Dr. Sarah Schneewind teaches Chinese history from the earliest times through the mid-19th century. Her specialty is state-society relations in the Ming period (1368-1644). A graduate of Cornell University (1986, B. A. in Asian Studies with Distinction in All Subjects), Yale University (1988, M. A. in East Asian Studies), and Columbia University (1999, Ph.D. in History with Distinction), she taught at Southern Methodist University before coming to UCSD in 2005, with a year as Visiting Assistant Professor in Modern Chinese History at Columbia. She is currently the President of the Society for Ming Studies.
Her major publications include her books A Tale of Two Melons: Emperor and Subject in Ming China (Hackett Publishers, 2006), and Community Schools and the State in Ming China (Stanford University Press, 2006). An edited collection entitled Long Live the Emperor: The Uses of the Ming Founder Across Six Centuries of East Asian History, is forthcoming.
Office: HSS 3062
Phone: (858) 822-0814
Email: sschneewind@ucsd.edu