Dr. Liang Cai received her B.A. from Renmin University, Beijing, China (1999), and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell University (2003, 2007). She specializes in early Chinese intellectual history. Her principal area of interest, as well as the focus of her recent research, has been early historical narratives and the development of early Confucianism and Daoism. Her dissertation, entitled “In the Matrix of Power: A Study of the Social and Political Status of Confucians (Ru) in the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.E.–8 C.E.),” examines the formation of the Confucian bureaucracy during early imperial China. Among her other areas of research and teaching interest are social and cultural history of ancient China, Chinese mythology, material culture of early China, archaeologically discovered texts, and intellectual history of late imperial China.

Office:  Hawes 105B

Email: liang.cai@armstrong.edu

Courses Offered：

HIST3200 Traditional China

HIST1111 World History: Prehistory to 1500C.E.

Publication:                                     

 “Dialectics between Reconstruction and Deconstruction: Some Reflections on Studies of Early Confucianism in American Sinology” 重構與解構: 對美國漢學界早期儒學研究的一些回顧和思考, China Scholarship 中國學術, 24 (2006), 228–247.  

Translation of “Shigaku Zasshi Summery of Japanese Scholarship for 2001: Shang, Zhou, Spring and Autumn,” Early China, 30 (2005), 205–222.