Edward J.M. RHOADS
Home address:
720 Glengarry Road
Philadelphia, PA 19118
(215) 242-5093
email: [email protected]
Educational Preparation (with major field of specialization):
A.B. (Magna cum laude), Yale University, 1960 (Chinese Studies)
A.M., Harvard University, 1961 (East Asian Studies)
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1970 (History and Far Eastern Languages)
Professional employment:
1967-74: University of Texas at Austin, History Department, Assistant Professor
1974-98: University of Texas at Austin, History Department, Associate Professor
1997-98: Univ. of Pittsburgh, University Center for International Studies, Research Fellow
1998-2001: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Univ. Center for International Studies, Center Associate
1998-2003: University of Texas at Austin, History Department, Professor
2004- : University of Texas at Austin, History Department, Professor Emeritus
2007 (spring): Lingnan University, Hong Kong, History Department, Visiting Professor
2013- : University of Pennsylvania, Center for East Asian Studies, Visiting Scholar
2016 (spring): Semester at Sea, University of Virginia, faculty member
Books Published:
The Chinese Red Army, 1927-1963: An Annotated Bibliography (Cambridge: East Asian Research
Center, Harvard University, 1964), 202 pp. Reprinted in 1969.
China's Republican Revolution: The Case of Kwangtung, 1895-1913 (Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1975), 366 pp.
Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China,
1861-1928 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000), 394 pp. Winner of the 2002 Joseph
Levenson Prize as the best book on 20th-century China, Association for Asian Studies. Translated
into Chinese: Man yu Han: Qingmo Minchu de zuqun guanxi yu zhengzhi quanli (1861-1928) 滿與漢：
清末民初的族群關系與政治權力, trans. Wang Qin 王琴 and Liu Runtang 劉潤堂 (Beijing:
Zhongguo renmin daxue chubanshe, 2010), 441 pp.
Stepping Forth into the World: The Chinese Educational Mission to the United States, 1872-81
(Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011), 313 pp.
Articles Published:
"Lingnan's Response to the Rise of Chinese Nationalism: The Shakee Incident, 1925," Papers
on China (Harvard University), 15: 115-146 (196l). Reprinted in Kwang-Ching Liu, ed., American
Missionaries in China: Papers from Harvard Seminars (Cambridge: East Asian Research Center,
1966), pp. 188-214.
"Nationalism and Xenophobia in Kwangtung (1905-1906): The Canton Anti-American
Boycott and the Lienchow Anti-Missionary Uprising," Papers on China, 16: 154-197 (1962).
"Late Ch'ing Response to Imperialism: The Case of Canton," Ch'ing-shih wen-t'i (publication
of the Society for Ch'ing Studies), 2: 71-86 (1969). Translated into Spanish: "La Respuesta China al
Imperialismo a Fines de la Dinastia Ching: El Caso de Canton," Asia: Anuario de Estudios
Orientales, 3: 81-91 (1970).
"Merchant Associations in Canton, 1895-1911," in Mark Elvin and G. William Skinner, eds.,
The Chinese City Between Two Worlds (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1974), pp. 97-117.
Translated into Chinese: 1895-1911 年的廣州商人組織 , in 辛亥革命史研究會通訊 (Newsletter of
the Association for Research on the 1911 Revolution; Nanning, Guangxi), 11: 11-20 (1982).
"Lin Piao," Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th ed. (Chicago, 1974), pp. 1013-15.
Edward J.M. RHOADS
"The Chinese in Texas," Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 81: 1-36 (1977). Reprinted in Arif
Dirlik, ed., Chinese on the American Frontier (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), pp. 165-181.
"Two Cheers for 1911," Modern China, 5: 127-136 (1979).
"Jean Despujols and Indo-China," introductory essay to the exhibition catalogue, Jean
Despujols: Scenes from Southeast Asia (Amarillo, TX: Amarillo Art Center, 1982).
“清政府對武昌起義的反應 — 最初的三周 ” (The Qing government's response to the
Wuchang uprising: The first three weeks), trans. Sun Yutang, in 記念辛亥革命七十週年學術討論
會論文集 (Essays from the conference commemorating the 70th anniversary of the 1911
Revolution; Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1983), vol. 3, pp. 2,631-40.
"The Institute for Qing History at People's University," Ch'ing-shih wen-t'i, 5: 110-125 (1984).
Seven signed entries — Canton, China Trade, Country Trade, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan,
and Rong Hong — in Ainslee T. Embree, ed., Encyclopedia of Asian History (New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1987).
"The Assassination of Governor Enming and Its Effect on Manchu-Han Relations in Late
Qing China," in Etô Shinkichi and Harold Z. Schiffrin, eds., China's Republican Revolution (Tokyo:
University of Tokyo Press, 1994), pp. 3-24.
Four unsigned entries — Anna Chennault, China Lobby, Chinese Revolution of 1911, and T.
V. Soong — in Franklin Ng, ed., The Asian American Encyclopedia (New York: Marshall Cavendish,
1995).
Three signed entries — Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans — in The New Handbook of Texas
(Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1996).
“Self-strengthening and Manchu-Han Relations,” in 近史中國之傳統與蛻變 (“Tradition and
metamorphosis in modern Chinese history”), eds. Hao Yanping and Wei Xiumei (Taibei: Institute
of Modern History, Academia Sinica, 1998), vol. 2, pp. 1,007-38.
“Asian Pioneers in the Eastern United States: Chinese Cutlery Workers in Beaver Falls,
Pennsylvania, in the 1870s,” Journal of Asian American Studies, 2: 119-155 (1999).
“‘White Labor’ vs. ‘Coolie Labor’: The ‘Chinese Question’ in Pennsylvania in the 1870s,”
Journal of American Ethnic History, 21.2: 3-32 (2002). Winner of the 2003 Carlton C. Qualey
Memorial Article Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society.
“In the Shadow of Yung Wing: Zeng Laishun and the Chinese Educational Mission to the
United States,” Pacific Historical Review, 74: 19-58 (2005).
Signed entry, “Guangdong,” in David Pong, ed., Encyclopedia of Modern China (Detroit:
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2009), 4: 152-156.
Six signed entries – Samuel Robbins Brown, Kwong Ki-chiu, Tsang Lai-sung and Spencer
Laisun, Wong Foon, Wong Shing, and Yung Wing – in May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn,
eds., Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012).
“Stepping Forth into the World: The Chinese Educational Mission and its Antecedents,” The
Newsletter (Leiden: International Institute for Asian Studies), No. 59 (Spring 2012), p. 8.
“Cycles of Cathay: A History of the Bicycle in China,” Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of
Mobility Studies, 2: 95-120 (2012). Translated into Chinese by Chen Zhen 陳晨: ‘兩輪’ 甲子：自行車
來華記, 中國經營報 (Chinese Business Journal), 1 February and 22 February 2016.
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