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Dr. LIEW-Herres Foon Ming 刘奋明

Dr. LIEW-Herres Foon Ming , PD. Habil. Dr. Liew-Herres Foon Ming, born in Ipoh, Malaysia, grew up in Penang, Malaysia, where she received her Chinese and English education. She studied at the University of Hamburg (1976–1982), where she earned her Ph.D. (1982) and post­doctoral degree (viz., the German Habilitation) (1995). Her major publications include Tuntian Farming of the Ming Dynasty (1984), “Lu­chuan-Ping­main Campaigns (1436–1449) in the Light of Chinese Historiography” (1996), The Treatises on Military Affairs of the Ming Dynastic History (1998), “An Introduction to the Tai Lü Sources of the History of Moeng Lü (Sipsòng Panna)” (2004), “Intra-dynastic and Inter-Tai Conflicts in the Old Kingdom of Moeng Lü in Southern Yun­nan” (2007), and Lan Na in Chinese Historiography: Sino-Tai Relations as Re­flected in the Yuan and Ming Sources (13th to 17th Centuries) (2008).