Marilyn Levine
Professor of History
Professional Overview
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
Courses Taught
World History/Civilization:
- Introduction to Global Issues
- World History pre-1500
- World History post-1815
Asian History:
- Asian History Survey
- History of Asia
- 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
Social Science:
- Introduction to Social Sciences
- Introduction to Social Sciences (online)
- Biography: The History of One
Research and Methods:
- Approaches and Methods in Digital History
- Historical Methods
- The Keys to History (Historiography)
- Senior Thesis Seminar
- Directed Studies
- Coorperative Seminar (internships)
- Computers and Social Sciences
- Senior Research Seminar
- History in Time and Place (Freshman Seminar)
U.S. History:
- Rock and Roll as Art and History
Education
1979‒1985 Ph.D. in History. University of Chicago, [Modern China] Department of History
1981‒1982 Stanford Center. Inter-University Program in Chinese Language and Literature, Taipei, Republic of China (advanced Chinese language program).
1980;1987 Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, Classical Chinese, Chinese School (summer intensive language program); Japanese School (summer intensive language program.)
1975‒1978 M.A. in History. University of Hawai’i, [Southeast Asia] Department of History
1971‒1975 B.A. in History. San Diego State University, [United States, Latin America] Dept. of History
Academic Awards and Honors
2020 Research Associate, Elites, Networks and Power in Modern China Project. Aix- Marseille University
2018 Honoring Our Professors’ Excellence [HOPE] Award. National Residence Hall Honorary.
2005 Excellence in Academic Diversity Award. Associated Students, Lewis Clark State College. [First faculty recipient]
2004 Excellence in Service Award/Resolution of Recognition. Humanities and Social Sciences Online (H-NET) presented at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting.
2004 Favorite Professor Award. Student-voted award. Univ. of Pittsburgh Asia and Pacific Rim Summer at Sea. Asia Study Abroad (Canada, Alaska, Russia, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Japan). This award led to delivering the convocation speech.
2003 Recognition of Service Award. Idaho Humanities Council.
2003 Extraordinary Service Award. Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies.
2003 International Enlightenment Award. International Students Club, Lewis-Clark State College. [First faculty recipient]
2002 Visiting Professor. École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France, Summer.
2001 Leadership Award. Association of Asian Studies - Council of Conferences.
1999 Visiting Professor. Sinologisches Seminar, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Summer
1997 President’s Award. Excellence in Teaching, Lewis-Clark State College.
1993-94 College Centennial Writing Initiative Faculty Award. Lewis-Clark State College.
1991-92 Foundation Award Recipient, Lewis-Clark State College, for “Excellence in Research, Teaching and Service.”
1988 Associate Member, Columbia University Seminar on Modern China, New York.
1985 First Foreigner granted affiliation status with Department of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, PRC.
1975 Phi Beta Kappa (Mu Chapter).
Professional Experience - Academic and Administrative Positions
Central Washington University
2016‒ Professor of History.
2011-2015 Provost and Vice-President of Academic and Student Life.
Professor of History.
Eastern Oregon University
2005-2010 Dean, College of Arts and Sciences.
Professor of History.
2006 Group Leader. University of Washington - East Asian Outreach Center. A leader of the K-12 Teacher Study Group to China, Summer.
Lewis Clark State College
2001-2005 Chair, Lewis-Clark State College, Division of Social Sciences, Lewiston, Idaho 83501
1996‒2005 Professor. Lewis-Clark State College, Division of Social Sciences, Lewiston, Idaho.
1992-1995 Associate Professor. Lewis-Clark State College, Division of Social Sciences, Lewiston,
1989-1992 Assistant Professor. Lewis-Clark State College, Division of Social Sciences
Lafayette College (1988-1989)
1988-1989 Assistant Professor. Lafayette College, Department of History, Easton, Penn.
San Diego State University (1987-1988)
1987-1988 Instructor. San Diego State University, Center for Asian Studies, San Diego, Calif.
Postdoctoral
1985-1986 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China (1985), Archival research in London, Paris, and Lyons (1986).
Fields of Specialization
Twentieth century Chinese political party development in Europe and transcultural influences; Vietnamese political and cultural history; life-writing theory and Chinese biography and prosopography, including statistical and network analyses. My contributions to the field have included advancing the field of the Chinese in Europe during the twenties, leadership in Chinese digital initiatives, creating international bridges in the field of Asian historical practice, and the promotion of gender and faculty equity.
Languages
Chinese: Three years. Fluent in reading, writing, and speaking.
Classical Chinese: Two years (University of Chicago and Middlebury College)
French: One year but some fluency due to research and travel
Vietnamese: Three years (for M.A., University of Hawai’i,)
Japanese: One year (Middlebury College)
Latin: One year accelerated (San Diego State University)
Hebrew: One year
Academic Advisory Boards and Councils
2004 President, H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences Online (www.h-net.org). H-Net is the world’s largest scholarly society dedicated to using new media for scholarship. Founded in 1993, H-NET publishes more than 1,900 book reviews a year and has over 141 scholarly moderated discussion networks with more than 143,800 subscribers. The responsibilities of this position included: overseeing weekly council meetings, fund-raising, certification of editors and advisory board members, communication between the H-NET Council and H-NET Editors, managing personnel issues, grant writing, and travel.
2003 Co-President, Women in Higher Education Roundtable
The Mission of this group in the Northwest U.S. is to foster inter-institutional and regional collaboration among women in higher education and to encourage the promotion of leadership of, and for, women into administrative leadership. The group includes nine regional institutions and won a national ACE award for its mentorship program. I created the original Web site and was able to co-author a study, Survey on the Status of Women in the Northwest in Academe. This study was submitted to the nine NW regional Presidents for a joint discussion in April 2004. In addition, I co-organized and hosted the annual regional meeting that focused on the theme of Taking the Next Step.
2000 Chair. Council of Conferences, Association for Asian Studies.
The COC is responsible for awarding three different grant opportunities. Obtained significant Development Fund monies to hold a COC retreat and guided participants in developing a Mission Statement, developing and prioritizing COC Goals, and reviewing issues of Outreach and Assessment. Created a Web site that included an online survey.
1999 Chair. H-NET.
During year as Chair led a retreat, promulgated new by-laws, a mission statement, and constitution for this young organization. This was possible via an online discussion with 100,000 members, and over 300 editors. We had one of the largest votes in H-NET history and overwhelmingly passed the new by-laws, mission statement and constitution.
1999 Founding Member. Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative.
This ongoing initiative supports the open sharing of cultural databases and promotes GIS to advance online database uses. Was part of steering committee that established this group at the Villa Bosch, Heidelberg, June 29-30.
1999-2002 Executive Board Member. H-Net, the Humanities and Social Sciences Online.
1999 Editorial Board and a founder. H-HistBiblio discussion network. The new H-NET Electronic List Serve “H-HistBiblio” to understand how the World Wide Web and electronic media are affecting libraries and research issues.
1998–2001 Council Member. Council of Conferences, Association for Asian Studies to represent the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies.
1998 Executive Board. Elected by H-Net, the Humanities and Social Sciences Online (1 year term).
1997-2003 Executive Secretary, Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies
WCAAS covers a ten state and a two-province region in North America. It is one of nine regional conferences held and is affiliated with the Association for Asian Studies. For six years I was responsible for organizing annual conferences, running the Executive Board meetings, creating a Regional Conference Web site, and developing representation for the national organization.
1997 Program Chair and Organizer. Historical Society for 20th Century China, A Symposium: “Politics and Culture in 20th Century China.” October 1‒2, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Sponsored from private and public sources, this symposium had 30 panel participants with over one-third arriving from outside North America.
1996 President. Historical Society for 20th Century China. Was the first non-Chinese individual to be elected to this position. Tripled the membership and held one international symposium, as well as panels at the national Association for Asian Studies Conference and the American Historical Association. Served a two-year term.
1996-2005 Online Editor - H-ASIA. Invited to serve as an online editor for H-ASIA, the largest discussion network of the more than 140 discussion networks on H-Net -Humanities and Social Sciences Online.
1996-2003 Board Member, Idaho Humanities Council, Boise, Idaho. Served two terms on the Idaho Humanities Council (IHC). The IHC is dedicated to serving Idaho citizens by promoting greater public awareness, appreciation, and understanding of the humanities. The Council awarded grants, developed community humanities projects, and held a summer institute for K-12 teachers among other endeavors. During my service on the Council, we finalized some of these special project areas and refocused the mission. I also was in the initial Speakers Bureau and as a selected participant gave presentations throughout the state on Asia-related topics.
1995 Program Chair, Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (WCAAS) at Lewis-Clark State College, in conjunction with Lewis-Clark State College International Exchange Conference, Lewiston, Idaho, September 27‒30. The Conference included over 120 panelists, with two dozen panels and participants from 17 states and 6 foreign countries.
1995 Co-Organizer, Historical Society for 20th Century China in North America, A Symposium: “Reassessing the Sino-Japanese War, 1937‒1945: New Sources and Interpretations.” December 17‒18, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
Diversity and Inclusivity:
From achieving hire rates of hiring women leaders and salary equity, to delivering 30 hour symposia on Asian diversity, and promoting diverse ideas in numerous boards and professional groups and adopting diverse approaches to teaching and learning – diversity and inclusivity have constituted an important part of my career. I even was invited to give a workshop on community outreach methods at Hong Kong Baptist University. Although I have received recognition for these efforts from groups and individuals, I am most proud of being the first recipient of two diversity-internationalism student awards while at LCSC – the first faculty award for diversity and the first faculty award for Internationalism – both of them from the associated students.
Publications
Over 65 publications, including books, digital projects, articles, book reviews, research and service web sites, and electronic papers and have delivered more than 175 presentations and workshops in the U.S. and abroad.
Current Research Projects
2017– Work in Progress: The Chinese Biographical Database (CBD) Projects
The Chinese Biographical Database [CBD], which was originally created in 1997-98 and available online through 2006. The CBD originated in the study of Chinese politics in Europe during the 1920s and included information on more than 1,100 Chinese who went to France, Germany, and Belgium. The database later was enlarged to over 2,500 individuals and included a diverse array of additional Chinese individuals in politics, academics, and other spheres. The CBD was configured for multilingual input and latitude and longitude for geospatial analysis. From 1998 through 2006 the CBD was online and had the capacity for queries and reports from the various relational data tables. An objective of the original CBD was to expand the utility to do large-scale analysis with the large array of attributes. This is now possible, and I have published articles and created several presentations that utilized the capacity of the CBD.
Current research plan: The current project is to use quantitative and historical network analyses for prosopography studies. Several articles, presentations, and workshops have resulted from this work.
2016– Work in Progress: The Chinese History Conversations Project
The second area of my current research is the Chinese Conversations Project which is a series of transcriptions in Chinese for digitized audio files that cover three tiers of interviews and discussion that were conducted in 1985 and 1990. The first two tiers are with participants in the European Communist Organizations (ECCO) in France, Germany, and Belgium and their relatives, and the second tier from CCP historians are now transcribed and revised. The third tier of conversations with Tsinghua historians has not been transcribed. These transcriptions cover over 36 hours of interviews, with 46 transcription files and contain over 308,000 characters. Publications and several presentations have resulted from this work.
Books
2000 - Co-Authored with Chen San-ching, The Chinese Guomindang in Europe: A Sourcebook of Documents. Berkeley, California. Institute for East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies Monograph Series # 52, 303 pp. A series of 72 documents from archives in Europe and Asia on the formation of the Chinese Nationalist Party in Europe, EGMD (1923, Lyons) which had the first United Front with the Communists. The first two units covers the formation and politics of the EGMD. The final unit of the book covers ideology among the five Chinese political parties formed in Europe from 1922‒23.
1993 - The Found Generation: Chinese Communists in Europe During the Twenties. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 296 pp. An examination of the generation of young Chinese who adopted the route of political party formation during the early twenties while sojourning in France. The historical background of the Chinese Labor Battalions during the first World War, the Work-Study Movement, the creation of the European Branch of the Chinese Communist Party (1922), and the personal transformation experience and ideological developments of those involved in the party formation are explored.
Selected Articles
2023 With Heidi HUANG Yu, “Chinese Political and Cultural Elites: Twentieth Century Transformations,” on Chinese Intellectual-Activists in Europe during the twenties,” will be considered as part of a special issue submission for Journal of Digital History (Luxembourg), https://journalofdigitalhistory.org/en.
2023 - 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 [Forged in Europe: Revolutionary Leaders of the Chinese Communist Party and the European Branches of the Chinese Communist Organizations] submitted to 數位典藏與數位⼈⽂ [Journal of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities] [Taiwan]; Accepted for publication, for 2024 https://tadh.org.tw/en/2023/02/
2022 - "Revolutionary Roads: An Integrative Analysis Utilizing the Chinese Biographical Database" book chapter, Elites, Knowledge, and Power in Modern China, Edited by Armand, Henriot, and Sun, In press [Brill]
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.” in Journal of Historical Network Research Vol 5, no. 1: 271-87
2021 - Panel presentation and Workshop presentation: Harvard Fairbank Center, Mini-Conference: Network Research in Chinese Studies Workshop, July 23-24 and 30-31. Panel Presentation “Post WWI Chinese Revolutionary Leaders in Europe” and Workshop Presentation on “Hierarchical Clustering and Heat Maps” The Conference Report was published in H-Soz-Kult 9/23.
2019 - "Leninist Legacies and Revolutionary Life Histories in the Chinese Communist Party: A Plutarchian Case Study of Cai Hesen and Zhao Shiyan" Twentieth-Century China 44, no. 3 (October 2019)
2016 - “赴法勤工俭学运动的兴起“ [The Rise of the Diligent-Work Frugal-Study Movement], 高校马克思主义理论研究 [Studies on Marxist Theory in Higher Education] 2:2, pp. 100-112.
2015 - “The Chinese Labor Corps During World War I: Prelude to Political and Cultural Activism,” (in Chinese) in Yizhan huagong zai faguo, Chinese translation of Les travailleurs chinois en France dans la Première Guerre mondiale, Li Ma and Mo Xuqiang, ed., Jilin: Jilin Publishers pp. 269-285. Conference Program, Conference Paper, and Conference Presentation (Keynote Address)
2011 - Le Chinois Labor Corps pendant la Première Guerre mondiale : prélude à l’activisme politique et culturel [The Chinese Labor Corps During World War I:Prelude to Political and Cultural Activism] in Les travailleurs chinois en France dans la Première Guerre mondiale, Li Ma and Mo Xuqiang ed. (Paris, CNRS, 2012), 305-322.
2011 “Levine, M. and M. E. Schimpf, “Faculty Recruitment in an Era of Change,” Metropolitan Universities Journal (21:2),55-67.
2000 “H-Net: Scholarly Moderation and the Online Community” published in Proceedings of the EBTI, SEER, ECAI, and PNC Meeting. (Taibei, PNC,) H-NET Session, pp. 1-5.
1999 “The Chinese Biographical Database Project: A Model for Collaborative Scholarship,” in Proceedings of the EBTI, SEER, ECAI, and PNC Meeting. (Taibei, PNC): 514-20.
1997 “Conducting Archival Research on Chinese Radicalism in the French Archives,” Republican China 22:2 (April 1997): 93-102.
1997 “超越障碍：张若名与安德烈纪德”[Chaoyue zhangai: Zhang Ruoming yü An Delie
Jide, Transcending the Barriers: Zhang Ruoming and André Gide」 trans. by Chan King-tong, reprinted in记得的态度 [The Attitude of Gide], (Beijing: Sanlian publishers), pp 180‒192.
1996 With Chen San-ching, “Communist‒Leftist Control of the European Branch of the Guomindang, 1923‒1927” Modern China 22:1 (January): 62‒92.
1995 “Chinese politics in France during the 1920’s” An introduction in Jean Louis-Boully, Ouvrages en langue chinoise de l'Institut franco-chinoise de Lyon 1921-1946. Lyon : Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon, pp.XXIX-XXXVI.
1995 “Activisme et militantisme politiques chez les étudiants chinois” [Activism and Militantism in the Politics of the Chinese Students] Cahiers d'Histoire “Lyon et l'Extrême Orient” Tome XL, no.3‒4. pp.287‒308.
1995 « 孙中山先生與中國國民黨旅歐支部”[Sun zhongshan yu Zhongguo Guomindang lüOu zhibu, SunYat-sen and the Chinese Guomindang in Europe] Proceedings of Centennial Symposium on Sun Yat-Sen's Founding of the Kuomintang for Revolution (Taipei: Central Library) Volume 2, pp. 326‒358.
1993 “Teaching as Transformation: The Need to Redesign Courses on Vietnam,” Social Education, 57:7 (November/December): 387-392.
1993 "Chinese Students in France: Pedagogy and Politics" in Contact Between Cultures: Eastern Asia: History and Social Sciences ed. Bernard Hung-Kay Luk, vol. 4 N.Y.: Mellon Press, pp. 580-86.
1992 ” Zeng Qi and the Frozen Revolution.” in Oppositional Politics: Alternative Political Movements in Twentieth-Century China, ed. Roger Jeans. Boulder, Co: Westview Press, pp.227‒240.
1992 “Chao Shih-yen,” “Lo Fo,” “Po Ku,” “Wang Ming,” “Twenty-Eight Bolsheviks,” entries in Edwin Pak-Wah Leung, (ed.) Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Revolution (Connecticut: Greenwood ress), pp. 39-40; 233-35; 325-27; 454-456; 439-441.
1991 “超越障碍： 张若名与 安德烈 纪德”[Chaoyue zhangai: Zhang Ruoming yü An Delie Jide, Transcending the Barriers: Zhang Ruoming and André Gide] trans. by Chan King-tong, Zhonguo lishihui shixue jikan [Collected Historical Studies of the Chinese Historical Studies Association] 23 (July, 1991): 149-64.
1990 “Transcending the Barriers: Zhang Ruoming and André Gide” Chinese Studies in History 23:3 (Spring 1990): 32‒53.
1988 “ECCO Studies: Overview of an Emerging Field” Republican China 13:2 (April 1988): 4‒23. Special international symposium issue on “The Emergence of ECCO Studies.”
1986 “强者的肩膀”[Qiangzhe de jianbang Shoulders of the Strong] in Hu Hua, (ed.), Zhonggong dangshi renwu zhuan [Biographies of Personalities in Chinese Communist Party History] volume 29 (Shaanxi, Shaanxi renmin chubanshe), 342-45.
1986 “CCP History Studies at Qinghua University” China Exchange News 14:2 (June): 16-18.
1985 “Zhonggong dangshi renwu zhuan: A Review Essay” Republican China 10:2 (April 1985): 64‒72.
Book Reviews and Review Essays
2022 Article Reviewer for Modern Asian Studies
2021 Manuscript Reviewer for Cambridge University Press (April 2021)
2020 Book Review on Lucien Bianco and Krystyna Horko (trans.), Stalin and Mao: A Comparison of the Russian and Chinese Revolutions (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2018), The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review 47 (2020) 250–254.
2000 Book Review on Li Minghuan, We Need Two Worlds’ Chinese Immigrant Associations in a Western Society, (Ann Arbor: MI: The University of Michigan Press, 2000), Journal of Asian Studies 60:2 (May 2001): 506-507.
1999 Book Review on Gregor Benton and Frank N. Pieke, The Chinese in Europe (New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1998), Journal of Asian Studies 58:2 (May, 1999): 477‒478.
1999 Book Review on Frank Joseph Shulman. With Contributions by Patricia Polansky and Anna Leon Shulman. Doctoral Dissertations on China and on Inner Asia, 1976‒1990: An Annotated Bibliography of Studies in Western Languages. (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1998), on H–Asia Electronic Network. Posted in February.
1997 Book Review on R. Keith Schoppa, Blood Road: The Mystery of Shen Dingyi in Revolutionary China, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995) American Historical Review (February): 152-53.
1996 “Gender Issues in the Early Chinese Revolutionary Milieu” a Book Review on Christina Kelley Gilmartin, Engendering the Chinese Revolution: Radical Women, Communist Politics, and Mass Movements in the 1920s (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995) on H–Asia Electronic Network. Posted on 27 April.
1994 Book Review on Hans J. van de Ven From Friend to Comrade: The Founding of the Chinese Communist Party, 1920-1927. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991), Journal of Asian Studies 53:2 (May): 547-548.
1993 Book Review on Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Radicalism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Revolution (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992), American Historical Review Vol 98, No.1 February) 221.
1992 Book Review on Tony Saich, The Origins of the First United Front in China: The Role of Sneevliet (alias Maring) 2 vols. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1991), in Journal of Asian Studies Vol 51 No. 2 (May): 390‒91
1985 “Zhonggong dangshi renwu zhuan: A Review Essay” Republican China 10:2 (April 1985): 64-72.
SELECTED MEETINGS, INSTITUTES, WORKSHOPS, AND PUBLIC SPEECHES
2024 American Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA., January 4-7. Will be a panelist for AHA Teaching Division Sponsored Roundtable, “The Joys and Challenges of Teaching Biography.” Presentation will be “Multiple Approaches to Teaching Biography.”
2022 Tsinghua University Third Digital Humanities Forum “Prosody, Network, Future” November, 13. delivered presentation “Network Approaches to Understanding Post-WWI Chinese Revolutionaries and Intellectual Activists” 用網絡方法理解一戰後的中國革命者和知識分子活動家 .
2022 University of Heidelberg, Retirement Celebration for Thomas Kampen. July 20. Presented “Post WWI Chinese Revolutionary Leaders in Europe: A Modified Presentation in Honor of Thomas Kampen’s Retirement at the University of Heidelberg.”
2022 New Foundations and Directions in Digital Chinese Studies Summer School Workshop Session and Conference Presentation: Sponsored by the Elites, Networks and Power in Modern China Project Aix-Marseilles University, University of Leiden, and Max Planck Institute, Berlin, June 20-25. 1. Delivered a half-day workshop on network analysis techniques and tools, 2. delivered a two-hour plenary session on teaching digital history, and 3. presented a research paper “Chinese Political and Cultural Elites: Twentieth Century Transformations,” on Chinese Intellectual-Activists in Europe during the twenties.”
2022 Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI (participated virtually)., March 26. Chaired panel “Staging Socialist Internationalism: New Roles for Audio and Visual Media in the CCP’s Global Propaganda Network (1940s-70s).”
2021 Panel presentation and Workshop presentation: Harvard Fairbank Center, Mini-Conference: Network Research in Chinese Studies Workshop, July 23-24 and 30-31. Panel Presentation “Post WWI Chinese Revolutionary Leaders in Europe” and Workshop Presentation on “Hierarchical Clustering and Heat Maps” https://fccsdigitalchina.github.io/hnrcs2021/#/schedule
2021 James Brooks Library Smartz Series, May 6. Delivered lecture: "Archival Adventures in Asia and Europe: Researching the Chinese in Europe during the 1920s" Overviewed nine archives and the possibilities of enjoying research. Presentation at: https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/libraryevents/11
2021 Center for Asian and Transcultural Studies in Heidelberg, Universität Heidelberg Virtual Lecture Series “Living the Socialist Modern: The Chinese Communist Party at 100—Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, April 21, 9-11:00 am. Delivered Lecture: “Plutarch and Transcultural Life Narratives: Analyzing Early CCP Leaders, Cai Hesen and Zhao Shiyan.”
2021 Chinese Central Television (CCTV), Documentary, interviewee《留法岁月》”Years in France” – a four-part series on intellectual and political activities of the Chinese in France during the 1920s. This series was broadcast on CCTV in March. My interview material appears in episode three.
2020 Whither China? 中國的未來與未來在中國 International Conference. Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna, Austria, October 1-3. Presented slide presentation for “Susanne’s Space of Memory: The United States.”
2020 Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Boston, MA., March 19-22. Presentation on panel with Heidi HUANG Yu entitled “Chinese Political and Cultural Elites: Twentieth Century Transformations” for panel, “Reconstructing elite networks in modern China: Encountering Chinese networks.”
2020 American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY., January 3-6. Will chair and be discussant for a panel entitled, “Leadership and Space: Chinese Radicalism and Revolution in the Republican Period.”
2019 Sun Yat-sen University School of International Studies, Zhuhai, China. November 26-December 1. Invitation from the Research Center for European Studies gave a lecture presentation, “Plutarch and Transcultural Life Narratives: Three Chinese Travelers to Europe: Wang Guangqi, Zhang Ruoming, and Sheng Cheng”
- Delivered keynote speech entitled “The Potential of Integrative Approaches to Sino-French History and Cultural Studies” at an international 2-day symposium on L’Institut Franco-Chinois Lyon (IFCL) Studies. A special 200-person dataset was created from the Chinese Biographical Database that is focused on the IFCL and three other European Universities.
2019 University Aix-Marseilles, Aix-en Provence International Workshop of the ERC ENP-China Project “Elites, Knowledge, and Power in Modern China.” October 7-9. Presented workshop paper and presentation: “Revolutionary Roads: An Integrative Analysis of a Soviet Returned Chinese Leaders Cohort.” Presented on the work of my revised Chinese Biographical Database and focused on the regional influence of Hunan and Sichuan in revolutionary politics.
2019 Central Washington University, February 19. “Mass Campaigns and Mass Trauma: The Meaning of To Live. Lecture and discussion at the Brooks Library as part of the NEH Big Read and Brooks Library Book Club.
2019 American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Il., January 3-6. Delivered paper on ““Through a Euro-Soviet Lens: Bolshevism, Loyalties, and the Euro-Soviet Cohort during the early 1920s” for a panel, “Bolshevik Loyalties: The Russian Revolution and Revolutionaries in Japan, China, and Egypt.”
2018 Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., March 22-25. Delivered paper on “Leninist Legacies and Revolutionary Life Histories in the CCP: A Comparative Case Study of Zhao Shiyan (赵世炎) and Cai Hesen（蔡和森）” for a panel, “Echoes of the October Revolution in China and Japan.”
2018 Central Washington University, May 15, History Club Sponsored Lecture: “Communist Connections: Russia and China.”
2017 Yakima Valley Museum, September 14, KCTS sponsored community event. Panelist for discussion on preview of Ken Burns “The Vietnam War.”
2017 Hong Kong Baptist University, June 16, Tenth International Symposium on the History of Christianity in Modern China “The Chinese Church during the Civil War Period (1945-52),” chaired panel on “Medical Service During the Civil War.”
2017 Tsinghua University, College of Humanities, June 13-14 – delivered three lectures and held several meetings to discuss 中国历史访问香米 [Chinese Historical Interviews Project]. Key lecture and area of discussion was an historical overview of the context and project overview.
2017 Central Washington University, March 28, International Women’s Day sponsored panel, spoke on “Plutarch, Life Histories, and Two Chinese Feminists in France.”
2017 Central Washington University, February 16, History Club Sponsored Lecture: “Colonialism and Vietnam.”
2016 Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education, April 2016. Panel participant that discusses broadening more transparent communication with faculty.
2015 Tsinghua University, College of Humanities, October 28, “The Chinese biographical database and culture theory.”
2013 American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, January 2-6, New Orleans, La. Panel Participant in “Presidential Panel: H-Net and the Discipline: Changes and Challenges” and Chair of panel “H-Net in Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean: Building New Online Audiences.”
2010 Keynote Speaker. Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, and Flanders Field Museum, K.U. Leuven “The Chinese Labor Corps During World War I: Prelude to Political and Cultural Activism.” Conference on Chinese Workers in the First World War, May 26-30, Boulogne-sur-mer (France) and Ypres (Belgium).
2008 Workshop Presenter. Harvard University, “Modern China and the Chinese Biographical Database.” First International Workshop on Biographical Databases for China’s History, November 21-23, Cambridge, MA.
2008 Panel Organizer. Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences Annual Meeting. 12-15 November, Portland, OR. Panel on “Faculty Recruitment in an Era of Change.”
2007 Co-Organizer. Rich Chinese History - A Symposium. April 22-24, 2007, Geiser Grand Hotel, Baker City, Oregon. This Symposium delivered a series of lectures, tours, readings, and film to understand the heritage of Chinese in Northeast Oregon. Over 40 attendees.
2006 Keynote Speaker. Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA. March 26-27. “China as a Leader in the 21st Century,” for China’s Challenges in the 21st Century Symposium.
2005 Participant. Freeman Foundation, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. Helping to develop education college guidelines for Asian educational initiatives.
2004 Jackson International School, University of Washington. Workshop for Educators. Covered East and Southeast Asia for 30 educators in a World History Workshop, funded by a Council of Conferences (AAS) outreach grant.
2004 National Consortium for Teaching About Asia Annual Symposium on Asia in the Curriculum, September, IUPUI, Indianapolis, Indiana. Presented for a Roundtable on Delivering the East Asia Seminars in Rural Areas. Also participated in an advisory council session for a pre-session and spoke about the need for pre-service teacher inclusion in the NCTA initiative.
2003 American Historical Association Annual Meeting, 3‒7 January, Chicago. Presented paper, “From Ivory Tower to Cyber Tower: Reflections on H-NET.”
2002 Invited Seminars delivered in June at the Écoles des Hautes Études in Sciences Sociales, Centre Chine (Paris) entitled: “Biographical History Revisited: Personalities, Engagement, and Leadership in Republican China,” “Online Life History and the Chinese Biographical Database,” and “Confucianism, Catholicism, and Communism: Ho Chi Minh and Ngo Dinh Diem.”
2001 Invited Lecture, National Consultation on On-line Resources for Chinese Australian Heritage and History, 18 June, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, presentation on "Using New Technologies for Pedagogy and Research Collaborations."
2001 Invited Lecture, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative Conference (ECAI), Sydney, Australia, June 12-14, “Who will Lead the Revolution? Life History and E-Scholarship: Content, Theory, and Possibilities”
2001 Distinguished Speaker, History Department, Hong Kong Baptist University. Consulted on curriculum development and library resources. Delivered day long workshop “Extending the Edge of the Teaching of Pacific Rim” (June 1st) that included three themes:
- “Teaching and Community Outreach: Making a Multimedia Presentation on the History and Culture of Vietnam”
- “Stimulating Student-based Initiatives in Teaching Crafts and Scholarships: The Chinese Biographical Database and Online Chinese History Project”
- “Teaching and Research in Asia-Pacific Studies: Retrospective and Future”
2001 Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 22 ‒25. Chair of Council of Conferences business/grants meeting. Facilitator of one-day retreat to define the mission of the Council of Conferences.
2000 Participant, National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH), September19 ‒24 Building Block workshop which was a humanities, interdisciplinary dialogue between humanists and computer scientists. This unique workshop was funded by the Getty Museum and National Science Foundation. Only Asianist selected amount 90 participants.
2000 Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Diego, March 9 ‒12. Presentations included: Poster, “Reclaiming Biography: The Case of Wang Guangqi and the Renaissance of Youth” and a Roundtable for H-ASIA “Meet the Editors”
2000 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium, and Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative Joint Meeting, University of California, Berkeley January 11‒17, organized an H-NET panel, and presentation, “H-Net: Scholarly Moderation and the Online Community.”
1998 University of Heidelberg, at the Villa Bosch, June 29‒30 participated in a planning meeting of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative. Chaired by Lewis Lancaster, University of Berkeley. My Chinese Biographical Database Web site became an affiliated project.
1998 International Convention of Asia Scholars, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, June, 25‒28 chaired Roundtable, “Changing Perceptions of the Sino‒Japanese War, 1937‒1945.” Also organized a business/recruitment meeting for the HSTCC.
1996 Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, April 11‒14, Honolulu, Hawaii, delivered poster, “Communism, Confucianism and Catholicism: Ho Chi Minh and Ngo Dinh Diem.”
1995 Historical Society for 20th Century China in North America, A Symposium: "Reassessing the Sino-Japanese War, 1937‒1945: New Sources and Interpretations.” December 17‒18, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Served as a Co-organizer, Chair, and discussant.
1995 Washington State University, World History Teachers Workshop on Southeast Asia in World History, delivered in Pullman, Wash., August 14‒16.
1994 Centennial Symposium on Sun Yat-sen's Founding of the Kuomintang for Revolution, November 20‒23, National Central Library, Taipei, delivered a paper,” [Sun Yatsen and the Chinese Guomindang in Europe].
1994 Colloque “Lyon et l’Extrême-Orient” November 17‒19, Université Jean Moulin‒Lyon III, delivered paper, “Activisme et militantisme politiques chez les étudiants chinois” for panel, “Les Lyonnais, la Connaissance de l'Asie Orientale et la Formation des Elites.”
1994 Sinologisches Seminar, der Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, November 14, delivered seminar on “Chinese Politics in France During the 1920's.”
1993 Università di Venezia, Dipartimento di Studi Indologici ed Estremo-Orientali, April 28, Venice, Italy, delivered speech, “Lost Generation, Found Generation: Americans and Chinese in Paris.”
1992 Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, October 23‒24, University of Arizona, Tucson, Az., chaired “Special Student Panel: Undergraduates Look at Asia.” First panel of this nature presented by undergraduates at a regional conference.
1991 Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, October 4‒5, University of Montana, delivered paper “Seeking Truth from Recollections: Conducting Oral History Research in the PRC.”
1990 International Exchange Conference, Lewis Clark State College, Lewiston, Idaho, October 11, chaired demonstration “Chinese Painting: An Intercultural Experience.”
1990 National Conference on “Roads Not Taken: Oppositional Politics in Twentieth Century China,” Washington and Lee University, September 20‒22, paper, “Zeng Qi and the Frozen Revolution.”
1990 33rd International Congress of Asian and North African Studies, August 19‒25,Toronto, Canada, delivered a paper “Chinese Students in France‒Pedagogy and Politics,” for a panel on Chinese Education.
1990 Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, April 5‒8, Chicago, delivered paper with Geneviève Barman, “The Lyons Incident: Ideology at the Crossroads,” for a panel on “Anarchist Discourse and Practice in Twentieth Century China.”
1988 Historical Society for Twentieth Century China in North America, Conference on “History of Democratic Movements in 20th Century China” Columbia University, May 21‒22, delivered paper, “Transcending the Barriers: Zhang Ruoming and André Gide.”
1984 Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, March 23‒27, Washington, D.C., delivered paper, “Political Strategies and Cliques: The Founding of the European Branches of the Chinese Communist Organizations, 1921‒22.”
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