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Lan Wu is Associate Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at Mount Holyoke College, with joint affiliation in Asian Studies. She specializes in early modern Chinese history with emphasis on religion-state dynamics, borderlands, and transnational exchanges in East Asia. Her 2022 book Common Ground examines Tibetan Buddhist expansion in Qing China's Inner Asia.
Education:
- Ph.D., M.Phil., M.A. - Columbia University
- B.A. - East China Jiaotong University
Research Focus: Her work investigates borderland communities, ethnic interactions, and religious networks in imperial China (16th-18th centuries). Key themes include: Buddhist expansion in Qing frontier policies, gender in Chinese history, Silk Road cultural transfers, and environmental/material dimensions of empire-building.
Publications: Recent works demonstrate consistent focus on Buddhist institutional networks across Inner Asia under Qing rule, utilizing multilingual archives. Articles analyze art, correspondence, and missionary activities as tools of cross-cultural integration, with chronological coverage spanning Ming to high Qing periods.
Academic Leadership: Co-organized a 2023 Columbia University workshop on Ming-era border crossings funded by James P. Geiss & Margaret Y Hsu Foundation, with institutional support from Mount Holyoke and Columbia's Modern Tibetan Studies Program.
