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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