Prasenjit Duara
Oscar L. Tang Family Distinguished Professor of East Asian Studies
Prasenjit Duara is the Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies at Duke University. He was born and educated in India and received his PhD in Chinese history from Harvard University. He was previously Professor and Chair of the Dept of History and Chair of the Committee on Chinese Studies at the University of Chicago (1991-2008). Subsequently, he became Raffles Professor of Humanities and Director, Asia Research Institute at National University of Singapore (2008-2015).
In 1988, he published Culture, Power and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942 (Stanford Univ Press) which won the Fairbank Prize of the AHA and the Levenson Prize of the AAS, USA. Among his other books are Rescuing History from the Nation (U Chicago 1995), Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern (Rowman 2003) and most recently, The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Cambridge 2014). He has edited Decolonization: Now and Then (Routledge, 2004) and co-edited A Companion to Global Historical Thought with Viren Murthy and Andrew Sartori (John Wiley, 2014). His work has been widely translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean and the European languages.
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Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Oscar L. Tang Family Distinguished Professor of East Asian Studies, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2016
- Professor in the Department of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2016
Contact Information
- 212A Classroom Building, Durham, NC 27708
- PO Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708
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prasenjit.duara@duke.edu
(919) 684-3014
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Global Asia Initiative
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History Departmental Web Profile
- Background
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Duke Appointment History
- Scholar in Residence in the Department of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015
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Awards & Honors
- Expertise
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Global Scholarship
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Expertise
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Research
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Selected Publications
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Books
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Duara, P. The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian traditions and a sustainable future. Cambridge University Press, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139998222.Full Text
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Duara, P. Afterword: A comparative glance at politics and religion in modern Japan, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230336681.Full Text
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Duara, P. The global and regional in China's nation-formation, 2008. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203884379.Full Text
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Duara, P. Decolonization: Perspectives from now and then, 2004. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203485521.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit. Sovereignty and Authenticity Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern. Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.
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Duara, Prasenjit. Rescuing History from the Nation Questioning Narratives of Modern China. University of Chicago Press, 1996.
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Duara, Prasenjit. Rescuing History from the Nation-state, 1992.
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Academic Articles
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Duara, Prasenjit. “Book review: China and the West: Crossroads of Civilisation.” China Information 33, no. 3 (November 2019): 375–77. https://doi.org/10.1177/0920203x19878364b.Full Text
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Duara, P. “Time and tide wait for no man: A response to warwick anderson and michael m. j. fischer.” East Asian Science, Technology and Society 12, no. 4 (December 1, 2018): 541–47. https://doi.org/10.1215/18752160-7219395.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit. “Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field. Edited by Janet Hoskins and Viet Thanh Nguyen . Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014. Pp. 236. ISBN 10: 0824839986; ISBN 13: 978-0824839987.” International Journal of Asian Studies 14, no. 1 (January 2017): 99–100. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1479591416000255.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit. “Afterword: The Chinese World Order as a Language Game—David Kang’s East Asia before the West and Its Commentaries.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 77, no. 1 (2017): 123–29. https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2017.0008.Full Text
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Carlson, A. R., A. Costa, P. Duara, J. Leibold, K. Carrico, P. H. Gries, N. Eto, S. Zhao, and J. C. Weiss. “Nations and Nationalism roundtable discussion on Chinese nationalism and national identity.” Nations and Nationalism 22, no. 3 (July 1, 2016): 415–46. https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12232.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Duara, Prasenjit. “The temporal analytics of nationalism.” Nations and Nationalism 22, no. 3 (July 1, 2016): 419–23.Open Access Copy Link to Item
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Duara, Prasenjit. “Rogers Brubaker.Grounds for Difference.” The American Historical Review 121, no. 3 (June 2016): 907–8. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/121.3.907.Full Text
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Duara, P. “A Tale of Two Chinas.” Development and Change 46, no. 3 (May 1, 2015). https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12157.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit. “China's Growth: The Making of an Economic Superpower.” Development and Change 46, no. 3 (May 1, 2015): 562–69.Link to Item
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Duara, Prasenjit. “Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development.” Development and Change 46, no. 3 (May 1, 2015): 562–69.Open Access Copy Link to Item
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Duara, P. “The Agenda of Asian Studies and Digital Media in the Anthropocene.” Asiascape: Digital Asia 2, no. 1–2 (January 1, 2015): 11–19. https://doi.org/10.1163/22142312-12340018.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit. “Culture and History in Post-Revolutionary China: The Perspective of Global Modernity. By Arif Dirlik. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2012. 356 pp. $42.00 (cloth).” The Journal of Asian Studies 72, no. 2 (May 2013): 440–41. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021911813000120.Full Text
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Duara, P. “History and competition of the times: The case of East Asia.” Vingtieme Siecle: Revue D’Histoire 117, no. 1 (March 25, 2013): 27–41. https://doi.org/10.3917/vin.117.0026.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit. “THE POLITICS OF IMAGINING ASIA.” Pacific Affairs 85, no. 2 (June 1, 2012): 377–79.Link to Item
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Duara, Prasenjit. “Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia. By Sunil S. Amrith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xvi, 217 pp. $85.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).” The Journal of Asian Studies 71, no. 2 (May 2012): 499–501. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021911812000137.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit. “Southeast Asia. Strange parallels: Southeast Asia in global context, c. 800–1830, vol. 2. By Victor Lieberman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 947. Maps, Notes, Bibliography, Index.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 43, no. 1 (February 2012): 181–84. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022463411000713.Full Text
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Duara, P. “The Cold War as a historical period: An interpretive essay.” Journal of Global History 6, no. 3 (November 1, 2011): 457–80. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022811000416.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit. “The Cold War as a historical period: an interpretive essay.” Journal of Global History 6, no. 03 (November 2011): 457–80.
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Duara, Prasenjit. “Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization. By Kuan-hsing Chen. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010. Pp. 344. ISBN 10: 0822346761; 13: 9780822346760.” International Journal of Asian Studies 8, no. 2 (July 2011): 221–23. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1479591411000064.Full Text
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Duara, P. “The Chinese revolution and insurgent maoism in India: A spatial analysis.” Economic and Political Weekly 46, no. 18 (April 30, 2011): 33–36.
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Duara, Prasenjit. “Spectacle and Sacrifice: The Ritual Foundations of Village Life in North China.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 71, no. 1 (2011): 163–68. https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2011.0014.Full Text
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Duara, P. “Response to comments on "asia Redux".” Journal of Asian Studies 69, no. 4 (November 1, 2010): 1027–29. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911810002846.Full Text
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Duara, P. “Asia redux: Conceptualizing a region for our times.” Journal of Asian Studies 69, no. 4 (November 1, 2010): 963–83. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911810002858.Full Text
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Duara, P. “Guest editor's introduction shaping transnational asian studies: New directions in China-India research.” China Report 46, no. 4 (November 1, 2010): 327–32. https://doi.org/10.1177/000944551104600401.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit. “Guest Editor’s Introduction Shaping Transnational Asian Studies.” China Report 46, no. 4 (November 2010): 327–32.
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Duara, Prasenjit. “Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History: Colonialism, Regionalism and Borders.” Journal of Japanese Studies 35, no. 1 (December 1, 2009): 185–88.Link to Item
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Duara, P. “Worlds at War: The 2,500 Year Struggle between East and West.” Common Knowledge 15, no. 3 (October 1, 2009): 511–511. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2009-039.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit. “Featured Reviews:The Theft of History.” The American Historical Review 114, no. 2 (April 2009): 405–7. https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr.114.2.405.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit. “Disciplining the State: Virtue, Violence, and State‐Making in Modern China. By Patricia M. Thornton. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007. Pp.247. $39.95.).” The Historian 71, no. 1 (March 1, 2009): 144–45. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6563.2008.00233_39.x.Full Text
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Duara, P. “The limits of legal sovereignty: China and India in recent history.” Journal of Asian Studies 68, no. 1 (February 1, 2009): 122–27. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911809000138.Full Text
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Ocko, J. K., D. Gilmartin, V. Shue, P. W. Kahn, R. Peerenboom, L. Benton, and P. Duara. “Response to comments on our paper.” Journal of Asian Studies 68, no. 1 (February 1, 2009): 127–33. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002191180900014X.Full Text
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Duara, P. “The global and regional constitution of nations: The view from East Asia.” Nations and Nationalism 14, no. 2 (April 1, 2008): 323–45. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8129.2008.00328.x.Full Text
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Duara, P. “History and globalization in China's long twentieth century.” Modern China 34, no. 1 (January 1, 2008): 152–64. https://doi.org/10.1177/0097700407308141.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit. “Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China. Timothy Brook.” The China Journal 59 (January 2008): 142–44. https://doi.org/10.1086/tcj.59.20066387.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit. “TO THINK LIKE AN EMPIRE.” History and Theory 46, no. 2 (May 2007): 292–98. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2303.2007.00409.x.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit. “China's unequal treaties: Narrating national history.” Pacific Affairs 79, no. 2 (June 1, 2006): 314–15.Link to Item
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Duara, Prasenjit. “The Teleology of the Modern Nation-state: Japan and China (review).” The Journal of Japanese Studies 31, no. 2 (2005): 490–92. https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2005.0040.Full Text
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Duara, P. “China unbound: Evolving perspectives on the Chinese.” Pacific Affairs 77, no. 4 (December 1, 2004): 742–43.Link to Item
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Duara, P. “The discourse of civilization and decolonization.” Journal of World History 15, no. 1 (January 1, 2004): 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2004.0006.Full Text
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Duara, P. “Nationalism and transnationalism in the globalisation of China.” China Report 39, no. 1 (January 1, 2003): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1177/000944550303900101.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit. “North China at War: The Social Ecology of Revolution, 1937–1945. Edited by Chongyi Feng and David S. Goodman. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2000. xix, 236 pp. $84.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).” The Journal of Asian Studies 61, no. 3 (August 2002): 1025–27. https://doi.org/10.2307/3096368.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit, Timothy Brook, and Andre Schmid. “Nation Work: Asian Elites and National Identities.” The American Historical Review 106, no. 3 (June 2001): 928–928. https://doi.org/10.2307/2692338.Full Text
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Duara, P. “The discourse of civilization and pan-asianism.” Journal of World History 12, no. 1 (January 1, 2001): 99–130. https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2001.0009.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit, and Michael Leifer. “Asian Nationalism: China, Taiwan, Japan, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, the Philippines.” Pacific Affairs 74, no. 4 (2001): 583–583. https://doi.org/10.2307/3557811.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit, and Ray Huang. “Broadening the Horizons of Chinese History: Discourses, Syntheses, and Comparisons.” The American Historical Review 105, no. 3 (June 2000): 880–880. https://doi.org/10.2307/2651815.Full Text
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Duara, P. “Response to Philip Huang’s “Biculturality in Modern China and in Chinese Studies”.” Modern China 26, no. 1 (January 1, 2000): 32–37. https://doi.org/10.1177/009770040002600102.Full Text
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Duara, P. “Local Worlds: The Poetics and Politics of the Native Place in Modern China.” South Atlantic Quarterly 99, no. 1 (January 1, 2000): 13–48. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-99-1-13.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit, Mark Poster, and Keith Jenkins. “Cultural History and Postmodernity: Disciplinary Readings and Challenges.” The Journal of American History 86, no. 2 (September 1999): 740–740. https://doi.org/10.2307/2567061.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit. “Culture and State in Chinese History: Conventions, Accommodations, and Critique. Edited by Theodore Huters R. Bin Wong and Pauline Yu. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. 500 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).” The Journal of Asian Studies 57, no. 4 (November 1998): 1124–26. https://doi.org/10.2307/2659323.Full Text
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Duara, P. “Purity and exile: Violence, memory, and national cosmology among Hutu refugees in Tanzania.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 40, no. 3 (July 1, 1998): 581–82.Link to Item
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Duara, P. “Why is history antitheoretical?” Modern China 24, no. 2 (January 1, 1998): 105–20. https://doi.org/10.1177/009770049802400202.Full Text
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Duara, P. “Transnationalism in the era of nation-states: China, 1900-1945.” Development and Change 29, no. 4 (January 1, 1998): 647–70. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7660.00094.Full Text
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Duara, P. “The regime of authenticity: Timelessness, gender, and national history in modern China.” History and Theory 37, no. 3 (January 1, 1998): 287–308. https://doi.org/10.1111/0018-2656.00055.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit, Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers, and Mark R. Peattie. “The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945.” The American Historical Review 102, no. 5 (December 1997): 1553–1553. https://doi.org/10.2307/2171203.Full Text
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Duara, P. “Rummaging through the dustbin of history - A response.” Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 29, no. 4 (October 1, 1997): 67–68.Link to Item
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Duara, Prasenjit. “Transnationalism and the Predicament of Sovereignty: China, 1900-1945.” The American Historical Review 102, no. 4 (October 1997): 1030–1030. https://doi.org/10.2307/2170628.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit. “Short review.” Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 29, no. 1 (March 1997): 70–71. https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.1997.10409707.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit. “Remapping Memory: The Politics of Timespace. Edited by Jonathan Boyarin Afterword by Charles Tilly. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. $44.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).” The Journal of Asian Studies 56, no. 1 (February 1997): 141–42. https://doi.org/10.2307/2646349.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit. “China's Motor: A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalism.Hill Gates.” American Journal of Sociology 102, no. 4 (January 1997): 1168–69. https://doi.org/10.1086/231046.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit. “Memory, History, and Opposition Under State Socialism.Rubie S. Watson.” The China Journal 36 (July 1996): 166–68. https://doi.org/10.2307/2950389.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit. “Revolutionary Discourse in Mao's Republic.David E. Apter , Tony Saich.” American Journal of Sociology 101, no. 1 (July 1995): 231–33. https://doi.org/10.1086/230709.Full Text
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DUARA, P. “THE MAKING OF A HINTERLAND - STATE, SOCIETY AND ECONOMY IN INLAND NORTH CHINA, 1853-1937 - POMERANZ,K.” China Quarterly, no. 142 (June 1, 1995): 631–32.Link to Item
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Duara, Prasenjit, and Thongchai Winichakul. “Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation.” The American Historical Review 100, no. 2 (April 1995): 477–477. https://doi.org/10.2307/2169009.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit. “China's Quest for National Identity. Edited by Lowell Dittmer and Samuel Kim. Ithaca and London: Cornell Univeristy Press, 1993. $42.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).” The Journal of Asian Studies 53, no. 1 (February 1994): 165–67. https://doi.org/10.2307/2059553.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit. “De-Constructing the Chinese Nation.” The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs 30 (July 1993): 1–26. https://doi.org/10.2307/2949990.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit, and Steven Kemper. “The Presence of the Past: Chronicles, Politics, and Culture in Sinhala Life.” The American Historical Review 98, no. 3 (June 1993): 930–930. https://doi.org/10.2307/2167682.Full Text
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DUARA, P. “THE DISPLACEMENT OF TENSION TO THE TENSION OF DISPLACEMENT + IMPERIALISM A USEFUL CATEGORY OF HISTORICAL-ANALYSIS.” Radical History Review, no. 57 (1993): 60–64.Link to Item
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DUARA, P. “THE PEASANT FAMILY AND RURAL-DEVELOPMENT IN THE YANGZI DELTA, 1350-1988 - HUANG,PCC.” Pacific Affairs 64, no. 4 (December 1, 1992): 567–68.Link to Item
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Duara, Prasenjit. “Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People's Republic. By Dru C. Gladney. Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard East Asian Monographs No. 149, 1991. $38.00 (cloth); $22.00 (paper).” The Journal of Asian Studies 51, no. 3 (August 1992): 644–46. https://doi.org/10.2307/2057971.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit. “The Golden Age of the Chinese Bourgeoisie 1911–1937. By Marie-Claire BergÈre trans. Janet Lloyd. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1989. Pp. x, 356.” Modern Asian Studies 26, no. 3 (July 1992): 632–34. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x00009963.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit. “Chinese Village, Socialist State. By Edward Friedman, Paul G. Pickowicz and Mark Selden with Kay Ann Johnson. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1991. 336 pp. $35.00.” The Journal of Asian Studies 51, no. 1 (February 1992): 143–45. https://doi.org/10.2307/2058369.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit, Mark Harrison, Michael F. Martin, Harriet Friedmann, Amit Bhaduri, Wiseman Chijere Chirwa, Elisabeth J. Croll, et al. “Book reviews.” Journal of Peasant Studies 19, no. 1 (October 1991): 142–80. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066159108438475.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit. “National Polity and Local Power: The Transformation of Late Imperial China. By Min Tu-ki. Edited by Philip A. Kuhn and Timothy Brook. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies/Harvard University and the Harvard Yenching Institute, 1990. 309 pp. $26.00.” The Journal of Asian Studies 50, no. 2 (May 1991): 395–97. https://doi.org/10.2307/2057235.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit, and Kamal Sheel. “Peasant Society and Marxist Intellectuals in China: Fang Zhimin and the Origin of a Revolutionary Movement in the Xinjiang Region.” The American Historical Review 96, no. 2 (April 1991): 580–580. https://doi.org/10.2307/2163370.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit. “Knowledge and Power in the Discourse of Modernity: The Campaigns against Popular Religion in Early Twentieth-Century China.” The Journal of Asian Studies 50, no. 1 (February 1991): 67–83. https://doi.org/10.2307/2057476.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit. “: Xiang Lake: Nine Centuries of Chinese Life . R. Keith Schoppa.” American Anthropologist 91, no. 4 (December 1989): 1083–84. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1989.91.4.02a00790.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit, Susan Naquin, and Evelyn S. Rawski. “Chinese Society in The Eighteenth Century.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 49, no. 1 (June 1989): 241–241. https://doi.org/10.2307/2719303.Full Text
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DUARA, P. “THE ORIGINS OF THE BOXER UPRISING - ESHERICK,JW.” International History Review 10, no. 1 (February 1988): 150–53.Link to Item
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Duara, P. “Superscribing Symbols: The Myth of Guandi, Chinese God of War.” The Journal of Asian Studies 47, no. 4 (January 1, 1988): 778–95. https://doi.org/10.2307/2057852.Full Text
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Duara, P. “State Involution: A Study of Local Finances in North China, 1911–1935.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 29, no. 1 (January 1, 1987): 132–61. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417500014389.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit, and Philip C. C. Huang. “The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 46, no. 1 (June 1986): 283–283. https://doi.org/10.2307/2719084.Full Text
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Duara, Prasenjit. “Party, State, and Local Elites in Republican China: Merchant Organizations and Politics in Shanghai, 1890–1930. By Joseph Fewsmith. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985. xii, 275 pp. Map, Notes, Glossary, Selected Bibliography, Index. $25.” The Journal of Asian Studies 45, no. 1 (November 1985): 117–18. https://doi.org/10.2307/2056835.Full Text
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Duara, Prasanjit. “Cultural Revolution and Industrial Organization in China: Changes in Management and the Division of Labor. By Charles Bettelheim. Monthly Review Press, New York. 1974. 128p. $6.95” 30, no. 4 (October 1974): 325–26.
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Duara, P. “The Great Leap Forward in China: An Analysis of the Nature of Socialist Transformation.” Economic and Political Weekly: A Journal of Current Economic and Political Affairs, n.d.
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Book Sections
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Duara, P. “Circulatory and competitive histories.” In China, India and Alternative Asian Modernities, 18–41, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429260865.Full Text
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Ambrus, Árpád, and Denis Hamilton. “Foreword.,” 53:341–42, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1080/03601234.2018.1439771.Full Text
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Duara, P. “Decolonization and its legacy.” In The Cambridge World History, 395–419, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139196079.016.Full Text
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Duara, P. “Hong Kong and the new imperialism in East Asia, 1941-66.” In Twentieth-Century Colonialism and China: Localities, the Everyday and the World, 197–211, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203125458.Full Text
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Duara, P. “Modern Imperialism.” In The Oxford Handbook of World History, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199235810.013.0022.Full Text
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Duara, P. “Between empire and nation: Settler colonialism in Manchukuo.” In Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century: Projects, Practices, Legacies, 59–78, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203621042.Full Text
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Duara, P. “Concluding remarks.” In Sun Yat-Sen Nanyang and the 1911 Revolution, 313–18, 2011.
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Duara, P. “Chinese reforms in historical and comparative perspective.” In Reform and Development in China: What Can China Offer the Developing World, 71–81, 2010. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203846308.Full Text
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Duara, P. “The historical roots and character of secularism in China.” In China and International Relations: The Chinese View and the Contribution of Wang Gungwu, 58–71, 2010. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203850039.Full Text
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Duara, P. “An east Asian perspective on religion and secularism.” In State and Secularism: Perspectives from Asia, 1–6, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814282383_0001.Full Text
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Duara, P. “Between sovereignty and capitalism:The historical experiences of migrant Chinese.” In Diasporic Histories: Cultural Archives of Chinese Transnationalism, 95–109, 2009.
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Duara, P. “Religion and citizenship in China and the diaspora.” In Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation, 43–64, 2008.
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Duara, P. “Historical consciousness and national identity.” In The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture, 46–67, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521863223.003.Full Text
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Duara, P. “Postcolonial History.” In A Companion to Western Historical Thought, 417–31, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470998748.ch22.Full Text
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Duara, P. “Introduction: The decolonization of Asia and Africa in the twentieth century.” In Decolonization: Perspectives from Now and Then, 1–18, 2004. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203485521-4.Full Text
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Duara, P. “Civilizations and nations in a globalizing world,” 79–99, 2002.Link to Item
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DUARA, P. “ELITES AND THE STRUCTURES OF AUTHORITY IN THE VILLAGES OF NORTH CHINA, 1900-1949,” 11:261–81, 1990.Link to Item
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Recent Courses
- HISTORY 790S-05: Topics in Global Connections 2021
- HISTORY 791: Reading Topics: Independent Study 2021
- AMES 531S: Culture and Environment in Modern Chinese History 2020
- HISTORY 101: Introduction to Global History 2020
- HISTORY 514S: Culture and Environment in Modern Chinese History 2020
- HISTORY 791: Reading Topics: Independent Study 2020
- HISTORY 101: Introduction to Global History 2019
- HISTORY 791: Reading Topics: Independent Study 2019
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Presentations & Appearances
- "Whose Globe? / Whose Globalization?". Sustainability and Crisis of Transcendence. University of California, Santa Barbara. February 26, 2016 2016
- Provost's Langford Lecture. Duke University . February 9, 2016 2016
- “The Agenda of Asian Studies in the Anthropocene” . New Horizons of Asian Studies . Seoul National University Asia Centre. March 2014 2014
- “The Multinational State and the 1911 Revolution in Global History” . Keynote Address . International Conference Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the 1911 Revolution . December 10, 2011 2011
- “Contemporary Politics and Changing Perspectives on Imperialism. Conference of International Association of Historians of Asia . November 15, 2008 2008
- “Crossing Borders: A Personal Journey of Research in Asia” . Keynote Address . Third International Conference on Asian Studies. August 2003 2003
- “The Production of National Knowledge: History and Anthropology in Inter-war East Asia" . Keynote Address . Australian Association of Asian Studies. July 2002 2002
- “Pan-Asianism: The Discourse of Civilization among Nation-states”. Nicholas Tarling Keynote. 13th International New Zealand ASIA Conference. November 1999 1999
- "Imperial Nations/National Empires: Ethnography and Territory in Modern East Asia” . Humanities Dean’s Lecture. Rutgers University . October 29, 1998 1998
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Service to the Profession
- Committee Member. Social Science Dean Search Committee . University of Chicago . 2006 2006
- Member. China and Inter Asia Council . Association of Asian Studies. 2001 - 2004 2001 - 2004
- Advisory Board. Humanities Initiative for the 21st Century. University of Southern California . 1999 1999
- Chair. Committee on Chinese Studies . University of Chicago . 1995 1995
- Member. Editorial Board. American Historical Review. 1994 - 1997 1994 - 1997
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