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Prof. HAN Xiaorong

Prof. HAN Xiaorong

Head of Department and Professor

Modern Chinese and Vietnamese History, Peasant Movements, Ethnic Relations, The Chinese Diaspora, Intra-Asian Interactions

Education and Academic Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in history: University of Hawaii—Manoa
  • Master of Law in anthropology: Tulane University
  • M.A. in ethnic studies: Graduate school, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences 中国社会科学院研究生院
  • B.A. in history: Xiamen (Amoy) University 厦门大学

Research Interests

  • Modern Chinese and Vietnamese History
  • Peasant Movements
  • Ethnic Relations
  • The Chinese Diaspora
  • Intra-Asian Interactions

Research Output

  • 《紅神:韋拔群與華南邊疆的農民革命》. 香港:中華書局(香港)有限公司. 2023. 380 pp.
  • 中國民族關係散論》(Essays on China’s Ethnic Relations). 新加坡: 八方文化. 2015. 280 pp.
  • Red God: Wei Baqun and His Peasant Revolution in Southern China, 1894-1932. State University of New York Press, 2014. 380 pp.
  • The Chinese Discourses on the Peasant: 1900-1949. State University of New York Press, 2005. 260 pp.

Edited Volumes

  • Ethnic Minorities in Socialist China: Development, Migration, Culture, and Identity. Brill, 2022. 288 pp.
  • “Revolution Knows No Boundaries? Chinese Revolutionaries in North Vietnam during the Early Years of the First Indochina War.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, forthcoming.
  • “Knowing Tibet: Information-Gathering and Policy Consultation in the PRC’s Tibet Campaign in the Early 1950s.” The China Review, forthcoming.
  • “Continuities and Discontinuities in Politics: The ROC and PRC Policies Toward Overseas Chinese, 1912–66.” Chinese Historical Review, 25 (1): 23-45, 2018.
  • “A Community between Two Nations: The Overseas Chinese Normal School in Hanoi, 1956-1972.” Journal of Vietnamese Studies, 12(4):23-65, 2017.
  • “民族关系的前后三十年.” 《开放时代》, 2017, no. 1.
  • “从《新越华报》看中越关系和越南北方华侨社群的变迁( 1955-1976).” 《冷战国际史研究》(Cod War International History Studies). No. 22 (2016): 85-101.
  • “How Special has the Special Relationship between China and Vietnam been? A Re-examination of Three Aspects of Sino-Vietnamese Relations: the Chinese Model, the Chinese World Order, and Conflict Management.” Occasional Papers, # 33 (September 2016). Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg, Germany. https://www.southeastasianstudies.uni-freiburg.de/documents/occasional-paper/op33.pdf
  • “The Politics of Identity in Revolutionary China before and after 1949: The Case of Wei Baqun.” Twentieth Century China, 40. 1, 25–47, January 2015.
  • “From Resettlement to Rights Protection: The Collective Actions of the Refugees from Vietnam in China since the Late 1970s.” 从安家到维权:二十世纪七十年代末以来在中国的越南难民的集体行动. Journal of Chinese Overseas, 10 (2014): 197-219.
  • “Exiled to the Ancestral Land: The Resettlement, Stratification and Assimilation of the Refugees from Vietnam in China.” International Journal of Asian Studies, 10 (1): 25-46. Spring 2013.
  • “儒学在东亚邻国和中国少数民族地区的传播” [The Spread of Confucianism in China’s Frontier Regions and China’s Neighbors in East Asia]. In Tu Weiming 杜维明, ed., 《嵩山论坛文集》, 198-209. Guangming Ribao Press, 2013.
  • “The Demise of China’s Overseas Chinese State Farms,” Journal of Chinese Overseas, 9 (2013) 33-58.
  • “美国的越南研究” [American Studies of Vietnamese History]. 《南洋问题研究》[Southeast Asian Affairs], 2010 (4): 78-91.
  • “Spoiled Guests or Dedicated Patriots: The Chinese in North Vietnam, 1954-1978.” International Journal of Asian Studies, 6 (1): 1-36. Spring 2009.
  • “Who Invented the Bronze Drum?----Nationalism, Politics, and a Sino-Vietnamese Archaeological Debate of the 1970s and 1980s.” Asian Perspectives, 43(1):7-33. (Spring 2004)
  • “Localism in Chinese Communist Politics Before and After 1949—The Case of Feng Baiju.” Chinese Historical Review, 11(1):23-56. Spring 2004.
  • “The Present Echoes of the Ancient Bronze Drums--Nationalism and Archaeology in Modern Vietnam and China.” Explorations in Southeast Asian Studies, 2(2): 27-46, 1998. Reprinted in Vietnam Journal, Vol. 1, October 2001.
  • “东方民族的形成” [The Formation of East Asian Nations]. 《世界民族》 [Global Ethnic Studies], 1997(3): 12-27. Beijing. [In Chinese]
  • “The National Identity of the Chinese Community in North Vietnam: 1954—1978.” Human Mosaic 28(1): 5-13, 1994.
  • “多民族和睦相处的机制—斯里兰卡普特拉姆地区个案研究” [Mechanisms for Harmonious Ethnic Relations--A Case Study of Puttlam District, Sri Lanka]. 《民族研究》 [Ethnic Studies], 1991(2): 38-44. Beijing (co-author) [In Chinese]
  • “论东南亚民族形成和分布的地理基础” [On the Geographical Foundations of the Formation and Distribution of the Ethnic Groups in Southeast Asia]. 《东南亚》 [Southeast Asia], 1988 (2): 3-10. Kunming, China. [In Chinese]
  • “国内东南亚民族研究概述” [Introduction to Studies on Southeast Asian Ethnic Groups in China]. 《民族研究动态》 [Bulletin of Ethnic Studies], 1987(4):16-23. Beijing. [In Chinese]
  • “The Role of Vietnam in China’s Foreign Relations.” In Clara Wing-Chung Ho, Ricardo King-sang Mak, & Yue-him Tam, eds., Voyages, Migration, and the Maritime World, 121-133. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2018.
  • “儒学在东亚邻国和中国少数民族地区的传播” [The Spread of Confucianism in China’s Frontier Regions and China’s Neighbors in East Asia]. In Tu Weiming 杜维明, ed., 《嵩山论坛文集》, 198-209. Guangming Ribao Press, 2013.
  • “孙中山想象中的中国农民和中国农村社会” [Chinese Peasant and Rural China in Sun Yat-sen’s Imagination.” In Lin Jiayou and Li Ming, eds. 《看清世界与正视中国》(Sun Yat-sen’s Views of China and the World: Selected Papers from the International Symposium on Sun Yat-sen and the World), pp.210-226. 天津古籍, 2005. [In Chinese]
  • “当代国际政治中的跨界民族问题” [The Issue of Trans-border Ethnic Groups in Contemporary International Politics]. In Ge Gongshang, ed.《當代政治与民族问题》[Contemporary Politics and Ethnic Issues], pp.178-191. Beijing: Central University for National Minority Press, 1995. [Co-author] [In Chinese]
  • 2020-2021 Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme of Research Grants Council: Migration and Ethnicity in War and Revolution: The Chinese in Northern Vietnam since 1885
  • 2018-2021 General Research Fund of Research Grants Council: The Hakka Community in Northern Vietnam since 1850: Political & Ethnic Interactions
  • 2017-2020 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Internal Grant: Ethnicity and Revolution on China’s Frontiers, 1920-1950
  • 2016 Lingnan University Faculty Research Grant: The Teaching and Research on Local Ethno-history in Xinjiang and Xizang
  • 2015 Lingnan University Faculty Research Grant: Book Project: China’s Ethnic Groups and Ethnic Relations
  • 2014 Lingnan University Internal Research Grant:Chinese Migrations to Northern Vietnam: 1900-1954
  • 2010 Research Grant, The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange:Exiled to the Ancestral Land: Chinese Refugees from Vietnam in China
  • 2010 Butler University Internal Grant for Research:Exiled to the Ancestral Land: Chinese Refugees from Vietnam in China
  • 2007 Butler University Internal Grant for Research: Spoiled Guests or Dedicated Patriots: The Chinese in North Vietnam, 1954-1978
  • 2004 Butler University Internal Grant for Research & Freeman Foundation Grant through Butler University: Central-local Relations in Soviet China, 1927-1937

Esteem Measures

Journal Editorship

  • Co-editor-in-chief: China and Asia: A Journal in Historical Studies
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《紅神:韋拔群與華南邊疆的農民革命》. 香港:中華書局(香港)有限公司. 2023. 380 pp.

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Ethnic Minorities in Socialist China: Development, Migration, Culture, and Identity. Brill, 2022. 288 pp.

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China and Asia: A Journal in Historical Studies (CAHS)

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Essays on China’s Ethnic Relations 2015. 280 pp.

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Red God: Wei Baqun and His Peasant Revolution in Southern China, 1894-1932. State University of New York Press, 2014. 380 pp.

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The Chinese Discourses on the Peasant: 1900-1949. State University of New York Press, 2005. 260 pp.

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