About

Matthew W. Mosca is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Washington, with a joint appointment at the Jackson School of International Studies. He received his Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University in 2008. His teaching and research interests center on Chinese and Inner Asian history, specifically focusing on the history of the Qing empire (1644-1912), its foreign relations, and its place in global history. He also studies the intellectual history of Qing-era geography and historiography. Currently, his primary research interest is the development of historiography on Chinggis Khan and the Mongol Empire between 1650 and 1900 in a Eurasian context. Mosca has held fellowships at the University of California, Berkeley, the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong, and was a Mellon Fellow for Assistant Professors at the Institute for Advanced Study during 2013-2014. He has taught a variety of courses related to Chinese history, East Asian history, and imperial foreign relations, contributing significantly to the academic understanding of Chinese and Inner Asian historical developments.

Research topics

• History
• Political science
• Ancient history
• Geography
• Medicine

Selected publications

• An Early Qing Claim of India as a Subject State*

  Saksaha · 2022-01-28

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  The Waiguo ji, a brief work by the early Qing official Zhang Yushu, lists India (Enetkek) among countries said to have submitted to the Qing state. According to Zhang, the submission of India, together with that of Tibet, derived from the decision of their overlord Gi Qaan to become a tributary. This short article shows that Zhang's assertion derived from his work as an editor on two works concerning the Shunzhi emperor. It explores the basis of this claim, and discusses why it ceased to appear after the first two decades of the Kangxi reign.

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• Anticoagulant Use During Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Using Heparin and Direct Thrombin Inhibitors in COVID-19 and ARDS Patients

  Journal of ExtraCorporeal Technology · 2022-09-01 · 5 citations

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  Coagulopathies develop in patients supported with the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and can be hemorrhagic and/or thrombophilic in spite of the use of systemic anticoagulation. The purpose this study was to examine the use of heparin and direct thrombin inhibitors (DTI) in COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) on ECMO, with a subset analysis by disease state. Following IRB approval, 570 consecutive records were reviewed of adult patients on venovenous ECMO between May 2020 and December 2021. Patients were grouped by anticoagulant use: Heparin Only (n = 373), DTI Only (bivalirudin or argatroban, n = 90), or DTI after Heparin (n = 107). The effect of anticoagulant grouping was assessed using Bayesian mixed-effects logistic regression adjusting for age, body mass index (BMI), gender, days of mechanical ventilation prior to ECMO, indication for ECMO support, hepatic and renal failure, hours on ECMO, hours off anticoagulation, coagulation monitoring target, and hospital. The primary endpoint was circuit failure requiring change-out with secondary endpoints of organ failure and mortality. Regression-adjusted probability of circuit change-outs were as follows: DTI after Heparin patients—32.7%, 95% Credible Interval [16.1–51.9%]; DTI Only patients—23.3% [7.5–40.8%]; and Heparin Only patients—19.8% [8.1–31.3%]. The posterior probability of difference between groups was strongest for DTI after Heparin vs. Heparin Only (97.0%), moderate for DTI after Heparin vs. DTI Only (88.2%), and weak for DTI Only vs. Heparin only (66.6%). The occurrence of both hepatic and renal failure for DTI Only and DTI after Heparin patients was higher than that of Heparin Only patients. Unadjusted mortality was highest for DTI after Heparin (64.5%) followed by DTI Only (56.7%), and Heparin Only (50.1%, p = 0.027). DTI after Heparin was associated with an increased likelihood of circuit change-out. Unadjusted hepatic failure, renal failure, and mortality were more frequent among DTI patients than Heparin Only patients.

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• Anticoagulant Use During Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Using Heparin and Direct Thrombin Inhibitors in COVID-19 and ARDS Patients.

  PubMed · 2022-09-01 · 6 citations

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  = 0.027). DTI after Heparin was associated with an increased likelihood of circuit change-out. Unadjusted hepatic failure, renal failure, and mortality were more frequent among DTI patients than Heparin Only patients.

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• The Expansion of the Qing Empire Before 1800

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2021-01-07 · 2 citations

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  This chapter analyzes the expansion of the Qing Empire between 1583 and 1800, paying particular attention to the factors determining the ultimate boundaries of the realm. It argues that imperial expansion can most convincingly be explained as a Manchu effort to dominate both China and the territory of the Mongols and Oirats. While the conquest of China was completed relatively quickly, the absorption of Mongol territories was protracted, fitful, and ultimately involved expansion elsewhere in Inner Asia, notably Tibet and the Tarim Basin (southern Xinjiang). Qing rulers adopted distinct political strategies for different zones of their empire: China was ruled chiefly via bureaucratic practices adapted from the preceding Ming regime, while much of Inner Asia was ruled by indigenous leaders kept under close Manchu oversight. Efforts to divide the empire into segments governed by distinct political and ideological norms began to break down by 1800.

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• Imperialism and Colonialism in the Qing Context

  Global and European Studies Institute (GESI), Universität Leipzig · 2021-03-02

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  This paper outlines a framework for using the concepts of imperialism and colonialism to analyse the Qing empire, by relating the political goals of the Qing state with the economic and demographic centrality of China proper within the empire. In Inner Asia, state-driven imperialism often restricted the penetration of Han Chinese migrants and economic networks. In predominantly non-Han regions of southern China, by contrast, state policies often promoted migrant settlement and cultural transformation in forms that reflected a colonial dynamic. Southeast Asia was also deeply influenced by China proper’s economic growth and out-migration, but here the lack of Qing state interest prevented the emergence of a dynamic resembling that of European colonialism. After 1860, the Qing state increasingly abandoned efforts to balance the interests of various subjects, and shifted to a colonial policy of integrating all parts of the realm as closely as possible with China proper.

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• Part One. The Qing Empire’s Vision of the World

  Stanford University Press eBooks · 2020-12-31

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• Indian Mendicants in Ming and Qing China: A Preliminary Study

  Collège de France eBooks · 2020-01-01 · 4 citations

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  Part I. Background of Indian Mendicant Travel to the Ming and Qing Empires Gosains and Tibet Indian mendicants, often termed gosains in English-language scholarship, entered Tibet in considerable numbers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In India, gosains blended religious and commercial activities: travelling as pilgrims, they could undertake long-distance trade; residing in monasteries, they were able to take on the role of landlord, money lender, and trader. As Bernard Cohn has ...

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• Part Two. Forging a Multiethnic Empire: The Apex of a Frontier Policy

  Stanford University Press eBooks · 2020-12-31

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• Part Three. The Age of Transition, 1800–1838

  Stanford University Press eBooks · 2020-12-31

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• From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy

  Stanford University Press eBooks · 2020-06-30 · 4 citations

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  Between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, Qing rulers, officials, and scholars fused diverse, fragmented perceptions of foreign territory into one integrated worldview. In the same period, a single "foreign" policy emerged as an alternative to the many localized "frontier" policies hitherto pursued on the coast, in Xinjiang, and in Tibet. By unraveling Chinese, Manchu, and British sources to reveal the information networks used by the Qing empire to gather intelligence about its emerging rival, British India, this book explores China's altered understanding of its place in a global context. Far from being hobbled by a Sinocentric worldview, Qing China's officials and scholars paid close attention to foreign affairs. To meet the growing British threat, they adapted institutional practices and geopolitical assumptions to coordinate a response across their maritime and inland borderlands. In time, the new and more active response to Western imperialism built on this foundation reshaped not only China's diplomacy but also the internal relationship between Beijing and its frontiers.

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Frequent coauthors

• Alfred H. Stammers

  2 shared

• Shannon Barletti

  2 shared

• Michael S. Firstenberg

  Memorial Medical Center

  2 shared

• Linda B. Mongero

  2 shared

• Anthony K. Sestokas

  2 shared

• Kirti Patel

  Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College

  2 shared

• Jeffrey P. Jacobs

  University of Florida

  2 shared

• Eric A. Tesdahl

  2 shared

Education

• PhD, History and East Asian Languages

  Harvard University

  2008

Awards & honors

• Mellon Fellowship for Assistant Professors at the Institute…