City versus Countryside in Mao's China: Negotiating the Divide (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
Jeremy Brown
Assistant Professor
Office: AQ 6228
Telephone: 778 782 4379
Email: jeremy_brown@sfu.ca
Areas of Study: ASIA
Biography
After spending the first eighteen years of my life in Iowa City, I wanted to go as far away from home as possible. When I got to Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, I told a first-year advisor that I might want to learn Chinese or Japanese. He told me that Lewis & Clark's Chinese teacher was excellent. I followed his advice and a few weeks later I had a Chinese name, Zhou Jierong 周杰荣, and had embarked on a journey that led to the Harbin Institute of Technology (1997) and Tsinghua University (2000-2001) for language training, and to the Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences (2004-2005) for dissertation research. In between, I studied Spanish in the Dominican Republic and worked at an NGO in Mexico City. I moved to Burnaby in 2008 after completing my PhD at the University of California, San Diego.
Research Interests
Modern China
Publications (Books)
Shengli de kunjing: Zhonghua renmin gongheguo de zuichu suiyue (Chinese University Press, 2011)
Dilemmas of Victory: The Early Years of the People's Republic of China. Co-editor with Paul G. Pickowicz. (Harvard University Press, 2007)
Publications (Articles)
- “When Things Go Wrong: Accidents and the Legacy of the Mao Era in Today’s China,” in Perry Link, Richard Madsen, and Paul G. Pickowicz, eds., Restless China (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013), 11-36.
- “Teaching Tiananmen: Using Wikipedia in the Undergraduate Classroom to Write about Recent History,” Perspectives on History: The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association (April 2012): 18-19, co-authored with Benedicte Melanie Olsen.
- “Great Leap City: Surviving the Famine in Tianjin,” in Kimberley Ens Manning and Felix Wemheuer, eds., Eating Bitterness: New Perspectives on China’s Great Leap Forward and Famine (University of British Columbia Press, 2011), 226-250.
- “Finding and Using Grassroots Historical Sources from the Mao Era,” Dissertation Reviews, December 15, 2010.
- "Rebels, Rent, and Tao Xu: Local Elite Identity and Conflict during and after the Taiping Occupation of Jiangnan, 1860-1884," Late Imperial China, vol. 30, no. 2 (December 2009): 9-38.
- "Burning the Grassroots: Chen Boda and the Four Cleanups in Suburban Tianjin," Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 26, no. 1 (2008): 50-69.
- "From Resisting Communists to Resisting America: Civil War and Korean War in Southwest China, 1950-1951," in Jeremy Brown and Paul G. Pickowicz, eds., Dilemmas of Victory: The Early Years of the People's Republic of China (Harvard University Press, 2007), 105-129.
- "Staging Xiaojinzhuang: The City in the Countryside, 1974-1976," in Joseph W. Esherick, Paul G. Pickowicz, and Andrew Walder, eds., The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History (Stanford University Press, 2006), 153-184.
Areas of Graduate Supervision
Asian History, Oral History
Notable Major Awards
- Honourable Mention, Wallace K. Ferguson Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association, 2013
- Cormack Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 2013
- SSHRC Standard Research Grant, 2010-2013
- SSHRC Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences Grant, 2009-2010
- Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2006-2007
- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award, 2004-2005
- Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2004-2005
- Harry S. Truman Scholarship