Victor Seow
Ph.D. Student
vseow@sas.upenn.edu
Education
B.A. (first class joint honors) in History and Political Science, McGill University (2006)
Fields
China from 1800; Japan from 1850; China and Inner Asia; Middle East from 1800
Research Interests
Late imperial and Republican China; ethnicity and nationalism; Chinese Muslims; Pan-Islamism; the Japanese empire; Chinese interactions with Inner Asia; Orientalism
Advising Committee
Selected Papers Presented
"Pan-Islam in the Far East: Chinese Muslims and the Japanese All-China Muslim League"
Harvard East Asian Society Graduate Student Conference
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 9-11, 2007
"Courting the Crescent: The Sino-Japanese Struggle for Chinese Muslim Support, 1937-1945"
Chinese Military History Society Conference
William Paterson University of New Jersey, Wayne, NJ, May 5, 2007
"To Sleep, Perchance to Dream: Reading the Allegory of the Iron House into Lu Xun's Hometown"
Mid-Atlantic Region of the Association for Asian Studies Conference
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, October 26-28, 2007
