Faculty Publications
Tracy Miller, Associate Professor of History of Art, is author of The Divine Nature of Power: Chinese Ritual Architecture at the Sacred Site of Jinci. The book was published in 2007 by the Harvard University Press in the Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Professor Miller also has articles in The Art Bulletin, Asia Major, and forthcoming in Archives of Asian Art.
During the Fall Faculty Assembly Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos presented Professor Miller with a Chancellor's Award for Research. In presenting the award Chancellor Zeppos said, Professor Miller "has been selected to receive a Chancellor's Award for her book The Divine Nature of Power: Chinese Architecture at the Sacred Site of Jinci. Tracy is a specialist in the history of Chinese art, architecture, and visual culture and has garnered an impressive international reputation in this important field. In this book, described repeatedly as one of the finest accounts ever written on Chinese architectural history, she used an interdisciplinary approach incorporating the findings of archaeologists, anthropologists, and religious, social and art historians."
Chancellor’s Awards are presented to faculty members
who “have demonstrated outstanding leadership and excellence in research,
scholarship, and creative expression in work that has been published
or presented in the past three years."
Peter Lorge, Senior Lecturer in History, published a book entitled The
Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb from Cambridge University
Press in 2008. This extraordinarily ambitious book traces the history of
the invention of gunpowder by the Chinese in the 800s, and its impact on
the surrounding Asian world from the ninth through the twentieth century.
It is packed with information about military strategy, interregional warfare
and the development of armaments.
Dr. Xianmin Liu, Senior Lecturer and Program Coordinator of Chinese Language,
is co-author of two Chinese language textbooks and is a contributor to
a third book.
Reality Chinese: A Multi-skill Chinese Course for Intermediate and Advanced Students, co-authored with Yuehua Liu and Jinyu Li, World Publishing Corporation, 2006.
Scenario Chinese I and Scenario Chinese II: A Multi-skill
Chinese Course for Beginning and Intermediate Students, co-authored
with Yuehua Liu, Jinyu Li and Liangyan Ge. Published by World Publishing
Corporation, 2008.
“Teaching Grammar in the Study Abroad Context: Introducing Four Teaching
Methods” and “A Pedagogical Perspective o the Research on Mandarin Subject
Adverbs” in Chinese as a Foreign/Second Language in
the Study Abroad Context,
edited by Professor Kun Shan (Carolyn) Lee (Duke University), published
by Peking University Press, 2008.