Naomi Standen

Senior Lecturer in Chinese History
School of Historical Studies
Newcastle University

Armstrong Building, Rm. 1.09
+44 (0)191 222 6490
naomi.standen@ncl.ac.uk

SEMESTER TWO, 2009-10

Office hours
Monday and Thursday 9-11 am

Research day
TUESDAY
Please do not disturb

Research Interests

Borderlands of Inner Asia and China in the Tang-Song transition period (c. 750-1050), and especially the Liao (907-1125) and Five Dynasties (907-960)
Frontiers/borders/boundaries: formation and maintenance, particularly in relation to identity and loyalty, and military matters
Prosopographical approaches: non-kin networks, China Biographical Database
Combining textual and archaeological approaches: non-elites, state formation, ceramic sequences
Representations: historiography, museums
Comparative frontier studies

PhD students	Robert Williams - Voluntary associations on the Tang frontier GU Lingzhi (School of Modern Languages) - Occidentalism and translation studies as academic discourse: case studies from Chinese perspectives (second supervisor)
Masters	NEW: MA East Asian History Identities and Material Culture in East Asian History (module leader) Gender in East Asian History (contributor) Keywords in East Asian History (contributor)
Undergraduate Stage 3	The Mongols and China Reading History (module leader: Scott Ashley) Writing History (module leader) I supervise UG dissertations on all topics in China and most other parts of Asia, and on frontier issues anywhere
Undergraduate Stage 2	Women and Men in Late Imperial China The Silk Roads
Undergraduate Stage 1	Encounters in World History (Border Encounters, module leader) Rulers, Religions and Resources: Modern East and Southeast Asia (no longer taught) War and Memory in Vietnam and the USA (no longer taught)

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