Teaching
The new tractor driver, Shanghai, 1958. Source: https://chineseposters.net/posters/e37-166. Accessed October 27, 2024.
The purpose of liberal arts education is to produce global citizens who have an international horizon, intellectual perceptiveness, a broad intellectual compass, and the capability to mobilize all of these in speech and writing. Through engaging an extremely diverse set of human experiences and bringing various frames of reference to bear on empirical evidence, studying history provides ample opportunities to sharpen each of these skills. To come to terms with complex historical experience, students also develop the capability to debate controversial issues in sophisticated ways.
My teaching methods emphasize using digital history methods to develop students’ attitude of applying new tools to respond to changing intellectual scenarios. Bringing digital maps, propaganda posters and films, photographs, and advertisements into dialogue with textual sources, my classroom exercise enables students to master course contents through adaptive use of historical knowledge. Additionally, through digital timeline assignments, students would develop the skills to construct and visualize historical narratives, while recognizing how selective criteria were employed in narrative creation.
My teaching methods emphasize using digital history methods to develop students’ attitude of applying new tools to respond to changing intellectual scenarios. Bringing digital maps, propaganda posters and films, photographs, and advertisements into dialogue with textual sources, my classroom exercise enables students to master course contents through adaptive use of historical knowledge. Additionally, through digital timeline assignments, students would develop the skills to construct and visualize historical narratives, while recognizing how selective criteria were employed in narrative creation.
List of Courses Taught
Southern Methodist University, Department of History, Visiting Lecturer
China before 1850 (fall 2025)
Modern East Asia (summer 2025)
Modern Japan (fall 2025)
China in Revolution (fall 2025)
China and the World (spring 2026)
History of Korea (spring 2026)
East Asian Science and Technology (spring 2026)
Trinity University, Department of History, Visiting Assistant Professor
Modern East Asia (fall 2024, spring 2025)
Science, Technology, and the Making of Modern China (spring 2025)
University at Buffalo, Department of History, Visiting Assistant Professor
Asian Civilization I (fall 2023)
Asian Civilization II (spring 2024)
China and the World (fall 2023)
Twentieth-Century China Politics (spring 2024)
University of Maryland, College Park, Department of History, Adjunct Professor
East Asian Civilization II (spring 2023)
From Divided State to World Power: History of Republican China and the People’s Republic of China (spring 2023)
University of Pennsylvania, Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies, Adjunct Professor
East and Southeast Asia Regional History (graduate course, summer 2022, 2023)
George Washington University, Department of History, Graduate Teaching Assistant
The World History, 1500–Present (fall 2016–spring 2018)
US Diplomatic History (fall 2019, spring 2021–spring 2022)
Southern Methodist University, Department of History, Visiting Lecturer
China before 1850 (fall 2025)
Modern East Asia (summer 2025)
Modern Japan (fall 2025)
China in Revolution (fall 2025)
China and the World (spring 2026)
History of Korea (spring 2026)
East Asian Science and Technology (spring 2026)
Trinity University, Department of History, Visiting Assistant Professor
Modern East Asia (fall 2024, spring 2025)
Science, Technology, and the Making of Modern China (spring 2025)
University at Buffalo, Department of History, Visiting Assistant Professor
Asian Civilization I (fall 2023)
Asian Civilization II (spring 2024)
China and the World (fall 2023)
Twentieth-Century China Politics (spring 2024)
University of Maryland, College Park, Department of History, Adjunct Professor
East Asian Civilization II (spring 2023)
From Divided State to World Power: History of Republican China and the People’s Republic of China (spring 2023)
University of Pennsylvania, Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies, Adjunct Professor
East and Southeast Asia Regional History (graduate course, summer 2022, 2023)
George Washington University, Department of History, Graduate Teaching Assistant
The World History, 1500–Present (fall 2016–spring 2018)
US Diplomatic History (fall 2019, spring 2021–spring 2022)