Genealogies on the Stones : Recording and Imagining Family History in North China under Mongol Rule

通过在中国大陆的几次田野调查，我调查了大量的金元刻石，它们的背面是弯曲的家谱（通常被称为显应碑，字面意思是“祖先墓地的石碑”）。“），从而可以清楚地掌握山西、陕西和北方河南仍屹立不倒的石头的现状。正如我所料，山西的石头数量非常多，而且一般来说，当地政府对它们的保护相对较好。在初步调查的基础上，我决定加强与山西大学学者的联系，以便更好地调查和记录山西石头，并在中国大陆举行的国际会议上与他们进行了多次会面。同时，我在韩国、日本和美国的会议上做了三次英文演讲，可以与美国、中国和韩国的学者组织一个团队，共同研究金元北方中国社会史。

Through conducting several field researches in mainland China, I investigated numerous Jin-Yuan stone inscriptions with genealogies curved on their back side (they are usually called Xianying bei, literally meaning the "stone inscription of ancestral graveyard.") and as a result could have a clear grasp of the present state of the stones still standing in Shanxi, Shaanxi, and northern Henan. As I had expected, Shanxi had outstanding number of the stones and they have been relatively well preserved by local government in general. Basing on this preliminary investigation, I decided to strengthen the connection with scholars at Shanxi University in order to better investigate and record the Shanxi stones and had several meetings with them at international conferences held in mainland China. At the same time, I did three presentations in English at the conferences in Korea, Japan, and the US and could organize a team with US, Chinese, and Korean scholars for future joint research on the Jin-Yuan northern Chinese social history.