Dr. Ya-pei Kuo - Publications

Publications

Articles

“In One Body with the People: Worship of Confucius in the Xinzheng Reforms, 1901-1911,” Modern China. (Submitted Jun 2006, under review)

“Redeploying Confucius: Imperial State and Nation Imaging in Modern China, 1901-1911,” in Mayfair Yang, ed., Chinese Religiosities: the Vicissitudes of Modernity and State Formation. (Under review by University of California Press)

“Did Wang Guowei die for intellectual freedom?: Chen Yinke’s view on modern Chinese revolutionary politics,” Historiography East and West 2:2 (September 2004), 205-27. (in Chinese).

“Reading Chen Yinke historically: “Intellectual freedom” and Chinese political modernity,” in Josephine Chiu-Duke, ed., Liberalism and the Humanistic Tradition (Taipei: Yunchen wenhua chubanshe, 2005), 397-415. (In Chinese)

Book Reviews

“Review of The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making by Lydia Liu (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004),” The Chinese Historical Review 12.1 (Spring 2005): 152-54.

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Professional Presentations

Invited Talk

“Redeploying Confucius: from Imperial Cult to National Symbol, 1901-1911.” Author’s Lunch Forum, Harvard Yenching Institute. April 14, 2006.

“From Religion to Philosophy: Confucianism and Chinese Modernity.” Brown Bag Series, Department of Comparative Religions, Tufts University. November 12, 2003

Conferences

“Secularism, Modernity, and the Nation-State: Traditionalistic Regimes in the Early-Twentieth-Century China.” Presented at the 120th AHA Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. January 5-8, 2006.

“Recasting Confucianism: Confucius Worship, School Rituals, and State Cult, 1902-1911.” Presented at the International Conference on “Religion, Modernity, and the State in China and Taiwan.” University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. October 28-30, 2005.

“From Religion to Philosophy—Secularism in Recasting Confucianism, 1901-1930.” Presented at the Conference on “Casting Faiths: the Construction of Religion in East and Southeast Asia.” Department of History, National University of Singapore, Singapore. 7-8 June, 2005.

“A Modern Discourse about the Past -- Secularism and Particularism of Cultural Traditionalism, 1900-1910.” Presented at the HSTCC International Conference “As China Meets the World: China’s Changing Position in the International Community, 1840-2000.” University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. May 17-19, 2004.

“Imperial Rituals, National Education and Citizen Formation in the Xinzheng Reforms, 1901-1911.” Presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies. San Diego, California. March 05-07, 2004.

“The ‘Conservative’ Version of Chinese Citizenship.” Presented at Association for Asian Studies 2003 New England Regional Meeting. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Oct 24-25, 2003.

“Writing the National History 1901-1925 – Imagined Citizenry, National Education and Historical Writing.” Presented at the workshop “Knowledge, Pedagogy and Citizenship in China.” Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge, UK. Aug 11-12, 2003.

“Historicization of the Past – Hu Shih's cheng-li kuo-ku and its Implications.” Presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies. San Diego, California, USA. March 9-12, 2000.

“Historical Continuity/Discontinuity in Hu Shih's Renaissance Project.” Presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs. Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA. September 24-26, 1999.

“Hu Shih the Evolutionist.” Presented at the 4th Annual Midwest Conference on Asian History and Culture. Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA. May 14-16, 1999.

Invited Workshop

“Public Culture in Contemporary East Asia: Global Flows, Cultural Intimacy, and the Nation-State.” Harvard Fairbank Center Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. April 22, 2006.

“Knowledge, Pedagogy, Citizenship in China.” University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. August 11-13, 2003.

“Liberty, Constitutionalism and Culture in the Writings of Irving Babbitt.” Liberty Fund Colloquium. Savannah, Georgia, USA. May 25-28, 2000.

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