The University of Georgia, Department of History

Ari Daniel Levine

Cultural and intellectual history of early modern China, from 800 to 1600

Associate Professor
Ph.D. Columbia 2002

Office: 336 LeConte
Office Hours: T 12:30-2pm & by Appt
Phone: (706) 542-2497

adlevine@uga.edu

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Ari Daniel Levine has written two chapters for Volume 5, Part I of the Cambridge History of China, published in 2009. His book Divided by a Common Language: Factional Conflict in Late Northern Song China was published by University of Hawaii Press in 2008. He has published articles in Asia Major, East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, and the Journal of World History. He is currently completing a book project on urban space and cultural memory in the Northern Song capital of Kaifeng.

Research and Teaching Interests

[Ancient & Medieval]
[Asia]
[Cultural & Intellectual]
[Film and History]
[Political & Legal]

Selected Publications

"Welcome to the Occupation: Collective Memory, Displaced Nostalgia, and Dislocated Knowledge in Song Ambassadors' Travel Records of Jin-dynasty Kaifeng," T'oung Pao 99.4-5 (2013, forthcoming)

"Walls and Gates, Windows and Mirrors: Urban Defenses, Cultural Memory, and Security Theater in Song Kaifeng," East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine 35 (2013) More Info

"Siyuan de jixu: cong wenhua jiyu, shijue ganshou, ji wenben deng fangmian yantao TangSong Xiangguosi," in Kaifeng: Dushi xiangxiang yu wenhua jiyi, ed. Chen Pingyuan (Beijing daxue chubanshe, 2013)

"Public Good and Partisan Gain: Languages of Faction in Late Imperial China and Eighteenth-Century England," Journal of World History 23.4 (Dec. 2012)

"Che-tsung's Reign (1085-1100) and the Age of Faction," in Cambridge History of China Vol. 5, Pt. 1, ed. Denis C. Twitchett and Paul Jakov Smith (Cambridge University Press, 2009) More Info

"The Reigns of Hui-tsung (1100-26) and Ch'in-tsung (1126-7) and the Fall of the Northern Sung," in Cambridge History of China Vol. 5, Pt. 1, ed. Denis C. Twitchett and Paul Jakov Smith (Cambridge University Press, 2009) More Info

Divided by a Common Language: Factional Conflict in Late Northern Song China (Hawaii, 2008) More Info

Honors and Awards

Research Fellowship, Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts (2012-2013)

Research Fellowship, Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Heidelberg University (2011-2012)

Fellowship for American Research in the Humanities in China, American Council of Learned Societies (2010)

Senior Scholarship in Chinese Studies, Fulbright-IIE (2009)

Courses Taught

HIST2600: East Asian History

HIST3661: History of China I [Syllabus]

HIST3662: History of China II [Syllabus]

HIST3663: History of China III [Syllabus]

HIST3670H: Intro to Chinese Civilization (Honors)

HIST4600: Studies in Asian History [Syllabus]

HIST4625: Everyday Life in Ming China [Syllabus]