Richard L. Davis, CV Curriculum Vitae for RICHARD L. DAVIS 戴仁柱 Office Department of History, Lingnan University Address: 302 Ho Sin Hang Bldg., Tuen Mun, NT Hong Kong tel. 852-2616-7007; fax 852-2467-7478 Home: Apt. G, F-18, Tower 1, 8 Waterloo Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong tel. 852-3486-2918 e-mail: rdavis@LN.edu.hk Date of Birth: April 12, 1951 Buffalo, New York, USA EDUCATION Ph.D.: 1980, Princeton University, East Asian Studies Department Major field of concentration: Tang-Song (A.D. 618-1279) political and cultural history (劉子健 James T.C. Liu, advisor) Minor fields of concentration: Yuan-Ming (A.D. 1271-1644) cultural history (Frederick W. Mote advisor) and modern Chinese politics (Lynn White III advisor) Dissertation: “The Shih Lineage at the Southern Sung Court: Aspects of socio-political mobility in Sung China” M.A.: 1977, Princeton University, East Asian Studies Department M.A.: 1975, State University of New York at Buffalo, History Department B.A.: 1973, State University of New York at Buffalo, Political Science and Asian Studies double major Non-degree Fall 1977-Spring 1979, Academia Sinica (Taipei), Institute of History Programs: & Philology, visiting research fellow 中央研究院/史語所 Summer 1973-Summer 1974, National Taiwan Normal University, 2 CV for Richard L. Davis Mandarin Training Center, post-graduate language training 國立台灣師範大學/國語中心 Summer 1976, Middlebury College, intensive Intermediate Japanese Summer 1972, Stanford University, intensive Classical Chinese Languages: Modern Chinese – fluency in reading and speaking Classical Chinese – reading fluency French, German, Japanese – reading ability PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Lingnan University, Hong Kong 香港嶺南大學, Chair Professor and Department Head, Department of History, August 2006-July 2014; Dean of the Faculty of Arts, August 2014-June 2015; retirement in June 2016 Brown University, Professor of History and East Asian Studies, July1995-June 2006 Chair of East Asian Studies, July 2001-June 2004 Associate Professor of History, January 1989-June 1995 National Chung-cheng University 國立台灣中正大學, Taiwan, Professor of History August 1996-July 1998 Duke University, Associate Professor of History, September 1988-December 1989 Assistant Professor, September 1983-August 1988 Middlebury College, Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Dean of the Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese Schools, September 1981-August 1983 Princeton University, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, January-June 1981 ACADEMIC HONORS Foundation Fellow, Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities, 2011-present President, Song Studies Group for the Lingnan Region, 2010-present 2 CV for Richard L. Davis 3 PUBLICATIONS Books: Fire and Ice: Li Cunxu and the Founding of the Later Tang. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, forthcoming. From Warhorses to Ploughshares: The Later Tang Reign of Emperor Mingzong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press (December 2014), 236 pp. Chengxiang shijia: Nan Song Siming Shishi Jiazu Yanjiu 丞相世家:南宋 四明史氏家族研究. (Chinese translation of Court and Family in Sung China with revisions by author), trans. by Liu Guangfeng 劉廣 豐 and Hui Dong 會冬. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju 中華書局 (June 2014). Pp. 304. The Cambridge History of China, Volume 5: The Sung Dynasty and its Precursors, 907-1279 (Part 1), edited by Denis Twitchett and Paul Smith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, April 2009) political narrative for the reigns of Kuang-tsung 光宗, Ning-tsung 寧宗, Li-tsung 理宗, and Tu-tsung 度宗 (A.D. 1189-1279), pp. 756-962. Lingren, Wushi, Lieshou: Hou Tang Zhuangzong Li Cunxu Zhuan 伶人,武士,獵手: 後唐莊宗李存勗傳 [Actor, Warrior, and Hunter: A Biography of Li Cunxu, Emperor of Later Tang] (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju 中華書局, November 2009), 220 pp. Historical Records of the Five Dynasties [Wudai shiji 五代史記], Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修 Translated with an Introduction by Richard L. Davis (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), 752 pp.1 1 Reviewed in CHOICE, Vol. 42, #03 (Nov. 2004), electronic version; The Medieval Review (Oct., 2004), electronic version, 4 pp.; Asian Studies Review, Vol. 29, #1 (March 2005), electronic version, p. 79; Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol. 147 (Feb. 2005), pp. 147-49. 3 4 CV for Richard L. Davis “Introduction” trans. by Ma Jia 馬佳, Anhui Shifan daxue Xuebao 安徽師範大學學報, Vol. 34, #3 (May 2006), pp. 316-321. Wind Against the Mountain: The Crisis of Politics and Culture in Thirteenth-Century China [Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series #42] (Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies and Harvard University Press, 1996), pp. xvii, 283.2 Translated by Liu Xiao 劉曉, Shisan shiji zhongguo zhengzhi yu wenhua weiji 十三世紀中 國政治與文化危機 (Beijing: Zhongguo guangbo dianshi chubanshe 中國廣播電視出版社, 2003), 305 pp. Court and Family in Sung China, 960-1279: Bureaucratic Success and Kinship Fortunes for the Shih of Ming-chou (Durham: Duke University Press, 1986), pp. xvi, 3533 Articles: “Chaste and Filial Women in the Historical Writings of Ouyang Xiu,” Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 121, #2 (April-June 2001), pp. 204-218. [peer-reviewed] “The Heroism of Chou Shih-tsung in the Eleventh Century: Perspectives from the Historical Records of the Five Dynasties,” in Song Xuxuan jiaoshou bazhi songqing lunwenji [Festschrift honoring Professor Sung Shee on the occasion of his eightieth birthday] (Taipei: 2000), pp. 1134-48 宋旭軒教授八秩嵩慶論文集 “The ‘Sociologizing’ of Sung Studies in Taiwan,” Journal of the 2 Reviewed in The American Historical Review (June, 1998), p. 939; Asian Thought and Society, vol. 23, #69 (Sept.-Dec., 1998, pp. 250-251; Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, vol. 58, #2 (Dec. 1998), pp. 603-614; Historian (1998), pp. 649-650; Journal of Sung-Yuan Studies, vol. 29 (1999), pp. 195-201. 3 Reviewed in American Historical Review, Vol. 92, #1 (Feb. 1987), pp. 190-191; Bulletin of Sung-Yuan Studies, Vol. 19 (1987), pp. 74-89; Ch’ing-hua hsueh-pao 清華學報(Taiwan), Vol. 19, #1 (June 1989), pp. 191-207; Han-hsueh yen-chiu 漢學研究(Taipei), Vol. 5, #1 (June 1987), pp. 295-303; Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 47, #1 (June 1987), pp. 310-314; Institut Monumenta Serica, Vol. 38 (1988-89), pp. 280-281; Journal of Asian History (Wiesbaden), Vol. 21, #1 (1987), pp. 91-92; Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 46, #4 (Nov. 1987), pp. 902-903; Songshi yanjiu tongxun 宋史研究通訊 (Beijing), Dec. 1988, pp. 15-17. 4 CV for Richard L. Davis 5 Economic and Social History of the Orient (Leiden), Vol. 42, #1 (1999), pp. 94-110. [peer-reviewed] “Images of the South in Ouyang Xiu’s Historical Records of the Five Dynasties,” Shixue yu wenxian 史學與文獻, Vol. 2 [Historiography and Historical Documents], Tung-wu University (Taipei: Xuesheng shuju, 1998), pp. 97-157. “Martial Men and Military Might in the Historical Writing of Ouyang Xiu,“ in Kim Hua Paksa Cengnyen Kinyem Sahak Nonchong [Festschrift celebrating the retirement of Professor Yub Kim] (Chungbuk, Korea: Chungbuk Historical Society, 1998), Series #21, pp. 753-784. 金燁博士停年紀念 史學論叢 慶北史學 “Historical Critic or Cultural Mediator – Ouyang Xiu on Legitimate Rule,” in Qingzhu Deng Guangming jiaoshou jiushi huadan lunwenji [Festschrift celebrating the Ninetieth birthday of Prof. Deng Guangming] ed. by Tian Yuqing (Shijiazhuang: Henan jiaoyu chubanshe, 1997), pp. 426-448 慶祝鄧廣銘教授九十華誕論文集 “The Shi Tombs at Dongqian Lake,” Journal of Sung and Yuan Studies, Vol. 26 (1996), pp. 201-216. “Custodians of Education and Endowment at the State Schools of Southern Sung,” Journal of Sung and Yuan Studies, Vol. 25 (1995), 95-119. [peer-reviewed] “The Mongol World,” in The World Book Encyclopedia, 1998 ed., pp. 88-89 (on Genghis Khan), 293 (on Timur), 462 (on Silk Road) “Evolution of an Historical Stereotype for the Southern Sung – the case against Shih Mi-yuan,” in Ryū Shiken hakuse shōju kinen: Sōshi kenkyū rōnshū [Festschrift Honoring the Life of Prof. James T.C. Liu: Essays in Sung History], ed. by Kinugawa Tsuyoshi (Kyoto: Dohosha, 1989), pp. 357-386. 衣川強 劉子健博士頌壽紀念宋史研究論集 5 6 CV for Richard L. Davis “Sung Historiography: Empirical Ideals and Didactic Realities,” Chinese Culture (Taipei), Vol. 29, #4 (Dec. 1988), pp. 67-80. “Historiography as Politics in Yang Wei-chen’s ‘Polemic on Legitimate Succession,’” T’oung Pao (Leiden), Vol. 69 (1983), pp. 33-72. [peer-reviewed] “Political Success and the Growth of Descent Groups: The Shih of Ming-chou during the Sung,” in Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China, ed. by Patricia Ebrey and James Watson (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986), pp. 62-94. [peer-reviewed] Book Reviews: “China’s Southern Tang Dynasty, 937-976,” by Johannes L. Kurz, China Review International (Univ. of Hawaii), forthcoming “Portrait of a Community: Society, Culture, and the Structures of Kinship in the Mulan River Valley (Fujian) from the Late Tang through Song,” by Hugh R. Clark, China Review International (Univ. of Hawaii), forthcoming “Unbounded Loyalty: Frontier Crossings in Liao China,” by Naomi Standen, Journal of Chinese Studies, Vol. 47 (2007), pp. 527-28. “Mirroring the Past: The Writing and Use of History in Imperial China, by On-cho Ng and Q. Edward Wang, American Historical Review, Vol. 111, #3 (June 2006), p. 810. “Society and the Supernatural in Song China,” by Edward L. Davis, in Journal of Oriental Studies (Hong Kong), Vol. 39, #2 (2005), pp. 246-47. “Social Power and Legal Culture: Litigation Masters in Late Imperial China,“ Melissa MacAuley, in American Journal of Legal History of Temple University School of Law, Vol. XLIII (2001), pp. 228-229. “Studies on the Jurchens and the Chin Dynasty,” Herbert Franke and 6 CV for Richard L. Davis 7 Hoklam Chan, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (London), 3rd series, Vol. 8, Part 3 (Nov. 1998), pp. 487-488. “Powerful Relations: Kinship, Status, & State in Sung China,” Beverly J. Bossler, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 62, Part 1 (1999), pp. 178-179. “Ordering the World: Approaches to State and Society in Sung Dynasty China,” edited by Robert Hymes and Conrad Schirokauer, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol.