Grad Students
Gregory Sattler
My research is focused on the history of sea merchants in East Asia from the ninth to thirteenth centuries. I am particularly interested in maritime trade, the social history of merchants, connections between merchants and officialdom in various societies, and immigration.
Advisor: Richard von Glahn
Field of Study
China
Subfield
Maritime trade
Merchants and officialdom
Social history
Immigration
Publications
Grants and Awards
- 2019 From the Ground Up Scholarship, The University of British Columbia and Peking University
- 2017-2019 Rotary Yoneyama Memorial Scholarship, Rotary Yoneyama Memorial Foundation
Conference Presentations
Academic Conferences
- "Zhedong Sea Merchants and the China-Japan Trade, ca. 800–1000 CE." The Conference on Tang-Song Transitions. Princeton University, June 16-18, 2022.
- "Poets Without Borders: Literate Merchants and a Shared Culture of Writing in East Asia, ca. 800–1200 CE." Medieval Cultural Heritage Around the Globe: Monuments, Literature, and the Arts, Then and Now. Binghamton University, October 22-23, 2021.
- "Assessing Change and Continuity among Chinese Sea Merchants during the Tang-Song Transition." Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. Brigham Young University, October 9, 2021.
- "The Rise of Fujianese Sea Merchants and the First Chinese Trans-Asiatic Sea Network." The Sea: Mobility, Ingenuity, and Ecology in the Early Modern World. UCLA-UC Irvine, May 1, 2021.
Degrees
M.A., Japanese Humanities, Kyushu University (2019)
B.A., History, National Taiwan University (2011)