 Andrew Morris
Associate Professor
East Asia; Modern China
E-mail: admorris@calpoly.edu
Office: Bldg. 47, 27B
Phone: (805)756-2815
EDUCATION
• University of California, San Diego
Modern Chinese History: Ph.D. 1998, M.A. 1996
• Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
Double Major: Physics and History: B.S., 1991
RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS
Modern Chinese and Taiwanese history, especially sports and
popular culture, nationalism, colonialism and transnational
cultural flows. Currently finishing a book on baseball,
colonialism and nationalism in 20th-century Taiwan.
AWARDS, HONORS & PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
• Visiting Scholar, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, Taipei,
Taiwan, June – September 2007.
• Distinguished Scholarship Award, Cal Poly, 2005-06.
• Visiting Scholar, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei,
Taiwan, June – September 2004.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
• “Savages, Traitors, Budweiser, and a History of Glocalization
and Baseball in Taiwan.” Taiwan shiliao yanjiu (Taiwan Historical
Materials Studies) 28 (December 2006): 2-31.
• “Taiwan: Baseball, Colonialism and Nationalism.” In George
Gmelch, ed. Baseball Without Borders: The International Pastime, pp.
65-88. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
• Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in
Republican China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
• The Minor Arts of Daily Life: Popular Culture in Taiwan. (Co-edited
with David K. Jordan and Marc L. Moskowitz.) Honolulu: University of
Hawai’i Press, 2004.
• “The Taiwan Republic of 1895 and the Failure of the Qing Modernizing
Project.” In Stéphane Corcuff, ed. Memories of the Future:
National Identity Issues and the Search for a New Taiwan, pp. 3-24. Armonk,
NY: M.E. Sharpe Inc., 2002.
• “‘I Believe You Can Fly’: Basketball Culture in Postsocialist
China.” In Perry Link, Richard P. Madsen, and Paul G. Pickowicz, eds. Popular
China: Unofficial Culture in a Globalizing Society, pp. 9-38. Lanham,
MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002.
• “‘To Make the 400 Million Move’: The Late Qing Dynasty
Origins of Modern Chinese Sport and Physical Culture.” Comparative
Studies in Society and History 42.4 (October 2000): 876-906.
• “Native Songs and Dances: Southeast Asia in a Greater Chinese
Sporting Community, 1920-1948.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 31.1
(March 2000): 48-69.
SERVICE
• Chair, General Education Area D/E Committee.
• Chair, History Department Peer Review Committee.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
• Reviewer for the following journals and organizations:
Journal of Asian Studies, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Comparative
Studies in Society and History, Bulletin of the Institute of Modern
History, Journal of Sport History, Gender & History, Nan
Nü: Men, Women, and Gender in Early and Imperial China, Sport
Studies (Taiwan), Social Science Research Council, National Endowment
for the Humanities.
COURSES
• HIST 300: Junior Seminar: Modern Taiwan
• HIST 303: Research and Writing Seminar in History: Asian America
• HIST 303: Research and Writing Seminar in History: Sports History
• HIST 310: East Asian Culture and Civilization
• HIST 316: Modern East Asia
• HIST 414: The Fall of Imperial China
• HIST 416: Modern Japan
• HIST 417: Twentieth Century China
• HIST 418: Chinese Film and History
• HIST 460: Senior Project
• HIST 461: Senior Project
• HIST 504: Graduate Study in History
• HIST 507: Graduate Seminar in East Asian History |
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