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Andrew MorrisAndrew Morris

Professor, Department Chair
Modern China & Taiwan; East Asia
E-mail: admorris@calpoly.edu
Office: Bldg. 47, 27D
Phone: (805)756-2845

 

EDUCATION

  • University of California, San Diego
    Modern Chinese History: Ph.D. 1998, M.A. 1996

  • Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
    Double Major: Physics and History: B.S., 1991

RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS

Modern Chinese and Taiwanese history, especially sports and popular culture, nationalism, colonialism and transnational cultural flows.  Currently finishing a book on baseball, colonialism and nationalism in 20th-century Taiwan.

AWARDS, HONORS & PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • Fulbright Research Award, 2007.

  • Visiting Scholar, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, June – September 2007.

  • Distinguished Scholarship Award, Cal Poly, 2005-06.

  • Visiting Scholar, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, June – September 2004.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • “‘How Could Anyone Respect Us?’: A Century of Olympic Consciousness and National Anxiety in China.” The Brown Journal of World Affairs XIV.II (Spring/Summer 2008): 25-39.

  • “Savages, Traitors, Budweiser, and a History of Glocalization and Baseball in Taiwan.” Taiwan shiliao yanjiu (Taiwan Historical Materials Studies) 28 (December 2006): 2-31.

  • “Taiwan: Baseball, Colonialism and Nationalism.” In George Gmelch, ed. Baseball Without Borders: The International Pastime, pp. 65-88. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.

  • Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

  • The Minor Arts of Daily Life: Popular Culture in Taiwan. (Co-edited with David K. Jordan and Marc L. Moskowitz.)  Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2004.

  • “The Taiwan Republic of 1895 and the Failure of the Qing Modernizing Project.” In Stéphane Corcuff, ed. Memories of the Future: National Identity Issues and the Search for a New Taiwan, pp. 3-24. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe Inc., 2002.

  • “‘I Believe You Can Fly’: Basketball Culture in Postsocialist China.” In Perry Link, Richard P. Madsen, and Paul G. Pickowicz, eds. Popular China: Unofficial Culture in a Globalizing Society, pp. 9-38. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002.

  • “‘To Make the 400 Million Move’: The Late Qing Dynasty Origins of Modern Chinese Sport and Physical Culture.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 42.4 (October 2000): 876-906.

  • “Native Songs and Dances: Southeast Asia in a Greater Chinese Sporting Community, 1920-1948.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 31.1 (March 2000): 48-69.
    (Please see my Digital Commons page for links to many of these and other works.)

SERVICE

  • Chair, History Department.

  • Member, General Education Governing Committee.

ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • Reviewer for the following journals and organizations:
    Journal of Asian Studies, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Bulletin of the Institute of Modern History, Journal of Sport History, Gender & History, Nan Nü: Men, Women, and Gender in Early and Imperial China, Sport Studies (Taiwan), Social Science Research Council, National Endowment for the Humanities.

COURSES

  • HIST 300: Junior Seminar: Modern Taiwan

  • HIST 303: Research and Writing Seminar in History: Asian America

  • HIST 303: Research and Writing Seminar in History: Sports History

  • HIST 310: East Asian Culture and Civilization

  • HIST 316: Modern East Asia

  • HIST 414: The Fall of Imperial China

  • HIST 416: Modern Japan

  • HIST 417: Twentieth Century China

  • HIST 418: Chinese Film and History

  • HIST 460: Senior Project

  • HIST 461: Senior Project

  • HIST 504: Graduate Study in History

  • HIST 507: Graduate Seminar in East Asian History