Hanchao Lu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hanchao Lu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hanchao |
| FAMILY NAME | Lu |
| SIGNATURE | LU H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution By Viren Murthy
Shanghai Tai Chi: The Art of Being Ruled in Mao's China
Shanghai Tai Chi offers a masterful portrait of daily urban life under socialism in a rich social and political history of one of the world's most complex cities. Hanchao Lu explores the lives of people from all areas of society - from capitalists and bourgeois intellectuals to women and youth. Utilizing the metaphor of Tai Chi, he reveals how people in Shanghai experienced and adapted to a new Maoist political culture from 1949. Exploring the mu…
A Pacific Triptych: A Portrait of Linda Grove’s World of Learning in the United States, China, and Japan
Yasu Gongshang 雅俗共赏 (Appreciated By All): Richard J. Smith’s Ardent Engagement with Chinese Culture
Shanghai calendar posters
An Intrepid Pioneer: Sherman Cochran and Chinese Business History
A Perpetual Search: Mary Brown Bullock and American Philanthropy and Education in China
Few scholars (and perhaps historians in particular) are capable of conducting in-depth research while simultaneously playing a major leadership role in academic organizations and institutions. Mary
Versatility, Interdisciplinarity, and Academic Collaboration: Paul Pickowicz’s Insights on Chinese Studies
Paul G. Pickowicz, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History and Chinese Studies and Inaugural Holder of the Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History from 2007 to 2017 at the University of Califor
Bourgeois Comfort under Proletarian Dictatorship: Home Life of Chinese Capitalists before the Cultural Revolution
This article takes Shanghai as a case study to look at the home life of what the Chinese Communist Party officially categorized as “national capitalists” in China from 1949 to 1966. Contrary to the long-standing perception in both academia and popular writings that former capitalists were purely victims of the revolution, this study shows that as far as material comfort was concerned, the old rich still lived an infinitely better life than most C…
Shanghai flora: The politics of urban greening in Maoist China
Verdurization ( lühua ), a term coined in Japan and adopted into the Chinese vocabulary in the early twentieth century, was an emotive concept and relentless practice in Mao's China. The Chinese state used various verdurization campaigns as part of its project of building a socialist state and as a way of exercising ideological control, particularly in cities. At the same time, ordinary citizens had their own ideas about the role of vegetation in…
Between History and Memory: A Conversation with Paul A. Cohen
In this delightful and thought-provoking interview, Paul Cohen shares his thoughts on numerous issues concerning history, memory, and the changes in research mythology and perspective over the past six decades and across generations of Chinese historians, as well as his own experiences as a historian of modern China during that period
Narrating the Past to Interpret the Present: A Conversation with Elizabeth J. Perry
In this sparkling and candid conversation, Elizabeth Perry reminisces about her early years in Japan, her first trip back to China in the late 1970s, her reconsideration of the Chinese revolution, and interdisciplinary studies and her career as both a political scientist and historian. Perry shares her insights into the cultural resources of the Chinese Communist Party, the resilience of the Chinese regime, comparisons of the Chinese and Russian …
The Tastes of Chairman Mao: The Quotidian as Statecraft in the Great Leap Forward and Its Aftermath
This article examines instances in which Mao Zedong used food as a symbol or administrative contrivance for mass mobilization and political maneuvering during the Great Leap Forward and its aftermath. This type of “food politics” was based on some seemingly trivial matters, such as Mao’s personal preferences for certain foods, a steamed bun brought to his attention by his bodyguard, his diet during the famine, and so on. On one hand, in a politic…
Standing Up for Liberty: A Conversation With Perry Link
In this enormously rich and spirited conversation, Perry Link reminisces about his training as a student of Chinese language and literature in the midst of American involvement in the Vietnam War, his early understanding of Chinese revolution and socialism, and his encounters with such well-known Chinese intellectuals as Liu Binyan and Fang Lizhi during the late 1980s and after, as well as his involvement with the publication of the Tiananmen Pap…
Out of the Ordinary: Implications of Material Culture and Daily Life in China
Small- Town China: A Historical Perspective on Rural- Urban Relations
One Country, Two Societies: Rural-Urban Inequality in Contemporary China
A Passion for Wartime Liberalism: A Conversation with John Israel
In human history, wars are usually associated with autocracy, repression, martial law, and the like. The establishment of an institution of higher education embracing freedom and liberty during a devastating war, on the other hand, is nothing less than extraordinary. Xi'nan lianhe daxue or Lianda, a university established in the rear during China's war of resistance against Japan (1937-45) was precisely such an institution. As a university formed…
Bridging the Pacific: Three Generations of Chinese Historians in the United States, 1945-2008
In the United States the study of modern Chinese history is a relatively young academic field. Prior to World War II, China studies or Sinology was for the most part centered in Europe and focused on the pre-Qing period, with emphasis on dynasty history, classic literature, linguistics, and philosophy. Modern China as a field of historical study mainly developed after World War II. The American involvement in the Pacific War, the emergence of pos…
A Double-Sided Mirror: On Paul Cohen's Discovering History in China
(2007). A Double-Sided Mirror: On Paul Cohen's Discovering History in China. The Chinese Historical Review: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 189-191
Confucianism and Science: A Conversation with Benjamin A. Elman
(2005). Confucianism and Science: A Conversation with Benjamin A. Elman. The Chinese Historical Review: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 1-24
The Art of History: A Conversation with Jonathan Spence
Jonathan D. Spence, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and President of the American Historical Association (AHA), visited the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia Slate University in April, 2004. During his visit, I had the opportunity to ask for his views (as the Chinese would say, qingjiao,) on various issues related to Chinese history and historiography.1 We had mutually agreed that this was not to be a formal interview b…
The Significance of the Insignificant: Reconstructing the Daily Lives of the Common People of China
The Significance of the Insignificant:Reconstructing the Daily Lives of the Common People of China Hanchao Lu (bio) In terms of subject matter and research focus, the trend in the field of modern Chinese history in the past three decades in the West might well be summarised by three Chinese idioms, each representing a major shift: cong wai dao li (from the outside to the inside), cong da dao xiao (from big to small), and cong shang dao xia (from …
Nostalgia for the Future: The Resurgence of an Alienated Culture in China
hanghai has been a city in rising since the early 1990s and the sweeping changes in the urban landscape are most visible. In the early 1980s, the twenty-four story Park Hotel that had towered over Shanghai for half a century remained the highest building in the city and there were only four other buildings in the entire city that reached the height of twenty stories. By 1999, Shanghai had 1,350 buildings that were higher than twenty stories, near…
Civilizing Chengdu: Chinese Urban Reform, 1895-1937
One Country, Two Societies: Rural-Urban Inequality in Contemporary China
Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century
How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheaval - revolution, war, and again revolution - that shook their lives? Even after decades of scholarship devoted to modern Chnese history, our understanding of the daily lives of the common people of China remains sketchy and incomplete. Th…
Nostalgia for the Future: The Resurgence of an Alienated Culture in China
hanghai has been a city in rising since the early 1990s and the sweeping changes in the urban landscape are most visible. In the early 1980s, the twenty-four story Park Hotel that had towered over Shanghai for half a century remained the highest building in the city and there were only four other buildings in the entire city that reached the height of twenty stories. By 1999, Shanghai had 1,350 buildings that were higher than twenty stories, near…
Creating Urban Outcasts: Shantytowns in Shanghai, 1920-1950
This article describes Shanghais squatter settlements in three slums (Yaoshuilong Fangualong and Zhaojiabang) during 1920-50. It is argued that the extremely congested and poor living conditions of settlements and the high unemployment or marginal employment created urban outcasts. This population is equated with the modern-day who live in temporary shelters. The homeless of Shanghais squatter settlements surrounded the city. Housing consisted of…
Away from Nanking Road: Small Stores and Neighborhood Life in Modern Shanghai
As china's leading "treaty port" city, Shanghai has long been stereotyped as the prime bridgehead for foreign encroachment on China and as the most westernized city of the country (Tang and Shen 1989: introduction). Recent scholarship in the West still refers to Shanghai as "the other China," "in China but not of it," "a foreign city even in its own country" (Bergere 1981; Murphey 1992:346; Clifford 1991:9). In the first half of the twentieth cen…
The Tastes of Chairman Mao: The Quotidian as Statecraft in the Great Leap Forward and Its Aftermath
This article examines instances in which Mao Zedong used food as a symbol or administrative contrivance for mass mobilization and political maneuvering during the Great Leap Forward and its aftermath. This type of “food politics” was based on some seemingly trivial matters, such as Mao’s personal preferences for certain foods, a steamed bun brought to his attention by his bodyguard, his diet during the famine, and so on. On one hand, in a politic…
Arrested Development: Cotton and Cotton Markets in Shanghai, 1350-1843
Among students of Chinese socioeconomic history, role of cotton and cotton products in commercialization of late imperial China has, in some respects, received much scholarly attention. The Japanese scholar Nishijima Sadao began to study subject as early as 1940s. Nishijima (1947, 1976) convincingly demonstrated that in Ming-Qing transition, Songjiang prefecture (which included Shanghai county) and its vicintiy became center of cotton trade in Ch…
Bourgeois Comfort under Proletarian Dictatorship: Home Life of Chinese Capitalists before the Cultural Revolution
This article takes Shanghai as a case study to look at the home life of what the Chinese Communist Party officially categorized as “national capitalists” in China from 1949 to 1966. Contrary to the long-standing perception in both academia and popular writings that former capitalists were purely victims of the revolution, this study shows that as far as material comfort was concerned, the old rich still lived an infinitely better life than most C…
Shanghai flora: The politics of urban greening in Maoist China
Verdurization ( lühua ), a term coined in Japan and adopted into the Chinese vocabulary in the early twentieth century, was an emotive concept and relentless practice in Mao's China. The Chinese state used various verdurization campaigns as part of its project of building a socialist state and as a way of exercising ideological control, particularly in cities. At the same time, ordinary citizens had their own ideas about the role of vegetation in…
Arrested Development: Cotton and Cotton Markets in Shanghai, 1350-1843
Among students of Chinese socioeconomic history, role of cotton and cotton products in commercialization of late imperial China has, in some respects, received much scholarly attention. The Japanese scholar Nishijima Sadao began to study subject as early as 1940s. Nishijima (1947, 1976) convincingly demonstrated that in Ming-Qing transition, Songjiang prefecture (which included Shanghai county) and its vicintiy became center of cotton trade in Ch…
Creating Urban Outcasts: Shantytowns in Shanghai, 1920-1950
This article describes Shanghais squatter settlements in three slums (Yaoshuilong Fangualong and Zhaojiabang) during 1920-50. It is argued that the extremely congested and poor living conditions of settlements and the high unemployment or marginal employment created urban outcasts. This population is equated with the modern-day who live in temporary shelters. The homeless of Shanghais squatter settlements surrounded the city. Housing consisted of…
Away from Nanking Road: Small Stores and Neighborhood Life in Modern Shanghai
As china's leading "treaty port" city, Shanghai has long been stereotyped as the prime bridgehead for foreign encroachment on China and as the most westernized city of the country (Tang and Shen 1989: introduction). Recent scholarship in the West still refers to Shanghai as "the other China," "in China but not of it," "a foreign city even in its own country" (Bergere 1981; Murphey 1992:346; Clifford 1991:9). In the first half of the twentieth cen…
Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century
Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century
How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheaval - revolution, war, and again revolution - that shook their lives? Even after decades of scholarship devoted to modern Chnese history, our understanding of the daily lives of the common people of China remains sketchy and incomplete. Th…
Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century
Streetlife China
Streetlife China. Michael Dutton. Cambridge- Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiii. 304 pp., illustrations, photographs, drawings, bibliography, index
Civilizing Chengdu: Chinese Urban Reform, 1895-1937
Nostalgia for the Future: The Resurgence of an Alienated Culture in China
hanghai has been a city in rising since the early 1990s and the sweeping changes in the urban landscape are most visible. In the early 1980s, the twenty-four story Park Hotel that had towered over Shanghai for half a century remained the highest building in the city and there were only four other buildings in the entire city that reached the height of twenty stories. By 1999, Shanghai had 1,350 buildings that were higher than twenty stories, near…
The Significance of the Insignificant: Reconstructing the Daily Lives of the Common People of China
The Significance of the Insignificant:Reconstructing the Daily Lives of the Common People of China Hanchao Lu (bio) In terms of subject matter and research focus, the trend in the field of modern Chinese history in the past three decades in the West might well be summarised by three Chinese idioms, each representing a major shift: cong wai dao li (from the outside to the inside), cong da dao xiao (from big to small), and cong shang dao xia (from …
The Art of History: A Conversation with Jonathan Spence
Jonathan D. Spence, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and President of the American Historical Association (AHA), visited the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia Slate University in April, 2004. During his visit, I had the opportunity to ask for his views (as the Chinese would say, qingjiao,) on various issues related to Chinese history and historiography.1 We had mutually agreed that this was not to be a formal interview b…
Confucianism and Science: A Conversation with Benjamin A. Elman
(2005). Confucianism and Science: A Conversation with Benjamin A. Elman. The Chinese Historical Review: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 1-24
A Double-Sided Mirror: On Paul Cohen's Discovering History in China
(2007). A Double-Sided Mirror: On Paul Cohen's Discovering History in China. The Chinese Historical Review: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 189-191
Bridging the Pacific: Three Generations of Chinese Historians in the United States, 1945-2008
In the United States the study of modern Chinese history is a relatively young academic field. Prior to World War II, China studies or Sinology was for the most part centered in Europe and focused on the pre-Qing period, with emphasis on dynasty history, classic literature, linguistics, and philosophy. Modern China as a field of historical study mainly developed after World War II. The American involvement in the Pacific War, the emergence of pos…
A Passion for Wartime Liberalism: A Conversation with John Israel
In human history, wars are usually associated with autocracy, repression, martial law, and the like. The establishment of an institution of higher education embracing freedom and liberty during a devastating war, on the other hand, is nothing less than extraordinary. Xi'nan lianhe daxue or Lianda, a university established in the rear during China's war of resistance against Japan (1937-45) was precisely such an institution. As a university formed…
Small- Town China: A Historical Perspective on Rural- Urban Relations
One Country, Two Societies: Rural-Urban Inequality in Contemporary China
Out of the Ordinary: Implications of Material Culture and Daily Life in China
Standing Up for Liberty: A Conversation With Perry Link
In this enormously rich and spirited conversation, Perry Link reminisces about his training as a student of Chinese language and literature in the midst of American involvement in the Vietnam War, his early understanding of Chinese revolution and socialism, and his encounters with such well-known Chinese intellectuals as Liu Binyan and Fang Lizhi during the late 1980s and after, as well as his involvement with the publication of the Tiananmen Pap…
Narrating the Past to Interpret the Present: A Conversation with Elizabeth J. Perry
In this sparkling and candid conversation, Elizabeth Perry reminisces about her early years in Japan, her first trip back to China in the late 1970s, her reconsideration of the Chinese revolution, and interdisciplinary studies and her career as both a political scientist and historian. Perry shares her insights into the cultural resources of the Chinese Communist Party, the resilience of the Chinese regime, comparisons of the Chinese and Russian …
The Tastes of Chairman Mao: The Quotidian as Statecraft in the Great Leap Forward and Its Aftermath
This article examines instances in which Mao Zedong used food as a symbol or administrative contrivance for mass mobilization and political maneuvering during the Great Leap Forward and its aftermath. This type of “food politics” was based on some seemingly trivial matters, such as Mao’s personal preferences for certain foods, a steamed bun brought to his attention by his bodyguard, his diet during the famine, and so on. On one hand, in a politic…
Between History and Memory: A Conversation with Paul A. Cohen
In this delightful and thought-provoking interview, Paul Cohen shares his thoughts on numerous issues concerning history, memory, and the changes in research mythology and perspective over the past six decades and across generations of Chinese historians, as well as his own experiences as a historian of modern China during that period
Shanghai flora: The politics of urban greening in Maoist China
Verdurization ( lühua ), a term coined in Japan and adopted into the Chinese vocabulary in the early twentieth century, was an emotive concept and relentless practice in Mao's China. The Chinese state used various verdurization campaigns as part of its project of building a socialist state and as a way of exercising ideological control, particularly in cities. At the same time, ordinary citizens had their own ideas about the role of vegetation in…
Bourgeois Comfort under Proletarian Dictatorship: Home Life of Chinese Capitalists before the Cultural Revolution
This article takes Shanghai as a case study to look at the home life of what the Chinese Communist Party officially categorized as “national capitalists” in China from 1949 to 1966. Contrary to the long-standing perception in both academia and popular writings that former capitalists were purely victims of the revolution, this study shows that as far as material comfort was concerned, the old rich still lived an infinitely better life than most C…
Versatility, Interdisciplinarity, and Academic Collaboration: Paul Pickowicz’s Insights on Chinese Studies
Paul G. Pickowicz, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History and Chinese Studies and Inaugural Holder of the Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History from 2007 to 2017 at the University of Califor
History (21 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (20 works) · China (19 works) · Political science (18 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Law (15 works) · History (12 works) · Art (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · Politics (10 works)