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This article discusses Xiao Tianshi 蕭天石 (1909-1986), well known for his publishing efforts in Taiwan after 1949, but less known as an officer in the Nationalist government in mainland China prior to 1949. The article delves into Xiao’s intellectual, political and religious coming of age in Nationalist China, and how his background influenced his life as a publisher in Taiwan after 1949 . The complex processes of transmission of Daoist scriptures and practices from China to Taiwan that Xiao participated in has to be understood in the wider historical context of war, displacement, Nationalist discourse, anti-superstition campaigns, and the call for national renewal in Republican China.

Our theme is official classification in Communist China. Revolutionary regimes, by definition, reclassify people, things, and events to promote their own vision and division of society and, more broadly, the world order. This, in turn, requires the regimes to construct arguments, develop procedures, train classifiers, overcome resistance and resolve other contradictions, among other things. We investigate the rationales and techniques that the Chinese Communists used to classify and reclassify people and objects at critical junctures in the Mao era. In doing so, we lay out concrete challenges and contradictions that the regime confronted and impact of the classification. Our focus on classification serves as a pathway to bridge the cultural and the social history of Chinese Communism. We address the classification of intellectuals, students, foreigners, national holidays, and publication. Eddy U’s paper offers a theoretical statement of how the intellectual went from an obscure classification of people before 1949 to highly visible persons and populations locatable virtually everywhere afterward. Yidi Wu’s paper focuses on college students in the Anti-Rightist Campaign, and investigates the classification of student political orientation. Zachary Scarlett’s paper explores the reclassification of foreign students studying in China and the recategorization of Communist holidays in the wake of the Sino-Soviet split. Lara Yang’s paper addresses the problematic communist practice of reclassifying traditional books and participating publishers and printers into socialist genres. In short, we illustrate concretely how the Chinese Communists classified society and the world in four different instances.

24 chapter edited volume on why and how to integrate fieldwork into China history research. Part of the Historical Anthropology of Chinese Society Series https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429293078 https://www.routledge.com/Fieldwork-in-Modern-Chinese-History-A-Research-Guide/DuBois-Kiely/p/book/9780367263911

JONATHAN MING-EN TANG jmtang@berkeley.edu EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Ph.D. in Modern Chinese History expected May 2019 “The Limits of Pragmatism: Ideology, Statecraft, and Early Republican China, 1911-1926” Professors Wen-hsin Yeh (Chair), Mary Elizabeth Berry, You-tien Hsing COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY M.A. in Regional Studies: East Asia, May 2006 “From Collective Institutions to Informal Association: The Changing Role of Native-place Ties in China” Professor Madeleine Zelin HARVARD UNIVERSITY B.A. in Social Studies, June 2004, Magna Cum Laude “Uniting Ideology and Practice: The Influence of Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought on PRC Education Policy, 1949-1976” EXTERNAL FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS NATIONAL CENTRAL LIBRARY (TAIWAN), CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES Research Grant for Foreign Scholars in Chinese Studies (declined), Summer 2014 FULBRIGHT-IIE FELLOWSHIP, DEPARTMENT OF STATE Dissertation research in China, February – December 2013 UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS INSTITUTE FOR EAST ASIAN STUDIES Haas Junior Scholars Program for Doctoral Candidates, 2014-2015 Li Ka-shing Fellowship in Modern Chinese History, 2009-2014 CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES Liu Graduate Student Fellowship, 2015 Republic of China East Asia Fellowship, Fall 2012 Summer Research Grant, 2011 GRADUATE DIVISION Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, 2017 Student Parent Grant Award, 2016-2017 Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, 2014-15 Student Mentoring and Research Teams grant, Summer 2012 TANG 2 TEACHING EXPERIENCE UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO ADJUNCT FACULTY APS 601, “Asia-Pacific Histories and Modernities,” Fall 2015-2018 Designed and taught seminar (formerly “Comparative Modernization and History of East Asia”) on China, Korea, and Japan for USF MAPS (Master’s of Arts in Asia-Pacific Studies) program UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY INSTRUCTOR OF RECORD History 103F: “War and State Violence in the Making of Modern China,” Spring 2016 Design and instruction of seminar concerning the military history of China from 1800-present for advanced undergraduate majors History R1B: “Ethnicity, Nationalism and History in Modern East Asia,” Spring 2014 Designed and taught writing seminar aimed at first-year non-majors GRADUATE STUDENT INSTRUCTOR Political Economy 101, “Contemporary Theories of Political Economy,” Spring 2018 Led two sections for a total of 50 students (Professor David Beecher) International Area Studies 45, “Survey of World History,” Fall 2017 Led two sections for a total of 50 students (Professor Stephanie Ballenger) History 6B, “History of China, Mongols to Mao,” Spring 2012 Led two sections for a total of 35 students (Professor Alexander Cook) History 6A, “History of China: Origins to the Mongol Conquest,” Fall 2010 Led two sections for a total of 35 students (Professor Nicolas Tackett) READER Media Studies 111 “Media History,” Fall 2018 One of three graders for a lecture class of 120 students (Professor Matthew Berry) History 116D “Twentieth-Century China,” Fall 2011 Sole grader for a lecture class of 56 students (Professor Brooks Jessup) History 117A, “Chinese Popular Culture,” Spring 2011 Sole grader for a lecture class of 30 students (Professor David Johnson) ADVANCED RESEARCH TRAINING UC Berkeley Summer Institute for Preparing Future Faculty, Berkeley, CA, Summer 2015 UC Berkeley-Academia Sinica Winter Institute, Taipei, Taiwan Institute of Taiwanese History / Institute of Ethnology, January 2013 TANG 3 Institute of Modern History, Taipei, Taiwan, January 2011 Institute of History and Philology, Taipei, Taiwan, January 2010 RECENT PRESENTATIONS “Power, Transformation, and Loyalty in Early Republican Hunan” Annual Meeting of Association for Asian Studies, Seattle, WA, March 2016 “Provincial and Local Governance in Early Republican Hunan” The Secret and The Sacred: The State and Its Alternatives in Chinese Societies Interdisciplinary Conference, Berkeley, CA, March 2016 “Law, Morality, and History: Li Jiannong and the Hunan Provincial Constitution Movement, 1920-1925” Haas Junior Scholars Conference, Berkeley, CA, November 2015 “Values, Laws, and Constitutions: Wang Zhengting, Zhang Shizhao, and the Early Republican Period of Modern Chinese History” Doctoral Workshop, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, January 2015 “The Birth of A Republic” Guest Lecture for “History 148B: Modern Chinese History,” (Instructor: Matthew Berry), Sacramento State University, Sacramento, CA, February 2015 “The Art of Governing (and not Governing) Hunan in the Early Republic” University of San Francisco China Research Group, San Francisco, CA, May 2014 Annual Meeting of Association for Asian Studies, Philadelphia, PA, March 2014 “Explicitly Using Sources to Create a New History: Tan Yankai, Zhao Hengti, and The November 1920 Pingjiang Mutiny in Hunan” Junior Scholars Conference on China in the 20th Century, Beijing, China, June 2013 ACADEMIC SERVICE PANEL CO-ORGANIZER, “Under-Stated Leadership: Elite Networks in 20th Century East Asia” “Conceptualizing Modernity: Technologies of Knowledge and Discourse in East Asia,” Haas Junior Scholars Conference, Berkeley, CA, November 2015 PANEL ORGANIZER, “Networked Governance in Republican and Contemporary China” Annual Meeting of Association for Asian Studies, Philadelphia, PA, March 2014 CONFERENCE CO-ORGANIZER, Junior Scholars Conference on China in the 20th Century, Beijing, China, June 2013 LANGUAGES English (Native) Mandarin Chinese (Excellent), Japanese (Basic Reading), French (Basic) TANG 4 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE CHEUNG KONG GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, BEIJING CHINA, 2007-2009 GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT MARKETING MANAGER Part of small team tasked to raising international profile of private, not-for-profit, Beijing-based business school. Controlled advertising budget (online and print media), produced marketing materials (brochures), supervised relationships with English-language media, directed events (public lectures and panels), managed exchanges with partner institutions. External communications in English, internal in Mandarin Chinese. REFERENCES Wen-hsin Yeh, Morrison Professor of History, UC Berkeley Department of History 3229 Dwinelle Hall University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 sha@berkeley.edu (510) 642-2437 You-tien Hsing, Professor and Pamela P. Fong Chair in Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley Department of Geography 545 McCone Hall University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 yhsing@berkeley.edu (510) 642-3903 John Nelson, Professor, University of San Francisco Department of Theology and Religious Studies Academic Director, MA in Asia Pacific Studies University of San Francisco San Francisco, CA 94117 nelsonj@usfca.edu (415) 422-6515

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