Personal Info

E-mail: peter.ditmanson(at)orinst.ox.ac.uk

Tel: 01865 280774

Web Link: http://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/html/staff/ea/chinese/pditmanson.html

Special responsibilities: Personal Tutor to all students in College reading Oriental Studies

Teaching Interests:

Late imperial Chinese history

Research Interests:

Chinese intellectual, cultural and social history, 13th-century to present

Selected Publications:

Peter Ditmanson, ‘Hongwu nianjian de daode lianzheng (Moral Remonstrance in the Hongwu Reign),’ forthcoming in Ming Taizu de zhiguo linian ji qi shijian (Ming Taizu’s Administrative Ideas and Practice), Chinese University of Hong Kong
Peter Ditmanson, ‘Ming Dynasty’ , ‘Tongdian’ , ‘Yongle Dadian’ , ‘Hai Rui’ , ‘Yongle’ , forthcoming in Berkshire Encyclopedia of Chinese History
Peter Ditmanson, ‘Venerating the Martyrs of the 1402 Usurpation: History and Memory in the Mid and Late Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)’, T’oung Pao, Brill, 93.1 (Spring, 2007)
Peter Ditmanson, ‘The Early Ming Imperial University and Xu Cunren’ in Long Live the Emperor! Uses of the Ming Founder Across Six Centuries of East Asian History, Ming Studies, University of Minnesota, 2007
Peter Ditmanson,‘ Moralistic Politics in the Early Ming: The Story of Fang Xiaoru’, The Human Tradition in China, Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2002
Peter Ditmanson, ‘Death in Fidelity: Mid and Late Ming Reconstructions of Fang Xiaoru’, Ming Studies, no. 45–46 (Fall & Spring, 2001)