2017

Koji Hirata, PhD candidate, Stanford University. “Steel Metropolis: Industrial Manchuria and the Making of Chinese Socialism, 1909-1964.”

______. “Made in Manchuria: The Transnational Origins of Socialist Industrialization in Maoist China.” The American Historical Review 126, no. 3 (2021): 1072–1101. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhab351.

______, Hirata, Koji. “Steel Metropolis: Industrial Manchuria and the Making of Chinese Socialism.” Enterprise & Society 21, no. 4 (December 2020): 875–85. https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2020.58.

______. Hirata, Koji. “Mao’s Steeltown: Industrial City, Colonial Legacies, and Local Political Economy in Early Communist China:” Journal of Urban History, March 2021. https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144221994329. (This article received the 2022 Arnold Hirsch Award for Best Article in a Scholarly Journal from the Urban History Association.)

Shan Windscript, PhD candidate, University of Melbourne. “Diary Writing in the Chinese Cultural Revolution.”

______, “How to Write a Diary in Mao’s New China: Guidebooks in the Crafting of Socialist Subjectivities,” Modern China 47, no. 4 (2021): 412–40, https://doi.org/10.1177/0097700419898473.

2018

Dasa Pejchar Mortensen, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Davidson College. “Historical Amnesia in Shangri-la: The Contested Legacy of Tibetan Participation in the Chinese Cultural Revolution.”

______. “Historical Amnesia in Gyalthang: The Legacy of Tibetan Participation in the Cultural Revolution.” In Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History under Mao Retold, edited by Robert Barnett, Benno Weiner, and Françoise Robin, 275-308. Leiden: Brill, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004433243

_______. “Harnessing the Power of the Khampa Elites: Political Persuasion and the Consolidation of Communist Party Rule in Gyelthang.” In Frontier Tibet: Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands, edited by Stéphane Gros, 411-452. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvt1sgw7.19

Shi Yifan, Ph.D. candidate, Simon-Fraser University. :”Implementing and Experiencing Socialism on Campus: Everyday Life of Peking University Students, 1949-1956.”

______. “Exiting the Revolution: Alternative Ways of Life in Beijing, 1966–1976,” Modern China 48, no. 6 (2022): 1238–1264.

______. “Temporal Politics and the Collectivization of Young People’s Leisure Time in Early Maoist Beijing,” Politics, Religion & Ideology 22, no. 3–4 (2021): 329–350.

2019

Elizabeth Berger, Postdoctoral fellow. University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies.  “Death and Disease in a Time of Climate Change: Paleodemography of Bronze Age Northwest China.”

______.  Dittmar, Jenna M., Elizabeth S. Berger, Ruilin Mao, Hui Wang, and Hui-Yuan Yeh. “A Probable Case of Multiple Myeloma from Bronze Age China.” International Journal of Paleopathology 31 (2020): 64-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2020.10.003.

______. Dittmar, Jenna M., Elizabeth S. Berger, Ruilin Mao, Hui Wang, and Hui-Yuan Yeh. “The Mogou Bioarchaeology Project: Exploring Health in the Chinese Bronze Age.” Antiquity  (2021): 1-7. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.50

Wing Tung Jada KO, Ph.D. candidate. Harvard University. “When Prehistory Meets History: Local Gazetteers, Archaeological Diaries, and Local Memories of the Dongxiang People at Qijiaping, Gansu.”

______.  “Remembering Qijiaping, Forgetting Qijiaping: Archaeological Experience as Shared Heritage.” Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities. Vol. 82:135-180.

LI Yujie, Ph.D. candidate. University of Chicago. “Wheels and Sweat: Bicycles, Wheelbarrows, and Horse-drawn Carts in the Everyday Life of Socialist China, 1949‑1976.”

______.  “Birth of the Phoenix: Petty Capitalists in the Socialist Transformation of the Shanghai Bicycle Industry,” Twentieth-Century China, Volume 47, Number 3, October 2022, pp. 266-286 https://doi.org/10.1353/tcc.2022.0031

Yi LU, Ph.D. candidate. Harvard University. “The Dustbin of History: Archival Politics in Modern China.”

______.  “Garbage Gleanings: Collected Knowledge of PRC History,” The PRC History Review 6, no. 3 (2021), http://prchistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/2_Yi_Lu.pdf.

Xian Wang, Ph.D. candidate. University of British Columbia. “Mao’s Revolution and Ethno-religious Conflicts: The Muslim Uprising in Southern Yunnan (1949-2016).”

______.  “Land Reform in the Southern Yunnan Muslim Community: Growing Divergence Beneath the Socialist Rhetoric of Unity, 1949–1958.” Journal of Chinese History, DOI: http://doi.org/10.1017/jch.2022.3

______. “Justice for Whom? Redressing the “1975 Shadian Incident” in the Post-Mao Era, 1978–2019,” Modern China, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00977004221121073

2020

Jennifer Yuk Lum Yip, Ph.D. student. University of Pennsylvania. “Of Rice and Men: Nationalist Grain Transport Policies In Wartime China, 1937–45.”

______. “Carrying the “Nation’s Thousand-Jin Burden”: Yiyun, the Relay Transportation System during the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945.” Modern China, Feb 5, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00977004221147044.

2021

Sylvia Wu, PhD candidate, University of Chicago. “Mosques of Elsewhere: Tale and Survival of Muslim Monuments in Medieval Coastal China.”

______. “Reinventing Sacred Ground Amidst Natural Disaster: The Holy Islamic Tomb in Seventeenth-Century Quanzhou”.  Source: International Journal of Islamic Architecture, Volume 13, July 2024, p.309