David M. Robinson, 2023–24 | National Humanities Center

David M. Robinson (NHC Fellow, 2023–24)

Project Title

Ability and Difference in Early Modern China

Colgate University

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Fellowship Work Summary, 2023–24

David M. Robinson completed Ability and Difference in Early Modern China: A Mongol Family at the Ming Court, which is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, late 2024 or early 2025. He drafted two chapters of his work in progress, The Northern Border in Early Modern China. Two of his essays appeared in print: “Korea in the Mongol Empire,” in Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire, edited by Michal Biran and Kim Hodong (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023) and “The Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) and Its Non-Han Military Auxiliaries,” in China and Asia: A Journal of Historical Issues 5.2 (2024).