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Peter J. Carroll
Social and cultural history of 19th and 20th century China
Office: 1800 Sherman #403
Phone: 847-491-2753
E-mail: p-carroll
northwestern.edu
Peter J. Carroll (PhD Yale, 1998) specializes in the social and cultural history of 19th and 20th century China. His research interests include urban history, Chinese modernism, popular and material culture, gender/sexuality, and nationalism. A two-time Fulbright recipient, he has also held fellowships with the Project on Cities and Urban Knowledges, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University; the Library of Congress’s John W. Kluge Center; and the Centers for Chinese Studies at the National Central Library, Taibei, Taiwan, and at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition, he has been a visiting scholar at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica. He is the author of Between Heaven and Modernity: Reconstructing Suzhou, 1895-1937 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), which was awarded the Best Book (Non-North American) 2007 prize by the Urban History Association, and several scholarly articles. He is currently working on a book project on suicide and ideas of modern society in China during the first half of the 20th century.
Courses Taught at NU
Undergraduate Courses
| Gender Studies | 381 | Gender, Nation and Self in 20th c. China |
| History | 103 | Nation and Nationalism in China and Tibet |
| 281 | Chinese Civilization | |
| 381-1 | Qing China | |
| 381-2 | 20th c. China | |
| 391 | China in Reform | |
| 392/95 | Engendering Modern China | |
| 392 | Sex and Gender in Revolution: 20th c. China | |
| 398 | History Department Senior Seminar | |
| Humanities | 392 | Cities as Modern Utopia/Dystopia in Europe, Asia, and the Americas |
Graduate Courses
| History | 405 | Historical approaches to "The" Modern Global City |
| 499 | Social and cultural Issues in Liao, Jin, Song and Yuan History | |
| Nationalism and Revolution in 20th c. China | ||
| Post-Colonial Histories of East and South Asia | ||
| 20th c. China: Recent Historiographic Trends | ||
| Chinese-Taiwanese Relations and the Question of Nationalism | ||
| Systems of Gender in Late Imperial and Modern China | ||
| China and Japan in the Republican Period | ||
| 570 | Research seminar for first-year graduate students |
For more on Between Heaven and Modernity, see:
https://www.sup.org/book.cgi?isbn=0804753598
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