Emily Mokros, 2024–25

Emily Mokros is an associate professor of history at the University of Kentucky, where she teaches Chinese, East Asian, and global history. Her research focuses on the history of China during the Qing dynasty (1644–1912). She is especially interested in the circulation of information, urban culture and identity, and political culture, particularly during China’s tumultuous nineteenth century. She is the author of The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China: State News and Political Authority (University of Washington Press, 2021).

Selected Publications

• Mokros, Emily. “The Capital Region in the Unfinished Taiping Civil War.” Journal of Chinese History (2024). Forthcoming.
• Mokros, Emily. “Chinese Gazettes on the Margins of Book History: Movable Type, Wax Stereotypes, and Vernacular Techniques in Late Imperial China.” Book History 26, no.1 (2023): 201–39.
• Mokros, Emily. The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China: State News and Political Authority. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021.
• Mokros, Emily. “Documentary Authority.” In Information: A Historical Companion, edited by Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja Goeing, and Anthony Grafton, 413–16. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.
• Mokros, Emily. “Spies and Postmen: Communications Liaisons and the Evolution of the Qing Bureaucracy.” Frontiers of History in China 14, no.1 (2019): 17–48.