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My research focuses on premodern Japanese social and cultural history especially foodways, consumption, and the performing arts. I offer courses on Japanese and Tibetan history and food culture, and I have taught at the University of Kansas since…

Opium pipe and accessories

Masterpieces of Chinese Portrait Painting in the National Palace Museum

Keith McMahon studies Ming and Qing fiction, male and female character types, Chinese eroticism, the culture of opium smoking in 19th century China and Euro-America, psychoanalytic theory, and the history of imperial polygamy from the legendary past…

Refereed Publications

John James Kennedy, “Supply and Demand for Grassroots Political Reform in Rural China”, Journal of Chinese Political Science (accepted February 2009)

John James Kennedy, “Legitimacy with Chinese Characteristics: ‘Two…

Professor Kennedy with elementary school children in Ningxia 2011.

Professor Kennedy with elementary school teachers in Gansu 2011.

Image 1: Professor Kennedy interviewing two parents (mothers) at the one school 2010.

Image 2: Author’s Survey 2009-2010 (Baseline survey conducted in 2009 and Evaluation survey conducted in 2010)

Students walking home from school. In the more remote areas even the closer homes are about three to four kilometers way from school.

Since about 2002, local governments have been consolidating rural elementary schools. In the 1980s and 1990s almost every village had an elementary school, now there is about one school for every eight to ten villages. This means many students live…