Andrea Goldman

Assistant Professor

Department: History

6265 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Campus mailcode: 147303
Tel: 310-825-3368
goldman@history.ucla.edu
Personal Website

Keywords: China

Andrea S. Goldman received her Ph.D from University of California, Berkeley in 2005. Before joining the faculty at UCLA, she taught for three years at the University of Maryland, College Park. She 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 current book project, “The Staging of Urban Culture in Beijing, 1770-1900,” uses opera as a lens through which to observe court and city dynamics in the Qing capital of Beijing. During the 2005-06 academic year, she was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. Goldman teaches the survey of early modern and modern China, ca. 950-1950 (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.

PUBLICATIONS

“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.

"Actors and Aficionados in Qing Dynasty Texts of Theatrical Connoisseurship," _Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies_ 68.1 (June 2008): 1-56.

“Kunju de ouran xiaowang” (The accidental death of Kunju), in _Kun Opera and The Peony Pavilion: Perspectives from around the World_ (Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe), forthcoming.