East Asian Languages and Cultures

Email:

struve@indiana.edu

Education

• PhD, University of Michigan, 1974

Research Interests

• Traditional Chinese history
• 17th century political and intellectual history
• East-West comparative thought
• East Asia in world history
• Chinese reference/source materials

Courses Recently Taught

• HIST G675/E600, Premodern East Asia: Integrative Issues
• HIST G101/E101, East Asia in World History
• HIST G382, China: The Age of Glory
• HIST G383, China: The Later Empires
• HIST J400/E351, Traditional Chinese Culture through Literature

Awards and Distinctions

• Visiting Scholar, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 2000
• Teaching Excellence Recognition Award, 1998
• Fulbright Foundation Grant for research in Taiwan, 1995
• Fellowship for Advanced Research in the People's Republic of China, Committee for Scholarly Communication with the PRC, 1991-1992

Publication Highlights

• The Ming-Qing Conflict: A Historiography and Source Guide, 1998
• Voices from the Ming-Qing Cataclysm: China in Tigers' Jaws, 1993 (paperback 1998)
• The Southern Ming, 1644-1662 (1984)
• "Not 'Conversant'?: William James and Huang Zongxi on Being and Knowing." Philosophy East and West, 42.1 (Jan. 1992): 139-161.