The PRC History Review
Volume 4, Number 2 (August 2019)
Special Issue: Teaching the PRC
The PRC History Group is very excited to announce the newest issue of The PRC History Review, which features a series of essays on teaching the PRC. An extra special thanks to our guest editors, Brian DeMare and Covell Meyskens, for all of their work on this issue, which also includes contributions from (in the order they appear) Rebecca Karl, Marc Matten, Emily Wilcox, Gail Hershatter, Ralph Thaxton, Kirk Denton, Denise Ho, Guobin Yang, Jeremy Brown, Stefan Landsberger, Elizabeth Perry, Eddy U, Sun Peidong, and Kaiser Kuo!
The issue is available online here: Special Issue: Teaching the PRC. Table of Contents appears below.
Fabio Lanza <flanza@email.arizona.edu>
Editorial Introduction
Brian DeMare, Tulane University and Covell Meyskens, Naval Postgraduate School
Why Mao? Why Now? A Brief Essay on Pedagogy and Possibility
Rebecca E. Karl, New York University
On the Value of Philological Methods in Teaching PRC History
Marc Matten, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Teaching the Everyday: Socialist Culture as Lived Experience in the Classroom
Emily Wilcox, University of Michigan
On Learning to Resist Verdicts and Disappearances: Teaching about Gender in Mao’s China
Gail Hershatter, University of California Santa Cruz
It Takes a Village: Land Reform in the Classroom
Brian DeMare, Tulane University
Bringing the Cold War into Teaching on Mao’s China
Covell Meyskens, Naval Postgraduate School
Teaching Mass Movements in the PRC, with Special Reference to Mao’s Great Leap Forward Campaign, 1958-1962
Ralph Thaxton, Brandeis University
What Do You Do with Cultural “Propaganda” of the Mao Era?
Kirk A. Denton, Ohio State University
Teaching China’s Cultural Revolution
Denise Y. Ho, Yale University
Understanding the Cultural Revolution through Documents of Life
Guobin Yang, University of Pennsylvania
High Stakes: Teaching Tiananmen to Chinese Students in Canada
Jeremy Brown, Simon Fraser University
But What Did It Look Like?
Stefan Landsberger, Leiden University
Teaching Chinese Politics in Comparative Perspective
Elizabeth Perry, Harvard University
PRC History in Sociology Instruction: Challenges and Opportunities
Eddy U, University of California, Davis
Love and Passion: Teaching the PRC History in China Today
Sun Peidong, Fudan University
Talking China: Podcasting and Pedagogy on Sinica
Kaiser Kuo, SupChina