Wen-hsin Yeh CV - Department of History, UC Berkeley - University ...

CURRICULUM VITAE
WEN-HSIN YEH
Richard H. and Laurie C. Morrison Chair Professor in History
Senior Faculty China Adviser to the Chancellor & the Executive Vice Chancellor and
Provost
Professional Experience
Senior Faculty China Adviser to the Chancellor & the Executive Vice Chancellor and
Provost, July 2012 – Present
Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley
Director, January 2007-June 2013
Walter & Elise Haas Professor in Asian Studies, 2009-2013
National Resource Center, East Asia, UC Berkeley, US Department of Education
Director, 2007-2013
Department of History, University of California at Berkeley
Assistant Professor, 1987-1992; Associate Professor, 1992-1996; Professor, 1996-present;
Richard H. and Laurie C. Morrison Chair Professor in History, 2005-present
Center for Chinese Studies, University of California at Berkeley
Chair, 1994-2000
Cross-Currents: East Asian Review of Culture and History
Co-Editor, 2011-present
Honorary Research Professor, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai, China
Visiting Professor, Department of History, Peking University, Beijing, China
Honorary Research Professor, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China
Fellowships and Grants
Center for Chinese Studies Faculty Research Grant, UC Berkeley, 2013-2014
Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2012-2013
American Council of Learned Societies, Senior Scholar Fellowship, 2004-2005
Freeman Foundation Grant, 2003-2004
President’s Humanities Research Fellowship, University of California, 1998-1999
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Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Senior Scholar Research Fellowship, 1998-1999
Chancellor’s Humanities Research Award, UC Berkeley, fall 1998
National Fellow, Hoover Institution, 1993-1994
Chancellor’s Humanities Research Award, UC Berkeley, 1992-1993
President’s Humanities Research Fellowship, University of California, 1989-1990
Committee on Scholarly Communications with People’s Republic of China, 1988-1989
Humanities Research Fellow, Townsend Center, UC Berkeley, 1988-1989
Regent’s Junior Faculty Research Fellow, University of California, 1986-1987
Chancellor’s Post-Doctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley, 1986-1987
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center, Harvard University, 1985-1986
Mellon Fellow in Chinese Studies, ACLS, 1984-1985
Principal Investigator
1. Director, “New Approaches to East Asian Studies,” Top University Strategic Alliance in
Republic of China, Ministry of Education, 2011-2013.
2. Director, “After EFCA: An Interdisciplinary Selection of Cross-Strait Concerns,”
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan, 2011-2013.
3. Co-Director, Trans-Pacific Chinese Historical Research Council, Academia Sinica and
UC Berkeley 2010-2013.
4. Director, “Formative Dialectics: New Perspectives on Cross-Strait Relationships,”
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan, 2008-2010.
5. Organizer and Director, Projects on Modern Korean Studies, Academy of Korean Studies,
2008-2012.
6. Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships, US Department of Education, 2007-
2010, 2010-2013.
7. Director, Li Ka-shing Foundation Program on Modern Chinese History at Berkeley,
2007-2017
8. Co-Principal Investigator, “The Future of China Studies: A Proposal to Support the
Berkeley China Initiative,” Luce Foundation, 2007-2010
9. “Visual Documentation in Modern Chinese History,” France-Berkeley Fund, 2005-2006.
10. "Historical Shanghai in Electronic Images," the France-Berkeley Fund, 2000-2001.
11. “Research Group on Twentieth-Century China,” the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation.
1995-2005.
12. “China in the First Half of the 20 th Century,” the ACLS and the Academia Sinica, 1993-
2000.
13. "East Asian Capitalisms," Wang Family Foundation, 1999-2001.
14. “U.S. Committee on U.S. – Taiwan Scientific Cooperation under the National Academy
of Sciences, 1960s – 1980s.” Academia Sinica, 1996-1998.
Education
B.A., History, National Taiwan University.
M.A., History, University of Southern California.
Ph.D., History, University of California, Berkeley, 1984
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Books
Shanghai Splendor: Economic Sentiments and the Making of Modern China.
University of California Press, 2007.
Chinese edition Shanghai fanhua (Taipei: shibao chuban she, 2010).
Provincial Passages: Culture, Space, and the Origins of Chinese Communism.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996.
Winner of Berkeley Prize
The Alienated Academy: Culture and Politics in Republican China, 1919-1937.
Council on East Asian Publications, Harvard University, 1990. Paperback edition
2000.
Chinese edition Minguo shiqi daxue xiaoyuan wenhua (Beijing: Zhongguo renmin
daxue chuban she, 2012).
Edited Volumes
Mobile Subjects: Boundaries and Identities in the Modern Korean Diaspora.
Institute of East Asian Studies Publications, University of California, Berkeley, 2013.
Mobile Horizon: Dynamics across the Taiwan Strait. Institute of East Asian
Studies Publications, University of California, Berkeley, 2013.
History in Images: Pictures and Public Space in Modern China. Co-editor (with
Christian Henriot). Institute of East Asian Studies Publications, University of
California, Berkeley, 2012.
Visualising China, 1845-1965: Moving and Still Images in Historical Narratives.
Co-editor (with Christian Henriot). Brill, 2012.
Cities in Motion. Co-editor (with Sherman Cochran & David Strand). Institute of
East Studies Publications, University of California, Berkeley, 2007.
Empire, Nation, and Beyond: Late Imperial and Modern China, Co-editor (with
Joseph Esherick & Madeleine Zelin). Institute of East Asian Studies Publications,
University of California, Berkeley, 2006.
In the Shadow of the Rising Sun, Co-editor (with Christian Henriot). Cambridge
University Press, 2005.
Shanghai bainian fenghua [Shanghai Glamour]. Taipei: Yaosheng chuban she, 2001.
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Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2000.
Cross-Cultural Readings of Chineseness: Narratives, Images, and
Interpretations of the 1990s. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies Publications,
University of California at Berkeley, 1999.
Landscape, Culture, and Space in Chinese Society. Berkeley: Institute of East
Asian Studies Publications, University of California at Berkeley, 1998.
Wartime Shanghai. London: Routledge, 1998.
Yan Fu heji [Collected works of Yan Fu], 12 volumes. Co-editor (with Li Zaijue &
Wang Qingcheng). Taipei: Lianjing, 1998.
Shanghai Sojourners, Co-editor (with Frederic Wakeman, Jr.). Institute of East
Asian Studies Publications, University of California, Berkeley, 1992.
Courses
1. People and Politics in Beijing and Shanghai, 1900-1950 (Freshman reading seminar)
2. Emperors of China (Freshman reading seminar)
3. Historical China in Films (Freshman reading seminar)
4. From Steppes to Ocean: Chinese History from the Mongols to the Communists (Lowerdivision
lecture)
5. Modern East Asia (senior research seminar)
6. Elite Culture and Society in Ming-Qing China (senior reading seminar)
7. Urban History of Shanghai (senior reading seminar)
8. Modern Chinese Nationalism (senior reading seminar)
9. Shanghai and Chinese Modernity (senior reading seminar)
10. Late Imperial and Modern Chinese Cities (senior reading seminar)
11. Leaders and Citizens in 20 th -Century China (senior reading seminar)
12. Mao in History (senior reading seminar)
13. History of China: Introduction (lower-division lecture course)
14. Maritime China: Coastal Mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong from 1800 to the Present (upper
division lecture course)
15. Shanghai (upper division lecture course)
16. Late Imperial and Modern China (upper-division lecture course)
17. Modern China: from the Opium War to the Present (upper-division lecture course)
18. 20 th -Century China: Wealth, Power and Discontents (upper-division lecture course)
19. China 1600-1900 (upper-division lecture course)
20. Twentieth-Century China: Wealth, Power and Discontent (upper-division lecture course)
21. Twentieth-Century China: Nation, City and Identity (upper-division lecture course)
22. Weberian Sociology and the Writing of Late Imperial and Modern Chinese History (graduate
reading seminar)
23. Social Science Theories and the Writing of Modern Chinese History (graduate reading
seminar)
24. China in the 20 th Century (graduate reading seminar)
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25. 20 th -Century China: Cultural Politics and Intellectual Criticism (graduate reading seminar)
26. Archives and Historiography in the Study of Modern China (graduate reading seminar)
27. History and Ethnographic Imagination: China in the 20 th Century (graduate reading seminar)
28. Culture, Economy, and the Shaping of the Chinese World Order (graduate reading seminar)
29. Governing China in Late Imperial and Modern Times (graduate reading seminar)
30. Modern Chinese Publishing Industry and the Politics of Reading (graduate research seminar)
31. Modern Chinese Nationalism (graduate research seminar)
32. Topics in Late Imperial and Modern Chinese History (graduate research seminar)
33. Social Science Theories and the Writing of Late Imperial and Modern Chinese History
(graduate research seminar)
34. Boundaries, Nationalities, and the Making of China (graduate research seminar)
35. Late Imperial and Modern China: Guide to Historical Documents in Chinese (graduate
reading and research seminar)
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