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Janet Theiss | Associate Professor

 

Janet Theiss

Janet Theiss
Associate Professor

Janet.Theiss@utah.edu

Curriculum Vitae

801/585-5477

CTIHB 243

About

Janet Theiss is Emeritus Director of the University of Utah Asia Center, a National Resource Center for Asian and Pacific Studies. She is currently the Co-Director of the Society for Qing Studies, Associate Editor of the journal Late Imperial China, and a fellow of the National Committee on US-China Relations.


Education

  • PhD., University of California, Berkeley

Research Focus

Gender, Law, Family and Political Culture in Early Modern China


Key Publications

 Oxford Handbook of Gender History in Modern East Asia, co-edited with Barbara Molony and Hyaeweol Choi, Oxford University Press, in press, forthcoming 2024. 

Gender in Modern East Asia, China, Korea, Japan: An Integrated History, co-authored with Barbara Molony and Hyaeweol Choi. Westview Press, 2016.

Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China. The University of California Press, 2004.

“’She Whistles Carelessly Shunning Companions’: The Embedded and Transcendent Selves of Eighteenth-Century Poet-Painter Wang Liang,” Special Issue on Women and Gender in Premodern Chinese Literature and Culture, for Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture. 10.1 (April 2023), 108-136.

“Elite Engagement with the Judicial System in the Qing and its Implications for Legal Practice and Legal Principle.” In Chen Li and Madeleine Zelin, eds., Chinese Law: Knowledge, Practice and Transformation, 1530s to 1950s (Leiden: Brill, 2015).

“The Letter as Artifact of Sentiment & Legal Evidence.” In Antje Richter, ed., A History of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture (Leiden: Brill, 2015).

“Love in a Confucian Climate: The Perils of Intimacy in Eighteenth-Century China.” Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in Early and Imperial China, 11:2 (2009): 197-233.


Teaching

HIST 1210: Asian History to 1500
HIST 1220: Modern Asian
HIST 3510: Modern China
HIST 4510: Family, Sex, and Gender in China
HIST 4860: Chinese Environmental History 


Awards

Humanities Distinguished Faculty Service Award, 2018

Award for Excellence in Global Engagement, University of Utah, 2015.

Principal Investigator, Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center and Foreign Language and Area Studies Grant, 2014-2017 ($3,690,000)

Principal Investigator, Korea Foundation Grant to Seed a Professorship in Korean Politics, 2014-2020, $254,800

 

Last Updated: 8/9/24