Andrea S. Goldman
Associate Professor
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, and gender & sexuality.
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.
Degrees
Ph.D, University of California, Berkeley, 2005
Awards
Association for Asian Studies Joseph A. Levenson Award for the Best Monograph on China (Pre-1900) for _Opera and the City_, 2014
Grants
University of California President's Faculty Research Fellowship in the Humanities, 2013-14
ACLS Grant, 2020-21
Selected Publications
Opera and the City: The Politics of Culture in Beijing, 1770-1900 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012).
“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.
“The Nun Who Wouldn't Be: Representations of Female Desire in Two Performance Genres of ‘Si fan',” Late Imperial China 22.1 (June 2001): 71-138.
Graduate Students
Zheng CHEN
Roanna CHEUNG, PHD 2017
Weiling DENG (Education), PHD 2018
Amy Gordanier
Jiacheng LIU (Carnegie Mellon), PHD 2016
Lingyan LIU (UIUC)
Yu SHI
Hsiao-Chun WU, PHD 2016
Yun-Pu YANG (Theater)
Mindi ZHANG
Current Courses by Term
Previous Courses by Term
Capstone Seminar: History--East Asia
Community and Corporate Internships in History
Topics in History: China
History of China, circa 1000 to 2000
Community and Corporate Internships in History
Variable Topics Historiography Proseminar: East Asia
Advanced Historiography: China
History of China, circa 1000 to 2000
History of Maps in Early-Modern East Asia
Topics in History: China
History of China, circa 1000 to 2000
Variable Topics Historiography Proseminar: East Asia
Variable Topics Historiography Proseminar: East Asia
Topics in History: China
China Studies: Discipline, Methods, Debates
Seminar: Chinese History
History of China, circa 1000 to 2000
Seminar: Chinese History
History of Women, Men, and Sexuality Historiography
History of China: 1000 to 1950
Topics in History: China
Selected Topics in Chinese History from 1500
Topics in History: China
History of China: 1000 to 1950
Capstone Seminar: History -- East Asia
History of China: 1000 to 1950
Topics in History: China
Seminar: Chinese History
Seminar: Chinese History
History of China: 1000 to 1950
Topics in History: China
History of China: 1000 to 1950
Capstone Seminar: History -- East Asia
Selected Topics in Chinese History from 1500
History of China: 1000 to 1950
Undergraduate Variable Topics Research Seminars: History -- East Asia
Topics in History: China
Previous Courses by Course
Community and Corporate Internships in History
2019 Spring Quarter
2019 Winter Quarter
Topics in History: China
2019 Spring Quarter
2017 Spring Quarter
2016 Fall Quarter
2015 Winter Quarter
2013 Spring Quarter
2012 Spring Quarter
2010 Spring Quarter
2007 Fall Quarter
Capstone Seminar: History--East Asia
2019 Spring Quarter
History of China, circa 1000 to 2000
2019 Winter Quarter
2018 Winter Quarter
2017 Winter Quarter
2016 Winter Quarter
Variable Topics Historiography Proseminar: East Asia
Advanced Historiography: China
2018 Spring Quarter
History of Maps in Early-Modern East Asia
2018 Winter Quarter
Seminar: Chinese History
2016 Spring Quarter
2011 Spring Quarter
China Studies: Discipline, Methods, Debates
2016 Spring Quarter
Seminar: Chinese History
2016 Winter Quarter
2011 Winter Quarter
History of Women, Men, and Sexuality Historiography
2015 Spring Quarter
History of China: 1000 to 1950
2015 Winter Quarter
2013 Winter Quarter
2012 Spring Quarter
2010 Fall Quarter
2010 Winter Quarter
2008 Winter Quarter
Selected Topics in Chinese History from 1500
2013 Spring Quarter
2009 Spring Quarter
Capstone Seminar: History -- East Asia
2013 Winter Quarter
2010 Winter Quarter
Undergraduate Variable Topics Research Seminars: History -- East Asia