Loretta Kim
Assistant Professor, Programme Director
China Studies, School of Modern Languages and Cultures
A native of the United States, Dr. Kim [金由美] is a graduate of Harvard University (BA, MA, PhD) and was formerly an assistant professor at the State University of New York (Albany) and Hong Kong Baptist University. She is a historian of late imperial and modern China, and has also taught courses on modern Asia, colonialism and imperialism in Southeast Asia, and Sino-Russian relations. Her primary research areas include the history of Inner Asia from 1600 to the present, comparative history of borderlands and frontiers, and Chinese ethnic minority languages and literatures (including Manchu and Mongolian).
Dr. Kim's first single-authored monograph (see below) is about the Orochen people in northern Heilongjiang during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911).
Selected Publications
Articles
Kim, Loretta E. Ethnic Chrysalis: China’s Orochen People and the Legacy of Qing Borderland Administration. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 119. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2019. ISBN: 9780674237193, LCCN: 2018034038, LCC DS731.076 K56 2019
Kim, Loretta E. “From Residency to Citizenship: Chinese Nationalism and Changing Criteria for Political and Legal Interpretations of Hong Kong Identity in the Post-1997 Era,” in Reimagining Nation and Nationalism in Multicultural East Asia. London: Routledge, September 2017, 123–40.
Kim, Loretta E. “Inclement Weather and Human Error: Regular Irregularities in the Manchurian Tribute System during the Qing Dynasty.” Empire and Environment in the Making of Manchuria. Vancouver BC: UBC Press, February 2017, 80–106.