Luo Xu
Education:
- Ph. D. in History, University at Buffalo
- B. A. and M. A. in History,
Capital Normal University (Beijing, China)
Course Offerings:
HIS 101: World Since 1500
HIS 150: World Since 1900
AST 200: Introduction to Asia
HIS 383: Chinese Civilization
HIS 384: Modern China
HIS 385: History of Japan
HIS 386: Modern Pacific Asia
HIS 435: East Asian-American Relations
HIS 533: Issues in Asian History
HIS 630: Colloquium on Modern China
Research Interests:
Social, cultural, and intellectual changes of modern China, and Sino-American relations
Selected Publications and Presentations:
“Reconstructing World History in the People’s Republic of China
since the 1980s.” Journal of World History, forthcoming.
“Eurocentrism in China’s World History Writings of
Recent Years and an Alternative Approach to the Early Modern World.” World
History (academic journal published by the Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences), 2005, No. 3, 93-106.
“Farewell to Idealism: Mapping China’s University Students of the 1990s.” The Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 13, No. 41 (Nov. 2004), pp. 777-797.
Searching for Life’s Meaning: Changes and Tensions
in the Worldviews of
Chinese Youth in the 1980s. The University of Michigan Press, 2002,
359p.
"China as a Non-Hegemonic Superpower? The Uses of History among the China Can Say No Writers and Their Critics" (with Roger Des Forges). Critical Asian Studies, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Dec. 2001), 483-507.
“The ‘Shekou Storm’: Changes in the Mentality of Chinese
Youth Prior to Tiananmen.” The China Quarterly, No. 142 (June 1995),
pp. 541-572.
“Political and Ideological Origins of the Crisis” (with Luo
Ning), in Roger V. Des Forges, et al., eds., Chinese
Democracy and the Crisis of 1989: Chinese and American Reflections (Albany: State University of New
York Press, 1993), pp. 87-105.
“Contending Models of East Asian Development.” Current Trends in Studies of World History (academic journal published by the Chinese Academy of Social Science), June 1993, No. 6.
“Land Reform in Taiwan,” in Wang Qingjia and Chen Jian, eds., History and Its Scholarly Approach: Essays by Chinese Historians in the United States (Shanghai: Xuelin Publishing House, 1992), pp. 56-77.
"American Policy toward Chinese Nationalism 1925-1928", World History (academic journal published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), December 1990, pp. 119-128.
Service and Community Activities:
Various college and department committees; speaker at Central New York Social Studies Conferences and several local/regional high schools; language services for local elementary and high schools; and contributor to the Central New York Chinese magazine.