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Xiaowei Zheng

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Winter 2013 (current)


Spring 2013 (tentative)


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Modern China


Assistant Professor
Ph.D., UC San Diego, 2009

Office: HSSB 4219
Winter 2013 Hours: Wednesday 5-7pm

I am an assistant professor in History and EALCS. My research interests include local history of the Qing dynasty and early republican political culture, with a special focus on the emergence of popular nationalism and the potential of republicanism. I am also attracted to revolutions. I hope to understand people’s motivations and choices in the swirl of a revolution.

Research and Teaching Interests

  • Qing History
  • Republican and People's Republic of China

Current Projects

  • Political Transformation in Late Qing China
    “The Making of Modern Chinese Politics: Political Culture, Protest Repertoires, and Nationalism in the Sichuan Railway Protection Movement.”

Selected Publications

  • “Configuring a Constitutional State: Officials and Assemblymen at the 1909 Sichuan Provincial Assembly Meeting”
    Twentieth-Century China, forthcoming in 2013.
  • “The Railway Movement in Chengdu: Sovereignty of the Nation and Rights of the People"
    In Ogata Yasushi ed., The 1911 Revolution in Global History, Kyuko Shoin, forthcoming in 2013.
  • “Framing the Event: Qinghua University and Chinese Politics during the Cultural Revolution”
    In Alfreda Murck ed., Mao’s Golden Mangoes and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Museum Rietberg, December 2012.
  • "Loyalty, Anxiety and Opportunism: Local Elite Activism during the Taiping Rebellion in Zhejiang, 1851-1864"
    Late Imperial China Vol. 30, No. 2 (December 2009): 39-83.
  • "Passion, Reflection and Survival: Political Choices of Red Guards at Qinghua University, June 1966-July 1968"
    In Joseph Esherick, Paul Pickowicz , and Andrew Walder, eds., China’s Cultural Revolution As History (Stanford University Press, 2006), 29-63.

Undergraduate and Graduate Courses

  • HIST 185A Modern China: The Qing Empire
  • HIST 185B Modern China: Republican and People's Republic of China
  • HIST 185P Proseminar on Cultural Revolution
  • HIST 200AS Graduate Seminar: Historical Literature on Asia
  • CHIN 185CR/285CR Seminar on Cultural Revolution

Honors and Professional Activities

  • 1999 Peking University Academic Excellence Prize
  • 2002 Yale University Henry Fan Fellowship
  • 2005 SSRC International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship
  • 2006 Pacific Rim Dissertation Research Fellowship
  • 2007 UCSD Humanities Center’s Writing Fellowship
  • 2009 Center for East Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University
  • 2010 Regents Junior Faculty Fellowship
  • 2011 Faculty Career Development Fellowship
  • 2011 Hellman Family Fellowship