Dr. Knapp digs his way home, Summer 2004

Keith Knapp

Department Chair

430 Capers Hall
843-953-5073
keith.knapp@citadel.edu

A native of Pound Ridge, New York, Keith Knapp received his B.A. in History and Asian Studies at the State University of New York at Albany, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in East Asian History from the University of California, Berkeley. Having lived and studied language intensively in China for a year, Taiwan for two years, and Japan for a year, he is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and can speak passable Japanese. Through the generosity of grants from the American Council of Learned Societies' Committee on Scholarly Communication with China and the Citadel Foundation, in the spring of the year 2000, he spent five months doing fieldwork in northern China. The University of Hawai'i Press recently published his book Selfless Offspring: Filial Children and Social Order in Medieval China. The manuscript he is presently working on is entitled "The Lives of Filial Children: A Study of Two Medieval Chinese Manuscripts Preserved in Kyoto." He is interested in all facets of the cultural and social history of early medieval China (AD 100-600), but he is particularly consumed with reconstructing the lenses through which people of this period viewed their world. With an eye to discerning how they lived their lives, he has also recently developed an interest in archaeology, which has led to his participation in excavations in China and Mongolia.

  1. Spring 2010 Course Materials
  2. HIST 371: East Asian Conceptions of Leadership - Syllabus 
  3. HIST 357: History of Chinese Religions - Syllabus 
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Knapp is the History Department's specialist on East Asia. He regularly teaches courses on the history of pre-modern China, modern China, Japan, and the Silk Road. He has also done special topic courses on Chinese and East Asian religions. In the near future, he will offer a course on East Asian conceptions of leadership. At the graduate level, he teaches courses on pre-modern China, historiography, and the history of the non-Western world. This summer he hopes to offer a graduate course on either the history of pre-modern China or Japan.

Study Abroad in China, Maymester 2010!
  1. Bibliographies
  2. Confucianism 
  3. Slavery in China and Japan 
  4. Gender in Pre-modern China 
  5. War & Violence in China 
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Knapp offers sage rules for writing well and guidelines for writing an undergraduate history paper.

  1. Study Abroad Opportunity
  2. Maymester in China 2010 
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