Steven B. Miles Head and Professor, Division of Humanities, HKUST Editor-in-chief, Late Imperial China ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2021- Head and Professor, Division of Humanities, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 2018-2021 Professor, Department of History, Washington University in St. Louis 2008-2018 Associate Professor, Department of History, Washington University in St. Louis 2004-2008 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Washington University in St. Louis 2002-2003 An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center, Harvard University 2001-2004 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Southern Illinois University 2000-2001 Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, College of William and Mary Spring 2000 Lecturer, Department of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology EDUCATION Ph.D. in History, August 2000 University of Washington, Seattle M.A. in History, December 1990 University of Texas, Austin B.A. in History and Philosophy, May 1986 Trinity University, San Antonio BOOKS Opportunity in Crisis: Cantonese Migrants and the State in Late Qing China. Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Press, 2021. Chinese Diasporas: A Social History of Global Migration. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Upriver Journeys: Diaspora and Empire in Southern China, 1570-1850. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Press, 2017. Chinese translation under contract with Social Sciences Academic Press. The Sea of Learning: Mobility and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Guangzhou. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Press, 2006. Chinese edition: Xuehaitang yu wan Qing Lingnan xueshu wenhua 学海堂与晚清岭南学术 文化. Guangzhou: Guangdong renmin chubanshe, 2018. CURRENT BOOK PROJECT “City Seasons: The Pulse of Urban Life in Nineteenth-Century China.” DIGITAL PROJECTS “Cantonese Migrant Networks: Stone Inscriptions from the West River Basin” database, http://digital.wustl.edu/westriver (Chrome or Safari recommended), 2015- The Xie Lansheng Diary: Visualizations of Social Networks and Spatial Mobility, 2017- 2 COLLABORATIVE TRANSLATION PROJECT Annotated translation of Xie Lansheng diary, Changxingxingzhai riji, with May Bo Ching (City University of Hong Kong), Winnie Wong (University of California, Berkeley), and Zhou Xiang (Sun Yat-sen University) ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS “Where Diasporas Met: Hunanese, Cantonese, and the State in Late-Qing Guangxi.” Journal of Chinese History 5.2 (July 2021). “Family Strategy and State Policy: Migration and Civil Examinations in Southern China, 1660-1760.” Myong-Cheong-Sa Yongu 40 (October 2013). “The Upriver Reach of a Delta Town: Jiujiang Migrants in the West River Basin, Sixteenth- Nineteenth Century.” Frontiers of History in China 8.2 (June 2013). Chinese edition: “Yige sanjiaozhou chengzhen de shangyou quyu: 16-19 shiji Xijiang liuyu de Jiujiang yimin” 一个三角洲城镇的上游区域：16-19 世纪西江流域的九江移民. Sichuan daxue xuebao 190 (2014). “‘Stones from Other Hills’: Civil Examinations and Translocal Practice in Ming and Qing South China.” Ming Qing Studies (2010). “Imperial Discourse, Regional Elite, and Local Landscape on the South China Frontier, 1577- 1722.” Journal of Early Modern History 12.2 (2008). “Out of Place: Education and Identity among Three Generations of Panyu Gentry, 1850- 1931.” Twentieth-Century China 32.2 (April 2007). “expanding the Cantonese Diaspora: Sojourners and Settlers in the West River Basin.” Journal of Chinese Overseas 2.2 (November 2006). “Strange Encounters on the Cantonese Frontier: Region and Gender in Kuang Lu’s (1604- 1650) Chiya.” Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China 8.1 (2006). “Creating Zhu ‘Jiujiang’: Localism in Nineteenth-Century Guangdong.” T’oung Pao International Journal of Chinese Studies 90.4 (December 2004). “Celebrating the Yu Fan Shrine: Literati Networks and Local Identity in Early Nineteenth- Century Guangzhou.” Late Imperial China 25.2 (December 2004). Chinese edition: “Yu Fan ci: 19 shiji Guangzhou jingying qunti he difang rentong” 虞翻祠： 19 世纪广州精英群体和地方认同. Qingshi yicong 9 (2010). “From Small Fry to Big Fish: Representing the Rise of Jiujiang Township, Nanhai County, 1395-1657.” Ming Studies 48 (Fall 2003). “Rewriting the Southern Han (917-971): The Production of Local Culture in Nineteenth- Century Guangzhou.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 62.1 (June 2002). BOOK CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES “Urbanization and Emigration in Coastal South China,” in The Cambridge History of Global Migration, vol. 1, edited by Catia Antunes and Eric Tagliacozzo, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. “Confucian Academies and Their Urban Environments in Qing China,” in Vladmír Glomb, eun-Jeung Lee, and Martin Gehlmann, eds., Confucian Academies in East Asia. Leiden: Brill, 2020. “You shuo ji nan: Ruan Yuan, Xuehaitang yu wan Qing Lingnan xueshu” 由朔暨南：阮 元、學海堂與晚清嶺南學術 (From the north to the south: Ruan Yuan, the Sea of Learning Hall, and scholarship in nineteenth-century Guangzhou). Yangzhou bowuguan, 3 ed., Ruan Yuan yanjiu guoji xueshu yantaohui lunwenji. Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 2016. “establishing Authority through Scholarship: Ruan Yuan and the Xuehaitang Academy.” In Peter D. Hershock and Roger T. Ames, eds., Confucian Cultures of Authority. Albany: SUNY Press, 2006. RESEARCH ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES “Urbanization and Emigration in Coastal South China,” in The Cambridge History of Global Migration, vol. 1, edited by Catia Antunes and Eric Tagliacozzo, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. “Local Elites and Scholarship in Late Imperial China,” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, June 2017. “Ruan Yuan,” in Encyclopedia of Modern China. Charles Scribner’s Sons/Gale Cengage Learning, 2009. entries on “Guangzhou” and “Urbanism and Urbanization: East Asia,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Oxford University Press, 2008. Fourteen entries in Xinzhong Yao, ed., The Encyclopedia of Confucianism. Curzon, 2003. OTHER ARTICLES (PEER-REVIEWED?) “Xie Lansheng’s Diary from the Constantly Clear Mind Studio: An Overview of Urban Life in Guangzhou during the Jiaqing and Daoguang Eras.” South China Research Resource Station Newsletter 33 (October 2003). “Rebuilding the Gujing jingshe: Yu Yue and Evidential Research in the Post-Taiping Era, 1864-1881.” Virginia Review of Asian Studies 3 (September 2001). REVIEW ESSAYS “From Mobility to Stability: Civil Examinations and Social Status in Eighteenth-Century China,” review essay on Benjamin A. Elman, Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 57.4 (Winter 2016). “The Nature and Impact of Late Imperial Chinese Academies: A Review of Some Recent Publications in China.” Frontiers of Education in China 10.4 (December 2015). BOOK REVIEWS Review of Robert J. Antony, Unruly People: Crime, Community, and State in Late Imperial South China, in Journal of Chinese History, 2, special issue 2 (2018). Review of Henry Sze Hang Choi, The Remarkable Hybrid Maritime World of Hong Kong and the West River Region in the Late Qing Period, in International Journal of Maritime History 30.3 (2018). Review of David B. Honey, The Southern Garden Poetry Society: Literary Culture and Social Memory in Guangdong, in Journal of Asian Studies 73.3 (2014). Review of Olivia Milburn, Cherishing Antiquity: The Cultural Construction of an Ancient Chinese Kingdom, in The American Historical Review 119.3 (2014). Review of Tobie Meyer-Fong, What Remains: Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China, in Twentieth-Century China 39.1 (2014). Review of Jeffrey Snyder-Reinke, Dry Spells: State Rainmaking and Local Governance in 4 Late Imperial China, in Journal of Asian Studies 69.2 (2010). Review of Stephen R. Platt, Provincial Patriots: The Hunanese and Modern China, in The Chinese Historical Review 15.2 (2008). Review of Betty Peh-T’i Wei, Ruan Yuan, 1764-1849, in T’oung Pao International Journal of Chinese Studies 93.4/5 (2007). Review of Antonia Finnane, Speaking of Yangzhou: A Chinese City, 1550-1850, in the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 49.3 (2006). Review of Sarah Schneewind, Community Schools and the State in Ming China, in The Chinese Historical Review 13.2 (2006). Review of Tobie Meyer-Fong, Building Culture in Early Qing Yangzhou, in Lishi renleixue xuekan 2.2 (2004). Review of Laura Hostetler, Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China, in Lishi renleixue xuekan 1.1 (2003). FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS 2020 Faculty Research Grant, Washington University 2016 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, Graduate Student Senate and the Graduate School 2016 Collaborative Reading-Workshop Grant, Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies, for workshop “Urban Space and Social Networks in a Port City: Reading a Cantonese Diary (1819-1829),” Washington University, August 17-19, 2016. 2015 Faculty Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Washington University 2015 Roland Grimm Travel Grant, Washington University 2013 NeH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Fellowship 2011 Roland Grimm Travel Grant, Washington University 2009 Faculty Research Grant, Washington University 2008 American Research in the Humanities in China Fellowship, Committee on Scholarly Communication with China, ACLS, funded by NeH 2005 Andrew K. Mellon fellowship for research at Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, UK 2005 Roland Grimm Travel Grant, Washington University 2002 An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowship, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University 2002