Associate Professor
(BA Northwestern University; MA, PhD, Brown University, 1982) Chinese
intellectual and social history, Modern China, Modern Japan
Email: John.Leung@nau.edu
Office phone: 928-523-6209
Office LA 209D
Research and teaching
interest
A scholar of modern and contemporary Asian history (China
and Japan) with a deep-seated comparative-history bent, I have published two
volumes on The Writings of Mao Zedong, 1949-1976 and ten articles on modern
China.
I am currently devoting myself to the research of the
history of women’s education in late-19th and early-20th century China. I am
dedicated to the globalizing of NAU’s History curriculum, to the introduction
of gender and ethnic minority histories into the mainstream of the
historiography of all societies to which such historiographies pertain, to the
improvement of undergraduate research in the History program by raising
critical and analytical reading and research standards in all levels of
courses, and to the enhancement of NAU’s History-Social Studies Education
program.
Courses taught
HIS 200 (Historians and the Study of History)
HIS 250 (Pre-Modern East Asia)
HIS 251 (The Making of Modern Asia)
HIS 297 (Women in Asia)
HIS 300W (Junior-Level Writing-Intensive Seminar)
HIS 325 (Modern China)
HIS 332 (Modern Japan)
HIS 421 (History of Chinese Political Thought)
HIS 425 (Contemporary China: The History of the People's Republic)
HIS 434 (Japan Since World War II)
HIS 498 (Senior Seminar)
HIS 520 (Readings in Asian History)
List of recent publications
Biographical essays in Political Leaders of Modern China
(Greenwood Press, 2002)
Book review, Wang Aihe, Cosmology and Political Culture
in Early China and Ge Zhaoguang, Qi shiji qian de Zhongguo zi shixiang shijie
yu wenhua (The World of Thought and Spiritual Civilization in
Pre-Seventh-Century BCE China), in The China Review: An Interdisciplinary
Journal on Greater China, vol. 2, no. 1 (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Fall
2002)
Book review, Jane E. Elliot, Some Did It For Civilization,
Some Did It For Their Country: A Revised View of The Boxer War
(Forthcoming, submitted to The Australian Journal of Chinese Studies.)
Professional service
Extramurally, my professional services include the
presidency and executive treasurer’s post in the Western Conference of the
Association for Asian Studies, vice-presidency of the Board for Homeland
Ministries of the United Church of Christ, member of the executive committee of
the Justice and Witness Ministries of the United Church of Christ, and
Moderator-Elect of the Southwest Conference of the United Church of Christ.