Xing Hang

Associate Professor of History

Departments/Programs

Comparative Humanities
History

Degrees

University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley, M.A.
University of Georgia, B.A.
University of Georgia, B.B.A.

Expertise

East Asian world order, maritime East Asia, Eurasian comparative history, Ming-Qing transition, overseas Chinese, Chinese nationalism and identity

Profile

My first project, which has yielded a book, an edited volume, and several articles and reviews, has examined the Zheng organization and its unique and profitable role in tying together the seventeenth-century maritime Asian trading lanes while struggling to define its legitimacy in terms of Confucian tenets and the imperial dynastic symbols of the Ming and Qing courts.

My interests are now drawing me to a study of Chinese communities in Southeast Asia from the seventeenth to twenty-first centuries. I want to understand their institutions, state-building efforts, collaboration with multiple state and imperial actors, and how these elements intersected with the rise of nationalism in China itself.

Courses Taught

HIST	80a	Introduction to East Asian Civilization
HIST	182b	Modern China
HIST	183a	Empire at the Margins: Borderlands in Late Imperial China
HIST	184a	Silk, Silver, and Slaves: China and the Industrial Revolution
HIST	184b	Swashbuckling Adventurers or Sea Bandits? The Chinese Pirate in Global Perspective
HIST	185a	The China Outside China: Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Diaspora in the Making of Modern China
HIST	187a	Frenemy States: Identity and Integration in East Asia

Awards and Honors

ACLS Collaborative Grant (2019 - 2020)

Brandeis Teaching Innovation Grant for History 10A (2015)

ACLS-Henry Luce Foundation Fellowship (2014 - 2015)

Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Junior Scholar Grant (2014 - 2015)

Michael L. Walzer '56 Award for Teaching (2014)

Kermitt H. Perlmutter Fellow for Excellence in Research and Teaching (2013)

Schiff Fellowship for Faculty-Undergraduate Research Collaboration (2011 - 2012)

Theodore and Jane Norman Award for Faculty Research (2011)

Taiwan Center for Chinese Studies Grant (2009)

Li Ka-shing Program in Modern Chinese History Fellowship (2008)

Fulbright (turned down) (2004)

Phi Beta Kappa (2003)

Scholarship

Hang, Xing. "Chinese Commercial Cosmopolitanism in the Eighteenth-Century Mekong River Delta: The Case of Mạc Thiên Tứ." Commercial Cosmopolitanism?: Cross-cultural Objects, Spaces, and Institutions in the Early Modern World. Ed. Felicia Gottman. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2021. 56-71.

Hang, Xing and Adam Clulow. "Between the Company and Koxinga: Territorial Waters, Trade, and War over Deerskins." A World at Sea: Maritime Practices and Global History. Ed. Lauren Benton and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 37-52.

Hang, Xing and Adam Clulow. "Restraining Violence on the Seas: The Tokugawa, the Zheng Maritime Network, and the Dutch East India Company." A Global History of Early Modern Violence. Ed. Peter Wilson, Marie Houllemare, and Erica Charters. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2020. 142-160.

Hang, Xing 杭行. "Yi shige ding kongjian: Hexian zongdu Mo Cong (Mo Tianci) ‘Hexian shiyong’ kao 以诗歌定空间: 河仙总督莫琮 (莫天赐) '河仙十咏考' (Situating Space through Verse: A Study of the Ten Verses of Hà Tiên by Mo Cong [Mạc Thiên Tứ])." Guojia hanghai 国家航海 (National Maritime Research) 25. (2020): 20-33.

Hang, Xing. "The Evolution of Maritime Chinese Historiography in the United States: Toward a Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approach." Journal of Modern Chinese History 14. (2020): 152-171.

Hang, Xing. "A Ming General Turned Warlord: Funerary Inscription for General Mao Wenlong (1579-1629) by Mao Qiling (1623-1716)." Chinese Funerary Biographies: An Anthology of Remembered Lives. Ed. Patricia Ebrey, Yao Ping, and Zhang Cong. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 190-211.

Hang, Xing. "Review." Rev. of Global History and New Polycentric Approaches: Europe, Asia and the Americas in a World Network System (New York: Springer, 2018), by Manuel Perez Garcia and Lucio de Sousa (eds.). Asian Review of World History vol. 7 2019: 278-281.

Hang, Xing. "Review." Rev. of Imperial Bandits: Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017), by Bradley Camp Davis. American Historical Review vol. 124.2 2019: 640-641.

Hang, Xing. "Review." Rev. of On the Trail of the Yellow Tiger: War, Trauma, and Social Dislocation in Southwest China during the Ming-Qing Transition (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018), by Kenneth Swope. Michigan War Studies Review 2019: http://www.miwsr.com/2019-041.aspx.

Hang, Xing. "Review." Rev. of The Maritime Defence of China: Ming General Qi Jiguang and Beyond (Singapore: Springer Nature, 2017), by Y.H. Teddy Sim, ed.. Ming Studies vol. 79 2019: 74-77.

Hang, Xing. "Soaring Dragon amid Dynastic Transition: Dates and Legitimacy among the Post-Ming Chinese Diaspora." Ming World. Ed. Kenneth Swope. Abingdon, UK: Rotuledge, 2019. Ebook.

Hang, Xing 杭行. "Luo Fangbo yu Dongnanya huaren zizhiti de huangjin shidai 罗芳伯与东南亚华人自治体的黄金时代 (Luo Fangbo and the Golden Age of Chinese Autonomy in Southeast Asia)." Xuewen 学文 (Literary Pursuit) 11. (2017): 95-106.

Hang, Xing. "Leizhou Pirates and the Making of the Mekong Delta." Beyond the Silk Roads: New Discourses on China's Role in East Asian Maritime History. Ed. Robert Antony and Angela Schottenhammer. Wiesbaden, Germany: Harrassowitz, 2017. 115-132.

Hang, Xing. "Profits, Power, and Legitimacy: The Zheng Maritime Empire in Seventeenth-Century Maritime East Asia." AHA Pamphlet Series (2017).

Hang, Xing. "The Seventeenth-Century Guangdong Pirates and Their Transnational Impact." Early Modern East Asia: War, Commerce, and Cultural Exchange. Ed. Tonio Andrade and Kenneth Swope. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2017. 151-165.

Hang, Xing 杭行. "Shiqi shiji Ming-Qing dingge shiqi de Guangdong haidao 十七世纪明清鼎革时期的广东海盗 (Cantonese Pirates during the Seventeenth-century Ming-Qing Transition)." Haiyang shi yanjiu 海洋史研究 (Studies of Maritime History) 9. (2016): 247-260.

Hang, Xing, Tonio Andrade, ed. Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai: Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550-1700. Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 2016.

Hang, Xing. "Contradictory Contingencies: The Seventeenth-century Zheng Family and Contested Cross-Strait Legacies." American Journal of Chinese Studies 23. (2016): 173-182.

Hang, Xing. "The Shogun’s Chinese Partners: The Alliance between Tokugawa Japan and the Zheng Family in Seventeenth-century Maritime East Asia." Journal of Asian Studies 75. 1 (2016): 111-136.

Hang, Xing. Conflict and Commerce in Maritime East Asia: The Zheng Family and the Shaping of the Modern World, c. 1620-1720. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Hang, Xing 杭行. "Xifang xueshu shiye zhong de Zheng shi jiazu yanjiu 西方学术视野中的郑氏家族研究 (The State of Research on the Zheng Family in the West)." Guojia hanghai 国家航海 (National Maritime Research) 10 (2015): 38-51: http://t.cn/A6cT6pyo.

Hang, Xing. "Review." Rev. of Pigs, Pork, and Ham in Early Modern Chinese Society, by Kuo Chung-hao. Dissertation Reviews 2015

Hang, Xing. "Review." Rev. of War, Trade and Piracy in the China Seas, 1622-1683 (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2013), by Cheng Wei-chung. Journal of Chinese Military History vol. 3.2 2014: 198-202.

Hang, Xing. "Review." Rev. of Pacific Worlds: A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures, by Matt K. Matsuda. Social History 38.3 vol. 38.3 2013: 391-393.

Hang, Xing. "The Contradictions of Legacy: Reimagining the Zheng Family in the People’s Republic of China." Late Imperial China 34. 2 (2013): 1-27.

Hang, Xing. "Review." Rev. of East Asia before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011), by David C. Kang. Journal of Early Modern History vol. 16 2012: 566-568.

Hang, Xing. Encyclopedia of National Anthems. 2nd ed. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011.

Hang, Xing. "Review." Rev. of Timothy Brook, Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2008), H-Net 2009: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=25704.

Hang, Xing. "A Question of Hairdos and Fashion." Oriens Extremus 47. (2008): 246-280.

Hang, Xing. "Animal Husbandry in China: 1800 – Present." Encyclopedia of Modern China. 2008.