Information about Dr. Nanny Kim

Biography

Nanny KIM has been working on various issues in Chinese transport history since 2001. In this project, she concentrates on the transport of mint metals from the mines in Southwestern China to the metropolitan mints in Beijing. Her special interest is the investigation of technologies in overland and water transport through Chinese history, relating them to infrastructure, the density of transport and economic systems, and to ecological change. For her MA (Heidelberg University, completed in 1994) Nanny Kim carried out research on late Qing sources and genres, especially on the illustrated magazine Dianshizhai huabao. She wrote her Ph.D. thesis on images of Korea in Chinese writings during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries at SOAS in London (completed in 2000).

Name of the Project

"Issues in the History of Transport Systems, the Environment and Mint Metal Shipments in Qing China"