EASC: Teaching About Asia

Charles W. Hayford
Independent Scholar and Visiting Scholar, Department of History, Northwestern University

Education
Evanston Township High School; AB, PhD. Harvard University

Positions
Taught Chinese and Asian history, US-China Relations, and Chinese and Japanese film: Harvard University, Oberlin College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Northwestern University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Stanford University, University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Iowa, Colorado College, Harvard Summer School.

Representative, Yale-China Association and Associate Director of the International Asian Studies Programme, Hong Kong, 1979-1981.

Book Review Editor (China/Inner Asia) 1990-1994 Journal of Asian Studies.

Lecturer or leader on more than ten tours of China.

Oganizer/Instructor, Chicago Area Teachers’ Seminar, National Consortium on Teaching About Asia, 2004, 2005

Publications
To the People: James Yen and Village China (Columbia University Press, 1990)

Draft Bibliography of American-East Asian Relations, a special volume of Journal of American-East Asian Relations 8:1-4 (Spring-Winter 1999 [published 2002]

China (World Bibliography Series ABC-Clio, 1997)

Articles, chapters, and encyclopedia entries in the field of modern Chinese history and Chinese-American relations

Reviews: at least half a dozen book reviews each China Quarterly, Journal of Asian Studies, Library Journal; reviews in other journals.

Current Projects and Interests
America’s Chinas: From The Opium Wars to Tiananmen, a draft book manuscript analyzing books
written for the home audience by Americans living in China.

Editor, Journal of American-East Asian Relations

Imprint editor for D’Asia Vue, EastBridge which reprints classics of Western writing on Asia.

Chinese and Japanese film – taught “Screening History: Film in Post-War Japan and Post-Mao China,”
which looks at popular culture and memory in post-traumatic stress societies.

Food and cooking in Confucian societies: draft articles “Eat, Drink, Man Woman: Telling Confucian
Stories”; “What’s So Bad About Chop Suey?”; “Eating Chinesely in the Global Restaurant.”

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
“American China Stories: Screens on the Open Door,” in Samuel Chu, Ed., Mme Chiang Kaishek and Her
China (EastBridge Books, forthcoming]

“American China Missions: An Introductory Bibliography,” April 23, 2003, Day Missions Library, Yale
University, online: http://www.library.yale.edu/div/MissionsResources.htm.

“Xie Jin’s Hibiscus Town: Revolution, Love, and Beancurd,” in Chris Berry, ed., Chinese Films in Focus:
26 New Takes (London: British Institute of Film Studies, 2003).

“James Yen,” in David Levinson and Karen Christensen, eds. Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, (New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons 2002).

Draft Bibliography of American-East Asian Relations, special volume of Journal of American-East
Asian Relations 8:1-4 (Spring-Winter 1999 [published 2002]): 1-215.

“What’s So Bad About The Good Earth?,” Education About Asia 3.3 (Winter 1998): 4-7. Also available
online.

“The Storm Over the Peasant: Orientalism, Rhetoric and Representation in Modern China,” in Shelton Stromquist, Jeffrey Cox, ed., Contesting The Master Narrative (University of Iowa Press, 1998).

“Lin Tse-hsu,” Encyclopedia Britannica, 1972, revised 1997 for CD ROM publication.

“The Open Door Raj and Post-Semi-Colonial Historiography: Chinese-American Cultural Relations, 1900-
1945" in Warren Cohen, Ed., Pacific Passages: Historiography of American-East Asian Relations
(Columbia University Press, 1995).

“China Trade,” “100 Days Reform,” “Hong Xiuchuan,” articles in Frank Ng, ed., Encyclopedia of Asian-
American History (Salem Press, 1995).

“The Good Earth, Revolution, and the American Raj in China,” in The Several Worlds of Pearl S. Buck
(Greenwood Press, 1994).

“JKF and Me,” in Paul A. Cohen and Merle Goldman (compiled), Fairbank Remembered (Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1992), pp. 133-135; translated in Fei Zhengqing Di Zhongguo Shijie:
Tongsidai Ren Di Hui’i (Shanghai: Dongfang, 2000).

“Zai xin wenhua idai renshizhong Yan Yangchu sixiang yu shixian di Zhongguo tese” (Tr. of “James Yen's
Chinese Thought and Practice in the May Fourth Generation”), in Song Enrong (ed.), Jiaoyu Yu Shehui
Fazhan: Yan Yangchu Sixiang Guoji Xueshu Yantaohui Wenji (Education and Social Development:
Papers from the International Conference on the Thought of Yan Yangchu; Changsha, Hunan, PRC: Hunan
Education Press, 1991) pp. 269-283.

“Literacy Movements in Modern China,” in Harvey Graff & Robert Arnove (ed.) Literacy Movements in
Historical Perspective (Plenum Press 1987).

“Chinese and American Characteristics: Arthur H. Smith and the Respectable Middle Class View of China,” in S.W. Barnett and J.K. Fairbank (eds.) Christianity in China: Early Protestant Missionary Writings (Harvard University Press, 1985).

Translation of Kong Jiesheng, “On the Other Side of the River” (Xiaohe neibian), in Perry Link, ed., Roses
and Thorns: The Second Blooming of the Hundred Flowers in Chinese Fiction, 1979-1980 (University
of California Press, 1984).