Rebecca started following the work of Kimberly Kay Hoang, Rice University, Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
Rebecca started following the work of Ben Lu, Goldsmiths, University of London, Sociology.
Rebecca added a talk.
Faculty Member, History
About
In the past I've worked on government projects of cultural reform; the relationship between politics and religion in the modern era; and the relationship between national cultural policy and local social dynamics and landscapes, both conceptual and literal. State secularism, political commemoration and the role of modernity in religion (and vice versa) have been and continue to be frequent topics for me.
I am now writing a book that explores displacement, home, and community formation during China and Taiwan's mid-twentieth-century "long war" -- the Japan, civil and Cold wars, 1937-1959. This research has deepened my interest in comparing migrations, diasporas and territorial partitionings, and in employing ritual and local studies as methods in these fields. I am also involved in a collaborative project to explore the social meanings of dead bodies in modern China.
Contact Information
| Homepage: | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/history/faculty/alph |
| Address: | Department of History |
