Gang Zhao
Department of History, 214B Buchtel Common, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325 Telephone: (330) 972-2160. Email: [email protected]
Education: Ph. D. Johns Hopkins University, 2006 Department of History M. A. University of California, Los Angeles 1999-1997 Department of History M. A. Renmin University, Beijing, China 1989-1986 Department of History B. A. Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China 1986-1982 Department of History
Dissertation: “The Qing Opening to the Ocean: Chinese Maritime Policies, 1684-1757” Forthcoming (University Hawaii Press)
Current Position:
Assistant Professor (2006-- Present), Department of History, the University of Akron
Fellowships, Grants, and Academic Honors
● Publication subsidies, Chiang Chin-kuo Foundation 2012
● Research Grant, Confucius Institute, the University of Akron 2011
● Visiting Research Fellow, National Palace Museum 2009
● Junior Research Grant, Chiang Ching Kuo foundation 2008
● Summer Research Grant, the University of Akron 2007
● J. Key Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University Jun 2004
● The Best Graduate Student Paper Award, The 32nd Annual Meeting Oct 2003 Southwest Conference on Asia Studies, University of Houston
● Dissertation Research Fellowship, China Times Cultural Foundation Sep 2003
● Traveling Grant, Association for Asian Studies Aug 2003
1 ● Research Grant for Pre-dissertation Study, Department of 2002 History, Johns Hopkins University
● Travel Research Grant, Association for Asian Studies 2001
● Summer Travel Fellowship, Institute for Global Studies in 2000 Culture, Power and History, Johns Hopkins University
● Graduate Fellowship, Department of History, Johns 2003- 2001 Hopkins University
● Graduate Fellowship, Department of History, Johns 2001-1999 Hopkins University
● Research Fellowship, Center for Chinese Studies, UCLA 1999- 1998 ● Research Fellowship, Center for Chinese Studies, UCLA 1998- 1999
Publications
Ι. Articles
[In English]
“A Marginal Identity and Its Modern Under the peer review Transformation: Inquiring into the Han Identity” International Historical Review
“North Asian Trade Network, Manchu Commercial Forthcoming Consciousness, and the Making of the 1684 Open-door Policy” Late Imperial China
“Restructuring Memory: Zhu Yuanzhang’s Role in the Changes of the 2008 Ming Maritime Policies from 1400 to 1600” In Long Live the Emperor: Uses of the Ming Founder across Six Centuries of East Asian History edited by Sarah Schneewind. Society for Ming Studies
2 “Reinventing China: Imperial Qing Ideology and the Rise 2006 of Modern Chinese National Identity in the Early Twentieth Century” Modern China (Peer reviewing journal) 32, 1: 1-28
[In Chinese]
“Interpreting the Imperial Qing Discourse of ‘the Great Unity’ 2011 in the context of the Early Globalization: A study of the Geography Section in the Comprehensive Study of the Imperial Qing Institutions” New Historical Scholarship (Xin Shixue)
“Interpreting Late Imperial China’s Economy from a Global Perspective: 2004 A New Trend in American Studies of Qing Economic History in the End of the Twentieth Century” (Cong quanqiu shijiao jieshi Qingdai jingji: shiji zhijiao Meiguo Zhongguo jingjishi yanjiu de xinqushi) Review Article, Qingshi yicong, 2
“Reevaluating the May-fourth Discourse: A New Trend in American 2004 Studies of Chinese Women’s History at the Turn of the Twentieth Century” (Gaobie Wusi huayu: shiji zhijiao Meiguo Zhongguo funushi yanjiu de xindongxiang) Review Article, Qingshi yicong, 4.
“Interpreting the 1794 Macartney Mission to China from the Eighteenth- 2003 century Global Perspective” (Shi shenmo zhebi liao shijia de yanjing: shiba shiji quanqiu shiye zhong de maga’erni shituan laihua shijian) Horizon (Shiye), 9: 1-28.
“A Break with the Cheng-Zhu School: Gu Yanwu’s Criticism against 1995 Zhu Xi’s Scholarship” (Gaobie lixue: Gu Yanwu dui Zhuxue de pipan) Tsinghua Journal of Chinese Studies, New Series XXVI: 1-26.
“A Study of Yan Ruoju’s Interpretation of Sixteen Words from 1994 the Perspective of Intellectual History” (Yan Ruoju yuting shiliu zhi kaobian de sixiangshi yiyi) Journal of Philosophical Research (Zhexue Yanjiu), 2: 23-33.
“The Boxue Hongci Ke Examination and its Ethnic and Regional Contexts 1994 in the middle of the Seventeenth Century” (Kangxi buoxue hongcike he Qingchu zhengzhi geju de yanbian) Journal of National Palace Museum (Gugong bowuyuan Yuankan), 1: 53-58.
3 “A Study of Gu Yanwu’s Travels to North China” (Gu Tinglin 1993 beiyou shiji tanwei) Journal of Qing Studies (Qingshi yanjiu), 3: 32-35.
“A Preliminary Study of Qian Qianyi’s Scholarship” 1992 (Qian Qianyi xueshu sixiang chutan) Qingshi Yanjiuji, 7: 110-130.
“A Study of Gu Yanwu’s Letters to Huang Zongxi in 1665” 1986 (Gu Yanwu yu Huang Taichong shu xinzheng) Journal of Lanzhou University (Lanzhou daxue xuebao), 3: 78-79.
II. Book Reviews
[In English]
Book Review on Meng Xianshi’s Study of the Private 2011 Assemblies in the Tang (Tangdai minjian jieshe yanjiu). In Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (JESHO)
Book Review on Leonard Blussé’s Visible Cities 2010 Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans. In Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (JESHO)
Book Review on Hosteller’s Qing Colonial Enterprise. Spring 2008 In China Review International
Book review on Lynn Struve’s The Qing Formation in Fall 2005 World-Historical Time. Chinese Historical Review
[In Chinese]
Book review Jaime Cortesao’s Os descobrimentos Jun 2011 Portugueses, based on Chinese trans. by Deng Lanzhen, et al. Dongfang zaobao
Book review on Jin Chengyi’s Qingdai huangdi zhizheng Apr 2011 shishi kao (A study of the succession struggles in the Qing).
4 Dongfang zaobao
Book review on Lei Haizong’s Zhongguo tongshi xuandu (A reading Mar 2011 of Chinese History). Dongfang zaobao
Book Review on Yang Nianqun’s Hechu shi Jiangnan: Qingchao Dec 2010 Zhengtong guan de queli he shilin jingshen de bianyi (Where is Jiangnan: A study of imperial Qing legitimacy and the Intellectuals’ responses) Zhonghua dushubao
Book review on William Rowe’s Saving the World: Chen Hongmou 2007 and the Consciousness of Eighteenth-century Chinese Elite. Zhongguo xueshu (Chinese Scholarship)
Co-author, “On Lin Qingzhang’s Studies of the 1995 evidential researches in the early Qing.” (Ping Lin Qingzhang Qingchu Qunjing bianweixue yanjiu) Newsletter of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, l4, 4: 135-148. Taibei.
III. Translations of English Academic Works into Chinese
Benjamin Elman. Classicism, Politics, and Kinship: The Ch’ang-chou 1997 School of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial China. Chinese translation, Nanjing: Jiangsu renmin chubanshe.
Benjamin Elman. From Philosophy to Philology: Social 1995 and Intellectual Aspects of Changes in Late Imperial China. Chinese translation, Nanjing: Jiangsu renmin chubanshe.
Presentations：
“Mongol Conquest and the Discovery of New World: Oct 2011 How Asian Hegemony Stimulated the Rise of European Overseas Expansion” ------China Week, the University of Akron
5 “Early Globalization and the Multiethnic Empire’s Efforts Jul 2011 of Remaking the Discourse of the Great Unity in High Qing” ------Institute of Modern History, the Chinese Academy of Social Science (Invitation)
“Early Globalization and the Multiethnic Empire’s Efforts Jul 2011 of Remaking the Discourse of the Great Unity in High Qing” ------The Conference “Region, Nation, and Ethnic Groups” Held by both the College of National Scholarship Renmin University of Beijing and Institute for Advanced Studies University of Minnesota (Invitation)
“The Kangxi Emperor and the 1684 Open Trade Policy” Mar 2011 ------The Conference “Was There a Historical East Asian International System?” held at the Korean Studies Institute, University of Southern California. Los Angeles, CA (Invitation）
“Who Closed the Gate of China: A Reconsideration of the Oct 2010 McCartney Mission in the Euro-Asian Perspective.” ------China Week, the University of Akron
“Scientific Breakthroughs with Scientific Revolution” Oct 2009 Face-to-face talk with Yingcai Xiao ------China Week, the University of Akron
“Why did China Fail to Discover the New World?” Oct 2009 ------China Week, the University of Akron
“Latest Trend of American Studies of Chinese History” Oct 2009 ------National Palace Museum, Beijing (Invitation)
“Exploring Zhu Yuanzhang’s Conception of China(Zhongguo)” Apr 2009 ------The 2009 Annual Conference of Association for Asian Studies, Chicago
“A Marginal Identity and Its Modern Transformation: Apr 2008 Inquiring into the Han Identity”
6 ------Critical Han Study Workshop Stanford University
“Memory, Counter-Memory, and the Foundation of Modern Apr 2007 Chinese National Identity” ------The 2007 Annual Conference of Association for Asian Studies, Boston
“Enriching the State through Overseas Trade: the Making of Mar 2006 Kangxi’s Open Trade Policy in 1684” ------The 2006 Annual Conference of Association for Asian Studies, San Francisco
“From Welcome to Concern: Tokugawa Japan’s Response Apr 2005 to Kangxi’s Open Trade Policy” ------Department of History, North Michigan University
“The Construction and Decline of the Tribute Trade System Feb 2004 in 1400—1684” ------Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
“Kangxi’s Reform of the Tribute Trade System and its Significance for the Development of East Asian Networks in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries ”
------The Traditional China Colloquium of Metropolitan Nov 2003 Washington, Georgetown University
------The 2003 Annual Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Region of Oct 2003 Association for Asian Studies, George Washington University
------The 32nd Annual Meeting, Southwest Conference on Asian Oct 2003 Studies, University of Houston
“Reinventing ‘China’: A Study of the Qing Imperial Concept of Zhongguo (China) and Its Effect upon National Identity in Twentieth-century China”
------The Institute for Global Studies in Culture, Power and History, Apr 2001 Johns Hopkins University
7 ------Department of History, Johns Hopkins University Oct 2000
Professional Association Memberships
. American Historical Association . Association for Asian Studies
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