensively on the political, military, and social aspects of the penultimate
imperial dynasty. My teaching sojourn in Hong Kong as a teacher educator stimulated
a second research interest in the history of teacher education in the former British
colony, and I have published three edited books and more than a dozen journal articles
in this area. My current project is on the social world of Mao Xiang (1611-93), an
intriguing man of letters from East China.
Teaching
My teaching career has taken me from Nanjing (1987-89) to Hong Kong (1995-2005) and
finally to London. Since joining Huron in 2005, I have taught eight courses on the
history of China, East Asia, and the (non-Western) world. Four of them, namely "Law
and Punishment in Imperial China", "Political Assassination", "War and Memory in
Modern East Asia", and "Sex, Law, and Society in Imperial China", were designed by
me and have been well received by the students.
Selected Publications
(1) Books
The Reminiscences of the Shaded Plum Hut: Scholar and Concubine in Late Ming
China. Forthcoming.
China's Second Capital - Nanjing under the Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644. London and New
York: Routledge, 2014.
Xianggang Jiaoyushi (History of Education in Hong Kong). Changsha: Hunan Renmin
Chubanshe, 2010 (ed. of simplified characters); Hong Kong: Lingji Chuban Gongsi,
2008 (ed. of complex characters).
Zhongguoshi Tanze (Perspectives on Chinese History). Hong Kong: Huaxia Wenhua
Yishu Chubanshe, 2009.
Zhonghua Rili Tongdian (Chinese Calendrical Compendium). Changchun: Jilin Wenshi
Chubanshe, 2006. 4 Vols.
Zhongle de Kunhuo: Mingdai de Shangye yu Wenhua. Chinese translation of Confusions of
Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China. Taipei: Linking Publishing Co., 2004 (ed.
of complex characters); Beijing: Sanlian Shudian, 2004 (ed. of simplified characters). To
be republished by Guangxi Shifan Daxue Chubanshe in Nanning in 2015.
(2) Articles
”The Great Beginning of the Zheng He Voyages: Nanjing and the Indian Ocean World,
1405-1433.” Forthcoming.
“Between Resistance and Collaboration: The Third Way of Mao Xiang (1611-93).”
Forthcoming.
"Zhongguo Xinan Langren Kao" ("The "Wolf People" in Southwest China during the
Ming-Qing Period"). Journal of Beijing Normal University, 40:4 (July 2013), 77-86.
"Literati Statecraft and Military Resistance during the Ming-Qing Transition: The Case
of the Possibility Society (Jishe)." The Chinese Historical Review, 19:2 (December 2012),
87-106.
"Lai Jixi and the Development of Chinese Education at the University of Hong Kong."
Journal of Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch, Vol. 52 (2012), 267-289.
"The Military Functions of the Southern Capital in Ming China." Monumenta Serica:
European Journal of Oriental Studies, Vol. 55 (2007), 133-156.
"The Political Functions of the Southern Capital in the Ming Dynasty." Ming Studies,
No. 54 (Fall 2006), 71-106.
“The Military Triumvirate in the Southern Capital of the Ming Dynasty.” Ming Studies,
No. 37 (Fall 1997), 7-21.