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Jeffrey Kyong-McClain

Jeff Kyong-McClain

Jeff Kyong-McClain was born and raised in Minneapolis. He received a BA in History from the University of Minnesota and an MA in Theology from Bethel Seminary, St. Paul, before beginning graduate work in Chinese History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He lived for three years in the city of Chengdu, in southwestern China, the last year on a Fulbright-Hays dissertation grant. His research centers on the place of archaeology in modern Chinese nation-building; teaching interests include modern China and modern Korea, and anything pertaining to Sino-Western interaction.

Selected Publications

  • Chinese History in Geographical Perspective.  Co-editor with Yongtao Du.  Forthcoming in 2012.

  • “D.C. Graham in Chinese Intellectual History:  Foreigner as Nation Builder.”  In Explorers and Scientists in China’s Borderlands.  Co-author with Geng Jing.  2011.

  • “Barbarian Caves or Han Tombs?  Republican-Era Archaeology and the Reasseration of Han Presence in Ancient Sichuan.”  Twentieth-Century China. 2010.

Updated 9.15.2011