Michael Tsin

Associate Professor M.A. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1983 Ph.D. Princeton University, 1991

Research Interests

My work focuses primarily on late nineteenth and twentieth-century China, as I am interested in using the histories of China as the lens through which the making and the unmaking of the modern world can be explored. I would like to understand better how idea and practice intersect each other, and the processes through which both have been translated and transplanted across different times and places. Along those lines of enquiry, then, my current research project seeks to trace the different discursive bases and institutional practices that purported to mold and transform the norms and values of people either individually or collectively in twentieth-century China.

Graduate Students Advised by Michael Tsin

• Sonayi Lee

Courses Offered (As Schedules Allow)

For current course listings, consult the Directory of Classes.

• HIST 133 -- Introduction to Chinese History
• HIST 393 -- Unity and Difference in Twentieth-Century China
• INTS 90 -- International and Areas Studies Honors Seminar"

Contact

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of History
CB #3195, Hamilton Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195
Phone: (919) 962-5554
tsin@email.unc.edu