Dr. Yuan-Ling Chao

Professor

CONTACT
E-mail: yuan-ling.chao@mtsu.edu
Phone: (615) 898-2629
Office Location and Mailing Address: Peck Hall, Room 265
MTSU Box 23
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
Link to Personal Website: http://mtweb.mtsu.edu/ychao/

FIELDS: Late Imperial China, History of Medicine

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT: 

• History 1110, World Civilizations to 1500
• History 1120, World Civilizations since 1500
• History 3070, Topics in World History
• History 4450, History of Japan
• History 4460, History of China
• History 4410, History of Medicine
• History 4810, History of Women in the Third World: Women in China

GRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT:

• History 6305, Research Seminar in Global History

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: 

Chao, Yuan-ling. Medicine and Society in Late Imperial China: A Study of Physicians in Suzhou, 1600-1850. NY: Peter Lang Publishing, 2009.

WORKS IN PROGRESS:

A project on examining popular healing practices through legal cases.

A project on examining the changing perceptions of the inner bodily landscape in late imperial China.

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., UCLA, 1995
Certificate, Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies (Stanford Center), Tokyo, 1984
M.A.,    University of California, Santa Barbara, 1983
B.A.,    Hong Kong Baptist College, 1981

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