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Paul Pickowicz

Vita

Publications

Current Research

Courses

 

Vita

Paul Pickowicz has been teaching for the History Department at UCSD since 1973. He received his B.S. in history from the Springfield College in 1967, and Ph.D. in history from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1973. He specializes in twentieth century Chinese history, rural studies, and popular culture.

Professor Pickowicz will be on leave Fall Quarter 2004.

Publications

  • Popular China: Unofficial Culture in a Globalizing Society. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002 (co-edited with Perry Link and Richard Madsen).
  • New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Pres, 1994 (co-edited with Nick Browne, Vivian Sobchack and Esther Yau).
  • Chinese Village, Socialist State. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991 (co-authored with Edward Friedman and Mark Selden). Chinese edition: Zhongguo xiangcun-shehuizhuyi guojia (Beijing: Shehui kekue wenxian chuban she, 2002).
    *Winner of the Joseph R. Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies for best book on 20th century China in any discipline.
  • Unofficial China: Popular Culture and Thought in the People's Republic. Boulder: Westview Press, 1989 (co-edited with Perry Link and Richard Madsen).
  • Marxist Literary Thought in China: The Influence of Ch'u Ch'iu-pai. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981. Korean edition: Chungguk Maruk'usujuui Munyeiron: Kuch'ubaegui Yonghyang (Seoul: Ch'ongnyonsa, 1991). Chinese edition: Shusheng zhengzhijia: Ou Oiubai qu zhe de yisheng (Beijing: Zhongguo zhuo yue chuban gongsi, 1990).
  • Marxist Literary Thought and China: A Conceptual Framework. Berkeley: The Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1980. Chinese edition: "Makesizhuyi wenxue sixiang yu Zhongguo," in Zhongguo shchui kexue yuan wenxue yanjiu suo, ed., Guowai Zhongguo wenxue yanjiu luncong (Beijing: Zhongguo wenlian chuban gongsi, 1985), pp. 1-46.

Current Research

  • Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China. New Haven: Yale University Press, accepted, forthcoming 2005. (co-authored with Edward Friedman and Mark Selden).

Courses

  • HIEA 130. History of the Modern Chinese Revolution: 1800-1911.
  • HIEA 131. History of the Modern Chinese Revolution: 1911-1949.
  • HIEA 132. History of the People's Republic of China.
  • HIEA 133. Twentieth Century China: Cultural History.
  • HIGR 210. Historical Scholarship on Modern Chinese History.