CURRICULUM VITAE
PATRICIA M. THORNTON
(January 2016)
Department of Politics and International Relations,
Contemporary Chinese Studies Programme, and Merton College,
University of Oxford
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EDUCATION
1997 University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. in Political Science
1990 University of Washington, Seattle M.A. in Political Science
1985 Swarthmore College B.A. in Political Science
EMPLOYMENT
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2008- Associate Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR), and Contemporary China Studies Programme, and Merton College
2006-08 Associate Professor, International Studies Program, Portland State University
2004-06 Associate Professor of Political Science, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
1998-04 Assistant Professor of Political Science, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
1996-97 Instructor of Chinese Language and Guest Lecturer in Political Science, University of Alaska, Southeast (Juneau)
1994-95 Visiting Scholar, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C
1994-95 Visiting Scholar, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
1992-94 Graduate Student Instructor, University of California at Berkeley
1991-92 Instructor, American Institute in Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C
1988-89 Graduate Student Instructor, University of Washington, Seattle
RESEARCH AND ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
2014 Visiting Scholar, Shanghai Fudan University
2007- Director, Institute of Asian Studies, Portland State University
2007 Lee Hsyan Visiting Scholar, University Services Centre, Chinese University of Hong Kong (July)
2001-02 Director of Asian Programs, Trinity College
2000-02 Coordinator, Asian Studies Concentration, Trinity College
2000-01 Trinity College Center for Collaborative Research and Teaching Fellow (Spring Semester)
1998- Affiliate in Research, Harvard University Fairbank Center for East Asian Research
1997-98 An Wang Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Harvard University Fairbank Center for East Asian Research
1987-88 Acting Director, East Asian Studies Program and International Programs, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana
1986-87 Assistant Director, East Asian Studies Program and International Programs, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana
1985-86 Program Associate, East Asian Studies Program and International Programs, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana
HONORS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
2011-2012 British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, “Peering into History’s Rearview Mirror: Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in the Chinese Cultural Revolution”
2010 British Academy Small Research Grant, “Knots of Ungovernability: Mapping Popular Protest in China Across Space and Time.”
2010 Oxford Leverhulme Committee Conference Grant, “Civic Culture, Harmonious Society: Rethinking Civil Society in Greater China Today.”
2009 Goldfarb Research Fellow, Colby College, March 3-6 2009
2009 Oxford Leverhulme Committee Conference Grant, “Consumer Revolution or Consuming Revolution: Making Sense of Marketization in China”
2007 Lee Hysan Visiting Scholar Fellowship, University Services Centre, Chinese University of Hong Kong (July 1, 2007-July 20)
2006-07 Principal Investigator, American Council on Education, Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education Grant. "Assessing International Learning."
2003-04 William J. Fulbright Foundation New Century Scholar
2001 Trinity College Three-Year Faculty Research Grant
2000 Trinity College Center for Collaborative Teaching and Research Grant
1997-98 An Wang Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, Harvard University Fairbank Center for East Asian Research
1996-97 Henry Robert Braden Fellowship (for dissertation writing), UC Berkeley
1995-96 J. William Fulbright Fellowship for dissertation research in Taiwan
1994-95 Henry Robert Braden Travel Award (for dissertation research in China)
1994-96 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (for dissertation research abroad)
1992 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (summer Japanese language study)
1991-92 Henry Robert Braden Fellowship, UC Berkeley
1990-91 Stanford Fellow, Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Learning
1988-89 National Resource Fellowship for Chinese Language Study, University of Washington, Seattle
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Seeing Red: The People’s Cultural Revolution and China’s Crisis of Representation (manuscript in preparation for submission in 2016)
To Govern China: Evolving Practices of Power. Edited by Vivienne Shue and Patricia M. Thornton. Under submission (Cambridge University Press).
The Cultural Revolution: 50 Years On. Edited by Chris Berry, Patricia M. Thornton and Sun Peidong. Under submission (SOAS Press).
Disciplining the State: Virtue, Violence and State-making in Modern China. Harvard University Asia Center, 2007.
Identity Matters: Ethnic and Sectarian Conflict. Edited by James L. Peacock, Patricia M. Thornton, and Patrick B. Inman. Berghahn Press, 2007.
ARTICLES
“The Cultural Revolution as a Crisis of Representation,” Under submission for a special issue of The China Quarterly on Legacies of the Cultural Revolution (2016).
“The Mutable, the Mythical, and the Managerial: Raven Narratives and the Anthropocene.” With Thomas F. Thornton. Environment and Society: Advances in Research (6:1, 2015), pp. 66-86.
“The Advance of the Party: Transformation or Takeover of Urban Grassroots Society?” The China Quarterly 213 (March, 2013), pp. 1-18.
“The New Life of the Party: Party-Building and Social Engineering in Greater Shanghai,” The China Journal 68 (July, 2012), pp. 58-78.
“Mapping Dynamic Events: Popular Contention in China over Space and Time,” Annals of GIS 18:1 (February 2012), pp. 31-43.
“From Liberating Production To Unleashing Consumption: Mapping Landscapes Of Power In Beijing,” Political Geography 29:6 (August 2010), pp. 302-310.
“Crisis and Governance: SARS and the Resilience of the Chinese Body Politic,” The China Journal 61
(January 2008), pp. 23-48.
“Framing Dissent in Contemporary China: Irony, Ambiguity and Metonymy,” The China Quarterly 171 (September 2002), pp. 661-681.
“Insinuation, Insult and Invective: The Thresholds of Power and Protest in Modern China,” Comparative Studies in History and Society 44: 3 (July, 2002), pp. 597-619.
“Beneath the Banyan Tree: Bottom-up Views of Local Taxation and the State during the Republican and Reform Eras,” Twentieth Century China 15:1 (November 1999), pp. 1-42.
CHAPTERS
“The Cultural Revolution as a Crisis of Representation,” in Chris Berry, Patricia M. Thornton and Sun Peidong, eds. The Cultural Revolution: 50 Years On (SOAS Press). Under submission.
“The Party’s Quest for a Disciplined Yet Dynamic Political Order.” (With Vivienne Shue). In Vivienne Shue and Patricia M. Thornton, eds., To Govern China: Evolving Practices of Power. (Cambridge University Press). Under submission.
“A New Urban Underclass? Making and managing “vulnerable groups” in contemporary China.” In Vivienne Shue and Patricia M. Thornton, eds., To Govern China: Evolving Practices of Power (Cambridge University Press). Under submission.
“Non-traditional Security in China.” In Lowell Dittmer and Yu Maochun, eds., Routledge Handbook of Chinese Security (Routledge Press 2015).
“Experimenting with Party-led ‘People’s Society’: Four Regional Models.” In Reza Hasmath and Jennifer Hsu, eds., NGO Governance and Management in China (Routledge Press, 2015).
“Looking East: China’s Jasmine Revolution in Comparative and Historical Perspective.” In Frank Gaenssmantel, ed., Imagining Democracy after the Arab Spring (Ashgate Press 2015).
“Retrofitting the Steel Frame: From Mobilizing the Masses to Surveying the Public,” In Elizabeth J. Perry and Sebastian Heilmann, eds., Mao's Invisible Hand: The Political Foundations of Adaptive Governance, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011), Chapter 8, pp. 237-268.
“What is to Be Undone: The Making of the Middle Class in China.” In Karin M. Ekström and Kay Glans eds., Beyond the Consumption Bubble (London and New York: Routledge, 2010), Chapter 17, pp. 236-250.
“The New Cybersects: Popular Religion, Repression, and Resistance.” In Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark Selden, eds., Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance (Third edition) (London and New York: Routledge, 2010), Chapter 9, pp. 215-238. Updated version of earlier chapter. Chinese version “新型網絡教派： 民間宗教， 壓制及抗爭,” in 裴宜理、塞爾登 編. 中國社會：變革、衝突與抗爭 (香港中文大學出版社, 2014).
“Censorship and Surveillance in Chinese Cyberspace: Beyond the Great Firewall.” In Peter Hays Gries and Stanley Rosen, eds., Chinese Politics: State, Society, and the Market. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009), Chapter 8, pp. 179-198.
“Manufacturing Dissent in Transnational China: Boomerang, Backfire or Spectacle?” In Kevin J. O’Brien, ed., Popular Protest in China (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008), Chapter 9, pp. 179-204.
“Introduction: Identity Matters.” In James L. Peacock, Patricia M. Thornton, and Patrick B. Inman, eds. Identity Matters: How Ethnic and Sectarian Conflict (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Press, 2007), pp. 1-13.
“Manufacturing Sectarian Divides: States, Identities and Collective Violence.” In James L. Peacock, Patricia M. Thornton, and Patrick B. Inman, eds. Identity Matters: How Ethnic and Sectarian Conflict (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Press, 2007), Chapter 9, pp. 171-189.
“Comrades and Collectives in Arms: Tax Resistance, Evasion and Avoidance Strategies in the Post-Mao Era.” In Peter Hays Gries and Stanley Rosen, eds., State and Society in 21st Century China: Contention, Crisis and Legitimation (London and New York: Routledge, 2004), Chapter 4, pp. 87-104.
“The New Cybersects: Resistance and Repression in the Reform era. “ In Elizabeth Perry and Mark Selden, eds., Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance (Second edition) (London and New York: Routledge, 2003), Chapter 9, pp. 147-70.
“Blowback “ (with Thomas Thornton), in John Collins, ed., Collateral Language: A Users' Guide to the New War on Terrorism (New York: New York University Press, 2002), pp. 27-37.
OTHER
“ ‘Civil Society’ or ‘People’s Society’: Where’s the Party?,” China Development Brief, August 2013. Available at http://www.chinadevelopmentbrief.cn/?p=2252#more-2252 . Chinese version,“公民社会”还是“人民社会”：上海社会组织党建工作研究" at http://www.chinadevelopmentbrief.org.cn/qikanarticleview.php?id=1408.
“Through a New Lens: Assessing International Learning at Portland State University”
(with Duncan Carter and Gil Latz). The Journal of General Education 59:3 (2010), pp. 172-181..
“Political Machines.” In George Ritzer, ed., Encyclopedia of Sociology (London: Blackwell Publishing, 2006).
“Interest Groups in China.” In Clive S. Thomas, ed., Research Guide to U.S. and International Interest Groups, Praeger Press (2004).
“Interest Groups in Taiwan, R.O.C.” In Clive S. Thomas, ed., Research Guide to U.S. and International Interest Groups, Praeger Press (2004).
“Discerning the Public from the Private: A Lexicon of Political Corruption During the Nanjing Decade,” Indiana University Working Paper Series on Language and Politics in Modern China, No. 8 (Spring 1996), pp. 30-55. Bloomington, Indiana: East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University. Available on-line at http://www.indiana.edu/~easc/publications/doc/working_papers/Issue%208%201996%20Spring%20IUEAWPS%20Hsu,Thornton.pdf
BOOK REVIEWS
Su Yang, Collective Killings in Rural China during the Cultural Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), The Review of Politics (forthcoming 2012).
Cai Yungshun, Collective Resistance in China: Why Popular Protests Succeed or Fail (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), The China Journal (2011).
Wang Hui, The End of the Revolution: China and the limits of modernity (London and New York: Verso 2010), East Asia: An International Quarterly, Vol 28, No. 1 (2011), pp. 83-84.
Hsing You-tien and Lee Ching Kwan, eds., Reclaiming Chinese Society: the New Social Activism (London: Routledge, 2010), The China Quarterly 202 (2010), pp. 453-455.
David Palmer, Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), History of Religions, Vol 49, No. 4 (May, 2010), pp. 426-27.
Andrew Nathan. Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009), The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 69, Issue 04, pp 1213 – 1215/
Nara Dillon and Jean Oi,eds., At the Crossroads of Empires: Middlemen, Social Networks, and State-Building in Republican Shanghai (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008), The China Journal, 2008.
Eddy U, Disorganizing China: Counter-Bureaucracy and the Decline of Socialism (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007. Journal of Chinese Political Science, 2008.
Michael Dutton, Policing Chinese Politics: A History (Durham, NC and London: Duke
University Press, 2006), The Review of Politics 69:4.
Melanie Manion, Corruption by Design: Building Clean Government in Mainland China and Hong Kong (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004), The China Journal.
Bruce Gilley, China’s Democratic Future: How It Will Happen and Where It Will Lead (New York, Columbia University Press, 2004), Political Science Quarterly, Summer 2005, Volume 120, No. 2.
Elizabeth Remick, Building Local States: China During the Republican and Post-Mao Eras (Harvard University East Asia Monograph Series, 2004), Pacific Affairs, January 2005, Volume 77, No. 4, (Winter).
Danny Schechter, Falun Gong's Challenge to China: Spiritual Practice or 'Evil Cult'? (New York, NY: Akashic Books, 2001), in The China Quarterly, September 2002.
David Shambaugh, ed. The Modern Chinese State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), The Journal of Asian Studies, February, 2002.
Lü Xiaobo, Cadres and Corruption: The Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), Political Science Quarterly, Summer, 2001.
Julia Kwong, The Political Economy of Corruption in China (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1997), China Information. Spring, 1998.
PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
Discussant, “Creative Forms of Public Participation in China: From Everyday Politics to Media Agendas,” at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University, June 4-5, 2011
“Local Policy Experimentation in the PRC: From Mao to Now,” Organized panel at Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting 2011 in Honolulu, Hawiaii; presentation entitled “Post-Mao Collectivism: Debating ‘Red Billionaire’ Villages in the Era of Market Reform. March 30-April 5 2011.
“Knots of Ungovernability? Mapping Protest Events Across Space and Time in China,” presented at “Urban Cultural Change in Republican China (1910s-1940s): Dialogue between Cultural Narratives and Historical GIS” at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sept. 18-20, 2010
“Beyond the Great Firewall: Virtual Publics, Counterpublics, and the Transnational Chinese Web,” October 17-18, 2008, Washington University, St. Louis, MO. International conference entitled, “Presenting China: Theory and Pedagogy.”
“What is to Be Undone: Official Knowledge and Governing Practices in the era of Reform,” July 14-16, 2008. International conference entitled "Adaptive Authoritarianism: China's Party-State Resilience in Historical Perspective," Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
"Repression, Adaptation and Contention: The Emergence of Transnational Chinese Cybersects."28-30 November 2007. International conference entitled, “Religious Innovation in East Asia.” Australian National University, Canberra.
"Political Domination and Cultural Transformation: Comparing Patterns of Mobilization and Manipulation during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and the Era of Reform." July 16, 2007. Chinese University of Hong Kong, University Services Centre Luncheon Seminar Series on Contemporary China.
"The Persistence of Practice: The Transformation of Mass Mobilization in the post-Mao Era." June 15, 2007. International Workshop on Adaptive Authoritarianism: China's Party-State Resilience in Comparative Perspective. Supported by Trier University, the German National Research Foundation and Harvard University.
"Lessons Learned in Assessing International Education." American Council on Education, Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education. March 15, 2007. Washington, DC.
“Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Republican Legal System in Transition.” Chair and Discussant. Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting. April 9, 2006, San Francisco, CA.