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Dr. Di Wang specializes in Chinese social and
cultural history. His books include
The Teahouse:
Small Business, Everyday Culture, and Public Politics in
Chengdu, 1900-1950 (Stanford, 2008), Street Culture
in Chengdu: Public
Space, Urban Commoners, and Local Politics, 1870-1930 (Stanford, 2003, winner of the Best Book [Non-North American]
Award for 2005 from the Urban History Association), and
Striding out of a Closed
World: Social Transformation of the Upper Yangzi Region,
1644-1911 (in
Chinese, Zhonghua shuju, 1993). He has published
articles in the Modern China, Journal of Urban
History, Later Imperial China,
Twentieth-Century China,
European Journal of East Asian Studies,
Chinese Historical Review,
and Lishi yanjiu. He has
been awarded research fellowships from
the National Humanities Center, the Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science, the Institute for International Research at
the Hopkins-Nanjing Center,
the
American Council of Learned Society, and National Endowment
for the Humanities.
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