Marilyn Levine

Marilyn A. Levine was trained as a historian of Asia, with graduate degrees from the University of Chicago in modern Chinese History and the University of Hawaii in Vietnamese History. She has published two books, over four dozen articles, and created a dozen Web sites for research, teaching, professional, and community service. Dr. Levine's research interests have focused on Chinese political party formation in Europe during the 1920's and exploring new approaches to the field of life history. She published The Found Generation: Chinese Communists in Europe during the Twenties (University of Washington Press, 1993), and with Chen San-ching, The Chinese Guomindang in Europe: A Sourcebook of Documents (Institute for East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies Monograph, 2000). She has delivered over 160 presentations, workshops and public speeches, and organized two international conferences. Levine’s online Chinese Biographical Database (CBD) project [1998-2006] was the first online, scholarly moderated database on the Worldwide Web. Another research endeavor is the Chinese Conversations Project, based on interviews conducted in 1985 and 1990 in China with several Chinese who went to France in the 1920's, as well as numerous scholars of the Chinese Communist Party. Dr. Levine’s professional service includes serving on numerous councils, including President of H-NET, President of the Historical Society for 20th Century China, two terms on the Idaho Humanities Council, Executive Secretary of the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, and Co-President of the Women in Higher Education Roundtable.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Ph.D. University of Chicago (1985)
• M.A. University of Hawai'i (1978)
• B.A. San Diego University (1975)

Courses Taught

• Introduction to Global Issues
• World History pre-1500
• World History post-1815
• History of Asia
• Freshman Seminar: War and Peace in Asia
• Traditional Chinese Civilization
• The Rise of Modern China
• Chinese Modern Culture
• Modern Japanese History
• Vietnam: Revolution in Full Circle
• Comparative Revolution: China, Japan, & Vietnam
• East Asia Symposium for in-service teachers
• Introduction to Social Sciences In-Class and Online Versions
• Historical Methods
• Digital History
• Computers and Social Sciences
• Biography: The History of One
• Senior Research Seminar
• Directed Studies
• Internships
• Rock and Roll as Art and History

Selected Publications

• With Heidi HUANG Yu, “Chinese Political and Cultural Elites: Twentieth Century Transformations,” on Chinese Intellectual-Activists in Europe during the twenties,” Journal of Digital History (Luxembourg). (2024)
• 淬煉於歐——中國共產黨革命領導人與旅歐中國共產主義組織 Cuilian yu Ou—Zhongguo gongchangdang geming lingdaoren yü Zhongguo gongchanzhuyi zuzhi [Forged in Europe: Revolutionary Leaders of the Chinese Communist Party and the European Branches of the Chinese Communist Organizations] 數位典藏與數位人文[Journal of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities] [Taiwan], No. 12, pp. 83-120 (October, 2023)
• “Revolutionary Roads: An Integrative Analysis Utilizing the Chinese Biographical Database.”      Chapter in, Knowledge, Power, and Networks: Elites in Transition in Modern China Edited by: Cécile Armand, Christian Henriot, and Sun Huei-min (Leiden: Brill Publishing, 2022): 181-230. (2022)
• “Post WWI Chinese Revolutionary Leaders in Europe” in Journal of Historical Network Research Vol. 5 No. 1: 187-232. (2022)
• “Biography for Historical Analysis: A Chinese Biographical Database,” Journal of Historical Network Research Vol. 5 No. 1: 271-87. (2022)