Chinese Historians in the United States
Brief Introduction: 这是一个上海老城厢张氏家族后代寻根的叙事。她试图在家族史的脉络里，重新定义“老上海”，去填补本土老上海在上海历史记忆中的缺位，为海纳百川，有容乃大的上海城市品格提供一个鲜活的样本。
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Speaker Profile:
单富良（Patrick Fuliang Shan），加拿大麦克马斯特大学历史学博士，美国格兰谷州立大学（大峡谷州立大学）历史教授。1992年来美，曾任教于北卡州大、圣奥古斯丁大学。2002年至今在格兰谷州立大学担任历史教授，讲授中国历史、东亚历史、及世界历史。近四十年中，发表过数十篇学术论文。英文专著包括《征服北大荒：黑龙江边疆社会研究》（Taming China’s Wilderness: Immigration, Settlement, and the Shaping of the Heilongjiang Frontier, 1900-1931, Routledge, 2014 ），《袁世凯新论》（Yuan Shikai: A Reappraisal, UBC Press, 2018），和《李大钊：中国的第一位共产主义者》(Li Dazhao: China’s First Communist, SUNY Press, 2024）。 2009-2011年担任中国留美历史学会会长，2011-2014年任美国二十世纪中国历史学会理事，2011-2022年为《美国中国学刊》副主编, 2013-2016年任格兰谷州立大学东亚研究项目主任。
The shift from doctoral studies to faculty roles brings challenges, such as developing course materials, balancing research and teaching demands, and adapting pedagogical approaches to different institutional cultures. To address these common concerns, CHUS (Chinese Historians in the United States) invites you to join an online discussion with three outstanding early-career scholars.
Our speakers include Dr. Kyungsun Lee (Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Arkansas at Little Rock), Dr. Bess Xintong Liu (Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, Kenyon College), and Dr. Yidi Wu (Assistant Professor of History, Elon University). They will share their experiences and discuss practical solutions to common challenges faced by new faculty members across different institutional settings. Whether you’re preparing for the academic job market or just starting your first teaching position, this event will offer practical perspectives and specific strategies for building a successful academic career.
Sincerely,
Dr. Yi Ren
Our speakers:
Dr. Kyungsun Lee is an Assistant Professor of Geography in the Department of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. As an interdisciplinary environmental social scientist, Dr. Lee’s research focuses on investigating the governance of socio-technical systems for urban water sustainability transitions. Dr. Lee teaches courses in human geography, environmental history, and environmental justice and has a strong interest in integrating sustainability across the curriculum. Before joining the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, she was a Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and a Postdoctoral Researcher at Texas A&M University. Dr. Lee earned her Ph.D. in Environmental and Natural Resources Policy from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, as well as a master’s degree in the History of Science and a bachelor’s degree in Chemical and Biological Engineering, both from Seoul National University.
Bess Xintong Liu is currently the Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Kenyon College. She graduated from the musicological doctoral program at the University of Pennsylvania in 2023. Her primary research interest lies in musical exchange between China and the West in the twentieth century. Her dissertation titled “Resonant China: Transnational Music-making and the Construction of the Public, 1934-1958” explores music circles originated in Shanghai but expanded globally. Besides her commitment as a music historian, she is also a pianist, vocalist, translator, and a Chinese chamber music director.
Dr. Yidi Wu is the O’Briant Developing Professor and Assistant Professor of History at Elon University in North Carolina. Yidi teaches China, East Asia, world history, and occasionally Argentine tango. She practices and promotes historical role-playing games and ungrading in teaching. Her first book focuses on Chinese student activism in 1957. Her second book project investigates the transformation of Chinese higher education in the early 1950s. She is also developing a role-playing game based on the dialogues between student activists and government officials in 1989. She has served as the book review editor for PRC History Review from 2018 to 2024.
李娜，新加坡国立大学历史学系副教授，《公众史学》主编，主要研究领域是公众史学和城市历史保护，致力于公众史学在亚洲的建设与发展。专著包括：Kensington Market: Collective Memory, Public History and Toronto’s Urban Landscape, University of Toronto Press, 2015;《集体记忆、公众史学与城市景观》，上海三联书店，2017年；《公众史学研究入门》，北京大学出版社，2019年；Seeing History: Public History in China, De Gruyter, 2023。
陈新，弗吉尼亚大学 (University of Virginia) 访问教授。