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Jonathan Tang

Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian Studies
International Studies and Languages, Seaver College, Seaver College
PLC 192
310.506.7324
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Biography

Dr. Jonathan Tang earned his PhD in Twentieth-Century Chinese History from the department of History at UC Berkeley. Before coming to Pepperdine he taught courses in East Asian History, Chinese Film, STS, and Political Economy at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, University of San Francisco, and San Francisco State University. Jonathan is a specialist in China’s modern “Warlord Era,” the short period between the fall of the imperial system and the rise of the centralized party-state.

Education

  • PhD, History, University of California, Berkeley
  • MA, Regional Studies: East Asia, Columbia University
  • AB, Social Studies, Harvard College

 

  • Fulbright-IIE Fellowship, Department of State ,Dissertation research in China (2013)
  • University of California, Berkeley, Graduate Division Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award (2017)
  • University of California, Berkeley, Graduate Division Student Parent Grant Award (2016-2017)
  • University of California, Berkeley, Institute for East Asian Studies Haas Junior Scholars Program (2014-2015)
  • University of California, Berkeley, Center for Chinese Studies Liu Graduate Student Fellowship (2015)
  • University of California, Berkeley, Graduate Division Student Mentoring and Research Teams Grant (2012)
  • University of California, Berkeley, Center for Chinese Studies Republic of China East Asia Fellowship (2012)
  • University of California, Berkeley, Center for Chinese Studies Summer Research Grant (2011)
  • University of California, Berkeley, Institute for East Asian Studies Li Ka-shing Fellowship (2009-2014)
  • “Paradoxes and Pitfalls of Ethnicity in Military History: Understanding the Miao in Fenghuang Through Official Gazetteers” in Journal of Chinese Military History, forthcoming
  • “A Thin Line Between Civilian and Military Rule? Warlord Politics and Regime Change in Hunan Province, 1911-1921” Society for Military History Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, March 2023
    • New York University, New York, NY, April 2023
  • Review of Pierre Fuller, “Famine Relief in Warlord China,” Journal of Chinese History, Vol. 5, No. 1, January 2021, pp.137-140
  • “Power, Transformation, and Loyalty in Early Republican Hunan” Annual Meeting of Association for Asian Studies, Seattle, WA, March 2016
  • “Provincial and Local Governance in Early Republican Hunan” The Secret and The Sacred: The State and Its Alternatives in Chinese Societies Interdisciplinary Conference, Berkeley, CA, March 2016
  • “Law, Morality, and History: Li Jiannong and the Hunan Provincial Constitution Movement, 1920-1925” Haas Junior Scholars Conference, Berkeley, CA, November 2015
  • “Values, Laws, and Constitutions: Wang Zhengting, Zhang Shizhao, and the Early Republican Period of Modern Chinese History” Doctoral Workshop, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, January 2015
  • “The Art of Governing (and not Governing) Hunan in the Early Republic” University of San Francisco China Research Group, San Francisco, CA, May 2014
    • Annual Meeting of Association for Asian Studies, Philadelphia, PA, March 2014
  • “Explicitly Using Sources to Create a New History: Tan Yankai, Zhao Hengti, and The November 1920 Pingjiang Mutiny in Hunan” Junior Scholars Conference on China in the 20th Century, Beijing, China, June 2013

Courses

  • ASIA 305: Survey of East Asia
  • ASIA 331 / HIST 331: History of Modern China