James Z Gao
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597304 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Z Gao |
| GIVEN NAMES | James Z |
| FAMILY NAME | Gao |
| SIGNATURE | GAO J Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Lens of the Silenced: Untold war Mobilization in Sha Fei’s Unpublished Photographs
This paper addressed Sha Fei’s unpublished photographs from China during World War II in three dimensions: image, symbol, and index. The intrinsic meanings of these images depend upon the historical context and historical relations between the images and historical scenes they represented. Here lies significance of the index function of Sha Fei’s photographs, which is to direct historians’ attention, inspire intensive research for other archival …
The Communist Takeover of Hangzhou: The Transformation of City and Cadre, 1949–1954
Existing literature on the Chinese Revolution takes into account the influence of peasant society on Mao's ideas and policies but rarely discusses a reverse effect of comparable significance: namely, how peasant cadres were affected by the urban environment into which they moved. In this detailed examination of the cultural dimension of regime change in the early years of the Revolution, James Gao looks at how rural-based cadres changed and were …
Shooting Social Suffering: Photography and China's Human Disasters
From Margin to Cutting Edge: The Search for a Paradigm in Chinese Historical Studies
The Chinese Historians in the United States (CHUS) has gone through three stages of development. The first stage (1987-1992) began with the founding of the organization in 1987. Most of its members at that time were Chinese students who had just embarked on the graduate programs in American universities. As sojourners destining to return to home eventually, these graduate students chose to take the courses most relevant and applicable to China, a…
Myth, Memory, and Rice History in Shanghai, 1949–1950
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJames Z. GaoJames Z. Gao is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland at College Park. He is the author of Meeting Technology's Advance: Social Changes in China and Zimbabwe in the Railway Age (Greenwood, 1997), The Communist Takeover of Hangzhou: The Transformation of City and Cadres, 1949–1954 (University of Hawaii Press, 2004) and several articles on modern Chin…
From Rural Revolution to Urban Revolutionization: A case study of Luzhongnan
Based on materials from local archives and the author's interviews in Shandong Province, this paper uses case studies in the Luzhongnan prefecture to trace how the rural revolutionaries rose to prominence and to discuss their cultural impact on Mao's urban revolution after 1949. The paper begins by examining the intellectual origin of the Chinese revolution in this region, and then moves to a discussion of the end of political urbanism in the ant…
A History of Chinese Overseas in Africa
A History of Chinese Overseas in Africa
From Rural Revolution to Urban Revolutionization: A case study of Luzhongnan
Based on materials from local archives and the author's interviews in Shandong Province, this paper uses case studies in the Luzhongnan prefecture to trace how the rural revolutionaries rose to prominence and to discuss their cultural impact on Mao's urban revolution after 1949. The paper begins by examining the intellectual origin of the Chinese revolution in this region, and then moves to a discussion of the end of political urbanism in the ant…
From Rural Revolution to Urban Revolutionization: A case study of Luzhongnan
Based on materials from local archives and the author's interviews in Shandong Province, this paper uses case studies in the Luzhongnan prefecture to trace how the rural revolutionaries rose to prominence and to discuss their cultural impact on Mao's urban revolution after 1949. The paper begins by examining the intellectual origin of the Chinese revolution in this region, and then moves to a discussion of the end of political urbanism in the ant…
A History of Chinese Overseas in Africa
Myth, Memory, and Rice History in Shanghai, 1949–1950
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJames Z. GaoJames Z. Gao is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland at College Park. He is the author of Meeting Technology's Advance: Social Changes in China and Zimbabwe in the Railway Age (Greenwood, 1997), The Communist Takeover of Hangzhou: The Transformation of City and Cadres, 1949–1954 (University of Hawaii Press, 2004) and several articles on modern Chin…
From Margin to Cutting Edge: The Search for a Paradigm in Chinese Historical Studies
The Chinese Historians in the United States (CHUS) has gone through three stages of development. The first stage (1987-1992) began with the founding of the organization in 1987. Most of its members at that time were Chinese students who had just embarked on the graduate programs in American universities. As sojourners destining to return to home eventually, these graduate students chose to take the courses most relevant and applicable to China, a…
Shooting Social Suffering: Photography and China's Human Disasters
The Communist Takeover of Hangzhou: The Transformation of City and Cadre, 1949–1954
Existing literature on the Chinese Revolution takes into account the influence of peasant society on Mao's ideas and policies but rarely discusses a reverse effect of comparable significance: namely, how peasant cadres were affected by the urban environment into which they moved. In this detailed examination of the cultural dimension of regime change in the early years of the Revolution, James Gao looks at how rural-based cadres changed and were …
The Lens of the Silenced: Untold war Mobilization in Sha Fei’s Unpublished Photographs
This paper addressed Sha Fei’s unpublished photographs from China during World War II in three dimensions: image, symbol, and index. The intrinsic meanings of these images depend upon the historical context and historical relations between the images and historical scenes they represented. Here lies significance of the index function of Sha Fei’s photographs, which is to direct historians’ attention, inspire intensive research for other archival …
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