Christian dePee

Name: Christian dePee

Title(s):

• Assistant Professor

Contact Information: 734.764.6305 , cdepee@umich.edu

International Institute Affiliation(s):

• CCS

Department Affiliation(s):

• History

Research/Teaching Specialization: Tang-Song-Yuan China, representations of imperial power, text and writing, archaeology. Selected Publications: Text as Practice: The Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China (Eighth through Fourteenth Centuries). Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007 (forthcoming). "Till Death Do Us Unite: Texts, Tombs, and the Cultural History of Weddings in Middle-Period China (Eighth through Fourteenth Centuries)," The Journal of Asian Studies 65:4 (November 2006), forthcoming. "Material Ambiguity and the Hermetic Text: Cities, Tombs, and Middle-Period History," Journal of Sung-Yuan Studies 34 (2004), 81-94. "Premodern Chinese Weddings and the Divorce of Past and Present," positions: East Asia cultures critique 9:3 (winter 2001), 559-584. "The Ritual and Sexual Bodies of the Groom and the Bride in Ritual Manuals of the Sung Dynasty (11th through 13th Centuries)," in: Chinese Women in the Imperial Past: New Perspectives, ed. Harriet T. Zurndorfer (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1999), 53-100. "Cases of the New Terrace: Canon and Law in Three Southern Song Verdicts." Journal of Sung-Yuan Studies 27 (1997), 27-61.