Xiao Chen

Xiao Chen (He/Him) joins the History Department of Grinnell College as a faculty member in Fall 2023. His dissertation, “Punishment, Frontier, and Ethnicity in the Making of the Qing Empire (1636-1912)”, have charted the rise of a new convict labor regime engaged in categorizing, exploiting, and “rehabilitating” convicts, which grew out of Qing colonial practices in Northern Manchuria, Western Mongolia and Xinjiang. His forthcoming publication includes a journal article on how ethnicity became a new factor in jurisdictional differences when trying sexual offenses between members of the Eight Banners and the Han majority in the eighteenth-century Qing judiciary. 

Courses Taught

HIS 271 Imperial Collisions in the Asia-Pacific
HIS 295 Gender and Power in Chinese History (Qing to Present)

Publications

Chen, X (2023). “Painted Skin: Indigenous Taiwanese Skin Marking in Early Modern
        European and Chinese Eyes” in Craig Koslofsky and Katherine Dauge-Roth, eds.    
        Stigma: Marking Skin in the Early Modern World, Pennsylvania State University Press.

Chen, X. (2016). “Debating Constitutionalism and Democracy: the Constitutional
        Movement during Late Wartime China, 1943-1944” in Joseph Esherick and Matthew
        Combs, eds., 1943: China at the Crossroads, Cornell University Press, Ithaca.

Translation of 1943: China at the Crossroads [1943：中國在十字路口], eds. Joseph Esherick,
        and Matt Combs, Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2017