CURRICULUM VITAE
Paul S. Ropp 40 Chamberlain Parkway
Department of History Worcester, MA 01602
Clark University Phone: (508) 752-8373
Worcester, MA 01610
Phone: (508) 793-7213
Fax: (508) 793-8816 E-Mail: PROPP@CLARKU.EDU
EDUCATION:
双向钢筋B.A. in History, Bluffton College (Bluffton, Ohio), 1966
M.A. in East Asian History, University of Michigan, 1968
Ph.D. in Chine History, University of Michigan, 1974
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1973-74 Assistant Professor of History, University of Central Arkansas
1974-75 Visiting Assistant Professor of History, McGill University
写黄河的诗句1975-82 Assistant Professor of History, Memphis State University
1979-80 Mellon Fellow, Center for Chine Studies, University of Michigan
1982-84 Associate Professor of History, Memphis State University
1985-93 Associate Professor and Chair of History, Clark University
1985- Associate in Rearch, John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Rearch, Harvard University
1993- Professor of History, Clark University
1995-96 Associate Dean of the College, Clark University
1996-97 Acting Associate Provost and Dean of the College, Clark University
爱的理解2006- Andrea B. and Peter D. ’64 Klein Distinguished Professor
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Disnt in Early Modern China: "Ju-lin wai-shih" and Ch'ing Social Criticism. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1981.
Heritage of China: Contemporary Perspectives on Chine Civilization. Editor and contributor of two essays, "Introduction," pp. ix-xx, and "The Distinctive Art of Chine Fiction," pp. 309-34. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
Chine Translation of Heritage of China: 美国学者论中国文化 (American Scholars on Chine Civilization), Beijing: China Broadcasting, 1994.
Italian Translation of Heritage of China: L'eredita della Cina, Turin: Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli, 1994.
Banished Immortal: Searching for Shuangqing, China's Peasant Woman Poet. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.
Co-editor with Paola Zamperini and Harriet T. Zurndorfer, Passionate Women: Female Suicide in Late Imperial China. Contributor of "Introduction," pp. 3-21, and "Bibliography," pp. 143-51. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2001. (Also published as vol. 3, no. 1 issue of Nannü: Men, Women, and Gender in Early and Imperial China.)
Articles:
"The Seeds of Change: Reflections on the Condition of Women in the Early and Mid Ch'i-ng," SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 2.1 (Autumn 1976), pp. 5-23.
"The May Fourth Movement: A Review Essay," Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 12.2 (Apr.-June 1980), pp. 58-64.
"The U and Abu of 'Superstition': Ju-lin wai-shih, Literati Skepticism and Popular Religion in the Early Ch'ing Period," in Proceedings of the 30th International Congress of Human Sciences in Asia and North Africa, 1976, China: Linguistics and Literary Criticism, ed. by Graciela de la Lama (Mexico City: El Colegio de Mexico,1981), pp. 259-271
"Between Two Worlds: Women in Shen Fu's Six Chapters of a Floating Life," in Woman and Literatu
re in China, ed. by Anna Gerstlacher, Ruth Keen, et. al., (Bochum, Germany: Brockmeyer, 1985), pp. 98-140.
“明清婦女研究﹕評介最近有關之英文著作” (Women in the Ming and Qing--A Review of Recent English-Language Scholarship" (in Chine, trans. by Angela Leung), Hsin-shih hsueh新史學 (New Historical Studies) 2.4 (Feb. 1992), pp. 77-116.
"A Confucian View of Women in the Ch'ing Period--Literati Laments for Women in the Ch'ing shih tuo," Chine Studies 10.2 (Dec. 1992), pp. 399-435.
"Love, Literacy, and Laments: Themes of Women Writers in Late Imperial China," Women's History Review 2.1 (1993), pp. 107-141.
"Women in Late Imperial China: A Review of Recent English-Language Scholarship," Women's History Review 3.3 (1994), pp. 347-383.
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"Vehicles of Disnt in Late Imperial Chine Culture," in La societe civile face a l'Etat: dans les traditions chinoi, japonai, coreenne et vietnamienne, ed. by Leon Vandermeersch (Paris: Ecole
Francai d'Extreme-Orient, 1994), pp. 117-156.
口部操"Ambiguous Images of Courtesan Culture in Late Imperial China," in Writing Women in Late Imperial China, ed. by Ellen Widmer and Kang-i Sun Chang (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997), pp. 17-45.
with SunHee Kim Gertz, "Literary Women, Fiction, and Marginalization: Nicolette and Shuangqing," Comparative Literature Studies 35.3 (1998), pp. 219-254.
“Teii kōki Chūgoku no joitachi--Saikin no Eibun ni yoru kenkyū ni tsu ite” (Women in Late Imperial China-- A Review of Recent English Language Scholarship), trans. by Kuzume Yoshi, Chūgoku--Shakai to Bunka (China--Society and Culture) 13 (June 1998), pp. 331-370.
"'Finished Painting Eyebrows, Don a Scholar's Cap and Pin': The Frustrated Ambition of Wang Yun, Gentry Woman Poet and Dramatist," Ming Studies 40 (1999), pp. 81-105.
“雙卿接受史綜述﹕謫仙到文化偶像”(The History of the Reception of Shuangqing: From Banished Immortal to Cultural Icon) in 明清文學與性別研究 (Literature and Gender in Ming-Qing China) ed. by Zhang Hongsheng 張宏生 . Nanjing: Jiangsu guji chubanshe, 2002, pp. 563-576.
“The Distinctive Art of Chine Fiction,” re print of 1990 essay from Paul S. Ropp, ed., Heritage of China, in Corinne H. Dale, ed., Chine Aesthetics and Literature: A Reader. Albany: SUNY Press, 2004, pp. 103-128.
“The Price of Passion in Three Tragic Heroines of the Mid-Qing: Shuangqing, Lin Daiyu and Chen Yun,” in Paolo Sant angelo, ed., From Skin to Heart: Perceptions of Emotions and Bodily Sensations in Traditional Chine Culture. Weisbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006, pp. 203-228.
Work in Progress:
Chine Choices: The History of a People and a Culture (tentative title), commissioned by Oxford University Press World History Series under the editorship of Bonnie Smith (Rutgers University and Anand Yang (University of Washington). A survey of the history of China aimed at a general non-specialist audience.
Spitting in the Emperor’s Soup: The Art of Political Disnt in the History of China, a study of notable disnters in Chine history, from early times to the prent, showing changes and continuities in the relationship between political rulers and their critics.
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Notes and Reviews:
Review of The Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Peking During the 18th Century, by Eric Widmer, American Historical Review, April 1977.
Review of Individual and Society in Ancient China: Essays on Four Chine Philosophers, by Vitaly A. Rubin, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, January-March 1977.
梦见红衣服Review of The World of K'ung Shang-Jen, by Richard Strassberg, Journal of Asian Studies, February, 1985.
"Ch'ing-pai lei-ch'ao" and "Li T'iao-yuan" in The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chine Literature, ed. by William H. Nienhaur, Jr., et. al. (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1986), pp. 321, 553-54.
Review of Male Anxiety and Female Chastity: A Comparative Study of Chine Ethical Values in Ming-Ch'ing Times, by T'ien Ju-k'ang, Journal of Asian Studies, August, 1989.
"Chine Traditional Fiction," and "Footbinding," in Women's Studies Encyclopedia, ed. by Helen Tierney (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press), vol. 2 (1990), pp. 63-65, and Vol. 3 (1991), pp. 149-50, re
spectively.
Review of Chine Women Through Chine Eyes, edited by Li Yu-ning, China Quarterly (Mar. 1994), pp. 284-85.
狮子座上升星座Review of Men & Women in Qing China: Gender in "The Red Chamber Dream", by Loui P. Edwards, China Quarterly 143 (Sept. 1995), pp. 907-08.
百合花语和寓意Review of Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai, by Gail Hershatter, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 28.4 (Spring 1998), pp. 699-700.
Review of Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century, by Susan Mann, The Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 58.2 (December 1998), pp. 587-97.
Biographies of He Shuangqing, Hou Zhi, Qiu Xinru, and Tao Zhenhuai, for the Bio-graphical Dictionary of Chine Women: The Qing Period, 1644-1911, edited by Clara
送你一轮明月Wing-chung Ho (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1998), pp. 61-64, 73-76, 177-79, 202-05.
Review of Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China, by Francesca Bray, Journal of Asian and African Studies 33.4 (1998), pp. 389-391.
Review of Literati Identity and Its Fictional Reprentations in Late Imperial China, by Stephen J. Roddy, China Review International 6.1 (Spring 1999), pp. 230-237.
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Biographical entries and/or translations of poems by Chen Duansheng, Dong Shaoyu, He Shuangqing, Hu Wenru, Jing Pianpian, Mao Xiuhui, Wang Yun, and Xu Quan, for Women Writers of Traditional China, edited by Kang-i Sun Chang and Haun Saussy (Stanford: Stanford Uni-versity Press, 1999, pp. 207-09, 224-26, 235-38, 458-65, 467-69, 472-73, 475-77, 531-32, 534-38.
Review of Dangerous Women: Warriors, Grannies, and Geishas of the Ming, by Victoria Cass, American Historical Review 106.4 (October 2001), pp. 1332-33.
Review of Chine Women in the Imperial Past: New Perspectives, ed. by Harriet T. Zurndorfer, China Review International 9.1 (Spring 2002), pp. 41-51.
Review of Under Confucian Eyes: Writings on Gender in Chine History, ed. by Susan Mann and Yu-yin Cheng, Journal of Asian Studies 61.3 (August 2002), pp. 1035-36.
Review of Love and Emotions in Traditional Chine Literature, ed. by Halvor Eifring, Nan Nü: Men,
Women and Gender in China 7.1 (2005), pp. 99-105.
Review of Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth Century China, by Jante M. Theiss, Journal of Asian Studies 65.1 (Feb. 2006), pp. 177-78.
Review of A Tender Voyage: Children and Childhood in Late Imperial China, by
Ping-chen Hsiung, American Historical Review 111.2 (April 2006), p. 445.
Review of Cinderella’s Sis ters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding, by Dorothy Ko, China Review International, forthcoming.
SELECTED PAPERS AND PANEL PRESENTATIONS:
"Women in Men's Eyes: Ju-lin wai-shih and Feminist Thought in Eighteenth-Century China," Michigan Academy of Arts and Sciences, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 1973.
"The U and Abu of 'Superstition': Ju-lin wai-shih, Literati Skepticism, and Popular Religion in the Early Ch'ing Period," 30th International Congress of the Human Sciences in Asia and North Africa, Mexico City, August 1976.
"Ju-lin wai-shih: An Outsider's View of Early Ch'ing Society," ACLS Conference on Eighteenth-Century Chine Thought, Pacific Grove, California, June 1977.
"The Significance of Ju-lin wai-shih in Ming-Ch'ing Social and Intellectual History," Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures Colloquium, Columbia University; Department of East Asian Studies Colloquium, Princeton University; Department of East Asian Studies Colloquium, Connecticut College, October 1977.
"Literary Innovation and Social Change in Mid-Qing China: Wu Jingzi, Cao Xueqin and Shen Fu," Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, March 1981.
