David Bello

Associate Professor of History, Director of East Asian Studies

Education

• Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University, 2002-03
• Ph.D. in Chinese History, University of Southern California, Low Angeles, 2001
• Certificate in Chinese Studies, Nanjing University-The Johns Hopkins University Center for Chinese and American Studies, Nanjing, 1993
• M.A., Area Studies, Far East, School of Oriental and African Studies, Univresity of London, 1989
• B.A. in History, magna cum laude, University of Dayton, 1985

Research

Research interests: Qing China, 1644-1911
Current Research: Environmental history of the Qing frontier.

Teaching

Chinese and Japanese history

Selected Publications

1. "The Cultured Nature of Imperial Foraging in Manchuria," Late Imperial China, forthcoming.

2. "To Go Where No Han Could Go for Long: Malaria and the Qing Construction of Ethnic Administrative Space in Frontier Yunnan," Modern China, 31, No. 3, July 2005.

3. Opium and the Limits of Empire, Drug Prohibition in the Chinese Interior, 1729-1850, Harvard Council on East Asian Studies, 2005.

4. "The Venomous Course of Southwestern Opium: Qing Prohibition in Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou in the Early Nineteenth Century," The Journal of Asian Studies, 62, No. 1, November 2003.