Professor

Louis Cha Chair of Chinese Research

Institute of Asian Research ( www.iar.ubc.ca )

Editor, Pacific Affairs ( pacificaffairs.ubc.ca )

Ph.D., History and East Asian Languages, Harvard University

M.A. (History), The University of Virginia

B.A.-Asian Studies, Honours, Australian National University

Research Interests

Modern China, particularly China’s intellectuals and Chinese Communist Party history. Current projects include contemporary Chinese intellectuals and Chinese thought, writings of Mao Zedong (Yan’an period), and Chinese historiography.

Teaching

Modern Chinese history

Chinese Politics and Society

Chinese Thought and Ideology

Comparative History and Historiography

History and Literature

East Asian History

Conference Organizing

“Public Intellectuals and Modern China”, an international conference at East China Normal University, Shanghai, co-sponsored by The Institute of Asian Research, UBC and ECNU (Professor Xu Jilin), December 13-16, 2002.

“What Are China’s Intellectuals To Do?”, an Institute of Asian Research Workshop, UBC, November 22-23, 2002

“China’s Intellectuals and Social Power in the 21^st Century”, an international workshop (co-organized with Zhang Xudong and Jiang Hong), Colorado College, October 26-28, 2001.

“Visions of the 21^st Century: A Chinese-American Dialog,” Colorado College, May 24-28, 1998.

“SUBJECTALITY: Li Zehou and his Critical Analysis of Chinese Thought,” Colorado College, Oct. 12, 1996.

ASDP/NEH Teaching Workshop on “Confucianism and Chinese Culture” (co-directed with Roger Ames), The Colorado College, March 1996.

"Construction of the Party-State and State Socialism in China, 1936-65," an National Endowment for the Humanities Research Conference, held at Colorado College, May 31 - June 5, 1993.

"China's Political Process in Comparative Perspective: The Changing Propaganda System," School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C., November 21-22, 1991.

Grants

National Endowment for the Humanities, 2001-2002, for work as associate editor on vol. 8 of Stuart R. Schram’s series, Mao’s Road to Power.

Freeman Foundation, VT, 2001-2003. Three-year grant to Colorado College to run a semester program, “Biology in Chinese Society” (co-director with Professor Ralph Bertrand, Biology Department).

National Endowment for the Humanities, Workshop Grant for "Confucianism and Chinese Culture," held at Colorado College, March 1996. [co-directed by Roger Ames, Asian Studies Development Program, Hawai’i]

National Endowment for the Humanities, Conference Grant for "Construction of the Party-State and State Socialism in China, 1936-1965," held at Colorado College, June 1993.

National Endowment for the Humanities, Collaborative Research Grant for "Keywords of the Chinese Revolution" (three year project with director, Jeffrey Wasserstrom)., 1992-96.

Fellowship in Chinese Studies, American Council of Learned Societies, for post-doctoral research, 1987-88.

Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, for dissertation writing, 1985-86.

China Fellowship, Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China, 1982-83.

Administrative Positions & Memberships

Editor, Pacific Affairs, 2002-

Member, Editorial Board of the Publications Committee, Association for Asian Studies, 1996-

Editorial Board, China Information, 1998 -

Member, Board of Directors, ASIANetwork, April 1995- April 1998

Member, the National Committee on US-China Relations, 1995-2002.

Member, Association for Asian Studies; American Historical Association (1978- present).

Editor, CCP Research Newsletter, 1988 -1994.

Publications and Papers

Books

Mao Zedong and China's Revolutions: A Brief History with Documents (Boston: Bedford Books, 2002).

Small Well Lane: A Drama and History, by Li Longyun, co-translated and co-edited with Jiang Hong (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002)

Market Economics and Political Change: Comparing China and Mexico, edited with Juan Lindau (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998)

Propaganda and Culture in Mao’s China: Deng Tuo and the Intelligentsia (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)

New Perspectives on State Socialism in China, edited with Tony Saich (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1997)

The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao: From the Hundred Flowers to the Great Leap Forward, edited with Roderick MacFarquhar & Eugene Wu (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Council on East Asian Studies, Contemporary China Series, No. 6, 1989). [Japanese translation: Tokyo, 1992]

China's Intellectuals and the State: In Search of a New Relationship, edited with Merle Goldman & Carol Hamrin (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard Council on East Asian Studies, Contemporary China Series, No. 3, 1987).

China's Establishment Intellectuals, edited with Carol Hamrin (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1986).

Articles and Book Chapters

“Beyond Exceptionalism: China’s Intellectuals and America from Heroes to Allies,” in Timothy Weston and Lionel Jensen, eds., China Beyond the Headlines (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000), 121-45.

“A Cross-Cultural Conversation on Li Zehou’s Ideas on Subjectivity and Aesthetics in Modern Chinese Thought,” guest editor’s introduction to a special issue of Philosophy East & West, 92:2 (April 1999).

“From Market to Democracy in China: Gaps in the Civil Society Model,” in Lindau & Cheek, eds., Market Economics & Political Change: Comparing China and Mexico (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998), pp. 219-54.

“The Names of Rectification: Notes on the Conceptual Domains of CCP Ideology in the Yan’an Rectification Movement,” Indiana East Asian Working Paper Series on Language and Politics in Modern China (1996).

“Open and Closed Media: External and Internal Newspapers in the Propaganda System” with Ching-chang Hsiao, in Carol Lee Hamrin and Suisheng Zhao, eds., Decision-Making in Deng’s China: Perspectives form Insiders (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1995), pp. 76-90.

"The Honorable Vocation: Intellectual Service in CCP Propaganda Institutions in Jin Cha Ji, 1937-45," in Tony Saich and Hans van de Ven, eds., New Perspectives on the Chinese Communist Revolution (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1995), pp. 235-262.

“Introduction: The Trial” (with David Apter) in, Dai Qing, Wang Shiwei and “Wild Lilies”: Rectification and Purges in the Chinese Communist Party, 1942-1944 (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1994), pp. xvii-xxxi.

“Revolution, Evolution, and Continuity,” in Robert E. Murowchick, ed., Cradles of Civilization: China—Ancient Culture, Modern Land (Sydney: Weldon Russell, 1994), pp. 164-75.

"From Priests to Professionals: Intellectuals and the State under the CCP," in Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Elizabeth Perry, eds., Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China: Lessons from 1989 (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992: 124-45; 2nd ed. 1994: 184-205).

"A Literature of Protest, A Literature of Change: On the Role of Directed Culture in Chinese Literature," Issues & Studies, vol. 28:3 (March 1992), pp. 60-75.

Historical Dictionary entries: "Shen-Kan-Ning Border Region," "Chin-Ch'a-Chi Border Region," "Yenan Period," "Eighth Route Army," and "Nineteenth Route Army," for Edwin Pak-wah Leung, ed., Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Revolution (Greenwich, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991).

"A Guide to Material on the Chinese Communist Movement: Zhang Zhuhong's Historiography of China's Modern Revolutionary History--Editors' Introduction" (with Tony Saich), Chinese Studies in History, Vol. 23: 4 (Summer 1990), pp. 3-17.

"Decline and Fall of the Chinese Revolution" (a review essay), Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 24: 2 (May 1990), pp. 409-414.

"Studying Deng Tuo," Republican China (April, 1990), pp. 1-16.

"Redefining Propaganda: Debates on the Role of Journalism in Post-Mao China," in King-yuh Chang, ed., Mainland China After the Thirteenth Party Congress (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990) [previously published in Issues & Studies, 1989].

"Nishigawa no kanten kara mita To Taku--gendai chugoku chishikijin, kokyu kambu mondai ni tsuite" [Deng Tuo Viewed from the West--On Contemporary Chinese Intellectuals and High Cadres], Chugoku kenkyu geppo [Studies on China Monthly] (Tokyo, China Research Institute), No. 493 (March 1989), pp. 1-16. [paper originally delivered as Cong xifang guandian kan Deng Tuo (1986), see "Papers" below.]

"Habits of the Heart: Intellectual Assumptions Reflected by Chinese Reformers from Deng Tuo to Fang Lizhi," in Shao-chuan Leng, ed., Changes in China: Party, State, and Society (New York: University Press of America, 1989) pp. 117-143 [previously published in Issues & Studies, 1988].

"The 'Genius' Mao: A Treasure Trove of 23 Newly Available Volumes of Post-1949 Mao Zedong Texts," The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, Nos. 19/20 (1988), pp. 311-44.

"Deng Tuo: A Chinese Leninist Approach to Journalism," in Hamrin and Cheek, China's Establishment Intellectuals (1986), pp. 92-123.

Tang Xiaofeng and Qi Mushi [Timothy Cheek], "Sifang zhiji yishu de jianjie " [A Brief Introduction to The Pivot of the Four Quarters], Zhongguo shi yanjiu dongtai [Trends in Chinese History Research] (Beijing), 1984:2, pp. 27-30.

"The Politics of Cultural Reform: Deng Tuo and the Retooling of Chinese Marxism--Editor's Introduction," Chinese Law and Government, Vol. XVI:4 (Winter 1983-84), pp. 3-30. [guest editor and translator]

"The Fading of Wild Lilies: Wang Shiwei and Mao Zedong's Yan'an Talks In The First CPC Rectification Movement," The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, No. 11 (January 1984), pp. 25-58.

"Deng Tuo: Culture, Leninism and Alternative Marxism in the Chinese Communist Party," The China Quarterly, No. 87 (September 1981), pp. 470-491.

Papers & Presentations (selected)

“Contemporary Chinese Historians as Public Intellectuals” a paper for the “China’s Intellectuals and Social Power in the 21^st Century” workshop, Colorado College, October 27, 2001.

“Xu Jilin and the ‘Sinification of Liberalism’: Popular Historical Essays in Contemporary China” given at the Workshop on Contemporary Chinese Intellectuals, Fairbank Center, Harvard, June 29, 2001.

“Contemporary China: Confucianism, Communism, and Capitalism,” keynote invited address for the Colorado Council of International Organizations, Denver University, October 18, 1996.

“The Rectified Party as a ‘Charismatic Impersonal Institution’ in Yan’an,” for the panel “Changing Concepts of ‘dang’: Party and Polity in China’s 20th Century Revolution,” Association for Asian Studies, April 12, 1996.

“Savants and Servants: Party Propaganda on the Role of Intellectuals in the Chinese Revolution,” American Historical Association annual meeting, January 4-8, 1996.

"Propagating the Orthodoxy and Transforming the People: Keywords in Revolutionary Culture, Education and Propaganda in 20th Century China," for the panel, "Keywords in 20th Century China," Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, March 1991.

"Studying History: Reintroducing Historiography in the Liberal Arts Curriculum," with Carol Neel for the conference, "Core Across the Curriculum," October 7, 1990 at Keystone Colorado.

"Cong xifang guandian kan Deng Tuo: guanyu xiandai Zhongguo de gaogan zhishifenzi wenti" [Deng Tuo viewed from the West: the problem of establishment intellectuals in contemporary China], paper delivered at "The Symposium on Deng Tuo's Academic Thought," Fuzhou, Fujian, May 13, 1986.

"Contracts and Ideological Control in Village Administration: Tensions in the 'Village Covenant' (xiangyue) System in Late Imperial China," 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Wash., D.C., March 23, 1984.

Teaching Publications

“Teaching Comparative Philosophy in the Liberal Arts as an Historian,” ASIANetwork Exchange, IX:2 (Winter 2001), pp. 14-7.

“Four Ways to Use Literature in Chinese History Courses,” Education About Asia, VI:1 (Spring 2001), 46-7.

“Books That Help Student Unlearn,” ASIANetwork Exchange, VII:3 (Spring 2000), 18-20.

Text Editing

Mao Zedong’s Road to Power, vol. 8, associate editor on this volume (1942-45.7) of the definitive English edition of Mao’s pre-49 works. Stuart R. Scharm, ed. (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, est. 2003).

Dai Qing, Wang Shiwei and “Wild Lilies”: Rectification and Purges in the Chinese Communist Party, 1942-1944 (with David Apter) (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1994)

Zhang Zhuhong, Historiography of China's Modern Revolutionary History--Editors' Introduction" (with Tony Saich), Chinese Studies in History, Vol. 23: 4 (Summer 1990) & Chinese Sociology and Anthropology (1990).

Yang Zhongmei, Hu Yaobang: A Chinese Biography (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1988)

Languages

Mandarin Chinese, spoken and written for translating.

Classical Chinese, for research.

Japanese, reading for research.

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