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Roger V. Des Forges
Professor
office: 558 Park Hall
email: rvd@buffalo.edu
phone: 645-2181 ext. 558
Education:
A.B. in Public & International Affairs, Princeton, 1964
Ph.D. in History, Yale, 1971
Field(s): Chinese History, Asian History, World History
Hub(s): Culture and Society, Politics
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Courses Regularly Taught:
UGC 111: World Civilizations
HIS 182: Asian Civilizations
HIS 391: China and the World
HIS 481 A Chinese Dynasty: Qing, 1644-1911
HIS 485: China in the Twentieth Century
HIS 552: Readings in Recent Chinese History (1644 to present)
HIS 581: East Asian Historiography
HIS 612: Research in Chinese History
Research Interests: Chinese cultural, political, and social history; Chinese myth, history, and historiography; the founding and consolidation of the Qing dynasty; Chinese history and civilization in comparative and global perspectives
Current Research: myth and history in the founding of the Qing dynasty with particular reference to the central plain
Selected Publications:
"Tales of Three City Walls in China's Central Plain," Chapter 2 in Roger Des Forges, Minglu Gao, Liu Chiao-mei, and Haun Saussy, eds., "Chinese Walls in Time and Space: A Multi-disciplinary Perspective," a book manuscript currently under consideration at press
Time and Space in Chinese Historiography: Concepts of Centrality in the History and Literature of the Three Kingdoms,? in The Many Faces of Clio: Cross-Cultural Approaches to Historiography, Q. Edward Wang and Franz L. Fillafer, eds. (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007): 210-232.
The Asian World, 600-1500, co-authored with John S. Major (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005)
"Toward Another Tang or Zhou? Views from the Central Plain in the Shunzhi Reign," in Time, Temporality, and Imperial Transition: East Asia from Ming to Qing, Lynn A. Struve, ed. (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005): 73-112. |
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Cultural Centrality and Political Change in Chinese History: Northeast Henan in the Fall of the Ming (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003);
(with Luo Xu), "China as a Non- Hegemonic Superpower?: The Uses of History among the China Can Say No Writers and Their Critics," Critical Asian Studies, 33.4 (December 2001): 483-507;
"States, Societies, and Civil Societies in Chinese History," in Timothy Brook and Bernard Frolic, eds., Civil Society in China (Armonk, N. Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1997): 68-95;
with Luo Ning and Wu Yenbo, co-editors, Chinese Democracy and the Crisis of 1989: Chinese and American Reflections (Albany: SUNY Press, 1993);
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"The Legend of Li Yen: Its Origins andImplications for the Transition from Ming to Ch'ing in Seventeenth Century China, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 104.3 (1984): 411-36;
"The Story of Li Yen: Its Growth and Function from the Early Ch'ing to the Present," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 42.2 (1982): 535-587
Hsi-liang and the Chinese National Revolution (Yale, 1973)
Awards:
UB Council on International Studies and Programs award for outstanding contributions to international education, 2007
Several articles published in Chinese in leading scholarly journals in the PRC
and the ROC, 1985-1994;
Second place in Porter Prize for doctoral dissertation closest to publication,
Yale, 1971
Herrick Prize for outstanding senior thesis in the Woodrow Wilson School of
Public and International Affairs, Princeton, 1964
Affiliations and Other notes:
At Buffalo: Research associate in the Baldy Center of the Law School;
Chair, Asian Studies Advisory Council, College of Arts and Sciences.
At Harvard; associate of the Fairbank Center and the Harvard-Yenching
Institute.
In China: associate of the Institute of History, Chinese Academy of
Social Sciences, Beijing, and Institute of History, Henan Academy of Social
Sciences, Zhengzhou; visiting professor at Sichuan Normal University, Nanchong,
and Research Associate of the Center for Yellow River Civilization and Sustainable Development, Henan University, Kaifen, 2006-.
Last updated:
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
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