Victor C. Xiong

Professor
Ph.D., Australian National University (1989)
Chinese History and Archaeology (especially the Sui Tang period with an emphasis on urban, social and cultural history)

Office: 4422 Friedmann Hall
E-mail: victor.xiong@wmich.edu
Phone: (269) 387-4648
Webpage: http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~xiong/

Teaching and Research

Dr. Xiong has participated in research presentations at the Center for Chinese Studies, University of Hawaii, University of Washington, University of Pittsburgh, and Association for Asian Studies. Ongoing participant in a number of excavations of early Chinese sites under auspices of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Archaeology. He was also editor of Early Medieval China, an annual published by the Early Medieval China Group.

Dr. Xiong is the Director of the East Asian Studies Program.

Selected Recent Publications

Monographs

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty: His Life, Times, and Legacy. Albany, N. Y.: SUNY Press, 2006. Hardback and paperback editions. 13+357 pp.

Sui-Tang Chang’an (583–904): A Study in the Urban History of Medieval China. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 2000. Distributed by University of Michigan Press. 44 + 370 pp., 21 maps, 31 figures.

Translations of primary sources

Sanguo zhi (Histories of the Three Kingdoms) by Chen Shou (Western Jin dynasty). (From literary Chinese into modern Chinese). Co-translator of selected chapters. In Wu Shuping, ed., Ershiwu shi jingxuan jingyi , vol. 2. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1995: 1037–1331 (292 pp.).

Edited journal volumes

Early Medieval China vol. 5. Early Medieval China Group. 1999. 164 pp.

Early Medieval China vol. 4. Early Medieval China Group. 1998. 182 pp. Managing editor.

Chinese Historians vol. 9. Chinese Historians in the United States, Inc. 1996. 143 pp. Publication date: November 1997.

Early Medieval China vol. 3. Early Medieval China Group. 1997. 155 pp.

Early Medieval China vol. 2. Early Medieval China Group. 1995–96. 157 pp.

Chinese Historians vol. 8. Chinese Historians in the United States, Inc. 1995. 150 pp.

Early Medieval China vol. 1. Early Medieval China Group. Spring 1995. iii + 174 pp.

Chinese Historians vol. 7. Chinese Historians in the United States, Inc. 1994. 179 pp. Coedited with Prof. Chen Jian, U of Virginia.

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