Home > About Us > Faculty & Staff : Ann B Waltner
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Specialties
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ritual
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law
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religion
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traditional Chinese social history
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law
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gender
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analysis of historical documentation
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rumor
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gossip
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chinese history
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world history
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feminism
Educational Background
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Ph.D.: Chinese History, University of California, Berkeley, none.
Publications
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Writing her Way out of Trouble: Li Yuying in History and Fiction.. Waltner, Ann Beth, 1997.
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The World of a Late Ming Mystic: T'an-Yang-Tzu and her Followers. Waltner, Ann Beth, University of California Press, 2000.
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Lingering Fragrance: The Poetry of Tu Yaosi and Shen Tiansun.. Waltner, Ann Beth, Pi-ching Hsu, 1997.
Research Activities
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Religion and kinship in late Ming dynasty China: the Story of Tanyangzi
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Spatial impropriety and other transgressions in Shen Fu's Six Records of a Floating Life
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The fifteenth century explorer Zheng He in American classrooms
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Family scandal and political crisis in the domestic life of the sixteenth-century literatus Wang Shizhen, as shown in eulogies and letters
Professional Activities
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Member, MacArthur Program Steering Committee: 1988 - 1997
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Associate Chair, History Department, University of Minnesota: 2002 - present
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Associate Dean for Academic Programs: 1997 - 2000
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Editor, Jounal of Asian Studies: 2000
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Co-chair, Program Committee, American Historical Association: 1996 - 1997
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Member, Program Committee, American Historical Association: 1995 - 1996
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Member of the Board, Association for Asian Studies: 2000 - present
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Chair, Levenson Prize Committee: 1995 - 1996
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Chair, CLA Committee on Curriculum, Instruction and Advising: 1996 - 1997
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Member, University Senate: 2000 - 2001
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Member, Levenson Prize Committee: 1994 - 1996
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Member, Executive Faculty, Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Minnesota: 2001 - present
Awards
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Graduate School Grant-in-Aid, 2001 - 2002
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Graduate Research Partnership Program, Summer 2002
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Graduate School Grant-in-Aid, 1990 - 1995
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Graduate Research Partnership Program, Summer 2001
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American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1986 - 1987
Courses Taught
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All 5920 - Topics in Asian Culture
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Hist 5940 - Topics in Modern Chinese History
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