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About Laurie Dickmeyer
Laurie Dickmeyer is an Assistant Professor of History at Angelo State University, where she teaches courses in Asian and US history. Her research concerns nineteenth-century US-China relations. She can be reached at laurie.dickmeyer@angelo.edu and on Twitter @LDickmeyer.
NBN Episodes hosted by Laurie:
May 17, 2024
Betting on the Civil Service Examinations
During the Qing dynasty in China, a wide variety of people participated in a lottery game named weixing (“surname guessing”), which had participants p…
December 31, 2023
Queer Comrades
Hongwei Bao’s book is a thoughtful exploration of gay identity and queer activism in China. This work stems from the term and identity tongzhi, which …
August 13, 2023
Networks of Faith and Profit
In her book, Networks of Faith and Profit: Monks, Merchants, and Exchanges Between China and Japan, 839-1403 CE (Cambridge UP, 2023), associate profes…
May 24, 2023
Reproductive Realities in Modern China
In Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021 (Cambridge UP, 2022), assistant professor of history at Missouri Stat…
October 26, 2022
Queer China
In Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture Under Postsocialism (Routledge, 2020), associate professor of media and cultural studies…
February 17, 2021
In China's Wake
From 2002 to 2013, China’s rapid economic growth caused a boom in the prices of commodities—particularly of metals, fuel, and soybeans. According to p…
December 29, 2020
Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities
John Wei’s book Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities: Kinship, Migration, and Middle Classes (Hong Kong University Press, 2020) studies queer culture…
September 30, 2019
Becoming Taiwanese
How was the Taiwanese identity constructed? Dr. Evan N. Dawley, an associate professor of history at Goucher College, explores this question in his ne…
August 29, 2019
Qing Travelers to the Far West
Historians in the English-speaking world have long studied how European and American travelers and diplomats conceptualized China, but, especially in …
June 24, 2019
China in the World
In recent years, Confucius Institutes—cultural and language programs funded by the Chinese government—have garnered attention in the United States due…
April 29, 2019
Strait Rituals
The Taiwan Strait Crises of 1954-55 and 1958 occurred at the height of the Cold War. Mao’s China bombarded Nationalist-controlled islands, and U.S. Pr…
April 12, 2019
Betraying Big Brother
On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, five activists were detained by the police in China for their plans to distribute anti-sexual harassm…
December 4, 2018
Legal Lessons
In her new book, historian Jennifer Altehenger, a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Chinese History at King’s College London, grapples with the complex …
September 24, 2018
Imperial Twilight
The reason for Great Britain’s war against China in the First Opium War (1839-42) is often taken as a given. British merchants wanted to “open” trade …
August 21, 2018
China’s War on Smuggling
From petty runs to organized trafficking, the illicit activity of smuggling on the China coast was inherently dramatic, but now historian Philip Thai …
July 3, 2018
The World in Guangzhou
When we think of globalization and global cities, we might be inclined to think of New York or London. Yet in recent years, Guangzhou, the central man…
May 3, 2018
China’s Hegemony
Ji-Young Lee’s book investigates the changing nature of tribute relations during the Ming and High Qing between a dominant China and its less powerful…