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R. David Arkush

Modern China

Office: 322 Schaeffer Hall

Office Hours:
By appointment

Tel: 319-335-2300

Email: arkush@uiowa.edu

Research

Teaching

Publications

Awards &
Service

Research

David Arkush teaches Modern Chinese history. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1976. He has written about Chinese intellectuals in the twentieth century and on Chinese notions of the United States. Most recently, he is working on a book on how villagers in North China thought about life, love, family, social relations, right and wrong, and the supernatural, as shown by several hundred unpublished folk tales from the southern Hebei province. Professor Arkush recently completed his time as the Director of Graduate Studies for the History Department.

Teaching

  • 16W:198 China Since 1927
  • 16W:051 Colloquium for History Majors (World)
  • 16W: 196 Modern China 1600s to 1920s
  • 16W:005 Civilizations of Asia (China)

Publications

  • Land Without Ghosts: Chinese Impressions of America from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present (University of California Press, co-ed. & trans. 1989; paperback ed. 1993)
  • Fei Xiaotong and Sociology in Modern China (Harvard East Asian Monograph Series, 1981; Chinese ed. Beijing: Current Affairs Press, 1986)

Awards & Service

  • Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, University of Iowa (2006-08)
  • Faculty Judicial Commission, Member, University of Iowa (2001-2004)
  • Corresponding Fellow, Chinese Folk Culture Research Institute, Beijing Normal University
  • Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation Seminar Scholar Research Grant (1998-1999)
  • Fulbright-Hayes Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship (1996-1997)
  • Committee on Scholarly Communication with China Fellowship (1988-1989)
  • Mellon-American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships (1986, 1979-1980)
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