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Andrew Meyer

Assistant Professor   Department: History   Location: 502s Whitehead Hall   Phone: 718-951-5000 x2811   Fax: 718-951-4504   Email:

Education: DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY - 1999 (EAST ASIAN STUDIES) Books and Publications "The Altars of the Soil and Grain are Closer than Kin: The Qi Model of Intellectual Participation and the Jixia Patronage Community." Early China, forthcoming. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2010 The Huainanzi: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government in Han China. Co-edited and co-translated with John S. Major, Sarah Queen, and Harold D. Roth. New York: Columbia, 2010. (I participated in the editing of the entire 952-page volume. I co-authored the general Introduction, pp. 1-40, and co-translated Chapter 2, pp. 77-108. I was the sole translator of Chapter 11, pp. 391-428, Chapter 15, pp. 573-616, and Chapter 18, pp. 713-756. I was the sole author of Appendix A: Chinese Terms Explained, pages 869-920). (Books and Publications: Book) 2010 "Confucianism," "Daoism," "Footbinding." Victoria Mondelli and Gottsleben, Cherrie A., eds. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship and Sex Through History: Volume 3. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2008, pp. 57-61, 65-67, 92-94. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008 Co-authored with Andrew R. Wilson: "Inventing the General: A Re-appraisal of the Sunzi bingfa." Andrew R. Wilson and Perry, Mark L., eds. War, Virtual War, and Society: The Challenge to Communities. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008, pp. 151-168. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2008 Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums "Shi Identity in the Warring States." Ideas, Networks, Places: Rethinking Chinese History of the Middle Period, A Conference in Honor of Professor Peter K. Bol. Harvard University, July 2009 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009 "The Root of Order: The Position of the Huainanzi in Former Han Debates Over Imperial Sovereignty." American Academy of Religion National Meeting, Montreal, November 2009. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009 "The Weretiger, or He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother: the Strange Case of Gongniu Ai."　Ｐａｐｅｒ　ｐｒｅｓｅｎｔｅｄ　ａｔ　ｔｈｅ　Ａｓｓｏｃｉａｔｉｏｎ　ｆｏｒ　Ａｓｉａｎ　Ｓｔｕｄｉｅｓ　Ａｎｎｕａｌ　Ｍｅｅｔｉｎｇ，　Ｃｈｉｃａｇｏ。 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009 "Root-Branches Structuralism in the Huainanzi." Liu An's Vision of Empire: New Perspectives on the Huainanzi, Harvard University , Cambridge , Mass. , May 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008 American Oriental Society Annual Meeting, March 14 2008, "Paradox and Anecdote in Huainanzi 18." (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008