<p>Impact of Overseas Chinese on the development of modern China and the environmental history of northwestern China</p>
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Email Address:
jacook@pitt.edu
Family Name:
Cook
Publications:
2014 Cook, James, Joshua Goldstein, Matthew Johnson, and Sigrid Schmalzer, eds. Visualizing Modern China: Image, History, and Memory, 1889-Present. New York: Lexington Press.
2013 “China's New Sorrow: Water-Management Policies, Environmental Degradation, and Salar-Tibetan Minority Relations in Qinghai Province,” Twentieth Century China. (Co-authored with student authors Derek Huls, Marc Janke, and Yesenia Gallardo.)
2011 “A Transnational Revolution: Sun Yatsen, Overseas Chinese, and the Revolutionary Movement in Xiamen, 1900-12,” in Sun Yat-sen, Nanyang and the 1911 Revolution, ed. Lee Lai To and Lee Hock Guan, 127-162. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
Qualifications:
PhD, University of California, San Diego, 1998
Department:
History
Region:
China, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan
Office:
4112 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Office phone number:
412-648-7372
Rank:
Adjunct Associate Professor
Staff
Biography:
<p>James Cook is currently the Associate Director of the Asian Studies Center. James was born and raised in Southeast Asia, until moving to Long Island and San Francisco in his teenage years. As an undergraduate he studied at the University of California, Santa Cruz where he wrote his thesis on China’s foreign policy in Southeast Asia. After completing his M.A. in Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego, he studied at Peking University. He completed his Ph.D. at San Diego in 1998 in East Asian history. After 13 years at Central Washington University in the Department of History and as Director of the Asian Studies Program, he joined ASC. His research interests include the impact of Overseas Chinese on the development of modern China and the environmental history of northwestern China. He works extensively in China, Singapore, Japan, and Taiwan.</p>
<p>Dr. Cook has just published a new edited collection. <em>Visualizing Modern China: Image, History, and Memory, 1789-Present</em> is a teaching textbook for both lower and upper level courses on modern Chinese history and/or modern visual culture. The introduction provides an overview of key issues in the development of visual culture in China over the last 200-300 years, while each chapter is an original scholarly study of a specific topic providing chronological coverage for that period. Topics include: Qing court ritual, peasant rebellions, folk art, modern urban media such as illustrated sports magazines and movies, Great Leap Forward film, visual commemorations of the Cultural Revolution, Overseas Chinese culture, and the Shanghai 2010 expo.</p>
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B
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