KWAN Man Bun

Department of History

University of Cincinnati, OH 45221

(513)-556-0917 (O/voice mail)

E-mail: kwanmb@email.uc.edu

PERSONAL: Born 1955; Married; Permanent resident.

EDUCATION: B.A. (magna cum laude), UCLA, 1977.

PhD., Stanford University, 1990.

WORK EXPERIENCE: Associate Professor (1999-current)

Department of History

University of Cincinnati

Visiting Professor

College of History

Nankai University (2002-current)

PUBLICATIONS:

Books: Jindai Tianjin yanshang yu shehui [Salt Merchants and Modern Tianjin's Urban

Society]. 291 pp. Tianjin: Tianjin People's Press, 1999.

The Salt Merchants of Tianjin: State-making and Civil Society in Late Imperial China. 239 pp. University of Hawaii Press, 2001.

Articles: Over a dozen chapters in books and articles including "Chinese Business History: A Review" in Robert Gardella et al., eds. Chinese Business History, 35-64. N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1999; and “Custom, the Code, and Legal Practice: The Contracts of Changlu Salt Merchants in Late Imperial China,” (forthcoming, Stanford University Press, 2004).

CONFERENCE AND

SEMINARS: Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica; Tianjin Historical Society; History

Institute, Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences; National Social History Research Center, Nankai University; Beijing University; India-China Seminar, Harvard University; Fairbank Center; Association for Asian Studies Annual Meetings; American Historical Association Annual Meetings, and Business History Conference.

MAJOR AWARDS: An Wang Fellow, Fairbank Center (1993-94).

CSCC-ACLS National Program Grantee (2001-2).

Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation visiting fellow,

Academia Sinica (Summer, 2003-4).