Biography

Ph.D. Harvard University, 1980 (Chinese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations) M.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1975 (Oriental Languages) M.A. Oxford University, England, 1974 (Oriental Studies) B.A. Oxford University, England, 1970 (Oriental Studies)

Research Intrest

Early and Pre-modern Chinese History; History of Women in China; History of Chinese Law; Excavated and Retrieved Manuscripts; Popular Culture

List of Publications
Women in China from Earliest Times to the Present: A Bibliography of Studies in Western Languages. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2009
Birth of an Empire: The State of Qin Revisited, co-editor with Yuri Pines, Gideon Shelach, and Lothar von Falkenhausen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013
Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China: A Study with Critical Edition and Translation of the Legal Texts from Zhangjiashan Tomb no. 247, co-authored with Anthony Barbieri-Low, 2 vols. Sinica Leidensia vol. 126, cxiv+1416 pp. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, November 16, 2015