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Luming Xu

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Contact Information

LCLB, 2058
PhD Student

Biography

Borned and raised in China's Northeast, I am interested in the history of my homeland and the coming into being of this region, both politically and intellectually. In history, the place of China's Northeast, also known as Manchuria, was both the center of the Qing empire's homeland and the important borderland of modern China. I am now working on the history of China's political transformation from an empire into a modern nation state, and how that grand process of historical change intertwined with the regional history of Manchuria through the periods of empire, nation-states, and colonial times from the nineteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century. 

Research Interests

Borderland History; Manchuria; Migration Studies; Empire Studies; Postcolonialism

Education

M.A., EALC, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

B.A., Chinese Language and Literature, Wuhan University 

Grants

IGI Graduate Language Learning Fellowship, 2024-2025

EALC Summer Research Fellowship, 2023 & 2024

EALC Summer Research Assistantship, 2021

Courses Taught

CHIN 203

CHIN 204