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Yu-Yin Cheng

Associate Professor of History and International Studies
Chair of History Department


email
212-774-4833

Degrees
B.A., National Taiwan Normal University
M.A., University of California, Davis
Ph.D., University of California, Davis


Yu-Yin Cheng is an associate professor of History and International Studies. Her specialization is in Chinese intellectual-activism, Chinese women’s history, and Christianity in late imperial China (1368-1910 CE). She teaches courses on Chinese and East Asian culture and history, East-West encounters, world history, and contemporary China. She is the author of A Chronological Biography of Lo Ju-fang (1515-1588): Poet, Philosopher, Activist [in Chinese] (1995), and co-editor of Under Confucian Eyes: Texts on Gender in Chinese History (2001, with Susan Mann).


2007-2008
Achievements in Scholarship and Service



Presentations
“Neo-Confucianism: Re-Interpreting a Tradition,” China Institute, New York, April 19, 2010.

(Invited Speaker).

Publications
"The Taizhou School and the Popularization of Liangzhi (Innate Knowledge)." Ming Studies. 60, Nov. 2009:45-65.

College Service
Interim Chair, Department of International Studies.

Chair, Search Committee for International Studies.







2007-2008 Achievements in Scholarships and Service

2009-2010 Achievements in Scholarships and Service