About - Valerie HANSEN

Valerie Hansen

Associate professor at Department of History, Yale University. Writing a textbook on premodern Chinese history. Now beginning a project on the social history of the Silk Road between India and China, and especially interested in the oasis settlement of Turfan and its graveyards at Astana and Karakhoja. Recent publication: Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China: How Ordinary People Used Contracts, 600-1400 (Yale University Press: 1995).