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Jan KIELY

Kiely 2020

Professor/ Director

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Academic Background

PhD History (East Asia/China), University of California at Berkeley

MA History (East Asia), University of Hawaii at Manoa

BA East Asian Studies, Yale University

Research Interest

  • 20th century Chinese history
  • Legal and penal history
  • History of thought reform and internal security systems
  • Religion in history
  • Local social histories of war

Recent GRF Grant Project

  • The Transformation of Local Religion in Rural Central China under Maoism, 1949-1976

Courses Offered

CCSS1001 China's Cultural Past
CCSS1005 Modern China
CCSS2150 War and Revolution in China
CCSS3030 China under Mao
CCSS3103 Guided Fieldwork in China
CCSS3104 China Internship Experience
CCSS3111 Humanities Research on China
CCSS4520 Capstone Research Paper
CHES2100 The Cultural Revolution
CHES6010 China Seminar I
CHES6020 China Seminar II

Other Positions Held

  • Associate Editor, Twentieth Century China
  • Associate Director, Universities Service Centre for China Studies, CUHK

Selected Publications

2019 Fieldwork in Modern Chinese History: A Research Guide. Co-edited with Thomas David DuBois, (Routledge 2019), including Professor Kiely's chapter, "Exploring a northern Jiangsu county Intangible Cultural Heritage archive."
2017 “The Charismatic Monk and the Chanting Masses: Master Yinguang and his Pure Land Revival Movement,” in Making Saints in Modern China, ed. by David Ownby, Vincent Goossaert, and Ji Zhe. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
2016          Recovering Buddhism in Modern China. Co-edited with J. Brooks Jessup, (Columbia University Press 2016), including Professor Kiely's chapter, "The Communist Dismantling of Temple and Monastic Buddhism in Suzhou."
2015 楊凱里著，陳亭佑譯（2015)。〈在菁英弟子與念佛大眾之間——民國時期印光法師淨土運動的社會緊張〉。載康豹、高萬桑主編，《改變中國宗教的五十年︰1898-1948》(頁363-397)。臺灣︰中央研究院近代史研究所。
2015 Modern Chinese Religion II: 1850 - 2015 (2 vols). Leiden and Boston: Brill. Co-edited with Vincent Goossaert and John Lagerwey.
2014 The Compelling Ideal: Thought Reform and the Prison in China, 1901-1956. New Haven: Yale University Press.
2013 "Dangerous Cities: Judicial Authorities, Criminologists, and the Perception of Crime Zones in 1920s and 1930s China," in New Narratives of Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities: Emerging Social, Legal, and Governance Orders, ed. Billy K.L. So and Madeleine Zelin. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
2011 "Shanghai Public Moralist Nie Qijie and Morality Book Publication Projects in Republican China," Twentieth Century China, Vol. 36, No. 1 (January 2011).
2010 "Spreading the Dharma with the Mechanized Press: New Buddhist Print Cultures in the Modern Chinese Print Revolution, 1865-1949," in From Woodblocks to the Internet: Chinese Publishing and Print Culture in Transition, 1800-2008, ed. Christopher Reed and Cynthia Brokaw. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
2004 "Performances of Resistance: Communist Hunger Strikes and Demonstrations in Nationalist Prisons, 1928–1937," Twentieth Century China, Vol. 29, No. 2 (April 2004).
1995 "Third Force Periodicals in China, 1928-1949: Introduction and Annotated Bibliography," Republican China, Vol. XXI, No. 1 (November 1995).
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