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Peter J. Carroll Social and cultural history of 19th and 20th century China Office: 303 Harris |
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Peter J. Carroll (PhD Yale, 1998) specializes in the social and cultural history of 19th and 20th century China. His research interests include urban history, Chinese modernism, popular and material culture, gender/sexuality, and nationalism. A two-time Fulbright recipient, he has also held fellowships with the Project on Cities and Urban Knowledges, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University; the Library of Congress’s John W. Kluge Center; and the Centers for Chinese Studies at the National Central Library, Taibei, Taiwan, and at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition, he has been a visiting scholar at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica. He is the author of Between Heaven and Modernity: Reconstructing Suzhou, 1895-1937 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), which was awarded the Best Book (Non-North American) 2007 prize by the Urban History Association, and several scholarly articles. He is currently working on a book project on suicide and ideas of modern society in China during the first half of the 20th century. Courses Taught at NU: Undergraduate Courses:
281 Chinese Civilization 381-1 Qing China 381-2 20th c. China 391 China in Reform 392/95 Engendering Modern China 392 Sex and Gender in Revolution: 20th c. China 398 History Department Senior Seminar
Graduate Courses:
499 Social and Cultural Issues in Liao, Jin, Song, and Yuan History Nationalism and Revolution in 20th c. China Post-Colonial Histories of East and South Asia 20th c. China: Recent Historiographic Trends Chinese-Taiwanese Relations and the Question of Nationalism Systems of Gender in late Imperial and Modern China China and Japan in the Republican Period 570 Research seminar for first-year graduate students For more on Between Heaven and Modernity, see |
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