Ari Levine , Ph.D.

Ari Daniel Levine received his Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University in 2002. He specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of early modern China, from 800 to 1600. He has written two chapters for Volume 5 of the Cambridge History of China, scheduled for publication in 2007. His book Divided by a Common Language: Factional Conflict in Late Northern Song China, 1044-1104 is under contract with University of Hawaii Press. He is currently working on a second book project on urban space and cultural memory in Song-dynasty Kaifeng.