Paul G. Pickowicz
8425 Sugarman Drive
La Jolla, California
USA 92037
History Department 0104
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, Ca. 92093
858-534-2697 Phone
858-534-7283 FAX
[email protected] E-mail
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1973 (History)
M.A., Tufts University, 1968 (History)
B.S., Springfield College, 1967 (History)
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor of History, UC San Diego, 1973-80
Associate Director, University of California Study Centre, Chinese University of Hong Kong,
1977-78
Chair, Chinese Studies Program, UC San Diego, 1979-85, 1990-91, 1994-95, 1997-98, 2000
Associate Professor of History, UC San Diego, 1980-87
Professor of History, UC San Diego, 1987-2006
Visiting Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA, 1989
Visiting Scholar, Center for Chinese Studies, UCLA, 1989-90
Visiting Professor, City University of Hong Kong, 2004
Above Scale Distinguished Professor of History, UC San Diego, 2006-present
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, University of Oxford, 2006
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, 2008
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Si-Mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, East
China Normal University, Shanghai, China, 2010
Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Chinese
Studies, National University of Singapore, 2011
Visiting Professor, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China, 2012.
Visiting Scholar, School of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures and Confucius Institute for
Scotland, University of Edinburgh, 2013
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Institut d’Asie Orientale, Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon,
France, 2013
Visiting Scholar, School of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures and the Confucius Institute for
Scotland, University of Edinburgh, 2014
Visiting Professor, Department of Literature and Cultural Studies, Hong Kong Institute of
Education, 2016
Visiting Professor, Institut fur Sinologie, University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2016
HONORS
1993
Joseph R. Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies for Chinese
Village, Socialist State - - best book on 20th century China in any discipline.
1998
UCSD Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Award
2003
UCSD Chancellor’s Associates Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate
Teaching
1998-present Member, Editorial Board, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
2006-present Member, Advisory Board, Journal of Chinese Cinemas
2007-present Inaugural Holder of the University of California, San Diego Endowed Chair in
Modern Chinese History
2009
UCSD Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award
2009-present International Advisory Group, Humanities Korea Project, Center for
Interdisciplinary Research on China, Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea
2010-present Member, Editorial Board, Zhongguo dangdai shi yanjiu [Journal of Contemporary
Chinese History] (Shanghai)
2011-present Member, Editorial Board, Chinese Historical Review
2015
Outstanding Faculty Leader, Thurgood Marshall College, University of
California, San Diego
2016
Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) - in recognition of lifetime accomplishments in research and teaching.
BOOKS
Filming the Everyday in Twenty-first Century China: Independent Documentaries and the
Aesthetics of Remembering (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming 2016). (Co-edited
with Yingjin Zhang)
Liangyou: Kaleidoscopic Modernity and the Shanghai Global Metropolis, 1926-1945. Leiden:
Brill, 2013). (Co-edited with Kuiyi Shen and Yingjin Zhang)
Restless China. New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2013. (Co-edited with Perry
Link and Richard Madsen)
China on Film: A Century of Exploration, Confrontation and Controversy. New York: Rowman
and Littlefield Publishers, 2012.
Radicalism, Revolution, and Reform in Modern China. New York: Lexington Books, 2011. (Coedited with Catherine Lynch and Robert B. Marks).
China on the Margins. Ithaca: Cornell University East Asia Series, 2010. (Co-edited with
Sherman Cochran).
Exhibiting Chinese Cinemas, Reconstructing Reception, Special Issue of Journal of Chinese
Cinemas, vol. 3, no. 2, 2009. (Co-edited with Matthew Johnson).
Dilemmas of Victory: The Early Years of the People’s Republic of China. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 2007. (Co-edited with Jeremy Brown).
Chinese edition: Shengli de kunjing: Zhonghua renmin gongheguo de zuichu suiyue.
Xianggang: Zhongwen daxue chuban she, 2011.
From Underground to Independent: Alternative Film Culture in Contemporary China. New
York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2006. (Co-edited with Yingjin Zhang).
The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. (Coedited with Joseph Esherick and Andrew Walder).
Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
(Co-authored with Edward Friedman and Mark Selden).
Popular China: Unofficial Culture in a Globalizing Society. New York: Rowman and Littlefield
Publishers, 2002. (Co-edited with Perry Link and Richard Madsen).
New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1994. (Co-edited with Nick Browne, Vivian Sobchack and Esther Yau).
Chinese Village, Socialist State. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. (Co-authored with
Edward Friedman and Mark Selden).
Chinese edition: Zhongguo xiangcun - shehuizhuyi guojia. Beijing: Shehui kexue
wenxian chuban she, 2002.
Unofficial China: Popular Culture and Thought in the People's Republic. Boulder: Westview
Press, 1989. (Co-edited with Perry Link and Richard Madsen).
Marxist Literary Thought in China: The Influence of Ch'u Ch'iu-pai. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1981.
Korean edition: Chungguk Maruk'usujuui Munyeiron: Kuch'ubaegui Yonghyang. Seoul:
Ch'ongnyonsa, 1991.
Chinese edition: Shusheng zhengzhijia: Qu Qiubai qu zhe de yisheng. Beijing: Zhongguo
zhuo yue chuban gongsi, 1990.
Marxist Literary Thought and China: A Conceptual Framework. Berkeley: The Center for
Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1980.
Chinese edition: "Makesizhuyi wenxue sixiang yu Zhongguo," in Zhongguo shehui
kexue yuan wenxue yanjiu suo, ed., Guowai Zhongguo wenxue yanjiu luncong. Beijing:
Zhongguo wenlian chuban gongsi, 1985, pp. 1-46.
LENGTHY ARTICLES
“A Hundred Years Later: Zou Xueping’s Documentaries and the Legacies of China’s New
Culture Movement,” Journal of Chinese Cinemas (forthcoming 2016).
“Zou Xueping’s Postsocialist Homecoming,” in Paul G. Pickowicz and Yingjin Zhang, Filming
the Everyday in Twenty-first Century China: Independent Documentaries and the Aesthetics of
Remembering (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming 2016).
“Documenting China Independently,” in Paul G. Pickowicz and Yingjin Zhang, Filming the
Everyday in Twenty-first Century China: Independent Documentaries and the Aesthetics of
Remembering (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming, 2016). (Coauthored with
Yingjin Zhang)
“Independent Chinese Documentaries: Finally, a Hundred Schools Contending,” Journal of
Chinese Cinemas (forthcoming, 2016).
“Dying to Serve: On Huaiyin Li’s Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing,”
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, vol. 74, no. 1, June 2014, pp. 167-78.
“Playing the Language Game in China: On Perry Link’s An Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm,
Metaphor, Politics,” China Review International, vol. 20, nos. 1-2, 2013, pp. 31-38.
“Who Killed Our Children? The Anatomy of a Protest Film,” in Kinnia Yau Shuk-ting, ed.,
Natural Disaster and Reconstruction in Asia Economies (New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
2013), pp. 127-143.
“The Liangyou Pictorial, Popular Print Media, and Visual Culture in Republican Shanghai,” in
Paul G. Pickowicz, Kuiyi Shen, and Yingjin Zhang, eds., Liangyou: Kaleidoscopic Modernity and
the Shanghai Global Metropolis, 1926-1945. (Leiden: Brill, 2013), pp. 1-13. (Coauthored with
Kuiyi Shen and Yingjin Zhang)
“Political Humor in Postsocialist China: Transnational and Still Funny,” in Perry Link, Richard
Madsen, and Paul G. Pickowicz, eds., Restless China (New York: Roman and Littlefield
Publishers, 2013), pp. 59-80.
“Restless China: An Introduction,” in Perry Link, Richard Madsen, and Paul G. Pickowicz, eds.,
Restless China (New York: Roman and Littlefield Publishers, 2013), pp. 1-8. (Co-authored with
Perry Link and Richard Madsen).
“Single Women and the Men in Their Lives: Zhang Ailing and Postwar Visual Images of the
Modern Metropolis,” in Christian Henriot and Wen-hsin Yeh, eds., Visualising China, 18451965: Moving and Still Images in Historical Narratives (Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2012), pp.
439-459. (Co-authored with Yap Soo Ei).
Translations of “Listen Carefully to the Voices of the Tiananmen Mothers” (1991) and
“Obama’s Election, the Republican Factor, and a Proposal for China” (2008) by Liu Xiaobo, in
Perry Link, Tianchi Martin-Liao, and Liu Xia, eds., No Hatred, No Enemies: Selected Essays
and Poems (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012), pp. 3-12, 270-274.
“2010 nian Shanghai xueshu he keyan huanjing zhi fanxiang” (Reflections on the scholarly and
research environment in Shanghai in 2010), in Shanghai shi shehui kexue jielian he hui, ed.,
Shanghai xueshu baogao (A report on the Shanghai scholarly scene) (Shanghai: Renmin chuban
she, 2011), pp. 34-43.
“Chinese Filmmaking on the Eve of the Communist Revolution,” in Song Hwee Lim and Julian
Ward, eds., The Chinese Cinema Book (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 76-84.
“Independent Chinese Film: Seeing the Not-Usually-Visible in Rural China,” in Catherine Lynch,
Robert C. Marks, and Paul G. Pickowicz, eds., Radicalism, Revolution, and Reform in Modern
China (New York: Lexington Books, 2011), pp. 161-184.
“Chinese Radicalism in Historical Context,” in Catherine Lynch, Robert B. Marks, and Paul G.
Pickowicz, eds., Radicalism, Revolution, and Reform in Modern China (New York: Lexington
Books, 2011), pp. 1-9. (Co-authored with Catherine Lynch and Robert C. Marks).
“Revisiting Cold War Propaganda: Close Readings of Chinese and American Film
Representations of the Korean War,” Journal of American-East Asian Relations, vol. 17, no. 4,
2010, pp. 352-371. (Reprinted in Charles W. Hayford, ed., Film Across the Pacific: Power,
Culture and American-East Asian Relations [Leiden: Brill, 2016]).
Chinese edition: “Leng zhan xuanchuan zai yanjiu: xi du Zhong-Mei dianying zhong de
Chaoxian zhanzheng xingxiang,” Zhongguo dangdai shi yanjiu, no. 3, August 2011), pp.
249-264.
“Centers and Margins in Chinese History,” in Sherman Cochran and Paul G. Pickowicz, eds.,
China on the Margins (Ithaca: Cornell University East Asia Series, 2010), pp. 1-13. (Coauthored with Sherman Cochran).
“China’s Soft Power: The Case for a Critical and Multidimensional Approach,” China Review
International, vol. 16, no. 4, 2009, pp. 439-455.
“Issues in Contemporary Chinese Family Law: Media and Field Evidence,” in Harry N. Scheiber
and Luarent Mayali, eds., Japanese Family Law in Comparative Perspective (Berkeley: The
Robbins Collection, 2009), pp. 259-271.
“Exhibiting Chinese Cinemas, Reconstructing Reception,” Journal of Chinese Cinemas, vol. 3,
no. 2, 2009, pp. 99-107. (Co-authored with Matthew Johnson).
“Three Readings of Hong Kong Nocturne,” in Poshek Fu, ed., China Forever: The Shaw
Brothers and Diasporic Cinema (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008), pp. 95-114.
Chinese edition: “Xiangjiang huayue ye de san zhong jiedu,” in Liu Hui, Fu Baoshi,
Xianggang de ‘Zhongguo’: Shao shi dianying. Xianggang: Niujin daxue chuban she,
2011, pp. 41-62.
“Acting Like Revolutionaries: Shi Hui, the Wenhua Studio, and Private-Sector Filmmaking,
1949-52,” in Jeremy Brown and Paul G. Pickowicz, eds., Dilemmas of Victory: The Early Years
of the People’s Republic of China (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007), pp. 256-287,
426-429.
Chinese edition: “Xiang gemingzhe yiyang yanxi: 1949-1952 nianjian de Shi Hui,
Wenhua yingye gongsi, he siying dianying zhippianchang,” in Zhou Jierong, Bi Kewei,
Shengli de kunjing: Zhonghua renmin gongheguo de zuichu suiyue. Xianggang:
Zhongwen daxue chuban she, 2011, pp. 271-302.
“The Early Years of the People’s Republic of China: An Introduction,” in Jeremy Brown and
Paul G. Pickowicz, eds., Dilemmas of Victory: The Early Years of the People’s Republic of
China (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007), pp. 1-18, 387-389. (Co-authored with
Jeremy Brown).
Chinese edition: “Zhonghua renmin gongheguo de zuichu suiyue: yinlun,” in Zhou
Jierong, Bi Kewei, Shengli de kunjing: Zhonghua renmin gongheguo de zuichu suiyue.
Xianggang: Zhongwen daxue chuban she, 2011, pp. 1-19.
“Chunjiang yihen de shishi feifei yu lunxian shiqi de Zhongguo dianying” (Never-ending
Controversies: The Case of Remorse in Shanghai and Occupation Era Chinese Filmmaking),
Wenyi yanjiu (Literature and Art Research), no. 1, 2007, pp. 105-113.
English edition: “Never-Ending Controversies: The Case of Chun jiang yi hen and
Occupation-Era Chinese Filmmaking,” in Christan Henriot and Wen-hsin Yeh, eds.,
History in Images: Pictures and Public Space in Modern China (Berkeley: Institute of
East Asian Studies, 2012), pp. 143-162.
“From Yao Wenyuan to Cui Zi’en: Film, History, Memory,” Journal of Chinese Cinemas, vol. 1,
no. 1, 2007, pp. 41-53.
“Rural Protest Letters: Local Perspectives on the State’s Revolutionary War on Tillers, 19601990,” in Ching Kwan Lee and Guobin Yang, eds., Re-visioning the Chinese Revolution: The
Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China (Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 2007), pp. 21-49.
“Zheng Junli, Complicity and the Cultural History of Socialist China, 1949-1976,” The China
Quarterly, no. 188, December 2006, pp. 1048-1069.
“Social and Political Dynamics of Underground Filmmaking in China,” in Paul G. Pickowicz
and Yingjin Zhang, eds., From Underground to Independent: Alternative Film Culture in
Contemporary China (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006), pp. 1-21.
“The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History,” in Joseph Esherick, Paul G. Pickowicz, and
Andrew Walder, eds., The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History (Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 2006), pp. 1-28 (Co-authored with Joseph Esherick and Andrew Walder).
“Women and Wartime China: The Strange Case of Tian Han’s Liren xing,” in Christian Henriot
and Wen-hisn Yeh, eds., In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Shanghai under Japanese Occupation,
1937-1945. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 346-361.
“Pa Chin’s Cold Nights and China’s Wartime and Postwar Culture of Disaffection,” in Pa Chin,
Cold Nights (Chinese-English Bilingual Edition) (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press,
2002), pp. iix-xxxiii.
“Village Voices, Urban Activists: Women, Violence, and Gender Inequality in Rural China,” in
Perry Link, Richard Madsen, and Paul G. Pickowicz, eds., Popular China: Unofficial Culture in
a Globalizing Society (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002), pp. 57-87 (Co-authored with
Liping Wang).
“Introduction to Popular China,” in Perry Link, Richard Madsen, and Paul G. Pickowicz, eds.,
Popular China: Unofficial Culture in a Globalizing Society (New York: Rowman and
Littlefield, 2002), pp. 1-8 (Co-authored with Perry Link and Richard Madsen).
“On Kirk Denton’s The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature: Hu Feng and Lu
Ling,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, vol. 60, no. 2, December 2000, pp. 638-646.
“Filme und die Legitimation des Staates im Heutigen China” (Filmmaking and the State’s Quest
for Legitimacy in Contemporary China), in Kai Vockler and Dirk Luckow, eds., Peking,
Shanghai, Shenzhen: Stadte des 21. Jahrhunderts (Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen: Cities of the
21st Century) (Frankfurt: Campus Verlag GmbH, 2000), pp. 402-411, 566-570.
“Victory as Defeat: Postwar Visualizations of China’s War of Resistance,” in Wen-hsin Yeh,
ed., Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond, 1900-1950 (Berkeley: University
of California Press, 2000), pp. 365-398.
“Remembering a Holocaust: Post-War Film Portraits of the War of Resistance,” in Proceedings
of the Centennial Symposium on Sun Yat-sen’s Founding of the Kuomintang for Revolution
(Taipei: National Historical Commission, 1995), vol. 3, pp. 117-146.
"Velvet Prisons and the Political Economy of Chinese Filmmaking," in Deborah Davis, Richard
Kraus, Barry Naughton, and Elizabeth Perry, eds., Urban Spaces: Autonomy and Community in
Contemporary China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 193-220.
"Memories of Revolution and Collectivization in China: The Unauthorized Reminiscences of a
Rural Intellectual," in Rubie S. Watson, ed., Memory, History, and Opposition under State
Socialism (Sante Fe: School of American Research Press, 1994), pp. 127-147.
"Huang Jianxin and the Notion of Postsocialism," in Nick Browne, Paul G. Pickowicz, Vivian
Sobchack, and Esther Yau, eds., New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics, (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 57-87.
"Sinifying and Popularizing Foreign Culture: From Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths to Huang
Zuolin's Ye dian," Modern Chinese Literature, vol. 7, no. 2, Fall 1993, pp. 7-31.
"Melodramatic Representation and the 'May Fourth' Tradition of Chinese Cinema," in Ellen
Widmer and David Der-wei Wang, eds., From May Fourth to June Fourth: Fiction and Film in
Twentieth Century China (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993), pp. 295-326, 425-428.
Chinese edition: “Tongsu ju,Wusi chuantong yu Zhongguo dianying,” in Zheng Shusen,
ed., Wenhua piping yu Huayu dianying (Taibei: Mai tian, 1995), pp. 35-67.
"The Theme of Spiritual Pollution in Chinese Films of the 1930s," Modern China, vol. 17, no. 1,
January 1991, pp. 38-75.
"The Chinese Anarchist Critique of Marxism-Leninism," Modern China, vol. 16, no. 4, October
1990, pp. 450-467.
"Popular Cinema and Political Thought in Post-Mao China: Reflections on Official
Pronouncements, Film, and the Film Audience," in Perry Link, Richard Madsen, and Paul G.
Pickowicz, eds., Unofficial China (Boulder: Westview Press, 1989), pp. 37-53.
"Introduction to Unofficial China," in Perry Link, Richard Madsen, and Paul G. Pickowicz, eds.,
Unofficial China (Boulder: Westview Press, 1989), pp. 1-13 (Co-authored with Perry Link and
Richard Madsen).
"The Limits of Cultural Thaw: Chinese Cinema in the Early 1960s," in Chris Berry, ed.,
Perspectives on Chinese Cinema (Ithaca: Cornell University East Asia Papers, 1985), pp. 97148.
Introduction to and Translation of "Cries from Death Row" (1980) by Jin Yan-hua and Wang
Jing-quan, in Perry Link, ed., Stubborn Weeds: Popular and Controversial Literature after the
Cultural Revolution (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983), pp. 96-114.
Introduction to and Translation of "Realism Today" (1943) by Hu Feng, in Kai-yu Hsu, ed., The
Literature of the People's Republic of China (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980), pp.
62-67. (Reprinted in Kirk A. Denton, ed., Modern Chinese Literary Thought: Writings on
Literature, 1893-1945 [Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1996], pp. 485-490.)
"Qu Qiubai's Critique of the May Fourth Generation: Early Chinese Marxist Literary Criticism,"
in Merle Goldman, ed., Modern Chinese Literature in the May Fourth Era (Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1977), pp. 351-384, 446-449.
Chinese edition: "Qu Qiubai dui 'Wusi' yidai de piping: Zhongguo zaoqi de Makesizhuyi
wenxue piping," in Jia Zhifang, ed., Zhongguo xiandai wenxue de zhuchao (Shanghai:
Fudan daxue chuban she, 1990), pp. 184-207.
"Ch'u Ch'iu-pai and the Chinese Marxist Conception of Revolutionary Popular Literature and
Art," The China Quarterly, no. 70, June 1977, pp. 296-314.
"Lu Xun Through the Eyes of Qu Qiu-bai: New Perspectives on Chinese Marxist Literary
Polemics of the 1930s," Modern China, vol. 2, no. 3, July 1976, pp. 327-368.
Introduction to and Translation of "Who's 'We'?" (1932) and "The Question of Popular
Literature and Art" (1932) by Qu Qiu-bai, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, vol. 8, no. 1,
January-March 1976, pp. 45-52. (Reprinted in John Berninghausen and Ted Huters, eds.,
Revolutionary Literature in China: An Anthology [New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1977], pp. 44-51
and in Kirk A. Denton, Modern Chinese Literary Thought: Writings on Literature, 1893-1945
[Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996], pp. 418-427.)
"Ch'u Ch'iu-pai: Die Verbindung von Politik und Kunst in der chinesischen Revolution," in
Peter J. Opitz, ed., Die Sohne des Drachen: Chinas Weg vom Konfuzianismus zum
Kommunismus (Munchen: Paul List Verlag, 1975, pp. 292-321, 368-370.
"Modern China's Artistic and Cultural Life," The Holy Cross Quarterly, vol. 7, nos. 1-4, June
1975, pp. 108-116.
"Cinema and Revolution in China: Some Interpretive Themes," American Behavioral Scientist,
vol. 17, no. 3, January-February 1974, pp. 328-359. (Reprinted in Barbara Tulloch, ed., Conflict
and Control in the Cinema [Melbourne: The Macmillan Company, 1977], chapter 38.)
"People, Politics, and Paramedicine in China," in Guenter Risse, ed., Modern China and
Traditional Chinese Medicine (Springfield: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, 1973), pp. 124-146.
"William Wood in Canton: A Critique of the China Trade Before the Opium War," Essex
Institute Historical Collections, Vol. CVII, No. 1, January 1971, pp. 3-34.
SHORT ARTICLES
“Foreword,” Huang Xuelei, Shanghai Filmmaking: Crossing Borders, Connecting to the Globe,
1922-1938 (Leiden: Brill, 2014), pp. vii-x.
“Images of the Chinese Cultural Revolution,” @UCSD: An Alumni Publication, vol. 4, no. 2,
May 2007, pp. 28-31.
"Long Bow: The Movie," American Anthropological Association Society for Visual
Anthropology Newsletter, vol. 3, no. 3, Fall 1987, pp. 1-3.
"Early Chinese Cinema: The Era of Exploration," Modern Chinese Literature, vol. 1, no. 1,
September 1984, pp. 135-138.
"Deng's New Hat Factory," Far Eastern Economic Review, October 19, 1979, pp. 38-40.
Comment on "A Study of the Origins of Chinese Communism with Special Reference to the
Initial Impact of Leninism," by Michael Yan-lung Luk, in Lee Ngok and Leung Chi-keung, eds.,
China: Development and Challenge (Hong Kong: Centre for Asian Studies, 1979), vol. 1, pp.
56-58.
"The Arts," in China! Inside the People's Republic (New York: Bantam Books, 1972, pp. 247265.
"Inside China Today," The Progressive, vol. 36, no. 1, January 1972, pp. 13-19.
"The Modern Revolutionary Peking Opera 'Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy': An American's
View," Eastern Horizon. vol. 10, no. 4, 1971, pp. 31-34.
“ The Paradox,” The Inkling, vol. 13, no. 1, Winter 1966, pp. 18-19. (short story)
REVIEWS
Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922-1943, edited by Yingjin Zhang, in Pacific Affairs,
vol. 73, no. 4, Winter 2000-2001, pp. 578-579 .
Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms, by Xudong Zhang, in The China Quarterly, no. 157,
March 1999, pp. 246-248.
Hungry Ghosts: Mao’s Secret Famine, by Jasper Becker, in The Wall Street Journal, vol.
CXXXVI, no. 27, February 7, 1997.
The Private Life of Chairman Mao, by Li Zhisui, in The Wall Street Journal, vol. CCXXIV, no.
100, November 21, 1994, p. A14.
Passivity, Resistance, and Collaboration: Intellectual Choice in Occupied Shanghai, 1937-1945,
by Poshek Fu, in Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 53, no. 3, August 1994, pp. 913-915.
Chen Village: Under Mao and Deng, by Anita Chan, Richard Madsen, and Jonathan Unger, in
The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, Issue 31, January 1994, pp. 135-138.
State and Society in China: The Consequences of Reform, edited by Arthur Rosenbaum, and
Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China: Learning from 1989, edited by Jeffery
Wasserstrom and Elizabeth Perry, in American Political Science Review, March 1993, vol. 87,
no. 1, pp. 249-250.
Politics and Literature in Shanghai: The Chinese League of Left-Wing Writers, 1930-36, by
Wang-chi Wong, in Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 51, no. 3, August 1992, pp. 662-663.
The Last Emperor, by Bernardo Bertolucci, in The American Historical Review, vol. 94, no. 4,
October 1989, pp. 1035-1036.
Hu Shih and Intellectual Choice in Modern China, by Min-chih Chou, in Journal of Asian
Studies, vol. XLV, no. 1, November 1985, pp. 105-108.
Winter Plum: Contemporary Chinese Fiction, Nancy Ing, ed., in Journal of Oriental Studies,
vol. 22, no. 1, 1984, pp. 83-84.
Modern Chinese Fiction: A Guide to its Study and Appreciation, Winston L. Y. Yang and
Nathan K. Mao, eds., and Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas 1919-1949, Joseph S. M. C.
Lau, C. T. Hsia, and Leo Ou-fan Lee, eds., in Journal of Asian Studies, vol. XLII, no. 3, May
1983, pp. 652-655.
The Drowning of an Old Cat and Other Stories, by Hwang Chun-ming, in Journal of Asian
Studies, vol. XLI, no. 2, February 1982, pp. 329-330.
Popular Media in China: Shaping New Cultural Patterns, Godwin C. Chu, ed., in Journal of
Asian Studies, vol. XXXIX, no. 2, February 1980, pp. 342-343.
The Crisis of Chinese Consciousness: Radical Antitraditionalism in the May Fourth Era, by Lin
Yu-sheng, in Pacific Affairs, vol. 52, no. 3, Fall 1979, pp. 516-518.
Cold Nights, by Pa Chin, in Eastern Horizon, vol. XVII, no. 6, June 1979, p. 49.
Revolutionary Literature in China: An Anthology, John Berninghausen and Ted Huters, eds., in
The China Quarterly, no. 73, March 1978, pp. 191-193.
The Romantic Generation of Modern Chinese Writers, by Leo Ou-fan Lee, in The China
Quarterly, no. 59, July-September 1974, pp. 610-612.
The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, by Alfred McCoy, in Eastern Horizon, vol. XII, no. 2,
1973, pp. 58-61.
The Introduction of Western Literary Theories Into China, 1919-1925, by Bonnie S. McDougall,
and Mao Tun and Modern Chinese Literary Criticism, by Marian Galik, in Literature East and
West, Winter 1973, pp. 519-522.
The Yenan Way in Revolutionary China, by Mark Selden, in Eastern Horizon, vol XI, no. 1,
1972, pp. 61-64.
Modern Chinese Stories, W. J. F. Jenner, ed., in Journal of Asian Studies, vol. XXX, no. 4,
August 1971, pp. 888-889.
DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING CREDITS
Academic Adviser, China: Born under the Red Flag, 1976-1992, 2 hours, Ambrica Productions
(New York) and WGBH (Boston), 1997.
Associate Producer, The Mao Years, 1949-1976, 2 hours, Ambrica Productions (New York) and
WGBH (Boston), 1994.
Academic Adviser, The Pacific Century, Episode #4 Writers and Revolutionaries, one hour,
The Pacific Basin Institute (Santa Barbara) and KCTS (Seattle), 1992.
Academic Adviser, Westward to China: The American Experience in China in the 20th Century,
one hour, James Culp Productions (San Francisco), 1990.
Associate Producer, China in Revolution, 1911-1949, 2 hours, Ambrica Productions (New York)
and WGBH (Boston), 1989.
RURAL FIELD RESEARCH
"Hinterland North China in Transition, 1930-present." Research carried out in Raoyang county,
Hebei province, China in May-June 1978, October 1980, April 1983, September 1985, March
1987, November 1992, November 1993, and July 1995.
"Culture and Market in a North China Rural Community, 1911-1985." Research carried
out in Liangmen village, Puyang county, Henan province, China in September 1985.
FILM ARCHIVE RESEARCH
Film Archive of China (Beijing): October 1982 - October 1983, September 1985,
February 1987, March-April 1988, December 1988, November 1993, July 1995, and
September 2011.
Central Documentary and Newsreel Film Studio (Beijing): October 1982 - October 1983,
February 1987, and March-April 1988.