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Christian A. Hess
Assistant Professor
Department of History,University of Warwick
Coventry, UK, CV4 7AL
+44-2476-523380
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
University of Warwick, Department of History
Assistant Professor/ Research Councils UK (RCUK) Academic Fellow, October 2007-
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of History,
Visiting Assistant Professor August 2006-August 2007
University of California, San Diego, Department of History
Associate in History, January-March 2004
EDUCATION
University of California, San Diego
PhD, December 2006, Modern Chinese History
MA, 2003, History
University of California, Davis
BA, 1997, History
Tsinghua University,Beijing
Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Study, 1998-1999
PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapters:
“Big Brother is Watching: Local Sino-Soviet Relations and the Building of New Dalian, 1945-1955,” in Paul Pickowicz and Jeremy Brown, ed., Dilemmas of Victory: The Early Years of the People’s Republic of China (Harvard University Press, 2007).
“The Use of History in Chinese International Relations” in Shaun Breslin, ed., Handbook of Chinese International Relations (London: Routledge, April 2010).
“Sulian ren zai Lüshun he Dalian de huodong, 1945-1955” (Soviet activity in Lüshun and Dalian, 1945-1955), in Shen Zhihua and Douglas A. Stiffler, ed. Cuiruo de lianmeng: lengzhang yu ZhongSu guanxi yanjiu(A fragile alliance: The Cold War and Sino-Soviet Relations) (Shanghai: Shijie zhishi chubanshe, 2010).
Book Reviews:
Review of Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi, ed. The Nanking Atrocity 1937-1938: Complicating the Picture (Berghahn, 2007), for History: The Journal of the Historical Association, (forthcoming).
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Economic and Social Research Council (UK) International Network Grant, March 2010- September 2011
University of Warwick, Humanities Research Fund Small Grant, 2009
University of Warwick, North America Fund Grant, 2009
University of Wisconsin at Madison, Center for East Asian Studies Faculty Development Grant, 2006
Graduate Student Fellowship, Center for Humanities, University of California at San Diego, 2006
Writing Fellowship, History Department, University of California at San Diego, 2005
Pacific Rim Mini-grant, University of California at San Diego, 2005
American Historical Association Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant, 2005
Institute for International and Area Studies Grant, University of California at San Diego, 2005
Fulbright Fellowship, Institute for International Education (IIE), 2003-2004
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Grant for Study of Japanese language, UCSD, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003
University of California Regents Fellowship, 1999-2000
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES
“From colonial port to production city: colonial legacies and the making of ‘new’ Dalian, 1937-1955” paper presented at University of Southampton, February 16, 2010.
“From colonial port to production city: war, industrialization, and identity in Dalian 1937-1955” paper presented at the Institute for Chinese Studies Departmental Seminar, University of Oxford, October 22, 2009.
“Revolutionary Real Estate: Housing Redistribution Campaigns in Soviet-Occupied Dalian, 1945-1948” Paper delivered at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Chicago, March 26-29, 2009.
“The Soviet Presence in Dalian and Lüshun, 1945-1950.” Paper delivered at the conference The Cold War and Sino-Soviet Relations: Diplomatic, Economic, and Cultural Interactions, East China Normal University, Shanghai, January 5-7, 2009.
“Global Dreams, Regional Realities: Legacies of Colonialism in Dalian, 1905-Present.”Delivered at the World History Association Annual Conference, Queen Mary College, London, June 27-29, 2008.
“Doing Chinese History in the 21st Century: New Challenges, New Opportunities” talk delivered at the inaugural Ideas Café forum, University of Warwick, May 15, 2008.
“Reflections on China: The Historical Context.” University of Warwick, Warwick icast series 2008.
“Nationalism and Internationalism in Lüshun and Dalian 1945-1950.” Delivered at the International conference Republican China and the World, held at the University of Bristol, September 7-8, 2007.
“The Soviet Impact on Urban Society in Lüshun and Dalian, 1945-1955.” Delivered at theresearch conference The Soviet Impact on China: Politics, Economy, Society and Culture 1949-1991, held at Columbia University, June 22-23, 2007.
“Socialist Internationalism and the Making of New Dalian, 1945-1950.” Delivered at the Association for Asian Studies Southeast Conference, hosted by Belmont University, Nashville TN, January 12-14, 2007.
“From Imperialist Enemies to Socialist Friends: Japanese Civilians in Postwar Dalian, 1945-1950.” Delivered at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Madison WI, October 20-22, 2006.
“From Colonial Port to Sino-Soviet Metropolis? Rebuilding Post-War Dalian, 1945-1950.”Delivered at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, January 5-8, 2006.
“Big Brother is Watching: Local Sino-Soviet Relations and the Building of New Lüda, 1945-1955.” Delivered at the interdisciplinary conference Rethinking the Early 1950s held at the University of California, San Diego, June 20-23, 2004.
“Unlikely Spaces of Liberal Hope: Yan Jingyue and the Model Prison in Republican China. Delivered at the Eighth Annual California Graduate Student Conference in Chinese History, University of California, Los Angeles, May 2001.
“From Mountain Paths to Motorways: Politics, Economics, and Road-building in Guizhou Province, 1926-1949.” Delivered at the Seventh Annual California Graduate Student Conference in Chinese History, University of California, San Diego, May 2000.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AND LANGUAGE TRAINING
Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, People’s Republic of China. Dissertation research, 2003-2004
International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan. Japanese language training anddissertation research, 2002-2003
Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies (IUP), Qinghua University,People’s Republic of China. Intensive advanced Chinese language training, 1998-1999
University of California, Education Abroad Program, Beijing, 1995-1996. Intensive Chinese
language training.
COURSES TAUGHT
University of Warwick
History 168: War, Revolution and Reform: China since 1900
Theory, Skills and Methods: I contribute lectures and seminars to this Master’s level graduate course
University of Wisconsin, Madison
History 103: Introduction to East Asian History: China (Fall 2006)
History 600: War and Society in Modern China (Fall 2006)
History 200: The Chinese Cultural Revolution 1966-1976 (Spring 2007)
History 341: The History of Modern China 1800-1949 (Spring 2007)
Interdisciplinary Studies (L&S) 220: Windows on the World: Legacies of Colonialism in East Asia (Summer 2007)
University of California at San Diego
History 131: The Chinese Revolution 1911-1949 (Winter 2004)
LANGUAGES: Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Classical Chinese
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Association for Asian Studies
American Historical Association
Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China
British Association for Chinese Studies
Christian A. Hess July 2009