Hello! I'm a Canadian man of European descent, and I've lived in China with my family for more than 10 years. I specialize in Chinese history, especially the history of the Qing dynasty (1644–1912), as well as in pre-modern Chinese law and medicine. I no longer work in Academia, but I'm still publishing articles and working on two scholarly books.
I edit Wikipedia as an artisan builds a mosaic, little piece by little piece. This is why I can be very slow, but I believe meticulousness helps to create lasting, reliable content.
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MUSE | This user has access to Project MUSE through The Wikipedia Library. |
PhD | This user has a Doctor of Philosophy degree in East Asian Studies. |
Useful links
editI have found the following links particularly useful.
- Wikipedia's most crucial content policy: Verifiability
- Wikipedia's "Neutral point of view" (NPOV) policy
- Wikipedia's ban on original research
- An explanation of the notion of "reliable sources"
- Wikipedia's "Manual of Style"
- An essay on NPOV, by Coppertwig
- PericlesofAthens's user page. PericlesofAthens has made significant contributions to 19 Featured articles and 13 Good articles!
My sandboxes
editYou're welcome to leave comments on the "talk page" of my sandboxes. Most of them are long-term projects.
Qing dynasty
editMain series
edit- /Qing dynasty
- /Chronology of the Qing dynasty
- /Economy of the Qing dynasty
- /Government of the Qing dynasty
- /History of the Manchus before 1644
- /History of the Qing dynasty
- /Legal history of the Qing dynasty
- /Religion in the Qing dynasty
- /Science, technology, and medicine of the Qing dynasty
- /Society and culture of the Qing dynasty
- /Template:Qing dynasty
- /List of emperors of the Qing dynasty
Emperors
edit- /Nurhaci (1616-1626; Timeline)
- /Hong Taiji (1626-1643; Timeline)
- Shunzhi (1644-1661; Timeline)
- /Oboi regency (1661-1669; Timeline)
- Kangxi (1662-1722; Timeline)
- Yongzheng (1723-1735; Timeline)
- Qianlong (1736-1795); Timeline
- /Jiaqing (1796-1820; Timeline)
- /Daoguang (1821-1850; Timeline)
- /Xianfeng (1851-1861; Timeline)
- Tongzhi (1862-1874; Timeline)
- /Guangxu (1875-1908; Timeline)
- /Xuantong (1909-1912; Timeline)
Ming-Qing transition
editThe mothership would be /Ming-Qing transition (1619-1683). The eventually featured topic would include Chongzhen Emperor, /History of the Manchus before 1644, Shunzhi Emperor, Three Feudatories, Shun Dynasty, and Southern Ming, as well as articles on key people like Dorgon, Wu Sangui, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong.
- People (political): Ajige, Chongzhen Emperor, Dodo (prince), Dorgon, Hong Chengchou, Hooge (prince), Hung Taiji, Jirgalang, Li Zicheng, Shunzhi Emperor, Tianqi Emperor, Wu Sangui, Yuan Chonghuan, Zhang Xianzhong.
- People (non-political): Bada Shanren, Chen Yuanyuan, Gu Yanwu, Huang Zongxi, Qian Qianyi, Wang Fuzhi, Wu Weiye.
- Events, institutions, etc.: Battle of Shanhai Pass, Battle of Songjin, Booi Aha, Shun Dynasty, Three Feudatories, Yangzhou massacre.
- Southern Ming: Southern Ming Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong, Zheng Zhilong, Zhu Yousong, Zhu Youlan, Zhu Yujian.
- Missing: /Fan Wencheng, /Fang Yizhi, /Fushe, /Haircutting command, /Li Chengdong, /Liu Liangzuo, /Ma Shiying, /Niu Jinxing, /Tantai.
Other Qing topics
edit- /Anti-Qing sentiment
- /Boxers
- /Boxers (new structure)
- /Chronology of the Boxer Uprising
- /Old Manchu Archives
- /Scramble for concessions
- /Shunzhi succession (draft)
- /Tangse
- /Tzewang Rabtan
- /Women in the Qing dynasty
- Needs better coverage: Anti-Manchuism
- Need a page: /Yue Zhongqi
- /Timeline of Qing reigns
Chinese culture, medicine, and history
edit- /Chinese medical manuscripts
- /Chronology of Chinese medical history
- /Distinction between Hua and Yi (quotes)
- /Dunhuang medical manuscripts
- /Emotions in Chinese medicine
- /Emotions in Chinese medicine (notes)
- /Fangmatan
- /Five Phases
- /Grace Vineyard
- /Historical writing in Republican China
- /History of acupuncture and moxibustion
- /History of China
- /History of East Asia
- /History of medicine in China
- /History of moxibustion
- /History of Neidan
- /History of wine in China
- /History of women in China
- /Intellectual, religious, and cultural history of the Jin dynasty (1115–1234)
- /Jin dynasty (notes)
- /Legal history of China
- /List of Chinese medical texts
- /Madness in Chinese history
- /Neidan
- /Prehistoric China
- /Tao Hongjing
- /Wine in China
- /Xia dynasty
- /Xia-Shang-Zhou economy
- /Yellow Emperor
- /Yellow Emperor notes
History and anthropology of science and medicine
edit- /Anthropology of emotions
- /Ethnopsychiatry
- /History of cybernetics
- /History of scientific texts
- /Medical history
- /Medical history (disambiguation)
- /Shamanism and mental illness
Korea
edit- /Assassination of Queen Min
- /Gojoseon
- /History of Korean nationalism
- /Joseon Korea
- /Korea (blood, ethnicity, etc.)
- /Korean ethnic nationalism (draft)
Nationalism and historiography in East Asia
edit- /民族
- "Ethnic nationalism" series: /Ethnic nationalism in China––/Ethnic nationalism in East Asia––/Ethnic nationalism in Japan––/Ethnic nationalism in Korea
- "Nationalist historiography" series: /Nationalist historiography in China––/Nationalist historiography in East Asia––/Nationalist historiography in Japan––/Korean nationalist historiography
- /Japanese historiography
- /Korean historiography
- /Social Darwinism in East Asia
Others
editBoxer Uprising
edit- Current wikis on the Boxer uprising: Battle of Beicang, Battle of Beitang, Battle of Dagu Forts (1900), Battle of Pai-t'ou-tzu, Battle of Peking, Battle of Senluo Temple, Battle of Shanhaiguan (1900), Battles on Amur River (1900), Battle of Tientsin, Battle of Yangcun, Beijing Legation Quarter, Boxers attacks on Chinese Eastern Railway, Boxer Protocol, Boxer Rebellion, China Relief Expedition, Defence of Yingkou, Divine Engine Division, Dong Fuxiang, Eight Nation Alliance, Gaselee Expedition, Hushenying, Imperial Decree of declaration of war against foreign powers, Imperial Decree on events leading to the signing of Boxer Protocol, Juye Incident, List of 1900-1930 publications on Boxer Rebellion, Nie Shicheng, Open Door Policy, Ronglu, Russian Invasion of Northern and Central Manchuria (1900), Seymour Expedition, Sheng Xuanhuai, Siege of the International Legations, Taiyuan Massacre, Wuwei Troop, Xishiku Cathedral; Zaiyi, Prince Duan
- Other Boxer-related wikis that should be written: /Boxers (and all its possible redirects; include section on "Red Lanterns"), /Zhu Hongdeng
- /Chinese forces during the Boxer Rebellion
Uploading images
edit- Uploading images: general explanations (though a bit technical)
- File Upload Wizard: links to upload form
- Upload file: another upload form with a slightly different format
- "Information" template: a crucial template for identifying images and their origins
- List of all copyright tags
- Uploading images on Wikimedia Commons: for free-content images that can be used in all Wiki projects
- File:Anders-Celsius-Head.jpg: an outstanding example of how an image file should be presented
Contributions
editThe wikis I've created (excluding about 330 redirects)
edit- Battle of Senluo Temple: a prelude to the Boxer Uprising
- Changning (prince): a Manchu noble of the Qing dynasty (1644–1912)
- Chronology of the Shunzhi reign
- Deliberative Council of Princes and Ministers, the main policymaking body of the early Qing dynasty
- Doksa Sillon: "A New Reading of History" (1908), an influential essay by Shin Chaeho, the originator of Korean nationalist historiography
- Fangmatan: an archeological site from the late third century BCE where the oldest extant piece of paper was found
- Fuquan (prince): a Manchu noble of the Qing dynasty
- Geng Zhongming: an important military commander of the Ming-Qing transition, whose grand-son became one of the Three Feudatories who rebelled against the Qing in the 1670s
- Grand coordinator and provincial governor: the main civil administrators of Chinese provinces during the Qing dynasty
- Imperial Clan Court: the institution in charge of managing the affairs of the imperial clan under the Ming and Qing dynasties
- Imperial Household Department: an important institution in the Qing government
- Jirgalang: a Manchu prince who served as co-regent during the minority of the Shunzhi Emperor
- Johns Hopkins Hospital Historical Club: founded in 1890 and meeting for the first time in 1902, it was instrumental in the creation of the discipline of medical history
- Juye Incident: the killing of two German missionaries that led to the "scramble for concessions" of 1897 and 1898 in China
- Liu Shiduan: founder of the Big Swords Society, a precursor of the Boxers
- Mao Qiling: an influential scholar from the early Qing dynasty
- Military of the Qing dynasty
- Mojokerto child: a controversial fossil from Indonesia
- Peking Field Force: founded in 1862, one of the first modern armies of the Qing dynasty
- Provincial military commander: a high military official in charge of the Green Standard Army during the Qing
- Rare Poultry Society: a British association devoted to conserving and promoting rare poultry breeds
- Shamanism in the Qing dynasty: on the lesser-known religious practices of Qing rulers and Manchu bannermen
- Shuanggudui, an archeological site rich in bamboo strips that was excavated in 1977 near Fuyang (Anhui)
- Siku Quanshu Zongmu Tiyao: the Annotated Catalogue of the Siku Quanshu
- Taisu: one of three extant versions of the Chinese medical classic Huangdi Neijing
- Wushi'er Bingfang: Recipes for Fifty-Two Ailments, a Chinese medical work from the third century BCE
- Yin Yang Shiyi Mai Jiujing: the Cauterization Canon of the Eleven Yin and Yang vessels, another early Chinese medical work
- Zubi Shiyi Mai Jiujing: the Cauterization Canon of the Eleven Vessels of the Foot and Forearm, an early Chinese medical text that contains data on the origins of moxibustion
The wikis I've rewritten or substantially referenced
edit- Anubis
- Battle of Shanhai Pass
- Cup of Solid Gold: China's first national anthem
- Hanpu: the alleged founder of the Jurchen Wanyan clan, whose descendant Aguda eventually founded the Jin Dynasty in 1115.
- Java Man
- Jizi (or Gija): a semi-legendary Chinese sage from the eleventh century BCE.
- Liu Yizheng: a Chinese historian of the late Qing and early Republican periods
- Manchu conquest of China
- National Library of China
- Shunzhi Emperor: the first Qing emperor to reign over China (r. 1643–1661).
- Southern Ming
- Tickle Me Elmo
- Yellow Emperor: the mythical ancestor of all Chinese.
DYKs
editOn 6 March 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hanpu, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Hanpu, who came from the Korean peninsula, married a Jurchen woman, and that their descendants, the emperors of the Jin dynasty, conquered all of north China in the 1120s? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hanpu. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
On 20 March 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Liu Shiduan, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Liu Shiduan used secret kung-fu techniques to make himself invulnerable and was executed for an anti-Christian incident in which he didn't take part? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Liu Shiduan. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
On 6 July 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Mojokerto child, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Mojokerto child was so unexpectedly old that it was discussed in a Time Magazine cover story? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mojokerto child. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
On 10 July 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Java Man, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that to support his claim that Java Man was the "missing link", discoverer Eugène Dubois argued that it looked like a "giant gibbon"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Java Man. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
On 19 September 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Yuxian (Qing dynasty), which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Yuxian was called the "Butcher of Shanxi", and blamed for ordering the Taiyuan Massacre – execution of Western missionaries in 1900 – but he probably only witnessed it and did not order it? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Yuxian (Qing dynasty). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
On 24 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Chen Mingxia, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Chen Mingxia served three Chinese dynasties in less than two years, and was executed by the third one for questioning the dress code? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Chen Mingxia. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Chen Mingxia), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Recognition from peers
editThe Expert Barnstar | ||
I hereby award you the Expert Barnstar for your outstanding contributions to China-related topics. This award is given to a few people who are regarded experts in one or several particular fields. Congrats and keep up your excellent work :)!--Tomcat (7) 15:34, 22 November 2012 (UTC) |
Qing dynasty
Thank you for quality scientific articles on Chinese culture, medicine, and history, especially the Qing dynasty and its people such as Shunzhi Emperor, its first "emperor to reign over China", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:33, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | ||
For your extensive work on Jin campaigns against the Song Dynasty, your excellent contributions to articles on Jurchen and Manchu history, and your mastery of the primary sources. Well done!--Khanate General ☪ talk project mongol conquests 05:50, 13 January 2014 (UTC) |
The Award of the Spahbed Barnstar | |
Thank you for your help on the Shahrbaraz article. I appreciate it very much :). Mossadegh-e Mihan-dust (talk) 18:35, 26 January 2014 (UTC) |
Thanks for your kind words about my work. Here's my newest article that may be of interest to you: [1]. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:52, 25 February 2014 (UTC) |
The Special Barnstar | |
For your expansion and improvement of Chinese food therapy, which saved it from deletion. Keep up the good work! §FreeRangeFrogcroak 18:24, 4 May 2014 (UTC) |
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | |
I want to thank you specifically for your words of encouragement and your pre-GA review on the History of the Great Wall of China article. Without them I would not have had the confidence to think that it could be GA-worthy. I owe it to you :) _dk (talk) 08:38, 14 May 2014 (UTC) |
Thanks for your copy-editing of the Constitution of May 3, 1791! Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:12, 16 June 2014 (UTC) |
The TAFI Barnstar | ||
You have been making several substantial contributions to improve our weekly article. Just want to let you know you're doing a great job. NickPenguin(contribs) 00:02, 24 June 2014 (UTC) |
Thanks for telling me if I could add prayers to Anubis! You belong in the tea house. EMachine03 (talk) 11:27, 29 June 2014 (UTC) |
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | ||
For your contributions to last week's article for improvement, Anubis. ///EuroCarGT 01:48, 30 June 2014 (UTC) |
The Fossilized Barnstar | |
Thank you for your excellent work on Java Man. Very interesting read on an important topic. Keep it up! jonkerz ♠talk 13:25, 8 July 2014 (UTC) |