Teaching
At the University of Liverpool, I am currently offering the following modules:
Chairman Mao and Twentieth-Century China (HIST203)
Projecting China: An Introduction to Chinese Cinema (HIST277/CHIN177)
History of Chinese Medicine: Tradition and Modernity (HIST300)
Details on these modules, as well as on courses I offered at Cambridge, Yale and UCL, are available below.
I completed the Certificate in Professional Studies in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (CPS) at Liverpool in 2016, and am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
Mao Zedong and China
Chairman Mao and Twentieth-Century China (HIST203), a module for second-years
History of Chinese Medicine
History of Chinese Medicine: Tradition and Modernity (HIST300), a final-year module
Introducing Chinese Cinema
Projecting China: An Introduction to Chinese Cinema (HIST277/CHIN177)
Chinatown in Liverpool
First-years investigate the history of the Chinese community in Liverpool
Macartney Embassy of 1793
George III sent Macartney to China to negotiate a trade deal; it did not end well
Gender, Sexuality, Reproduction
Includes history of eugenics, birth control, feminism, sexology, transgender
Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis
Asylums, Hypnosis, ECT, Prozac, ADHD, Freud, Dreams, Propaganda, Woody Allen
Undergraduate Dissertations
Memorable undergraduate dissertations and research projects over the years
Postgraduate Teaching
Master’s and PhD-level teaching at Cambridge and Liverpool Universities
Classes at Cambridge
Lectures, seminars, and supervisions delivered at University of Cambridge
Compliments and Complaints
A collection of student evaluations, some helpful and others just quite strange
