En LI. Washington University Cell phone: (314) Department of History

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1 En LI Cell phone: (314) PROFESSIONAL PROFILE Ph.D. candidate in History at in St. Louis with an emphasis on social and material cultural studies of early modern China; experience as instructor for undergraduate course and online/hybrid course at and its continuing education wing; supervisory experience in international students programs; instructor for Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese EDUCATION 2007-present in St. Louis Ph.D., History Dissertation: Betting on Empire: A Socio-Cultural History of Gambling in Late-Qing China M.A., History (December 2010) General Examinations: Early Modern China, Modern Japan, Early Modern Europe 2007 Sun Yat-sen University, China M.A., Chinese Literature 2005 Sun Yat-sen University B.A., Chinese Language & Literature, Class rank: 1/133 TEACHING EXPERIENCES 2015 Spring Lecturer, University College, Online/hybrid course, From Dice to Mahjong: A Cultural History of Gaming in China Graduate Organizer,, Conducted orientation workshop for six new TAs and designed grading exercises (August) 2013 Fall Instructor,, Freshman seminar, Empire at Play: Gambling and Material Culture in Late-Imperial China. 1

2 Teaching Assistant, Senior thesis writing mentor for the International and Area Studies Program (Spring 2013) Asian Religions (Spring 2012, discussion leader) Early Modern China (Fall 2011, grader) Japan Since 1868 (Spring 2009, discussion leader) Western Civilization I (Fall 2009 and Fall 2010, discussion leaders) Crossing Borders II (Introductory course for IAS majors) (Spring 2009, discussion leader) Crossing Borders I (Fall 2008, discussion leader) FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2014 Fall Graduate Student Fellow in Residence, The Center for the Humanities, 2014 Seminar Fellow, Reading and Textual Production in Early Modern China, Penn State Summer Institute in Asian Studies Harvard-Yenching Library Travel Grant for Chinese Studies, Harvard- Yenching Library (Cambridge) 2014 Spring & Fall Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Washington University AAS CIAC Small Grant Award (Short Research Travel, Graduate Student), China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC) of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) (China) Global Scholarship Program for Research Excellence, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) (Hong Kong) Visiting Graduate Student Fellowship for Doctoral Research, Ministry of Education, Republic of China (Taipei) 2012 Richard W. Davis Travel Grant,, Washington University (Guangzhou) 2011 Learned Practices and Canonical Texts, Junior Scholar Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Germany (first alternate) 2011 Mellon Dissertation Seminar Fellow, Boundaries, Borders, and Mobilities in Early Modern and Modern East Asia, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2010 and 2009 Richard W. Davis Travel Grant,, Washington University (Hong Kong, Guangzhou, and Tokyo) 2008 Full scholarship for summer Japanese language study, Middlebury College 2008 Richard W. Davis Travel Grant,, Washington University (for Japanese language study) University Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Washington University 2

3 DISSERTATION PRESENTATIONS 2014 Wall or Bridge: Gambling Beyond the Qing Empire. Dissertation Writer Workshop (DWW),, November 2014 Printed Hope: The Lottery and Public Life in Late-Qing Guangdong. International Conference on History of Non-book Publishing in China, Tang ( ) through Qing ( ), jointly hosted by University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Institute of Palace Studies, Champaign, September 2014 Pleasurable Betting: The Lottery and Everyday Life in Late-Qing Guangdong., The Center for the Humanities Lunch Workshop, September 2014 Men of Contradiction: Exploring Elite Identity through a Gambling- Related Examination Scandal in Late-Qing China. Columbia University Graduate Student Conference on East Asia, New York, February 2013 From Worshiping Wealth to Worshiping Fortune: Monetary Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Popular Prints. Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities, Palo Alto, April 2013 Betting Beyond Empire: Recontexualizing Gambling and Social Leisure across National Boundaries in Late-Qing China. Harvard East Asia Society Graduate Student Conference (HEAS), Cambridge, February OTHER PRESENTATIONS 2011 Banned Book Tradition and Local Reinvention: the Cultural Receptions of Qu Dajun in the Long Nineteenth-Century China. American Historical Association (AHA), Boston, January 2010 Texts as Competitive Arenas. American Oriental Society (AOS), St. Louis, March 2007 Anthologizing as a Critical Method: A Case Study on The Emperor s Four Treasuries. Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA), St. Louis, October PUBLICATIONS 2014 Printed Hope: The Lottery and Public Life in Late-Qing Guangdong, paper invited for inclusion in a proposed conference volume on History of Non-book Publishing in China to be submitted for publication in Review of David Faure, Emperor and Ancestors: State and Lineage in South China. China Review International, vol. 18 no. 1 (January) 2007 Review of Steven B. Miles, The Sea of Learning: Identity and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century China, Journal of History and Anthropology 歷史人類學學刊, 5.1 (April) (in Chinese) 2006 Review of Joseph P. McDermott, A Social History of the Chinese Book: Books and Literati Culture in Late- Imperial China, Journal of History and Anthropology 歷史人類學學刊, 4.1 (October) (in Chinese) 3

4 RELEVANT EXPERIENCES 2013 Residential Coordinator, The Cambridge Institute of International Education, Boston and St. Louis Screened and recruited American host families for high school students from East Asia; Organized outreach presentation in private high school; Designed orientation for international students and arranged cultural activities; Solved problems between homestay students and their host families LANGUAGES Cantonese Chinese Mandarin Chinese Classical Chinese English Japanese German (Native Speaker; Reading and Writing Ability in Colloquial Cantonese) (Native Speaker; Reading and Writing Ability in Modern Chinese) (Research Ability in Classical Literary and Administrative Chinese) (Fluent) (Conversational; Reading Ability in Modern Japanese) (Reading Ability with Dictionary) PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Association for Asian Studies (since 2012) American Historical Association (since 2011) American Oriental Society ( ) OTHER SKILLS Computer: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Photoshop, online course manage tools such as Blackboard. Other: Taichi (practitioner since 2005, instructor since 2007); Hula dance (dancer for the E Pili Kaua halau [hula school] at various receptions, cultural festivals, and fundraising activities in St. Louis since 2010). 4

5 REFERENCES Steven Miles, Ph.D. Associate Professor of History & Director of Graduate Studies Lori Watt, Ph.D. Associate Professor of History & International and Area Studies Christine Johnson, Ph.D. Associate Professor of History & Director of Undergraduate Studies