2006-2007 Fellows
Matthew Sommer
Stanford University
Department of History
Matthew Sommer (BA, Swarthmore College, 1983; MA, University of Washington, 1987; Ph.D., UCLA, 1994) taught Chinese history at the University of Pennsylvania for seven years before joining Stanford’s History Department in 2002. He is the author of Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China (Stanford University Press, 2000).
Project Summary
On the basis of 1700 legal cases, Sommer plans to write an unprecedented history of same-sex union and masculinity in eighteenth-century China. This study will shed light on major issues in Chinese history and the comparative history of sexuality: the impact of the skewed sex ratio in late imperial China; alternative patterns of alliance and identity found in different social milieus; and the applicability to China of models of sexuality and modernity derived from Europe
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Contact
Robert Barrick
Fellowship Administrator rbarrick@stanford.edu
T 650.723.3054
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Gifts
The Humanities Center’s fellowships are made possible by gifts and grants from the following individuals, foundations and divisions within Stanford: The Esther Hayfer Bloom Estate, Theodore H. and Frances K. Geballe, Marta Sutton Weeks, The Mericos Foundation, The National Endowment for the Humanities, The Rockefeller Foundation, as well as from Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences, and the Office of the Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education.
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