Ping Yao Professor, Department of History Director, Asian and Asian American Studies Program Contact Information Office: King Hall D1051 Email: pyao (at) calstatela.edu (323) 343-5775  Fall Course: HIST450 “Women in Chinese History” Office Hours: Tue 4-6pm Research Interests Gender studies, prosopographical studies, history of religion, premodern China Honors and Awards 2011 Fulbright Scholar, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State  2010 Outstanding Professor Award, California State University Los Angeles 2008  Visiting Professor, Women's Studies in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School 2006  Academic Excellence Award, Chinese Historians in the United States 2005  Faculty Research Award, National Endowment for the Humanities Short List of Publications Western Scholarship on Chinese History (multivolume translation series). Co-general editor. Shanghai Classic Publishing House, forthcoming, 2011 Discovering History in America. (In Chinese) Co-editor. Peking University Press, 2010. Chinese Thought and Chinese Society. (In Chinese) Co-editor. Shanghai University Press, 2010. Sharing the World Stage: Biography and Gender in World History. Co-author. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008. Women’s Lives in Tang China. (in Chinese) Shanghai Classic Publishing House, 2004. “Cousin Marriages in Tang China (618-907).” Chinese Historical Review 18.1 (2011): 25-55. “Good Karmic Connections: Buddhist Mothers and Their Children in Tang China (618-907).” Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China 10.1 (2008): 57-85. “Contested Virtue: The Daoist Investiture of Princesses Jinxian and Yuzhen and the Journey of Tang Imperial Daughters.” T’ang Studies 22 (2007): 1-41. “Childbirth and Maternal Mortality in Tang China.” Chinese Historical Review 12.2 (2005): 263-286. “Until Death Do Us Unite: Afterlife Marriages in Tang China, 618-906.” Journal of Family History 27.3 (2002): 207-226. “The Status of Pleasure: Courtesans and Literati Connection in Tang China (618-906).” Journal of Women’s History 14.2 (2002): 26-53. To download a full c.v. as a PDF file, click here.