Ina Asim
Director, Asian Studies Program; Associate Professor, History
Phone: (541) 346-6161
Email: inaasim@uoregon.edu
Ina Asim specializes in pre-modern Chinese history with an emphasis on archaeology and material culture. Her publications include Beiträge zur politischen und kulturellen Geschichte der Song-Zeit [Contributions to the Political and Cultural History of the Song Dynasty] (co-edited, 2006); “The Merchant Wang Zhen (1525-1593)” in The Human Tradition in Premodern China, (2002); “Decline of a Well-Ordered World: What Happened to Sartorial Regulations at the End of the Ming” in Cheng – In All Sincerity, (2001); “Aspects of the Perception of Zhou Ideals in the Song Dynasty (960-1279)” in: Die Gegenwart des Altertums. Formen und Funktionen des Altertumsbezugs in den Hochkulturen der Alten Welt. [The Presence of Antiquity. Forms and Functions of References to Antiquity in the Cultural Centers of the Old World], (2001). Gender related questions are a further focus of her research. She published Kluge Gattin, gute Mutter - oder Revolutionärin? Frauen und Frauenbildung in Vorstellungen und Biographien chinesischer Reformer des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts. [Wise wife, good mother - or revolutionary? Women and women's education in the ideas and biographies of Chinese reformers from the early 20th century], (2002). While working on a city portrait of the Ming dynasty capital of China, Nanjing, ('Idle Talks with Guests' : Urban Life in Late Ming Nanjing as Observed by Gu Qiyuan and Other Contemporary Witnesses; forthcoming) she produced a bilingual educational CD in cooperation with Garron Hale at the Social Science Instructional Laboratory: Colorful Lanterns at Shangyuan.(2005). Before joining the University of Oregon History department she spent ten years (1992-2002) teaching at Würzburg University in her native country of Germany. Professor Asim received a Williams Council Grant (together with Geraldine Moreno-Black; 2007), an Instructional Technology Fellowship (2007), the Rippey Innovative Teaching Award in 2005, and the Brush Fellowship from the University of Oregon in 2004.
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