Arif Dirlik

Office: 331 McKenzie
Hall
Phone: (541) 346-4824
E-mail: adirlik@oregon.uoregon.edu
Biographical Information
Knight Professor of
Social Science, Professor of History and Anthropology--Modern China
 Transnational
Asian Studies, Pacific Formations, Asian-Americans, Postcolonial Studies,
Globalization
BS 1964, Robert College,
Istanbul, Electrical Engineering
Ph.D. 1973 University
of Rochester, History
With the U of O since
2001
Major Publications
Authored Works:
 Postmodernity's
Histories: The Past as Legacy and Project (2000);
 Hougeming
fenwei (The Postrevolutionary Aura) (in Chinese) (1999)
 The
Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism
(1997)
 After
the Revolution: Waking to Global Capitalism (1994) (also published
in Korean, 1999)
 Schools
Into Fields and Factories: Anarchists, the Guomindang, and the Labor University
in Shanghai, 1927-1932 (1991); (with Ming K. Chan);
 Anarchism
in the Chinese Revolution (1991);
 The
Origins of Chinese Communism (1989);
 Revolution
and History: Origins of Marxist Historiography in China, 1919-1937
(1978)
Edited Volumes:
 Chinese
on the American Frontier (2001);
 Places
and Politics in an Age of Global Capital (with Roxann Prazniak) (2001);
 History
After the Three Worlds (with Vinay Bahl and Peter Gran) (2000);
 Postmodernism
and China (with Zhang Xudong) (2000);
 What
is in a Rim? Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea (1993,
1996, 1998);
 Critical
Perspectives on Mao Zedong's Thought (with Paul Healy and Nick Knight)
(1997);
 Asia-Pacific
as Space of Cultural Production (with Rob Wilson) (1995);
 Marxism
and the Chinese Experience (with Maurice Meisner) (1989)
Fellowships, Grants, and Honors
Fellow, Netherlands
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences,
1998-1999
Senior Fellow, Nordic
Institute for Asian Studies, 1997
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation
Senior Scholar Fellowship, 1995-1996
American Council for
Learned Societies Research Fellowship, 1985-1986
National Endowment
for the Humanities Research Fellowship, 1978-1979
Fulbright Fellowship,
1965-1965
Current Research and Writing
Chinese In World's
Fairs
The Revolutionary Movement
in South China, 1920s
Representations of
China and the Question of Orientalism
Globalization and Culture
Places and Development
Recent Teaching
Rebels and Revolutionaries
in Modern China
Nationalism and Colonialism
in History and Theory
Hawai'i as America
The Worlds of the Modern
Chinese
Issues in Globalization,
Postcolonialism and History
Inventing China
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