About the Book

About the Author

Peter Zarrow is currently Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, having previously taught in the United States and Australia. His research focuses on the thought and culture of twentieth-century China, and he has authored works on Chinese anarchism, historiography, the 1911 Revolution, the Cultural Revolution, and other subjects.

Peter Zarrow's publications include:

• Anarchism and Chinese Political Culture (Columbia University Press, 1990)

In the last five years his publications include the following articles:

• "Political Ritual in the Early Republic of China" pp. 149-188, Kai-wing Chow, Kevin Doak, and Poshek Fu, eds.
• Constructing Nationhood in Modern East Asia: Narrative Schemes, Nostalgia, and Ambiguity of Identities (University of Michigan Press) Ann Arbor, 2001
• "The Origins of Modern Chinese Concepts of Privacy: Notes on Social Structure and Moral Discourse" pp. 121-146, Bonnie S. McDougall and Anders Hansson, eds., Chinese Concepts of Privacy (E.J. Brill, 2002)
• "Conflicting Emotions: Aspects of the Personal and Public in the Late Qing" pp. 227-278, vol. 2, Ping-chen Hsiung
• "Concealing to Reveal" An International Scholarly Conference on "the Private" and "Sentiment in Chinese History and Culture" (Center for Chinese Studies, Taipei, 2003)
• "Old Myth into New History: The Building Blocks of Liang Qichao’s 'New History'" Historiography East and West vol. 1, no. 2 (December 2003, pp. 204-241)
• "Late-Qing Reformism and the Meiji Model: Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao, and the Japanese Emperor" pp. 40-67, Joshua A. Fogel, ed., The Role of Japan in Liang Qichao’s Introduction of Modern Western Civilization to China (Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2004)
• "Historical Trauma: Anti-Manchuism and Memories of Atrocity in Late Qing China" History and Memory vol. 16, no. 2 (2004, pp. 67-107)

Zarrow has also edited:

• Imagining the People: Chinese Intellectuals and the Concept of Citizenship, 1890-1920 (with Joshua A. Fogel, M.E. Sharpe Publishers, 1997)
• Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period: Political and Cultural Change in Late Qing China (with Rebecca E. Karl, 2002)
• Creating Chinese Modernity: Knowledge and Everyday Life, 1900-1940 (Peter Lang Publishers, 2006)