Dan Knorr

@dknorr.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor of East Asian history at Illinois State University. Research focuses on urban China, place, empire, and state-making during the Qing (1636–1912).

A stack of three books. The top two are a Chinese version of Pu Songling’s collected works. The bottom is an English translation of his Liaozhai zhiyi.
Book cover of Visual Ecologies of Placemaking
A screenshot from a university email: “Tools made simple: Canvas is getting an upgrade. Isn’t it better to keep everything in one place?…”
Picture of two books: Laura Hostetler’s Qing Colonial Enterprise and Emily Mokros’s The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China.
A stack of books including William Rowe’s 1989 Hankow book, as well as works by Kuhn, Rankin, Habermas, and Wakeman.
Screenshot of CNN website with headline: “Man killed by federal agent in Minneapolis was a 37-year-old US citizen, police chief says. DHS says suspect was armed”
A scone with clotted cream and jam.
GIF of Dwight Schrute from The Office (dressed as a Sith lord) saying, "I'm going wherever they value loyalty the most."