Andrea S. Goldman
Andrea S. Goldman
Associate Professor
Email: goldman@history.ucla.edu
Office: 5355 Bunche Hall
Phone: 310-825-3368
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Andrea S. Goldman specializes in the cultural and social history of early modern and modern China, with particular emphasis on the subfields of urban history, performance, the politics of aesthetics, and gender studies.
Her first book, Opera and the City: The Politics of Culture in Beijing, 1770-1900, uses opera as a lens through which to observe court and city dynamics in Qing dynasty Beijing.
She is currently working on two new projects: the first is a transnational look at the transformation of the ancillary commercial sex culture surrounding Chinese opera performance in the first half of the twentieth century; the second is a history of gossip from roughly 1750-1850.
Goldman teaches the survey of early modern and modern China, ca. 1000-2000 (11B), as well as seminars in early modern and modern Chinese history & historiography, popular culture, gender & sexuality, and the PRC as history.
Between language classes and library work, Goldman toured Taiwan with a semi-professional xiangsheng (Chinese comedy) troupe; and while conducting her dissertation research in China, after archive hours, she apprenticed with a professional xiangsheng master in Beijing.
Publications
- Opera and the City: The Politics of Culture in Beijing, 1770-1900 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012); paperback edition, 2014; recipient of the 2014 Association for Asian Studies Joseph A. Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize.
- Wenhua zhong de zhengzhi: xiqu biaoyan yu Qingdu shehui 文化中的政治：戏曲表演与清都社会, Chinese translation (with Zhu Xingwei 朱星威) of Opera and the City, Social Sciences Academic Press (Shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe 社会科学文献出版社), 2018; selected as one of the Top Ten Books of 2018 Award by SSAP.
- “Nightmares, Daydreams, and Sleeplessness: Nighttime Performances and the Uneven End of Early Modernity in China,” CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature 41.2 (December 2022): 120-141.
- “The Eight-Court Pearl: Performance Scripts and Political Culture,” in Patricia Sieber and Regina Llamas, eds., How to Read Chinese Drama (Columbia University Press, 2022), 325-345.
- “Kunju de ouran xiaowang” (The accidental death of Kun opera), in Hua Wei et al., eds., Kunqu. Chun san er yue tian—miandui shijie de kunqu yu Mudanting [Kun opera’s new spring days—kun opera and The Peony Pavilion mount the global stage] (Shanghai: Shanghai guji, 2009), 354-66.
- “Actors and Aficionados in Qing Dynasty Texts of Theatrical Connoisseurship,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 68.1 (June 2008): 1-56.
Awards & Grants
Center for Chinese Studies Research Grant, National Central Library, Taiwan, March-July 2021
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fredric E. Wakeman, Jr. Fellowship, Jan. 2020-June 2020 & July 2021-Dec. 2021
Association for Asian Studies Joseph A. Levenson Award for the Best Monograph on China (Pre-1900) for _Opera and the City_, 2014
University of California President’s Faculty Research Fellowship in the Humanities, 2013-14
