MICHELLE KING



Michelle T. King C.V. 金恬

Department of History, CB #3195

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195

mtking@email.unc.edu



Professional The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Experience Associate Professor, Department of History (2014 - Present)

Assistant Professor, Department of History (2007-14)

Education University of California, Berkeley - Ph.D. in History (May 2007)

Stanford University - M.A. in East Asian Studies (September 2000)

Yale University - B.A. in Religious Studies (May 1995)/magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Publications Books

Between Birth and Death: Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China (Stanford University

Press, 2014)

Edited Books and Special Issues

Editor, Culinary Nationalism in Asia (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)

Editor, Global Food History 6.2 (Summer 2020), special issue on Chinese culinary regionalism,

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Co-editor (with Wendy Jia-chen Fu, Miranda Brown, and Donny Santacaterina), “Rumor, Chinese Diets, and COVID-19: Questions and Answers about Chinese Food and Eating Habits,” in Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies (forthcoming)

“Say No to Bat Fried Rice: Changing the Narrative of Coronavirus and Chinese Food,” in Food and Foodways 28.3 (Fall 2020),

“What is ‘Chinese’ Food? Historicizing the Concept of Culinary Regionalism,” in Global Food History 6.2 (Summer 2020), pp. 89-109,

“The Julia Child of Chinese Cooking, or the Fu Pei-mei of French Food?: Comparative Contexts of Female Culinary Celebrity,” in Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies 18.1 (February 2018), pp. 15-26,

“Margaret Sanger in Translation: Gender, Class and Birth Control in 1920s China” in Journal of Women’s History 29.3 (Fall 2017), pp. 61-83,

*Winner of the Journal of Women’s History best article prize for 2017 and 2018

“Replicating the Colonial Expert: The Problem of Translation in the Late Nineteenth-Century Straits Settlements” in Social History 34.4 (November 2009), pp. 428-46,

Book Chapters

“Introduction: Culinary Nationalism in Asia,” in Culinary Nationalism in Asia, ed. Michelle T. King (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019), pp. 1-20

“A Cookbook in Search of a Country: Fu Pei-mei and the Conundrum of Chinese Culinary Nationalism,” in Culinary Nationalism in Asia, ed. Michelle T. King (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019), pp. 56-72

“Working With/In the Archive,” in Research Methods for History, ed. Simon Gunn and Lucy Faire (Edinburgh University Press, 2012), pp. 13-29

Book Reviews

Review of Shelly Chan, Diaspora’s Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration (Duke University Press, 2018), in Canadian Journal of History 53.3 (Winter 2018), pp. 598-600

Review of Johanna Ransmeier, Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China (Harvard University Press, 2017), in American Historical Review 123.2 (April 2018), pp. 562-3

Review of Clara Wing-chung Ho, ed., Overt and Covert Treasures: Essays on the Sources for Chinese Women's History (The Chinese University Press, 2012), in Journal of Asian Studies 72.3 (August 2013), pp. 690-1

Review of Nicolas Standaert, The Interweaving of Rituals: Funerals in the Cultural Exchange Between China and Europe (University of Washington Press, 2008) in Journal of Asian Studies 68.4 (November 2009), pp. 1269-70

Review of Josephine McDonagh, Child Murder and British Culture, 1720-1900 (Cambridge University Press, 2003) in Journal of Social History 38.3 (Spring 2005), pp. 799-801

Review of Mark Jackson, ed., Infanticide: Historical Perspectives on Child Murder and Concealment, 1550-2000 (Ashgate, 2002) in Journal of Social History 37.3 (Spring 2004), pp. 782-4

Manuscripts in Preparation

Chop Fry Watch Learn: How Fu Pei-mei Reinvented Chinese Cooking for a Television Generation (book manuscript)

“Chinese Restaurant Journeys in North Carolina,” chapter in Edible North Carolina: A Journey Across a State of Flavor, ed. Marcie Cohen Ferris (UNC Press, forthcoming)

Honors and Journal of Women’s History Biennial Best Article Prize (2017-18)

Awards For the journal’s best article published in 2017 or 2018

U.S. Young Scholars Delegation to the Republic of China (Taiwan)

Selected and sponsored by the R.O.C. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (May 2013)

Grants Extramural Research Grants

National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars Grant (2020-21) - $60,000

National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant (with collaborators Wendy Jia-chen Fu and Jakob Klein) (2020-21) - $50,000

Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Conference Planning Grant (with collaborators Wendy Jia-chen Fu and Jakob Klein) (2020-21) - $15,000

American Council of Learned Societies/Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Comparative Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society Conference Planning Grant (2017) - $25,000

Association for Asian Studies, China and Inner Asia Council Small Grant (2017) - $2,000

University of Texas at Austin Institute for Historical Studies Research Fellowship (2016-17) - $43,000

Henry Luce Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies Program in China Studies

Postdoctoral Fellowship (Fall 2014/Fall 2015) - $45,000

Mabelle McLeod Lewis Memorial Fund Grant (2006-07) - $24,000

Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (2006-07) - declined

Council on Library and Information Resources Mellon Dissertation Fellowship for Humanities Research (2004-05) - $16,000

Harvard-Yenching/Peking University Fellowship (2004-05) - $3,000

Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies (2000-01) - $14,500

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (1998-2000) - $10,000/yr.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Research Grants

Institute for Arts and Humanities Faculty of Color Development Grant (2019) - $2,500

Carolina Women’s Center Faculty Scholar (2017-18) - $10,000

Carolina Asia Center, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History, Global Research Institute, Institute for Arts and Humanities conference funding (2016-17) - $19,000

Food for All Steering Committee Microgrant (2016-17) - $4,000

College of Arts and Sciences Associate Professor Support Program (2014-19) - $6,000

History Department Opportunity Fund (2014-15) - $2,000

University Research Council Small Research Grant (2014-15) - $4,000

History Department Opportunity Fund (2013-14) - $1,500

University Research Council Publication Grant (2013-14) - $2,500

Grier-Woods Presbyterian Initiative Fellowship for China Studies (Spring 2010) - $18,000

Junior Faculty Development Award (2009) - $7,500

University Research Council Small Research Grant (2009-10) - $2,500

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Teaching Grants

Honors Carolina Course Development Matching Grant (2019) - $1,500

History Department Teaching Innovation Grant (2019) - $3,000

UNC /Adobe Course Development Grant (2018) - $1,500

Humanities for the Public Good Initiative Course Development Grant (2018) - $3,000

Food for All Steering Committee Microgrant (2018) - $2,500

Conferences “Modern Chinese Foodways” (with collaborators Wendy Jia-chen Fu and Jakob Klein), virtual Organized conference (April 21-25, 2021), featuring papers from 20 scholars in Chinese history and

anthropology, from institutions in 9 countries. To be followed by a future in-person conference and edited volume. Total budget $100,000.

“Culinary Nationalism in Asia,” University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (March 30-April

1, 2017), , featuring papers from 22 scholars, representing 9 different disciplines from institutions in 9 countries. Total budget $50,000.

Invited Talks “Chop Fry Watch Learn: How Fu Pei-mei Reinvented Chinese Cooking for a Television Generation,” talk sponsored by the Confucius Institute and the Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Culture, Emory University (September 2020)

“Food Memories and Migration: Dislocation and Yearning in Taiwan’s Postwar Generation,”

paper presented at the “Global Chinese Food Conference” at the Liberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (December 2019)

“Domestic Help in the Kitchen: Finding Housemaids in Postwar Taiwan,” talk sponsored by the Women and Gender History Research Group, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (December 2017)

“The Julia Child of Chinese Cooking, or the Fu Pei-mei of French Food? Comparative Contexts of Female Culinary Celebrity,” talk sponsored by the Gender and Women’s Studies Program, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (December 2017)

“Incorporating Chinese Gender Studies into Your Teaching,” guest consultant and lecturer for National Endowment for the Humanities faculty development program, Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (December 2017)

“Gender and Family in Late Imperial Chinese History,” guest lecturer for US Department of Education/UISFL Program Faculty Development Seminar, East-West Center, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa (July 2017)

“Nation, Regions, Culture, Cuisine: What is Chinese Food?” talk co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Studies and the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Toronto (November 2017)

“Fu Pei-mei and the Transformation of Women’s Social Roles in Modern Taiwan,” paper presented at “Modern Taiwan’s Agricultural Products and Food Consumption” symposium, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (September 2017)

“Nation, Regions, Culture, Cuisine: What is Chinese Food?” paper presented at “The Invention of Food” conference, Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas at Austin (April 2017)

“A Cookbook in Search of a Country: Fu Pei-mei and the Conundrum of Chinese Culinary Nationalism,” paper presented at the “Culinary Nationalism in Asia” conference, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (March-April 2017)

“The Julia Child of Chinese Cooking, or the Fu Pei-mei of French Food?: Comparative Contexts of Female Culinary Celebrity,” paper presented at Institute for Historical Studies workshop, University of Texas at Austin (October 2016)

“Food/Television/Nostalgia: Remembering Fu Pei-mei,” paper presented at “From Food to Culture: An International Symposium on Chinese Food,” Confucius Institute, University of California, Davis (January 2016)

“The Question of Fundamentalism in Nineteenth-Century China, as Seen Within the Moral Universe of Female Infanticide,” paper presented at “Moralism, Fundamentalism and the Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia, 1600-1900,” University of California at Los Angeles (May 2013)

“A Historical Perspective on Female Infanticide in China,” paper presented at “Skewed Sex Ratios,” Sawyer Seminar on Gender Bias in the Past and Future of Asia at the Stanford University Humanities Center (October 2010)

“Rethinking the Archives,” paper presented at “New Approaches to Researching the Past,” Centre for Urban Culture, University of Nottingham (June 2008)

Conference “From Connoisseur to Cook: Gender and Memory in Mid-20th Century Chinese Food Presentations Writing,” paper and panel accepted for Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Boston (March 2020 – conference canceled, virtual panel)

“Chinese Dishes and Western Desserts: Shaping Middle-Class Tastes Through Taiwan Television in the 1960s,” paper presented, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (March 2018)

“A Cookbook in Every Suitcase: Fu Pei-mei’s Appeal to Overseas Chinese and Foreign

Audiences,” paper presented, Association for the Study of Food and Society Joint Annual Meeting, University of Toronto (June 2016)

“Cooking Up the Middle-Class Housewife: ‘Fu Pei-mei Time’ on Taiwan Television,”

paper presented and panel organized on “Sites of Consumption: Food and Bodies in Asian Urban Spaces,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Seattle (March-April 2016)

“Fu Pei-mei as Gastrodiplomat: The Global Reach of Taiwan’s First Television Cooking Celebrity,” paper presented, Association for Asian Studies in Asia Conference, Academia Sinica, Taipei (June 2015)

“Chinese Cuisine, Made in Taiwan: Fu Pei-mei's Postwar Culinary Career,” paper presented, Twentieth Annual North American Taiwan Studies Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison (June 2014)

“Infant Corpses and Vengeful Spirits: Cultural Representations of Infanticide in Nineteenth Century China,” paper presented, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Honolulu (March-April 2011)

“Enumerating Female Infanticide in China: Western Narratives from the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries,” paper presented and panel organized, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago (March 2009)

“Violence and the Gendered Body in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Morality Books on Infanticide,” paper presented, International Convention of Asia Scholars, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (August 2007)

“Gender in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Morality Books on Infanticide,” paper presented and panel organized, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Boston (March 2007)

“From West to East: The Epistemological Transformation of Birth Control in Republican China,” paper presented, American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch Annual Meeting, San Jose (August 2004)

Campus Talks “Chop Fry Watch Learn: How Fu Pei-mei Reinvented Chinese Cooking for a Television Generation,” University Research Week, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (November 2019)

“The Pei Mei Project: History, Gender, and Memory from the Pages of a Chinese Cookbook,” Faculty Scholars Forum, Carolina Women’s Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (October 2018)

“Margaret Sanger in China: Translating the Message and Methods of Birth Control,” Working Group in Feminism and History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (March 2013)

“Perspectives on the Practice of Feminist History,” Working Group in Feminism and History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (February 2011)

“Rethinking Female Infanticide in Late Nineteenth-Century China,” UNC Women’s Studies Luncheon Colloquium Series (February 2009)

Teaching The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Director of the History Honors Program (for majors writing honors theses) (2019-20)

Doctoral advisor for Donald Santacaternia (current); doctoral committee member for Arianne Ekinci (current), Ansev Demirhan (PhD 2020), Daniele Lauro (PhD 2019), Dasa Mortensen (PhD 2016), Sara Bush Castro (PhD 2016), Zach Smith (PhD 2015)

Undergraduate History Honors thesis advisor for Olivia Holder (2018)

Undergraduate Courses Taught (2007- present)

History Honors (Seminar for history majors writing honors theses)

Twentieth-Century Chinese History (Lecture course)

Late Imperial China (Lecture Course)

What is Chinese Food? A History of Cuisine, People, Places, and Taste (Honors seminar)

Gender in Chinese History (Upper division seminar)

China Bound: Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Western Travel Writing (Research seminar)

Graduate Courses Taught (2007 – present)

Asia as Method: Nationalism, Regionalism, Transnationalism (Graduate seminar)

Comparative Frameworks of Asian Gender History (Graduate seminar)

Introduction to Asian History (Graduate seminar)

Late Imperial China (Graduate seminar)

Crafting a Historical Project (Graduate research seminar)

Archive Fever: Theory and Practice (Graduate seminar)

University of California, Berkeley

Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award (2004-2005)

Undergraduate Courses Taught

Comparative Colonialisms (research seminar, Spring 2004)

Knowledge, Bodies, Landscapes: Constructing Colonialism (reading seminar, Fall 2003)

Tutor, McNair Scholars Program (National achievement program for underrepresented undergraduates, Summer 2004)

Yali Middle School, Changsha, Hunan, People’s Republic of China

Yale-China Association English as a Foreign Language Instructor (1995-97)

Service To the Discipline

Tenure file review for the University of California, Davis

Manuscript reviews for Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, University of California Press, Late Imperial China, Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies

Council on Library and Information Resources Mellon Fellowship Program Selection Committee (2014-15)

At The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Carolina Women’s Center Faculty Scholar Selection Committee (2019)

Carolina Asia Center FLAS Fellowship Selection Committee (2019, 2020)

Department of History

History Department Diversity Liaison (2017- 2020)

Carolina Postdoctoral Program for Faculty Diversity Selection Committee (Spring 2019)

Convenor of the Asian History field (2018 – 19)

Third-Year Review Committee, Chair (Fall 2017)

Chair’s Advisory Committee (2013 - 2014)

Departmental External Review Report Committee (2013 - 14)

Faculty Advisor for the Working Group in Feminism and History (2013 - 14)

Co-convenor of the Women's/Gender History field (2013 - 14)

Departmental Prize Committee (2010 – 13, Spring 2016)

South Asian History Search Committee (2010 - 11)

Committee on Teaching and Learning (2008 - 2009, 2014)

Review committee for Gussenhoven Distinguished Professorship (2008)

Community Public Panels

Outreach Panelist, “The Origins of Covid-19: Fact and Fiction,” National Consortium for Teaching about Asia – Arkansas Division (October 2020)

Organizer and panelist, “Rumors, Chinese Diets, and COVID-19: Questions and Answers about Chinese Food and Eating Habits,” UNC Carolina Asia Center (May 2020)

Organizer and presenter, “Walls and Border Security: China’s Great [Fire]Wall” for “Walls: Global Histories of Borders and Barriers,” UNC History Department (April 2019)

Organizer and presenter, “Memory without Monuments: Cultural Revolution Restaurants in Contemporary China” for “Monumental Histories,” UNC History Department (October 2018)

Invited Lectures

“Creativity in Times of Crisis: Changing Chinese Culture in the May Fourth Period, 1915-21,”

Carolina Public Humanities (March 2019)

“The Century of Humiliation: Understanding the Roots of Modern Chinese Nationalism,” UNC Dunlevie Honors Colloquium series, “Forms of Nationalism Around the World” (October 2017)

“Taste and Place: A Tale of Chinese Migration Through Cuisine,” Carolina Public Humanities (October 2017)

“Two Chinas, One Cook: Culture and Conflict Between Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China,” UNC Program in the Humanities (March 2016)

“Sex Ratio Imbalance and the Changing One Child Policy in China,” Carolina China Network (March 2016)

“From Farm to Table?: Chinese Food, Chinese Workers and Chinese Migration to the USA,” UNC Dunlevie Honors Colloquium series, “People on the Move: Global Migration” (February 2016)

“Environment and Development in the PRC,” UNC Dunlevie Honors Colloquium series, “Asia Rising” (November 2008)

Media Coverage Featured UNC researcher, “The Joy of Cooking,” Emily Davis, Endeavors (August 2020)

Featured author on book review website, New Books in East Asian Studies, New Books

Network (April 2014)

Languages Mandarin (fluent), German (conversational/reading), French (reading)

Professional Association for Asian Studies

Memberships Association for the Study of Food and Society

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