Books, Objects, Things: Placing Ming Book History in the Scholarship on Material Culture

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Andrea S. Goldman (郭安瑞) is an associate professor of Chinese history at UCLA. She specializes in the cultural and social history of early modern and modern China, with particular emphasis on the subfields of urban history, performance, the politics of aesthetics, and gender studies.

Her first book, Opera and the City: The Politics of Culture in Beijing, 1770-1900, uses opera as a lens through which to observe court and city dynamics in Qing dynasty Beijing. She is currently working on two new book projects: the first is a transnational history of the reconstruction of masculinity in China, ca.1900-1950; the second is a history of gossip in Beijing from roughly 1770-1920.

Goldman teaches the survey of early modern and modern China, ca. 1000-2000 (11B), as well as seminars in early modern and modern Chinese history & historiography, popular culture, gender & sexuality, material culture, and the PRC as history.