Faculty & Staff Directory

Undergraduate Survey Course: “East Asian Civilizations in Global Perspective,” University of Saint Thomas, Fall 2016.

Li, Kan. “River Works and the Undetermined Future of the Port of Tianjin, 1912-1937.” AAS (Association for Asian Studies) in Asia, Seoul, South Korea (June 2017). :
Li, Kan. “The 1918 ‘Cathedral Cutting:’ River Conservancy and National Sovereignty.” The Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Urbana-Champaign, U.S. (October 2016).:
Li, Kan. “Contesting the Modern: River Conservancy in Tianjin, 1897-1937.” AAS-in-Asia, Kyoto, Japan (June 2016).:
Li, Kan. “The Salt Must Not Be Sold: The Displacement of the Salt Mounds in Tianjin, 1900-1902.” The Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, St Louis, U.S. (October 2015). :
Li, Kan. “Contact of International and Local Strategies: The Incident of Icebreakers in Tianjin, 1916.” Discussions on Asia: The Midwest Graduate Student Conference, Minneapolis, U.S. (April 2014). :
Li, Kan, Hui-Han Jin (co-author). “Textiles and Women’s Lifecycle in China from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century.” Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association (SSHA), Chicago, U.S. (November 2013). :

From Canal City to Seaport: Transportation System and Transformation of Tianjin, 1888-1937: Dissertation, University of Minnesota Graduate School Thesis Research Travel Grant

Speaker in the Concert “Matteo Ricci: His Map and Music,” at Minneapolis, San Francisco, and Santa Clara, 2014 and 2016. :

Awards

The D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science and Technology in East Asia, Travel Grant, July, 2017
The East Asia Library of Stanford University, Travel Grant, 2016-2017
Union Pacific Dissertation Research Grant, Center for Early Modern History, University of Minnesota, 2016
International Thesis Research Grant, University of Minnesota Graduate School, 2014
Graduate Research Partnership Program, University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts, 2013

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