TEXAS STATE VITA
I. Academic/Professional Background
A. Name: Joseph K. Yick Title: Professor
B. Educational Background
Degre Yea University Major Thesis/Dissertation e r Ph.D. 1988 University of History The Urban Strategy of the Chinese California-Santa Communist Party: The Case of Barbara Beiping-Tianjin, 1945-1949 M.A. 1978 University of History California-Santa Barbara B.A. 1976 University of History Texas-Austin
C. University Experience
Position University Dates Honorary Professor of International Texas State University 2009 Studies (formerly Southwest Texas State (Permanent) University) Ingram Professor of History Texas State University 2016-2019 Professor of History 2000-present Associate Professor of History Texas State University 1995-2000 Assistant Professor of History Texas State University 1989-1995
Assistant Professor of History Auburn University-Montgomery 1988-1989 Instructor of History Santa Barbara City College 1984-1985 Visiting Lecturer of History University of California-Santa 1984 Barbara Lecturer of History Extra-Mural Studies, University of 1982-1983 Hong Kong Assistant Lecturer of History Hong Kong Baptist College (now 1979-1983 Hong Kong Baptist University)
D. Relevant Professional Experience
Position Entity Dates Visiting Professor Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong 2009 Kong Library and Asian Institute at 1 the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto Research Associate John King Fairbank Center for East 1991 and 1996 Asian Research, Harvard University Deputy Centre Supervisor and History Hong Kong Advanced Level 1981-1982 Marker Examinations, Examinations Authority, Hong Kong Government Lecturer of Chinese History Adult Education Section, 1979-1983 Department of Education, Hong Kong Government
E. Other Professional Credentials (licensure, certification, etc.)
1978: Lifetime California Community College Instructor Credential in the Subject Matter Area: History.
II. TEACHING
A. Teaching Honors and Awards:
2002: Selected as a “Favorite Professor” by the Alfred Nolle Chapter of Alpha Chi, National Scholarship Honor Society.
B. Courses Taught:
1. Texas State University, 1989-Present: HIST 2310: Western Civilization to 1715 HIST 2311: History of World Civilization to the 17th Century HIST 2311: History of World Civilization to the 18th Century HIST 2312: History of World Civilization from the 17th Century HIST 2312: History of World Civilization from the 18th Century HIST 2320: Western Civilization, 1715 to Date HIST 4318D: China and the West Since 1800 HIST 4318E: Japan and the West Since 1600 HIST 4343: China, 1600-Present/Modern China, 1600-Present HIST 4344: Modern Japan, 1600-Present HIST 4346: Modern Korea HIST 4347: Hong Kong in the Modern World/History of Hong Kong HIST 4350G: Modern Korea HIST 4350M: History of Hong Kong HIST 4388: Problems in Historical Research HIST 5381: Chinese Communism HIST 5382: China and the Modern World HIST 5390: Problems in Historical Research HIST 5390F: China and the Modern World
2 HIST 5395: World History HIST 5399A: Thesis HIST 5399B: Thesis HON 2390: History of Ideas II HON 2390C: Chinese Communism
2. Auburn University-Montgomery, 1988-1989: A Cultural History of the Far East A History of Chinese Communism Modern Japan Pre-Modern Japan World History to 1648 World History since 1648
3. Santa Barbara City College, 1984-1985: History of Asian Civilization China and Japan in the Modern World
4. University of California-Santa Barbara, 1984: Modern China
5. University of Hong Kong, 1982-1983: The Making of Modern Japan History of Meiji Japan History of Modern Japan
6. Hong Kong Baptist College, 1979-1983: History of Modern China Modern Japan Modern Europe
7. Adult Education Section, Department of Education, Hong Kong Government, 1979-1983: History of Traditional China History of Modern China
C. Directed Student Learning (i.e. theses, dissertations, exit committees, etc.):
D. Courses Prepared and Curriculum Development:
E. Teaching Grants and Contracts:
F. Other:
G. Teaching Professional Development Activities Attended:
III. SCHOLARLY/CREATIVE
A. Works in Print (including works accepted, forthcoming, in press):
3 1. Books:
a. Scholarly Monographs:
Making Urban Revolution in China: The CCP-GMD Struggle for Beiping-Tianjin, 1945-1949. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1995. In March 1996, Sharpe nominated the book for the Joseph Levenson Prize offered by the Association for Asian Studies.
b. Textbooks:
c. Edited Books:
d. Chapters in Books:
“Communist-Nationalist Political Struggle in Beijing during the Marshall Mission Period,” in Larry I. Bland, ed., George C. Marshall's Mediation to China: December 1945-January 1947 (Lexington, Virginia: George C. Marshall Foundation, 1998), 357-388.
“Two or Three Fronts?--The Civil War in China, 1945-1949,” in Philip Yuen-sang Leung and Edwin Pak-wah Leung, eds., Modern China in Transition: Studies in Honor of Immanuel C. Y. Hsü (Claremont, California: Regina Books, 1995), 185-203.
e. Creative Books:
2. Articles:
a. Refereed Journal Articles:
“Yuan Shu: Chinese Special Service Agent & Spy, 1931-45,” Southeast Review of Asian Studies, 39 (2017): 84-113.
‘“Self-Serving Collaboration’: The Political Legacy of ‘Madame Wang’ in Guangdong Province, 1940-1945,” American Journal of Chinese Studies, 21:2 (October 2014): 217-234.
‘“Pre-Collaboration’: The Political Activity and Influence of Chen Bijun in Wartime China, January 1938-May 1940,” Southeast Review of Asian Studies, 36 (2014): 58-74.
“Methodist-Chinese Friendship: Mr. and Mrs. John A. Pilley in Pre-1949 China,” Methodist History, XLV/3 (April 2007): 180-189.
“The 20 March Incident of 1926,” Journal of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, 5 (September 2005): 29-50.
“The Chinese Nationalist-Communist Struggle in Hong Kong: The ‘Kashmir Princess’ Incident of 1955,” Journal of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, 4 (September 2003): 44-74.
4 “The Historical Role of the CCP’s Beijing Municipal Committee in the Cultural Revolution, November 1965-May 1966,” E-ASPAC (Electronic Journal of the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast), 2 (July 2003): 1-21.
“The ‘Historical Problem’ of the ‘Twenty-eight-and-a-half Bolsheviks’ in Chinese Communism,” Asiatica Venetiana, 6/7 (2001-2002): 275-291.
“Party and State Socialism in Beijing, 1949-1965,” Journal of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, 3 (October 2001): 138-151.
“Communist-Puppet Collaboration in Japanese-Occupied China: Pan Hannian and Li Shiqun, 1939-43,” Intelligence and National Security, 16:4 (Winter 2001): 61-88.
“August 1948, a Month of Significance: The Acceleration of the Guomindang's Collapse in Urban China,” Journal of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, 2 (October 2000): 68-78.
“Is Chinese Marxism Humanism?”, Journal of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, 1 (October 1999): 1-47.
“The Land Policy of the Chinese Communist Party, 1921-1949: With Special Reference to the Central Soviet Area and the Shen-Kan-Ning Border Region,” Journal of Selected Papers in Asian Studies, 1:1 (Fall 1998): 1-19.
“Juntong and the Ma Hansan Affair: Factionalism in the Nationalist Secret Service, 1946-1949,” Modern China, 21 (October 1995): 481-505.
“Methodist Missionary Contribution to Intercultural Understanding and Diplomacy: The Caldwell Family in Foochow and Central Fukien, 1912-1949,” Methodist History, XXXIII/4 (July 1995): 238-248.
“1939-1949, a Decade of Significance: The Ascendancy of the Urban Strategy over the Rural Strategy in the Chinese Communist Movement,” Asian Studies in the Southwest, II (April 1994): 18-25.
“Chinese Communism and Dual Revolutionary Strategy,” Modern Chinese History Society of Hong Kong Bulletin, 3 (January 1989): 49-54.
“The Military Strategy in Kiangsi, 1931-1934: A Study of the Power Struggle between Mao Tse-tung and the Kuo-chi-p’ai,” The Hong Kong Baptist College Academic Journal, IX (Fall 1982): 257-269.
b. Non-refereed Articles:
3. Conference Proceedings:
a. Refereed Conference Proceedings:
5 “Who Were the ‘Twenty-Eight-and-a-Half Bolsheviks’ in the Chinese Communist Movement?” in Philip F. Williams, ed., Selected Papers of the 1997 Southwest Conference on Asian Studies (Tempe, Arizona) (Autumn 1998), 1-10.
“The Limits of the Japanese Informal Imperialism in Manchuria: The Abortive Tanaka- Yamamoto Plan of 1927-1928,” in Stephen L. Field, ed., Selected Papers of the 1995 Southwest Conference on Asian Studies (San Antonio, Texas) (October 1996), 357-388.
“Party Building and the United Front: The Chinese Communist Organizations and Activities in the Enemy-controlled Urban Areas, 1927-1949,” in Kenneth W. Rea, ed., Proceedings of the 1994 Annual Meeting of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies (Ruston, Louisiana) (October 1995), 83-92.
b. Non-refereed:
“Methodist Missionary Contributions to Sino-American Friendship: The Caldwells and the Pilleys in Pre-1949 China,” in Proceedings (CD-ROM), 6544-6595, Second Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii, 8-11 January 2004.
4. Abstracts:
5. Reports:
6. Book Reviews:
Philip F. Williams and Yenna Wu, The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp Through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004), in Canadian Journal of History (Saskatchewan, Canada), XLI (Autumn 2006): 430-432.
7. Essays:
“Zhu De,” in David Pong et al., eds., Encyclopedia of Modern China (Detroit, Michigan: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2009), Vol. 4, 166-169.
“Fu Zuoyi,” “Gao Gang,” “Rao Shushi,” “Wang Ming,” and “Zhang Guotao,” in Edwin P.W. Leung, ed., Political Leaders of Modern China: A Biographical Dictionary (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2002), 43-46, 133-134, 172-173, 201-203.
“Anti-American, Anti-Government Demonstrations”; “Civil War, 1945-49”; and “Marshall Mission”; in Wang Ke-wan, ed., Modern China: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998), 5-6, 68-69, 207-208.
“Battle of Huai-Hai”; “Civil War (Chinese) 1945-1949”; “Fu, Tso-yi”; “Kao, Kang”; and “Liu, Jen”; in Edwin Pak-wah Leung, ed., Historical Dictionary of Revolutionary China, 1939- 1976 (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1992), 13-14, 95-96, 131-133, 189-191, 229-230.
6 8. Poems:
9. Short Stories:
10. Other Works in Print:
One of the fifty Southwest Texas State University faculty members invited to write about “the biggest development in their field in the last century and what might be the biggest in the next.” My contribution was published in Hillviews (San Marcos, Texas), 30:1 (Winter 2000): 17.
“Hong Kong's Future on Mind of SWT [Southwest Texas State University] Professor.” Interviewed article published in The Daily University Star, Southwest Texas State University, 13 February 1997.
“Development of Asian Historical Studies Promoted by Professor from Hong Kong.” Interviewed article published in The Daily University Star, Southwest Texas State University, 13 September 1995.
“Hong Kong: Fears and Apprehension Concerning Reunification.” Interviewed article published in Hillside Scene (San Marcos, Texas), 8:3 (December 1993): 7-9.
“Hong Kong: A Future Unknown.” Interviewed article published in Hillside Scene (San Marcos, Texas), 7:4 (February 1993): 4-5.
B. Works Not in Print:
1. Papers Presented at Professional Meetings:
2019: “‘Japan-wang Cooperation’ in Occupied China and Canton, 1940-1945.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, East Lansing, Michigan, 4-6 October. ‘“Patriotic Resistance’ in ‘Traitorous Collaboration?”: Guan Lu in Wartime Shanghai, 1939- 1945.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Memphis, Tennessee, 18-20 January.
2018: “Elite Chinese Political Collaborators in Japanese-Occupied Canton, 1940-1945.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Columbia, South Carolina, 12-14 January.
2016: “Yuan Shu: A Special CCP Agent in Occupied Nanjing-Shanghai, 1940-1945.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Missoula, Montana, 23-24 September.
2015:
7 “From Comrade to Enemy: The Vicissitudes of the Underground CCP, 1927-1976.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Salt Lake City, Utah, 9-10 October.
“Yazaki Kanjū: A Special ‘China Expert’ in Occupied Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Nanjing, 1940-1945.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Charlottesville, Virginia, 16-18 January.
2014: “A Special Military ‘China Expert’: Yazaki Kanjū in Occupied Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Nanjing, 1940-1945.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the New England Association for Asian Studies, Storrs, Connecticut, 4 October.
“Self-Serving Collaboration: The Political Legacy of ‘Madame Wang’ in Guangdong Province, 1940-1945.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Durham, North Carolina, 17-19 January.
2013: “Puppet China’s First Lady during World War II.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Conference, Monterey, California, 7-9 June.
2012: “The Political Legacy of Chen Bijun in Occupied China, 1940-1945.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, West Yellowstone, Montana, 11-13 October.
2011: “Leftwing Journalism and Communist Politics in British Hong Kong: Wen Wei Po in 1989.” Paper presented at the joint meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs and the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, St. Paul, Minnesota, 28-30 October.
2010: “The Li Zizong Affair: A Case Study of the HK CCP United Front Policy.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Asian Studies Association, Ottawa, Canada, 28-31 October.
2009: “Chiang Kai-shek’s Rise to the Political Leadership of China in 1928.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Oxford, Ohio, 16-18 October.
2008: “Why Did Xu Zhongyao Defect to the CCP in 1949?” Paper presented at the biennial conference of the Canadian Asian Studies Association, Waterloo, Canada, 13-16 November.
“The Degeneracy of the Guomindang Regime: The Case of Juntong in Beiping in 1949.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Hilton Head, South Carolina, 18-20 January.
2006: 8 “The Death of Dai Li in 1946.” Paper presented at the biennial conference of the Canadian Asian Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, 9-12 November.
2005: “From Enemy to Employee: Japanese Soldiers in Shanxi Province, 1945-1949.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Denver, Colorado, 29 September-1 October.
“The Japanese Involvement in the Chinese Civil War, 1945-1949: The Case of Shanxi Province.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the World History Association of Texas, San Marcos, Texas, 26 April.
“The Second Battlefront in Chinese Communist History.” Paper presented at the Third Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii, 12-16 January. Chair for Session Topic: History.
2004: “Hu Lancheng and Li Shiqun in Occupied China, 1940-1945.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the New England Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Hanover, New Hampshire, 5-6 November.
“How Much Can Jinsheng Jinshi Shed Light on the Wang Jingwei Regime?” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Studies, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 8-9 October.
“Methodist Missionary Contributions to Sino-American Friendship: The Caldwells and the Pilleys in Pre-1949 China.” Paper presented at the Second Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii, 8-11 January. Chair for Session Topic: History.
2003: “Hu Lancheng's Account of Li Shiqun's Murder in Occupied China in 1943.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the New York Conference on Asian Studies, Buffalo, New York, 17-18 October.
“The 20 March 1926 Incident.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, Houston, Texas, 10-11 October.
“The Zhongshan Gunboat Incident of 20 March 1926.” Paper presented at the First Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii, 12-15 January.
2002: “Chinese Nationalist-Communist Struggle in Hong Kong: The ‘Kashmir Princess Incident’ of 1955.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, Huntsville, Texas, 18-19 October. Panel Moderator for “Chinese Prison Camps.”
“The Historical Role of the CCP's Beijing Municipal Committee in the Cultural Revolution, November 1965-May 1966.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Conference, Bellingham, Washington, 21-23 June.
9 “The Three Battle Fronts in the Chinese Civil War, 1945-1949.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Conference of the Chinese Military History Society, Manhattan, Kansas, 11 May.
2000: “The Construction and Development of and Contradictions within the Party and State Socialism in Beijing, 1949-1965.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, Houston, Texas, 13-14 October.
“Communist-Puppet Collaboration in Occupied China: Pan Hannian and Li Shiqun, 1939-1943.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Long Beach, California, 6-7 October.
1999: “August 1948, a Month of Significance: The Acceleration of the Guomindang's Collapse in Urban China.” Paper presented at the joint meeting of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies and the Historical Society for 20th Century China, San Marcos, Texas, 21-23 October. This paper had also been presented at the annual meeting of the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Boise, Idaho, 16-17 September.
1998: “Is Chinese Marxism Humanism?” Paper presented at the joint meeting of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies and the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, El Paso, Texas, 16-17 October.
1997: “The Land Policy of the Chinese Communist Party, 1921-1949: With Special Reference to the Central Soviet Area and the Shen-Kan-Ning Border Region.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Boulder, Colorado, 23- 26 October.
“Who Were the ‘Twenty-Eight-and-a-Half Bolsheviks’ in the Chinese Communist Movement?” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, San Antonio, Texas, 17-18 October.
1996: “A Different Kind of Collaboration and Resistance: The Murder of Li Shiqun in Occupied China in 1943.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Ogden, Utah, 25-26 October.
“The Communist-Nationalist Political Struggle in Beiping during the Marshall Mission Period, 1945-1947.” Paper presented at the Symposium on the Marshall Mission to China, Lexington, Virginia, 17-19 October.
1995: “The Limitations of the Japanese Informal Imperialism in Manchuria: The Abortive Tanaka- Yamamoto Plan of 1927-1928.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwest Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Waco, Texas, 13-14 October.
10 “Urban Revolutionary and Ruler: The Career of Liu Ren in Beijing, 1941-1966.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Lewiston, Idaho, 29-31 September.
1994: “Party Building and the United Front: The Chinese Communist Organizations and Activities in the Enemy-controlled Urban Areas, 1927-1949.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwest Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, College Station, Texas, 28-29 October.
1993: “Methodist Missionary Contributions to Inter-cultural Understanding and Diplomacy: The Caldwell Family in Fuzhou and Central Fujian, 1912-1949.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the Association for Asian Studies, Mahwah, New Jersey, 30-31 October.
“1939-1949, a Decade of Significance: The Ascendancy of the Urban Strategy over the Rural Strategy in the Chinese Communist Movement.” Paper presented at the joint meeting of the Western and Southwest Conferences of the Association for Asian Studies, Mexico City, Mexico, 22-23 October.
1992: “Two or Three Battle Fronts?--The Civil War in China, 1945-1949.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the New England Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Boston, Massachusetts, 10 October.
1991: “The Ma Hansan Affair: Factionalism, Corruption, and Degeneracy in the Nationalist Secret Service during the Civil War.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwest Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, San Antonio, Texas, 11-12 October. Panel Chair for “20th Century China Group.”
1990: “The Chinese Communist Movement in the Ping-Jin Area, 1945-1949.” Paper presented at the joint meeting of the Western and Southwest Conferences of the Association for Asian Studies, Austin, Texas, 12-13 October.
2. Invited Talks, Lectures, and Presentations:
1998: “Is Marxism Humanism?” Brown Bag Lecture, Phi Alpha Theta, History Department, Southwest Texas State University, 4 November.
1996: Invited by the George C. Marshall Foundation in Lexington, Virginia to present a paper at their “Re-examining the Marshall Mission to China, 1945-47: A Symposium,” 17-19 October.
An introductory lecture on aspects of Chinese history and culture for the Strutter Organization, Athletic Department, Southwest Texas State University, 15 August. 11 “Making Urban Revolution in China.” Talk delivered at the History Department Research Seminar, Hong Kong Baptist University, 1 April.
1990: “The Future of Hong Kong.” Talk delivered at the International Studies Club, Southwest Texas State University, 7 November.
“Chinese Historical Studies in Texas, U.S.A.” Talk delivered at the Modern Chinese History Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 7 August.
1987: A 15-hour pre-departure orientation lecture series for the students of Santa Barbara City College in California who were going to visit Hong Kong, China, and Japan from 16 March to 1 June.
1985: A week-long pre-departure orientation lecture series for the students of Santa Barbara City College who were going to visit China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan from 9 September to 14 November.
1984: “What Can the Educated Traveler Learn on a Tour of China?” Talk delivered at Santa Barbara City College, 2 May.
3. Consultancies:
1985 and 1987: Consultant to the China and Japan Campus Abroad Program, Santa Barbara City College.
4. Workshops:
5. Other Works not in Print:
C. Scholarly/Creative Grants and Contracts:
1. Funded External Grants and Contracts:
2009: Honorarium, Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library and Asia Institute at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto.
2006: East Asian Library Travel Grant, Stanford University.
2004: Wason Library Travel Grant, Cornell University. Travel Grant, Center for Japanese Studies-Asia Library, University of Michigan. Research Grant, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation and the China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies. 12 2003: East Asia Center Travel Grant, University of Washington.
2002: East Asian Library Travel Grant, University of Pittsburgh.
2001: East Asia Center Travel Grant, University of Washington. Harvard-Yenching Library Travel Grant, Harvard University. East Asian Library Travel Grant, University of Pittsburgh. Travel Grant, Center for Japanese Studies-Asia Library, University of Michigan. East Asian National Resources Center Travel Grant, University of California-Berkeley. Travel Grant, Council of Conferences of the Association for Asian Studies, for participation in an enlarged meeting and retreat of the Council in Chicago, 21-24 March.
1999: Henry G. Schwarz Endowment Fund in Mongolian Studies, Western Washington University. Conference Grant, Executive Committee of the Association for Asian Studies; Outreach Grant, Council of Conferences of the Association for Asian Studies; Grant, Historical Society for 20th Century China; and financial support from the Republic of China’s Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Houston for the joint meeting of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies and the Historical Society for 20th Century China, San Marcos, Texas, 21-24 October.
1998: East Asian Library Travel Grant, University of Kansas. Center for East Asian Studies Travel Grant, University of Chicago. Harvard-Yenching Library Travel Grant, Harvard University. Travel Grant, Center for Japanese Studies-Asia Library, University of Michigan.
1997: East Asia National Resources Center Grant, Stanford University. East Asian Studies Center Travel Grant, Indiana University.
1996: Honorarium, George C. Marshall Foundation. Harvard-Yenching Library Travel Grant, Harvard University. East Asian Studies Center Travel Grant, Indiana University. Center for East Asian Studies Travel Grant, University of Chicago. Travel Grant, Center for Chinese Studies-Asia Library, University of Michigan. United States Marine Corps Historical Foundation Research Grant. East Asian National Resources Center Travel Grant, University of California-Berkeley. Research Grant, Japan-United States Friendship Commission and the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies.
1993: East Asia National Resources Center Grant, Stanford University.
1992: 13 Center for East Asian Studies Travel Grant, University of Chicago.
1991: East Asia National Resources Center Grant, Stanford University. Travel Grant, Center for Chinese Studies-Asia Library, University of Michigan.
1987: Patent Funds, University of California-Santa Barbara. Humanities/Social Sciences Research Grant, University of California-Santa Barbara.
2. Submitted, but not Funded, External Grants and Contracts:
3. Funded Internal Grants and Contracts: a. University Research Enhancement Grants: 2017, 2015, 2008, 2007 (declined), 2005, 2004, 2001, 1997, 1993, 1991, 1990. b. History Research Grant, 2016. c. Center for International Studies Research Grant, 2009. d. Library Research Grants: 2003, 2001, 1998, 1992, 1989. e. Conference Grants:
2001: Conference Grant from the College of Liberal Arts for participation in an enlarged meeting and retreat of the Council of Conferences of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, 21-24 March.
1999: Conference Grants from the History Department, School of Education, and School of Liberal Arts for the joint meeting of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies and the Historical Society for 20th Century China on campus, 21-24 October.
4. Submitted, but not Funded, Internal Grants and Contracts:
D. Scholarly/Creative Fellowships, Awards, Honors:
2016-19: Winner of the Ingram History Professorship. “Special Elite Chinese Collaboration and Japanese Cooperation in Occupied Canton, 1938- 1945.” Ingram Lecture presented at Taylor-Murphy Hall on 26 April 2019.
2007: Invited by the University Review Panel of the Hong Kong Baptist University to serve as an external assessor for a case of promotion to full professorship in their History Department.
14 2001: Invited by the History Department of the University of Central Florida to assess the quality of publications of an assistant professor in Asian history who applied for tenure and promotion.
1999: Honored by the Asian Students Association with a plaque for “starting a tradition in the first Asian conference at Southwest Texas State University,” at their first Asian Leadership Conference, 22 October, San Marcos, Texas.
1998: Winner of the Thirty-first Presidential Seminar Award. “The Chinese Communist Urban Revolution in Beijing and Tianjin, 1945-1949.” Public lecture presented on 26 March.
Southwest Texas State University Nominee for the Sasakawa Fellowship in Japan.
Invited by the History Department of Boise State University in Idaho to assess the quality of publications of an assistant professor in Asian history who applied for tenure and promotion.
1997: Invited by the Council of Foreign Relations in New York City to appraise the “ability, competence and promise” of a junior historian in Asian studies who applied for their International Affairs Fellowship.
1996: Invited by the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University to attend their two-day conference celebrating the Fortieth Anniversary of the Center, 25-26 April.
1995: Winner of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activities at the Instructor/Assistant Professor level, Southwest Texas State University.
My Development Leave proposal--home study, doing research in Hong Kong and Peking, and initiating a cultural exchange program with Peking University--was ranked first by the Faculty Senate of Southwest Texas State University.
1987: General Affiliates Graduate Dissertation Fellowship in Recognition of Outstanding Achievement, University of California-Santa Barbara.
E. Scholarly/Creative Professional Development Activities Attended:
F. Media Recognition:
IV. SERVICE
A. Institutional:
1. University: 15 2010: Member, Fulbright Scholarships Campus Committee.
2009: Judge, The Writing Center Essay Contest.
1998-1999: Advisor, Presidential Seminar Committee.
1997-1999: Member, Faculty Research Committee. Member, Academic Policy Oversight Committee, Faculty Senate.
1995-1997: Member, University Selection Committee, Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activities.
1996: Official visit of Peking University, 19-29 March. Their Office of Foreign Affairs issued an itinerary for a delegation of administrators and faculty of Southwest Texas State University to visit Peking University from 1-10 January 1997. The itinerary was distributed to the President, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dean of Liberal Arts, Director of International Education, Chair of History Department, and Chair of Faculty Senate on campus.
1994-1995: Chair, Asia Study Group.
2. College:
2014-2015: Participant, Comprehensive M.A. Oral Examination, Center for International Studies. Participant, Comprehensive M.A. Examination, Department of Political Science.
2013-2014: Liberal Arts Scholarships Committee Representative. Participant, Comprehensive M.A. Oral Examination, Center for International Studies.
2012-2013: Participant, Comprehensive M.A. Oral Examination, Center for International Studies.
2007-2008: Participant, Comprehensive M.A. Oral Examination, Center for International Studies.
2006-2013: Member, Asian Studies Board of Advisors, Center for International Studies.
2001-2002: 16 Usher, Liberal Arts Summer Commencement.
1997-1999: Chair, Liberal Arts Research Advisory Committee.
1990-1991: Usher, Liberal Arts Spring Commencement.
3. Department/School:
2019-2020: Chair, Swinney Leave Committee.
2018-2019: Chair, Ingram Professorship Committee. Faculty Classroom Evaluator.
2017-2018: Chair, Swinney Leave Committee. Faculty Classroom Evaluator.
2016-2017: Faculty Classroom Evaluator.
2015-2016: Faculty Classroom Evaluator. Member, Graduate Studies Committee. Participant, Comprehensive M.A. Written and Oral Examinations.
2014-2015: Faculty Classroom Evaluator. Member, Graduate Studies Committee. Participant, Comprehensive M.A. Written and Oral Examinations.
2013-2014: Faculty Classroom Evaluator. Member, Student Awards and Scholarships Committee.
2012-2013: Faculty Classroom Evaluator. Member, Student Awards and Scholarships Committee. Participant, Comprehensive M.A. Written and Oral Examinations.
2011-2012: Faculty Classroom Evaluator. Member, Student Awards and Scholarships Committee. Participant, Comprehensive M.A. Written and Oral Examinations.
2010-2011: 17 Faculty Classroom Evaluator. Member, Student Awards and Scholarships Committee.
2009-2010: Member, Ingram Family Endowed Professorship Planning Committee. Library Committee: on leave (fall), chair (spring).
2008-2009: Chair, Library Committee. Faculty Classroom Evaluator. Participant, Comprehensive M.A. Written and Oral Examinations.
2007-2008: Chair, Library Committee. Faculty Classroom Evaluator.
2006-2007: Chair, Library Committee. Faculty Classroom Evaluator. Member, Modern South Asian History Search Committee.
2005-2006: Chair, Library Committee. Faculty Classroom Evaluator. Member, Graduate Studies Committee. Participant, Comprehensive M.A. Written and Oral Examinations.
2004-2005: Chair, Student Scholarships and Awards Committee. Faculty Classroom Evaluator.
2003-2004: Faculty Classroom Evaluator. Member, Student Scholarships and Awards Committee.
2002-2003: Faculty Classroom Evaluator. Member, Student Scholarships/Awards and Undergraduate Committees.
2001-2002: Faculty Classroom Evaluator. Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee. Examiner in History, Comprehensive M.S. Written Examination, Technology Department.
2000-2001: Faculty Classroom Evaluator. Member, Student Scholarships/Awards Committee. Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee. 18 One-time Faculty Minutes Secretary.
1999-2000: Member, Select Committee for Brunson Graduate Award. Member, Modern European History Search Committee.
1997-1998: Member, Travel Committee.
1996-1997: Member, Chair Policy Committee. Member, Library Committee. Member, Publications Committee. Member, Travel Committee. Member, Summer School Teaching Committee. Member, Graduate Theses Committee.
1995-1996: Member, Chair Policy Committee. Member, Faculty Evaluations Committee. Member, Summer School Teaching Committee. Member, Tenure and Promotion Review Committee.
1994-1995: Member, Library Committee. Member, Travel Committee.
1993-1994: Member, Student Scholarships and Awards Committee.
1992-1993: Member, Travel Committee. Agency Supervisor (History), Cooperative Education and Internship in the School of Applied Arts and Technology.
1990-1992: Member, Student Scholarships/Awards. Member, Travel Committee.
1989-1990: Member, Curriculum Committee.
B. Professional:
2016: Reviewed an article for the Asian American Newsletter of the American Philosophical Association.
2013: 19 Reviewed a chapter in a book edited by two scholars based in Australia and Okinawa. Reviewed a history textbook for Oxford University Press. Reviewed a history textbook for Rowman & Littlefield. Reviewed a history textbook for Cengage Learning.
2012: Reviewed a new textbook edition for Bedford/St. Martin’s.
2011: Reviewed a textbook chapter for Bedford/St. Martin’s.
2009: Reviewed a book proposal and manuscript for Routledge. Reviewed an article manuscript for Labor History (Routledge).
2008: Reviewed selections from a textbook manuscript for Oxford University Press.
2007: Reviewed a textbook chapter for Houghton Mifflin.
2006: Participation in McGraw-Hill’s World History Survey on the Internet. Reviewed a world history series for Longman Publishers. Reviewed a textbook manuscript for Bedford/St. Martin’s. Reviewed a textbook chapter for Pearson Prentice Hall.
2005: Reviewed selections from a book manuscript for Palgrave Macmillan. Wrote a brief endorsement of an edited volume published by Palgrave Macmillan. Reviewer of paper proposals on Chinese and Japanese History, Fourth Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities.
2004: Reviewer of paper proposals on Chinese and Japanese History, Third Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Reviewed a research proposal submitted to the University Grants Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government of China. Reviewed a textbook proposal for McGraw-Hill.
2003: Editor, Journal of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, 2 (October 2002). Member, Editorial Committee, E-ASPAC (Electronic Journal of the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast). Reviewed a Hong Kong Baptist University’s research proposal. Reviewer of paper proposals on Chinese and Japanese History, Second Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities.
2002: 20 Reviewed a Hong Kong Baptist University’s research proposal. Reviewed a textbook chapter for McGraw-Hill.
2001: Served as the Special Representative of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies to participate in an enlarged meeting and retreat of the Council of Conferences of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, 21-24 March. Member, Program Committee, annual meeting of the World History Association of Texas, San Marcos, Texas, 3 March. Reviewed a Hong Kong Baptist University’s research proposal.
1999: President, Southwest Conference on Asian Studies. Program and Local Arrangements Chair, Joint Meeting of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies and the Historical Society for 20th Century China, San Marcos, Texas, 21-23 October. This unprecedented Asian studies conference held at Southwest Texas State University included twenty-five panels, two keynote speeches, History Department’s Centennial Celebration of the James Taylor Lecture, a public symposium on Vietnamese history and culture, and a performance by a Chinese dance group from Houston. News coverage of the joint meeting was reported in Meinan Xinwen (Southern Chinese Daily News) (Houston), 19 & 25 October; Shijie Ribao (World Daily News) (Houston), 25 October; Guoji Ribao (International Daily News) (Houston), 26 October; and Zhongnan Bao (China-Southern News) (Houston), 29 October.
1998: Reviewed a book manuscript for the Cornell East Asia Series, Cornell University. Served as an overseas collaborator for a proposed research project of the History Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Vice-President, Southwest Conference on Asian Studies.
1997: Program Chair, annual meeting of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, San Antonio, Texas, 17-18 October. Served as an External Peer Reviewer for the Idaho State Board of Education’s Specific Research Grant Program. Supervisor, Pretest on College Board SATII World History (1500 to the Present), Educational Testing Service (Princeton, New Jersey), administered at Southwest Texas State University, 4 December.
1996: Reviewed a Hong Kong Baptist University’s research proposal.
1989: Assisted the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at Auburn University-Montgomery in reviewing the University of Alabama’s proposal for a baccalaureate program in Asian Studies.
C. Community:
D. Organization Memberships:
21 E. Service Honors and Awards:
2000: College of Liberal Arts Service Award.
F. Service Grants and Contracts:
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