PRC History Group

"Flawed Reflections: Robert Loh, Mao Zedong, and the Socialist Transformation Campaign in Shanghai, 1955-1956" prchistory.org/wp-content/upl… My new essay for @prchistory

Everyone at the PRC History Group will miss Xiaohong immensely, as our friend and as a leader in PRC studies

Here's my review of the English translation of Wang Youqin's Victims of the Cultural Revolution, translated by Stacey Mosher, @prchistory prchistory.org/wp-content/upl…

The new issue of RtR @prchistory features Liu Chang's and my translation of Liu Yajuan’s "The 'Zhang Shunyou Incident': A Typical Case for the 'Practice of Cultivating Models'." Read here for a fascinating study of how PRC propaganda models were (re-)made: prchistory.org/liu-yajuan-the…

The PRC History Review now includes a Research Note series! Check out the first one, Aminda Smith on the origins of the term “Maoism,” and submit your own! prchistory.org/the-prc-histor…

A sort of late (in Taiwan at least) May Day post, but just wanted to share a bit of my research findings. Studying export processing on the US-MX border and in Taiwan, and the biggest difference has been related to housing for workers. Here is a 🧵

I'm thrilled to announce that my book, "Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021" has been published by @CambridgeUP!

My first grad school seminar paper was about discourse about education in 1950s China; I remember coming across Education Bureau documents warning of "Western-inspired" rebels who act like Elvis and cut school. Fascinating to see a possible inspiration for the fear-mongering!

Check out the first collaborative translations from this fabulous project that makes Chinese-language PRC history scholarship accessible in English! I've learned so much from my participation in the group, and look forward to diving back in again when my fieldwork is finished.

The inaugural issue of the cross-national translation project Revisiting the Revolution is finally out❗️Sharing important new scholarship with global readers, new translations will be posted regularly (once/twice per month). ✍️ I am humbled to be part of this great project 🙏

We are delighted to partner with Timothy Cheek's Revisiting the Revolution group to publish their collaborative translations, which make influential Chinese-language scholarship on PRC History accessible in English. prchistory.org/revisiting-the…

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New PRC History Review roundtable on Joseph W. Esherick, Accidental Holy Land: The Communist Revolution in Northwest China (California, 2022). Six reviews from your favorite luminaries and with a response from the author. prchistory.org/prc-history-re…