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List of Publications

Socioeconomic history of late imperial China, sociopolitical history of Republican China, urban history of China, local history of the Lower Yangzi Region, and history of the global Chinese diaspora

Zhongping Chen was born and grew up in China. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Nanjing University, and then taught at Nanjing Normal University. His field and documentary research on the Lower Yangzi cities and towns won the Social Science Award for Young Scholars from the State Commission for Education of China in 1987.

With a degree fellowship from the East-West Center at Honolulu, he studied at the University of Hawaii, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1998. From 1999 to 2001, he taught premodern and modern Chinese history, premodern and modern East Asian history, the history of the Asian diaspora, and the diplomatic history of the People's Republic of China at McGill University in Montreal. Subsequently he taught modern Chinese history and world history at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. He joined the History Department at the University of Victoria in 2002.

Books

Modern China's Network Revolution: Chambers of Commerce and Sociopolitical Change in the Early Twentieth Century. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011.

爱国清官于谦 (Yu Qian: A National Hero and Upright Official in Ming China). 杭州 (Hangzhou): 浙江古籍出版社 (Zhejiang Classic Press), 2007.

江南区域史论著目录, 1900-2000 (A bibliography of papers and books on the history of the Lower Yangzi region, 1900-2000). 北京 (Beijing): 北京图书馆出版社 (Beijing Library Press), 2007 (co-edited with 唐力行 et al).

Articles

"The May Fourth Movement and Provincial Warlords: A Reesamination." Modern China (Los Angeles), 37. 2 (2011): 135-69.

“Beneath the Republican Revolution, Beyond the Revolutionary Politics: Elite Associations and Social Transformation in Lower Yangzi Towns, 1903-1912.” Late Imperial China (Baltimore), 28. 1 (2007): 92-127.

"Building the Chinese Diaspora across Canadian Towns and Small Cities: Chinese Diasporic Discourse and the Case of Peterborough, Ontario." Diaspora (Toronto), 13. 2-3 (2004): 185-210.

"Chinese Familism and Immigration Experience in Canadian Towns and Small Cities: From Dual Paradigms on the Chinese in Canada to a Cross-Cultural Study of the Case of Peterborough, Ontario, 1892-1951," Asian Profile (Vancouver), 32. 4 (2004): 289-312.

"Chinese Minority and Everyday Racism in Canadian Towns and Small Cities: An Ethnic Study of the Case of Peterborough, Ontario, 1892-1951," Canadian Ethnic Studies (Calgary), 36. 1 (2004): 71-91.

"The Quest for Elite Dominance, Associational Autonomy and Public Representation: The Lower Yangzi Chambers of Commerce in the 1911 Revolution." Twentieth-Century China (Ann Arbor), 27.2 (2002): 41-77.

"The Origins of Chinese Chambers of Commerce in the Lower Yangzi Region." Modern China (Los Angeles), 27. 2 (2001): 155-201.