EDWARD A. MCCORD

Professor of History and International Affairs The George Washington University

CONTACT INFORMATION

Office: 1957 E Street, NW, Suite 503 Sigur Center for Asian Studies The George Washington University Washington, D.C. 20052 Phone: 202-994-5785 Fax: 202-994-6096

Home: 807 Philadelphia Ave. Silver Spring, MD 20910 Phone: 301-588-6948

Email: [email protected]

EDUCATION

Ph.D. University of Michigan, History, 1985 M.A. University of Michigan, History, 1978 B.A. Summa Cum Laude, Marian College, History, 1973

OVERSEAS STUDY AND RESEARCH

1992-1993 Research, People's Republic of Summer 1992 Inter-University Program, , 1981-1983 Dissertation Research, People's Republic of China 1975-1977 Inter-University Chinese Language Program, Taipei, Taiwan

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Professor of History and International Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University. July 2015 to present (Associatte Professor of History and International Affairs, September 1994 to July 2015).

Director, Taiwan Education and Research Program, Sigur Center for Asian Studies, The George Washington University. May 2004 to present.

Director, Sigur Center for Asian Studies, The George Washington University, August 2011 to June 2014.

Deputy Chair, History Department, The George Washington University, July 2009 to August 2011.

1 Senior Associate Dean for Management and Planning, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University. July 2005 to August 2006.

Associate Dean for Faculty and Student Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University. January 2004 to June 2005.

Associate Director, Sigur Center for Asian Studies, The George Washington University. July-December 2003.

Acting Dean, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University. May to August 2001.

Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University. July 1999 to August 2001.

Associate Dean for Students and Curriculum, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University. January 1998 to June 1999.

Director, East Asian Studies Program, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University. September 1995 to August 1997.

Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, University of Florida. September 1986 to June 1994

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Military Force and Elite Power in the Formation of Modern China. and New York: Routledge, 2014.

The Power of the Gun: The Emergence of Modern Chinese Warlordism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Online: http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=ft167nb0p4

Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

“Military Atrocities in China.” In Civil-Military Relations in Chinese History. From Ancient China to the Communist Takeover. Edited by Kai Filipiak. London and New York: Routledge, 2015, pp. 210-237.

“Synarchy and the Chinese People: A Plea for Internationalization in Republican China,” Modern China. Vol. 39, No. 5 (September 2013), pp. 475-510.

Republication in Translation: “Gongzhi yu Zhongguo renmen: Junfa shiqi de Zhongguo dui guojihua de suqiu.” Falu shiping lun [Legal History Review] (May 2014), pp. 67-93. [Translated by Wang Liying].

2 “Militia Training and Control in Republican ,” Journal of Chinese Military History. Vol. 1 (2012), p. 1-19.

“Victims and Victimizers: Warlord Soldiers and Mutinies in Republican China.” In Beyond Suffering: Recounting War in Modern China. Edited by James Flath and Norman Smith. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2011, pp. 130-152.

“Ethnic Revolt, State-Building and Patriotism in Republican China: The West Hunan Miao Abolish-Military-Land Resist- Uprising.” Modern Asian Studies. Vol. 46, no. 6 (2011), pp. 1-35.

“Local Bullies and Armed Force Entrepreneurs: Militia Leadership in Republican Hunan.” Twentieth Century China. Vol. 34, No. 2 (April 2009), pp. 5-29.

“Militia in Modern China: Lessons for Contemporary Conflicts.” American Journal of Chinese Studies. Vol. 15, No. 2 (October 2008), pp. 123-136.

“Cries that Shake the Earth: Military Atrocities and Popular Protests in Warlord China.” Modern China. Vol. 31, No. 1 (January 2005), pp. 3-34.

“Gunbatsu no saihyoka: 20 seiki shoki chugoku ni okeru guntai to kokka kensetsu mondai” [A reappraisal of warlordism: military force and the problem of state-building in early twentieth century China]. In Shingai Kakumei no Tagen Kouzou [Myriad works on the ]. Edited by Sonbun Kenkyukai [Sun Yat-sen research association]. Tokyo: Kyuko Shoin, 2003, pp. 144-164. [Translated by Wataru Takashima].

"Warlordism in Early Republican China." In A Military . Edited by David A. Graff and Robin Higham. Westview Press, 2002; updated edition, 2012. pp. 175-192.

"Burn, Kill, Rape and Rob: Military Atrocities, Warlordism and Anti-Warlordism in Republican China.” In The Scars of War: The Impact of Warfare on Chinese Society. Edited by Diana Lary and Stephen MacKinnon. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2001, pp. 3-47.

"Local Militia and State Power in Nationalist China." Modern China. Vol. 25, No. 2 (April 1999), pp. 115-141.

"The 'Three Lords' of County: Military Office and Local Elite Power in Republican China." Modern China. Vol. 23, No. 4 (October 1997), pp. 459-492.

Re-publication in Translation: "Qiyang de 'yiguo sangong'--lun minguo shiqide junshi zhiwei difang jingying zhngquan de guanxi." daxue xuebao [Journal of Jishou University]. Vol. 19 supplement (1998), pp. 55-65. [Translated by Yi Jiajian].

" against Warlordism: The Politics of Anti-Militarism in Early Twentieth Century China." Modern Asian Studies. Vol. 30: 4 Special Issue: War in Modern China (October 1996), pp. 795-827.

3 "Minguo chuqi Hunan de junshi zhengzhi" [The military affairs and politics of Hunan in the early Republic]. Hunan wenshi [Historical accounts of Hunan]. [Translated and edited by Zhou Qiuguang, Peng Decai and Zeng Pinyuan]. Part 1: Vol. 68 (1996), pp. 37-42; Part 2: Vol. 69 (1996), pp. 46-49; Part 3: Vol. 70 (1996), pp. 58-68.

"Hunan junfa de qiyuan" [The origins of Hunan's warlords]. Jishou daxue xuebao [Journal of Jishou University]. Vol. 17 (April 1996), pp. 26-33. [Translated by Yi Jiajin].

" Yankai yu Hunan caibing xinshuo" [A new account of and Hunan's troop disbandment]. Hunan Shifan Daxue shehui kexue xuebao [Hunan Normal University journal of social science]. 1995, no. 3 (May), pp. 104-110. [Translated by Zhou Qiuguang].

" dudu zhiwei de wenren jichu" [The civil foundations of Li Yuanhong's military governorship]. Xinhai geming yanjiu dongtai [Developments in research on the 1911 Revolution]. 1994, no. 4 (December), pp. 30-35. [Translated by Zhou Qiuguang].

"Civil War and the Emergence of Warlordism in Early Twentieth Century China." War and Society. Vol. 10, no. 2 (October 1992), pp. 35-56.

Re-publication in Translation: "Ershi shiji chu Zhongguo de neizhan yu junfa zhuyi de chuxian." Guowai yanjiu Zhongguo jindai shi [Foreign historiography on modern China]. Vol. 25 (October 1994), pp. 77-98. [Translated by Zhou Qiuguang].

Reprints: In Warfare in China since 1600. Edited by Kenneth Swope. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005.

In Civil-Military Relations. Edited by Peter Karsten. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc, 1998, pp. 49-70.

"Warlordism at Bay: Civil Alternatives to Military Rule in Early Republican China." Republican China. Vol. 27, no. 1 (November 1991), pp. 38-69.

Re-publication in Translation: "Junfa zhuyi chuyu qiongtu zhi jing: minchu wenren zhengzhi qudai junshi tongzhi." Guowai yanjiu Zhongguo jindai shi [Foreign research on modern Chinese history]. Vol. 27 (December 1995), pp. 35-63. [Translated by Zhou Qiuguang].

"Local Military Power and Elite Formation: The Liu Family of Xingyi County, Guizhou." In Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance. Edited by Joseph Esherick and Mary Rankin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, pp. 162-188. Online: http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=ft0q2n99mz

Re-publication in Translation: "Difang de junshi liliang yu quangui de xingcheng: Guizhou Xingyi de Liushi jiazu." Guowai yanjiu Zhongguo jindai shi [Foreign historiography on modern China]. Vol. 25 (October 1994), pp. 45-76. [Translated by Zhou Qiuguang].

4 "Militia and Local Militarization in Late Qing and Early Republican China: The Case of Hunan." Modern China. Vol. 14, no. 2 (April 1988), pp. 156-187.

Reprint: In Warfare in China since 1600. Edited by Kenneth Swope. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005.

Re-publication in Translation (full and partial versions): "Qingmo minchu Hunan de tuanlian ji qi difang junshihua" [Militia and local militarization in late Qing and early Republican Hunan]. Hunan wenshi [Historical accounts of Hunan]. Vol. 36 (1989), pp. 188-204. [Translated by Zhou Qiuguang].

"Qingmo Hunan de tuanlian he difang junshihua" [Militia and local militarization in late Qing Hunan]. Hunan shida shehui kexue xuebao [Hunan Normal University journal of social science]. 1989, no. 3, pp. 96-98, 84. [Translated by Zhou Qiuguang].

"Minchu Hunan de tuanlian he difang junshihua" [Militia and local militarization in early Republican Hunan]. Jishou daxue xuebao [Journal of Jishou University]. 1989, no. 2, pp. 87-96. [Translated by Zhou Qiuguang].

"Jindai junfa yu xinhai geming" [Modern warlords and the 1911 Revolution]. Huazhong xueyuan xuebao [Journal of Central China Teacher's College]. 1982, no. 5, pp. 144-150. [Translated by Tao Hongkai].

Policy Analysis:

“Cultural Diplomacy and Taiwan’s Soft Power,” in Tai Wan-chin, ed., Major Developments in the World and Taiwan in 2014. Taipei: Taiwan Elite, 2014, pp. 117-144.

“Confucius Institutes: Hardly a Threat to Academic Freedoms,” The Diplomat, March 27, 2014. http://thediplomat.com/2014/03/confucius-institutes-hardly-a-threat-to-academic- freedoms/

Review Articles and Research Notes:

“The Taiwan Resource Center at The George Washington University.” Taiwan Communiqué. Vol. 119 (June-July 2008), pp. 22-23.

"New Microfilm Collection of Published Chinese Materials From the 1930s and 1940s." Twentieth-Century China. Vol. 24, no. 2 (April 1999), pp. 107-110.

"Zhongxi xuezhe yanjiu Zhongguo jindai junfashi de bijiao" [A comparison of Western and Chinese research on modern Chinese warlordism]. Hunan Shifan Daxue shehui kexue xuebao [Hunan Normal University journal of social science]. 1993, no. 3, pp. 79-82. [Translated by Zhou Qiuguang].

"Recent Progress in Warlord Studies in the People's Republic of China." Republican China. Vol. 9, no. 2 (1984), pp. 40-47.

5 Encyclopedia Articles:

“,” “Military Colonies,” and “Warlords.” In Encyclopedia of Chinese History. Edited by Michael Dillon. Routledge. (Forthcoming, October 2015).

“Militia.” In Encyclopedia of Modern China. Edited by David Pong. Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2009. Vol. 4, pp. 601-602.

“Militias in China” and “Warlords in China.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Edited by Peter N. Stearns. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

"Militarmachthaber-Periode” [Warlord Period] and "Miliz” [Militia]. In Das grosse China- Lexikon [The Great China Encyclopedia]. Edited by Brunhild Staiger, Stefan Friedrich and Hans Wilm Shutte. Darmstadt, Germany: Primus Verlag, 2003, 2008, pp. 497-498, 501-502.

"Beiyang Army" and “Warlordism.” In Modern China: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and . Edited by Wang Ke-wen. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1998, pp. 27-28, 382-383.

Translator:

"Modern Chinese Educational Philanthropy: and the Xiangshan Children's Home," by Zhou Qiuguang. Republican China. Vol. 19, no. 1 (November 1993), pp. 51-83.

Book Reviews:

“Experiencing the .” Review of What Remains: Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China by Tobie Meyer-Fong. H-War, H-Net Reviews. July, 2013. URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=38608

Review of The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945, edited by Mark Peattie, Edward J. Drea, and Hans van de Ven. In Chinese Review International. Vol. 17, no. 3 (2010), pp. 361-366.

Review of The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb, by Peter A. Lorge. In History: Reviews of New Books. Vol. 38, Issue 1 (Fall 2009), pp. 30.

Review of A History of the Modern Chinese Army, by Xiaobing Li. In Pacific Affairs, Volume 80, No. 4, Winter (February 2008), pp. 664-666.

Review of The Culture of War in China: Empire and the Military under the , by Joanna Waley-Cohen. In International History Review. Vol. 28 (September 2007), pp. 600-601.

Review of Crimson Rain: Seven Centuries of Violence in a Chinese County, by William T. Rowe. In China Quarterly. Vol. 190 (June 2007), pp. 495-497.

Review, with Diana Xiong, of Zhongguo cishan jianshi [A brief history of Chinese philanthropy], by Zhou Qiuguang and Zeng Guijin. In Washington Journal of Modern China.

6 Vol. 8, No. 2 (Spring 2007), pp. 122-125.

Review of Patrolling the Revolution: Worker Militias, Citizenship, and the Modern Chinese States, by Elizabeth J. Perry. In The Chinese Historical Review. Vol. 13, No. 2 (Fall 2006), pp. 395-398.

Review of Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs: Qing Crisis Management and the Boundaries of State Power in Late Imperial China, edited by Robert J. Antony and Jane Kate Leonard. In The China Journal. Vol. 51 (January 2004), pp. 200-202.

Review of New Fourth Army: Communist Resistance along the and the Huai, 1938- 1941, by Gregor Benton. In China Quarterly. Vol. 168 (December 2001), pp. 1017-1019.

Sun Yat-sen, by Marie-Claire Bergère. In China Quarterly. Vol. 167 (September 2001), p. 765-766.

Review of Strong Institutions in Weak Polities: State Building in Republican China, 1927- 1940, by Julia C. Strauss. In The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 566 (November 1999), pp. 168-169.

Review of Counterrevolution in China: Wang Sheng and the , by Thomas A. Marks. In China Quarterly. Vol. 155 (September 1998), pp. 679-680.

Review of The Green Gang: Politics and , 1919-1937, by Brian Martin. In China Quarterly. Vol. 148 (December 1996), pp. 1385-1386.

Review of China's Warlords, by David Bonavia. In China Quarterly. Vol. 148 (December 1996), pp. 1387-1388.

Review of Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937, by Frederic Wakeman. In China Quarterly. Vol. 146 (June 1996), pp. 616-617.

Review of Blood Road: The Mystery of Shen Dingyi in Revolutionary China, by R. Keith Schoppa. In China Quarterly. Vol. 145 (March 1996), pp. 228-230.

Review of War and Popular Culture: Resistance in Modern China, 1937-1945, by Chang-tai Hung. In Pacific Affairs. Vol. 68, no. 4 (Winter 1995-1996).

Review of China at War, 1901-1949, by Edward L. Dreyer. Reviewed for H-War, summer 1995.

Review of The Kwangsi Way in Kuomintang China, 1931-1939, by Eugene William Levitch. In China Quarterly. Vol. 140 (December 1994), pp. 1164-1165.

Review of Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor, by Elizabeth Perry. In Washington Journal of Modern China. Vol. 2, no. 2 (Fall/winter 1994), pp. 119-120.

Review of The Highlanders of Central China: A History, 1895-1937, by Jerome Ch'en. In Journal of Asian Studies. Vol. 53, no. 4 (November 1994), pp. 1230-1231.

7 Review of Student Nationalism in China, 1924-1949, by Lincoln Li. In Pacific Affairs. Vol. 67, no. 4 (Winter 1994), pp. 602-603.

Review of Xiong Xiling yu cishan jiaoyu shiye, by Zhou Qiuguang. In Journal of Asian Studies. Vol. 51, no. 2 (May 1992), pp. 399-400.

Review of The Eagle and the Dragon: The United States Military in China, 1901-1937, by Dennis L. Noble. In Journal of Asian History. Vol. 26, no. 1 (1992), pp. 104-105.

Review of Warlord Soldiers: Chinese Common Soldiers, 1911-1937, by Diana Lary. In Journal of Asian Studies. Vol. 45, no. 4 (August 1986), pp. 822-824.

PAPERS PRESENTED

“A Comparative Analysis of Chinese Warlordism.” Presented at an international conference on “Modern China in Global Contexts: 1600-Present,” co-convened by the Historical Society of Twentieth Century China and the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica; Taipei, Taiwan, August 13, 2014.

“Cultural Diplomacy and Taiwan’s Soft Power.” Presented at an international conference on “Major Developments in the World and Taiwan 2014,” Tamkang University, Taiwan, July 2, 2014.

“Soldiers as Vectors of Violence in Warlord Atrocities: A Social Analysis.” Presented at the annual conference of the Chinese Military History Society, New Orleans, March 14, 2013.

“Reevaluating the Decade: A Provincial Perspective.” Presented at the annual conference of the American Association of Chinese Studies, Atlanta, October 14, 2012.

“Provincial Military Power and Political Consolidation in the Nanjing Era: He Jian in Hunan.” Presented at a conference on “Shaping a Modern : A Centennial History of the Republic of China.” Academia Historica; Taipei, Taiwan, September 13, 2012.

“Residual Warlordism in the : He Jian in Hunan.” Presented at the “International Conference on Modern Chinese Society in Global Perspective and on Chiang Kai-shek and Modern China, 1840-1949.” , P.R.C., June 9, 2012.

“Predatory Warlordism: Wang Zhanyuan in .” Presented at the annual conference of the Chinese Military History Society, Washington, D.C., May 10, 2012

“Synarchy Revisited: A Plea for Internationalization in Warlord China.” Presented at the annual conference of the Association of Asian Studies, Toronto, March 16, 2012.

“Military Atrocities in Warlord China.” Presented at a conference on “Military-Civil Relations in Chinese History,” Leipzig, Germany, August 6, 2011.

“Bingzai: ‘Military Disasters’ and the Experience of War in Warlord China.” Presented at a workshop on “Civils & combatants à l’ épreuve de la guerre en Chine et Indochina: Approaches socio-culturelles,” Université du Québec, Montreal, February 25, 2011.

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“Mutiny at Yichang: Warlordism, Anti-Warlordism and Imperialism in May Fourth China,” Presented at the biennial conference of the Historical Society for Twentieth Century China, Philadelphia, PA, June 26, 2010.

“Militia Training and State Control in Republican Hunan,” Presented at the annual conference of the Chinese Military History Society, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, BC, May 9, 2009.

“Local Bullies and Armed Force Entrepreneurs: Militia Leadership in Republican China,” Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, October 7, 2008.

“Patriotism and Ethnic Interests in the 1937 West Hunan Miao Uprising.” Presented at the biennial conference of the Historical Society for Twentieth Century China conference on “Chinese Identities: Local, Regional, National and International,” Honolulu, HI, June 16, 2008.

“Soldiers and Mutinies in Warlord China.” Presented at the annual conference of the Chinese Military History Society, William Patterson University of New Jersey, Wayne, New Jersey, May 5, 2007.

“Victims and Victimizers: Warlord Soldiers and Mutinies in Republican China.” Presented at a conference on “War and Suffering in Modern China,” The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, November 4, 2006.

“Sanctioned Violence, Sanctioned Vice: Local Bully Behavior and Militia Leadership in Republican China.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Region Association of Asian Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, October 29, 2005.

“Kings of the Countryside: Local Militia Leaders in Republican China.” Presented at “The Social, Economic, and Cultural History of Modern East Asia: A Symposium to Honor Albert Feuerwerker and Ernest P. Young,” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, November 6, 2004.

“Warlords Face the Firing Squad: Military Atrocities and Popular Protests in Republican China.” Presented at the annual conference of the Chinese Military History Society, Washington, D.C., May 24, 2004.

“War, Ethnic Rebellion, and State-building: The 1937 West Hunan “Resist Japan, Abolish Military Land Rents” Uprising.” Presented at the annual conference of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., January 11, 2004.

“Ethnicity and Nationalism in Republican China.” Presented at the annual conference of the Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies, Washington, D.C., October 26, 2003.

“War, Ethnic Nationalism, and State-building: The 1937 West Hunan “Resist Japan, Abolish Military Land Rents” Uprising.” Presented at the annual conference of the Chinese Military History Society, Manhattan, Kansas, May 11, 2002.

9 “A Reappraisal of Warlordism: Military Force and the Problem of State-Building in Early Twentieth Century China.” Presented (in Chinese) at the International Conference on the Ninetieth Anniversary of the 1911 Revolution, Kobe, Japan, December 15, 2001.

"Ethnic Rebellion, Warlordism, and State-building in Nationalist China: The 1937 West Hunan 'Abolish Military Land Rents, Resist Japan' Miao Uprising." Presented at a conference on "Ethnicity, Politics and Cross-Border Cultures in Southwest China: Past and Present," Lund University, Lund, Sweden, May 26, 2000.

"Military Atrocities, Warlordism and Anti-Warlordism in Republican China." Presented at the annual conference of the Chinese Military History Group, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, March 18, 2000.

"Military Atrocities and Public Opinion in Warlord China." Presented at the annual conference of the Association of Asian Studies, Boston, March 12, 1999.

"Burn, Kill, Rape and Rob: Military Atrocities and Public Opinion in Warlord China.” Presented at "Scars of War Workshop," Seminar on War in Modern China, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, April 18, 1998.

"Local Militia and State Power in Nationalist China.” Presented at the annual conference of the American Historical Association, New York, January 3, 1997.

"Military Office and Local Elite Power in Guomindang China.” Presented at the annual conference of the Association of Asian Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 12, 1996.

"Warlords Against Warlordism: Military Men and the Issue of Military Interference in Politics in May Fourth Period China.” Presented at the Seminar on War in Modern China, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., February 10, 1995.

"State Power and Local Society in Nationalist China: Militia Organization in Hunan Province, 1927-1937.” Presented at the annual conference of the Association of Asian Studies, Boston, March 25, 1994.

"Warlords Against Warlordism: Nationalism, Militarism and Politics in Republican China.” Presented at the annual conference of the Southeast Conference Association of Asian Studies, University of , January 17, 1992.

"Warlord Republic: Civil War and the Militarization of Politics in Early Twentieth Century China.” Presented at the annual conference of the American Historical Association, Chicago, IL, December 29, 1991.

"Militarism, Politics, and Nationalism in the Warlord Period.” Paper presented at the Seminar on Chinese Nationalism, Princeton University, March 22, 1991.

"Warlordism at Bay: Civil Alternatives to Military Rule in Early Republican China.” Presented at the annual conference of the Southeast Conference Association of Asian Studies, Rock Hill, South Carolina, January 18, 1991.

10 "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Militia and Local Militarization in Post-Taiping Hunan.” Presented at the Regional Seminar in Chinese Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, University of California--Berkeley, April 12, 1986.

TRAINING PROGRAM PRESENTATIONS

“The History of the PRC: From to Deng Xiaoping,” China Intensive Seminar, Foreign Service Institute: March 2 and April 27, 2015; February 26, April 25 and June 18, and October 20, 2014; February 27, May 8, July 3, August 28, and October 23, 2013; October 24, 2012; and October 18, 2010.

“China: A Cultural and Historical Perspective,” China Threat Seminar, Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy (Quantico VA): May 12, August 25, and September 9 (Honolulu), and November 3, 2014; March 11, June 17, and August 12, 2013; February 27, April 16, July 30, September 24, and October 15, 2012; February 7, March 21, May 2, July 12, and December 5, 2011; October 25 and November 29, 2010; and March 8 and June 27- 28, 2005.

“Understanding China Through History,” China Regional Security Studies Program, Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy (formerly Industrial College of the Armed Forces), National Defense University: January 7, 2013; January 9, 2012; January 4, 2011, January 4, 2010; January 5, 2009, November 15, 2007; August 28, 2006; September 19, 2005; September 13, 2004; September 3, 2003.

“The Qing Dynasty in Chinese History (1644-1911),” docent training session, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, October 19, 2011.

“Late Imperial and Republican China: The Domestic Context for International Relations,” Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminar on U.S.-China Relations, Washington, D.C., July 26, 2010 and July 27, 2009.

“Republican China, 1911-1949,” China Intensive Seminar, Foreign Service Institute, May 5, 2010.

Guest Lecturer, East Asia Seminars, Foreign Service Institute, National Foreign Affairs Training Center, 3-4 times per year, 1997 to 2008: “China’s Revolutionary Century,” “The Rise of Modern China,” “The Chinese Communist Movement, 1921-2001.”

PUBLIC LECTURES AND INVITED TALKS

“Confucius and Friends: The Golden Age of Chinese Philosophy,” one-day Smithsonian Associates Program, Washington DC, October 25, 2014.

“Military Violence in the Making of Modern China,” luncheon discussion for the Organization of Asian Studies, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., April 8, 2014.

11 “The Historical Significance of the Cairo Conference,” roundtable presentation at the “International Conference on the 70th Anniversary of the Cairo Declaration,” Taipei, R.O.C. (Taiwan), December 1, 2013.

“Imperial China: 2000 Years of Political Evolution,” one-day Smithsonian Associates Program, Washington DC, September 21, 2013.

“Understanding Chinese History: An International Perspective,” Youth Assembly, Education Association for Chinese Tomorrow, Washington, D.C., August 14, 2013.

“Military Violence in the Making of Modern China,” Center for Global Understanding and Peacemaking, Elizabethtown College, March 25, 2013.

“China: A Tour through History,” Charles W. Smith Communities, Rockville Maryland, November 26, 2012.

“China and the World: Historical Perspectives,” Colonial Inauguration, GWU, June 20, 2012.

“Narratives of Commemoration: The PRC Looks Back on the 1911 Revolution,” presented at a roundtable on “The 1911 Revolution Remembers in 2011,” annual conference of the American Association for Chinese Studies, Philadelphia, PA, October 15, 2011; and Taiwan Roundtable, Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Washington, D.C., October 24, 2011.

“Military Modernization and the 1911 Revolution,” presented at a conference “Encounter of Chinese and Western Cultures and the 1911 Revolution,” sponsored by the Confucius Institute at the University of Maryland and the Asian Division of the Library of Congress, September 8, 2011.

“The Emergence of Warlordism,” presented in a panel on “The 1911 Revolution and Its Aftermath,” at a conference on “Dawn of Modern China: The 100th Anniversary of China’s 1911 Revolution and the Significance of the Republic of China,” The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., May 20, 2011.

“China and the World: Historical Perspectives,” Colonial Inauguration, GWU, June 22 and July 1, 2012.

“History of the Empire of Qin Shihuangdi,” Elderhostel program on “China’s Terracotta Warriors,” Bethesda, MD, March 29, 2010.

“Terracotta Warriors: The Qin First Emperor and Ancient China’s Military-State Revolution,” Military History Club, University Club, Washington, D.C., December 9, 2009.

“The Passionist Martyrs of West Hunan: Globalization and the Missionary Enterprise,” Life, Death, Memory and Understanding: A Memorial Celebration, Passionist Historical Archives, Union City, NJ, April 24, 2009.

12 “The Sweep of Chinese History: Traditional China” and “The Sweep of Chinese History: Modern China,” in “China: Beyond the Headlines,” Arlington Learning in Retirement Institute, George Mason University, March 21, 2006, April 24, 2008, April 15 and 22, 2009.

“The Sweep of Chinese History,” in “China Beyond the Headlines,” Arlington Learning in Retirement Institute, George Mason University, April 24, 2008.

“Understanding China through Its History,” Alumni Global Studies Lecture, Marian College, Indianapolis, March 5, 2009.

"China: A Tour through History," six-lecture course, Smithsonian Associates Program, Washington, D.C., April 22 - May 27, 2008.

“China Past and Present,” Policymakers Seminar Series, U.S.-China Policy Foundation, Washington, D.C., May 23, 2008.

“China’s Rising Military Power: Implications for the United States and Taiwan Security,” Defense Research Division, Integrated Assessment Office, Ministry of National Defense, Taipei, Taiwan, November 12, 2007.

“China’s Rising Military Power: Implications for the United States and Taiwan Security,” Institute for Taiwan Defense and Strategic Studies, Taipei, Taiwan, November 8, 2007.

“Influence of China’s History on Today,” lecture at the Curtis-Wright Corporation China Symposium, Vienna, VA, July 18, 2007.

“China’s Golden Age,” lecture in seminar on “The Golden Age of the Silk Road: the in China,” Smithsonian Associates Program, Washington, D.C. March 31, 2007.

“China: Using the Past to Understand the Present,” National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, March 27, 2007.

"The Great Dynasties of China," six-lecture course, Smithsonian Associates Program, Washington, D.C., July 5 - August 9, 2006.

"China and Taiwan: Historical Impasse, Contemporary Challenge,” Open House, Elliott School of International Affairs, Washington, D.C., April 15, 2005 and April 21, 2006.

“The Sweep of Chinese History,” in “China: Beyond the Headlines,” Arlington Learning in Retirement Institute, George Mason University, March 21, 2006.

“A Portrait of China: ,” Smithsonian Campus on the Mall, Washington, D.C., February 16, 2005.

“Across the Taiwan Straits: An Overview of China-Taiwan Relations,” Franciscan Center for Global Studies, Marian College, Indianapolis, November 11, 2004.

“Prospects for in China: Historical Perspectives,” Asia Pacific 5 Summit on Democracy and Regional Security, organized by the Institute for Taiwan Defense and

13 Strategic Studies, Taipei, Taiwan, November 18, 2003.

“China’s Civilization and World View,” seven-lecture course, Smithsonian Campus on the Mall, Washington, D.C., October 22 – December 3, 2002.

“China’s Global Presence: A Historical Perspective,” Smithsonian World Affairs Institute: “Beyond the Pacific Rim: A Global Perspective on China,” Smithsonian Campus on the Mall, Washington, D.C., April 10, 2002.

“Jiuyiyi shijian fashenghou Meiguode qingkuang yu mingzhong de fanxiang” [The situation in America and the popular response following the September 11th Incident], Hunan Normal University, , Peoples Republic of China, November 16, 2001.

“Jinshinianlai Meiguo xuezhejie yanjiu Zhongguoshi jieshao” [An introduction to American studies of Chinese history in the last ten years], Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Peoples Republic of China, November 15, 2001.

“Wusi qianhou Hunan renmin fandui junfa douzheng” [The anti-warlord struggle of the Hunan people before and after May 4th], University, Xiangtan, Peoples Republic of China, November 14, 2001.

“Philosophers of Ancient China,” six-lecture course, Smithsonian Campus on the Mall, Washington, D.C., January 23 – February 27, 2001.

“Beijing in Historical Context,” lecture in series: “Old Beijing: Imperial Capital of China,” Smithsonian Campus on the Mall, Washington, D.C., October 23, 2000.

"The Great Dynasties: 2000 Years of Chinese History," six-lecture course, Smithsonian Campus on the Mall, Washington, D.C., July 6 - August 10, 1999.

"The Emergence of Modern Chinese Warlordism," Humanities Division, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, July 1, 1993.

"Warlordism Reconsidered: From Warlord Politics to Warlords in Politics," Seminar on War in 20th Century China, Princeton University, March 24, l990.

"Enlistment, Conscription, Impressment, and Incorporation: The Ways and Means of Warlord Recruitment," Center for Chinese Studies, University of California--Berkeley, May 5, 1986.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Article manuscript reviews for Asian Ethnicity, China Quarterly, Frontiers of History in China, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Military History, Journal of Northeast Asian Studies, Late Imperial China, Modern China, Twentieth Century China, War and Society, Journal of Chinese Military History, and Business History Review.

Book manuscript reviews for Cambridge University Press, Greenwood Press, Harcourt- Brace, Harvard University Press, Pearson Education, Prentice Hall, Routledge Press,

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Editorial and Advisory Boards:

Editorial Board, Modern China, January 2000 to present.

Board of Directors, American Association of Chinese Studies, 2015-2017.

Editorial Board, Washington Journal of Chinese Studies, 2006-2007.

Advisory Board, Richard G. Lugar Franciscan Center for Global Studies, Marian College, Indianapolis, February 2004 to present.

Executive Committee, Chinese Military History Society, March 2003 to March 2004.

Evaluation Committees:

Fulbright U.S. Student Program, National Screening Committee (China), Institute of International Education, New York, December 5, 2007 and November 19, 2014.

External reviewer for membership applications, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advance Study, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.

Proposal Reviewer, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, March 2013.

Teacher consultant, Distinguished Fulbright Awards in Teaching Program, orientation meeting, Washington, D.C., August 20, 2010.

Screening Panel, Toyota International Teachers Program, Institute of International Education, February 23, 2004.

Evaluation Team, Council Study Center at Peking University, Beijing. Council on International Studies Program (CIEE). November 19-24, 2001.

Member, Academic Consortium Board Evaluation Team for Council on International Educational Exchange Study Center at Peking University, November 18-25, 2001.

Selection Committee, Fulbright-Hays Seminar Program, 2001 and 2002.

Selection Committee, Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002.

Specialist Review Committee, Fulbright Scholar Awards in East Asian History and Literature, 1995-1998.

Conference Organizer:

Chinese Military History Society conference, “Military Power and the Chinese State,” George Washington University, Washington, D.C., May 10, 2012

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Chinese Military History Society conference, “The Chinese Military and the State,” George Washington University, Washington, D.C., May 24, 2004.

Seminar on War in Modern China, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., February 10, 1995.

Panel Organizer:

Panel on “Issues of Ethnicity in Qing and Republican China,” annual meeting of the Mid- Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies, Washington, D.C., October 26, 2003.

Panel on "Local Militia, Social Order, and Political Change," annual meeting of the American Historical Association, New York, January 3, 1997.

Panel Chair and/or Discussant:

Discussant, Panel on “China’s Military: Yesterday and Today,” annual conference of the American Association of Chinese Studies, Washington DC, October 11, 2014.

Moderator, panel on “Taiwan and the World,” international conference on “Major Developments in the World and Taiwan 2014,” Tamkang University, Taiwan, July 2, 2014.

Discussant, panel on “Regional Perspectives,” conference on “Taiwan and the World: Challenges and Opportunities.” Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Washington DC, April 1, 2014.

Chair and discussant, panel on “Modern China at Gunpoint: Militarists and Military Organizations in Chinese State Construction,” annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, San Diego, CA, March 23, 2013.

Discussant, panel on “Strangers within the Gates: External Influence on Domestic Social, Economic, and Political Development,” annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Philadelphia, PA, March 26, 2010.

Chair and discussant, panel on “The Identity of Ethnic Minorities and China's Policy of Regional Autonomy for Minority Nationalities,” Historical Society for Twentieth Century China conference on “Chinese Identities: Local, Regional, National and International,” Honolulu, HI, June 16, 2008.

Chair and discussant, panel on “Telling War Stories: Reclaiming the Study of Rebellion and Revolution in China,” annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Atlanta, GA, April 6, 2008.

Chair and discussant, panel on “Boundaries between ‘Public’ and ‘Private’ Language: The Personal Writings and Popular Discourse in World War II in East Asia,” annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, San Francisco, April 8, 2006.

Chair and discussant, panel on “In Search of New Agents of Mediation and Control in

16 Changing Local Structures: Late Qing and Early Republican China in Transition,” annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Chicago, March 31, 2005.

Chair, panel on "Competing Loyalties/Conflicting Modernities: Literacy and Historical Issues in the Republic," annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, San Diego, March 10, 2000.

Panelist, roundtable on "The State of the Field: Reassessing the Study of Chinese Local History," annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, San Diego, March 10, 2000.

Chair (substitute), panel on "Asia in the World Community: Perspectives from Turn-of-the- Century China and Japan," annual meeting of the American Historical Association, New York, January 3, 1997.

Tour Study Leader:

“Imperial China and the Yangtze,” Smithsonian Journeys, April 7-20, 2015.

Georgetown University Alumni China Tour, Georgetown University Travel Society, October 7-23, 2007.

“Imperial Capitals of China,” Smithsonian Journeys, June 3-17, 2004.

“Ancient Capitals of Beijing and X’ian,” Smithsonian Journeys, October 31-November 13, 2001.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS

American Historical Association Association of Asian Studies American Association of Chinese Studies Chinese Military History Society Historical Society for Twentieth Century China

FELLOWSHIPS

Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., Fall 2008. Supported by a grant from the Starr Foundation East Asian Studies Endowment Fund.

Sigur Center for Asian Studies Research Travel Grant, Summer 2011.

University Facilitating Fund Award, The George Washington University, Summer 1995 and Summer 1996

National Program for Research and Study in China Fellowship, Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China, 1992-1993

Chiang Ching-kuo Fellowship, Inter-University Program in Chinese Language Study, Taiwan, Summer 1992

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Mellon Fellowship for Young China Scholars, American Council of Learned Societies, 1987- 1988

Research Development Award, University of Florida, Summer 1987

Post-doctoral Fellowship, Center for Chinese Studies, University of California--Berkeley, 1985-1986

Horace H. Rackham Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1985

Augustus Hindelman Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1983-1984

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, 1982

Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China Advanced Study in China Fellowship, 1981-1982

Social Science Research Council International Doctoral Research Fellowship, 1981-1982

Horace H. Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1980-1981

Center for Chinese Studies Fellowships, University of Michigan: 1976-1977, 1978-1979, 1979-1980

National Defense Foreign Language Fellowships: 1973-1974, 1974-1975, 1975-1976, 1977- 1978

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

George Washington Award, George Washington University, 2014.

Harry H. Harding Teaching Award, Elliott School of International Affairs, 2013.

Donald A. Fleming Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement, Marian College, 2007

Teaching Incentive Program Award, University of Florida, State of Florida University System, 1993-94

Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, 1991

COURSES TAUGHT

Undergraduate: History of Modern China (UF, GWU) History of China to 1800 (UF, GWU) History of Modern Japan (UF)

18 History of Modern East Asia (UF) East Asia Past and Present (GWU) Graduate: Reading Seminar: Twentieth Century China (GWU) Reading Seminar: Late Imperial China (GWU) Reading Seminar: War and Society in Modern China (GWU) Research Seminar: Modern East Asian History (GWU) Uses of History in International Affairs (GWU)

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