Position:

University Lecturer in Chinese

Faculty / College Address:

Institute for Chinese Studies

Email:

laura.newby@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

• Modern history of China: especially the borderlands, Islam and foreign relations

Current Projects:

• A study of the administration and development of the tea trade between China and Inner Asia during the mid-late Qing.
• A study of the Manchu language, tracing the development of the language and the role it played in the institutional and social history of the Qing.

Courses Taught:

• Classical Chinese texts: Late imperial narrative
• History of China: 19^th and 20^th centuries
• History and civilization of China: Non-Han peoples
• Manchu: language

Recent Publications:

• 'Lines of vision: Qing representations of the Turkic Muslim peoples of Xinjiang' in Looking at the Colonizer, H.Harder and E. Beschment (eds.) (Ergon Verlag, 2005).
• The Empire and the Khanate: a political history of Qing relations with Khoqand c.1760-1860 (Brill, 2005).
• 'The Qing and Islam on the Western Frontier', with J. Millward, in Empire at the Margins, Culture, Ethnicity and Frontier in Early Modern China. Crossley, Siu and Sutton eds. (University of California Press, 2006).
• “‘Us and Them’ in 18^th and 19^th century Xinjiang” in Situating the Uyghurs, Ildiko Beller-Hann et al (eds.) (Ashgate, 2007).