Miranda Brown

Name: Miranda Brown

Title(s):

• Associate Professor

Contact Information: 734.615.7034 , mdbrown@umich.edu

International Institute Affiliation(s):

• CCS

Department Affiliation(s):

• Asian Languages & Cultures

Research/Teaching Specialization: Professor Brown's research and teaching interests include premodern China, in particular, early imperial political culture, the history of the family, and the history and historiography of Chinese science. She recently released a new book entitled The Politics of Mourning in Early China (Albany: State University of New York Press 2007). In addition, she is also the co-author of two textbooks with Conrad Schirokauer, A Brief History of Chinese Civilization, 2nd edition (Thomson/Wadsworth 2005) and A Brief History Chinese and Japanese Civilization 3rd edition (Thomson/Wadsworth 2005). She has also authored/co-authored eight articles: (1)Miranda Brown and Rafe de Crespigny. “Adoption in Han China.” Journal of the Social and Economic History of the Orient 52.2 (2009): 229-266. (2)Liu Xiaolu 劉曉路 and Dong Muda 董慕達 [Miranda Brown]. “

Guojia da yitong de gujin dui bi: yige zhengfu jian guanxi shijiao” 國家大一统的古今对比: 一個政府間關係視角 
[Comparing political cohesion past and present: A Perspective on the Relationship between Levels of Governance]. Xuehai 學海 2009.1: 20-26. (3)Miranda Brown and Uffe Bergeton. “‘Seeing’ Like a Sage: Three Perspectives on Perception and Identity.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 35.3 (2008): 641-62. (4)“Han Steles: How To Elicit What They Have to Tell Us.” In Cary Y. Liu ed., Re-Envisioning Culture: Ideals, Practices, and Problems of the ‘Han Dynasty Wu Family Shrines.’” (Princeton: Princeton Art Museum, 2008). 180-195. (5)Dong Muda 董慕達 [Miranda Brown]. “Qinggan yu siwei de weizhi: Lun Zhongguo gudai wenxianzhong de ‘ganqing’” 情感與思維的位置：論中國古代文獻中的‘肝情’ [Emotions and the Seat of Thought: A Discussion of ‘Liver-Feelings’ in the Ancient Chinese Corpus]. Yuandao 道原 13 (2007): 142-49. (6)Neither ‘Primitive’ nor ‘Others,’ But Somehow Not Quite Like ‘Us’: The Fortunes of Psychic Unity and Essentialism in Chinese Studies. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 49.2 (2006): 219-252. (7)“Mothers and Sons in Warring States and Han China, 453 B.C.-A.D. 220.” Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in Early and Imperial China 5.2 (2003): 137-69. (8)“Did the Ancient Chinese Attempt to Preserve Corpses? A Reconsideration of the Elite Conceptions of Death.” Journal of East Asian Archaeology 4.1-4 (2002): 201-223.