Ping Yao, Professor

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Office: King Hall B4022

Phone/Voice Mail: (323) 343-2023

Email: pyao@calstatela.edu

Education

Ph.D. (History) University of Illinois (1997)
M. A. (Anthropology) University of Illinois (1992)
M.A. (History) Fudan University, Shanghai, China (1985)
B.A. (History) Eastern China Normal University, Shanghai, China (1982)

Honors and Awards

2008  Women's Studies in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School, Research Associate

2006  Association of Chinese Historians in the United States Academic Excellence Award

2005   National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Research Award

2005   Eighth Eastern China Excellent Book Award (Women's Lives in Tang China, 2004 Shanghai guji)

Major Publications

Books

• Western Scholarship on Chinese History (a 10-volume translation series). Co-general editor. Under contract. Shanghai Classic Publishing House. 
• Western Scholarship on Women in Chinese History. Volume Editor, under contract, Shanghai Classic Publishing House.
• Western Scholarship on Religion in Chinese History. Volume Editor, under contract, Shanghai Classic Publishing House.
• East Asian Voices: Sources for East Asian Civilization. Co-author. Under contract. Longman Publishing.
• Sharing the World Stage: Biography and Gender World Civilization. Co-author. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008.
• Women’s Lives in Tang China (in Chinese). Shanghai Classic Publishing House, 2004.

· Lives of the Ethnic Minorities in China (in Chinese). Co-author, Shanghai Sanlian Press, 1996.

Articles

· Good Karmic Connections: Buddhist Mothers in Tang China." Nannu: Men, Women, and Gender in Early and Imperial China 10.1 (2008): 57-85. 

· “Childbirth and Maternal Mortality in Tang China.” Chinese Historical Review XII.2 (2005): 263-286.

· “Contested Virtue: The Daoist Investiture of Princesses Jinxian and Yuzhen and the Journey of Tang Imperial Daughters.” T'ang Studies 22 (2004): 1-40.

· “New Evidence of the Practice of Afterlife Marriages.” (In Chinese) Xueshu yuekan 51, no.7 (2003): 68-74. 

· “Compromised Aspirations: Tang Women’s Life during the Era of the Persecution of Buddhism.” E-Journal of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, Issue 2003.

· “Until Death Do They Unite: Afterlife Marriages in Tang China, 618-907.” Journal of Family History 27, no.3 (2002): 207-226.

· “Pleasure as Status: Courtesans and Literati Connection in Tang China (618-906).” Journal of Women’s History 14, no. 2 (2002): 26-53.

· “The Fascination with Qing in Mid-Tang China (763-835): A Study of the Writings of Bo Juyi (772-846).” Chinese Historians 10, no. 17 (2000): 93-121.

· “A Study of Ancestor Shrine System in the Western Zhou Dynasty.” (In Chinese) Shanghai jiaoyue xueyuan xuebao 19, no 1(1989): 28-33.

· “Primitive Mode of Thinking in a Daba Divination Book” (in Chinese), Goufeng Series 8, no. 2 (1989): 39-44.

· “Rethinking Historical Studies.” (In Chinese) Co-author, Tansuo yu zhengming 12, no 2 (1987): 31-33.

·  “Defining ‘Culture’.” (In Chinese) Shanghai jiaoyue xueyuan xuebao 6, no 3 (1986): 89-96.  

Teaching Experience

Courses Taught at California State University, Los Angeles (1997-2008)

· “World History I, Ancient Period” (GE) 

· “World History II, Medieval Period” (GE)

· “Asian American History” (undergraduate lower division course)

· “Gender in World History” (undergraduate upper division course)

·  “Traditional China” (undergraduate upper division course)

·  “Modern China” (undergraduate upper division course)

·   “Religion and Society in Chinese History” (undergraduate upper division course)

·  “Traditional Japan” (undergraduate upper division course)

·  “Modern Japan” (undergraduate upper division course)

·   “Women in Chinese History” (Undergraduate seminar)

·  “Chinese Religions” (Undergraduate seminar)

·  “Mao’s Cultural Revolution” (Undergraduate seminar)

·   “Recent Asian History” (Graduate seminar)