Yang Bin

Yang Bin
Bin Yang (杨斌)
hisyang@nus.edu.sg
Stay at HYI: Aug 2011—Jul 2012
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Bin Yang is an associate professor of history at the National University of Singapore. His dissertation "Between Winds and Clouds: the Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE -- Twentieth Century CE)" was awarded the AHA 2004 Gutenberg-E Prize and published by Columbia University Press in 2008. His research articles have appeared in Modern Asian Studies, The China Quarterly, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, and Journal of World History. He is interested in both Chinese and world history.

Current Research Projects and Interests: Sexual Abuses in Rural China, 1950s-1960s

Recent Publications
  • Featured book review in American History Reivew Thomas S. Mullaney, Coming to Terms with the Nation, Ethnic Classification in Modern China, with a foreword by Benedict Anderson (Berkeley, Los Angles and London: University of California Press, 2011), featured review in American Historian Review Vol. 116, No. 4 (October 2011): 1068-1071.
  • Book chapter “The Bay of Bengal Connections to Yunnan,” in Pelagic Passageways: The Northern Bay of Bengal before Colonialism ed. Rila Mukherjee,  Primus Books, New Delhi, 2011, pp. 317-42.