Joseph W. Esherick (Chinese name: simplified Chinese: 周锡瑞; traditional Chinese: 周錫瑞; pinyin: Zhōu Xīruì, born 1942) is an emeritus professor of modern Chinese history at the University of California, San Diego. He is the holder of the Hwei-chih and Julia Hsiu Chair in Chinese Studies. Esherick is a graduate of Harvard College (1964, summa cum laude). He received his Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley (1971), under the supervision of Joseph R. Levenson and Frederic Wakeman.[1]
In addition to publishing research monographs, Esherick published a series of essays on historiography and reviews of the large questions in modern Chinese history. As a member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, for instance, Esherick in 1972 published a critique of the field and of his undergraduate professor, John K. Fairbank, "Harvard on Imperialism."[2] Later such essays dealt with the Revolution of 1911, Chiang Kai-shek,[3] and the Revolution of 1949.[4][5][6]
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- ^ Joseph Esherick, " 'Harvard on China: The Apologetics of Imperialism,'" Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 4.4 (1972):
- ^ Joseph Esherick, "The Many Faces of Chiang Kai-Shek," The Chinese Historical Review 17.1 (2010): 16–23.
- ^ Joseph Esherick, "Ten Theses on the Chinese Revolution," Modern China 21.1 (January 1995): 45–76.
- ^ Joseph W. Esherick, "Reconsidering 1911: Lessons of a Sudden Revolution," Journal of Modern Chinese History 6.1 (2012): 1–14. [1]
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