Xiaoqun Xu

Professor

McMurran Hall 327
(757) 594-7393
xxu@cnu.edu
sites.google.com/a/cnu.edu/xiaoqun-xu-ph-d/

Education

Ph D in Modern Chinese History, Columbia University
M Phil in Modern Chinese History, Columbia University
MA in History, University of Akron
MA in History, East China Normal University
BA in History, Shanghai Teachers College (China)

Teaching

Chinese and East Asian history. Has taught seventeen different courses at CNU, including an Honors Seminar, World History surveys, History Methods and Historiography, Senior Seminar, and a course for MAT program.

Research

Legal-judicial, social, and cultural history of Modern China. Authored four books in English and one in Chinese, and over twenty journal articles and book chapters.

Biography

Born in China. Earned Ph. D. in modern Chinese history at Columbia University in 1993. Taught at Francis Marion University, SC, (tenured and promoted to associate professor in 1999) before coming to CNU in 2004. Recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and other awards.

Selected Accomplishments

Journal Article, Academic Journal
(2024). State Finance, Merchant Stake, and Foreign Interests: The Certificate System in the Chinese Salt Administration, 1912-1949. Business History. Issue, Vol. 66, No. 4. Pages, 807-828.
Journal Article, Academic Journal
(2022). A Critical Dimension of State Building: Taxation in Nationalist China, 1928-1949. Twentieth Century China. Volume, 47. Issue, 1. Pages, 50-59.
Book, Scholarly-New
(2020). Heaven Has Eyes: A History of Chinese Law. Oxford University Press.
Journal Article, Academic Journal
(2019). Global Circulation and Local Adaptation of Tax Models: Business Tax in China, 1931-1949. Accounting History Review. Volume, 29. Issue, 3. Pages, 347-367.
Book, Scholarly-New
(2018). Chinese Edition of Trial of Modernity: Judicial Reform in Early Twentieth Century China, 1901-1937. Encylopedia of China Publishing House.
Journal Article, Academic Journal
(2018). Law, Custom, and Social Norms: Civil Adjudications in Qing and Republican China. Law and History Review. Volume, 36. Issue, 1. Pages, 77-104.
Journal Article, Academic Journal
(2016). Taxation and State Building: Tax Reform under the Nationalist Government in China, 1928-1949. Accounting, Organizations and Society. Volume, 44. Issue, 1. Pages, 17-30.
Journal Article, Academic Journal
(2015). The Chinese Judiciary under the Japanese Occupation: Criminal and Civil Justice in Jiangsu, 1938-1945. The Chinese Historical Review. Volume, 22. Issue, 2. Pages, 120-140.
Monograph
(2014). Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Individualism in Modern China: The Chenbao Fukan and the New Culture Era, 1918-1928. Lexington Books. Pages, 276.
Journal Article, Academic Journal
(2014). Placing China in the Colonial World Order: Travelogues in Chenbao Fukan, 1921-1926. Twentieth Century China. Volume, 39. Issue, 1. Pages, 69-89.
Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
(2012). Law and Courts as Negotiating Tools: Marriage and Divorce in Republican China, 1912-1949. Campus Verlage. Pages, 183-208.
Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
(2010). Professional Theater and Urban Culture: The Emergence of Chinese Spoken Drama in the 1920s-1930s. Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica. Issue, 2010. Pages, 292-325.
Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
(2010). Judicial Professionalzation in China: In Light of the Republican Experience. Routledge. Issue, 2010. Pages, 25-47.
Book, Scholarly-New
(2008). Trial of Modernity: Judicial Reform in Early-Twentieth-Century China, 1901-1937. Stanford University Press. Issue, 2008. Pages, 389.
Journal Article, Academic Journal
(2008). Social Actors, Cultural Capital, and the State: The Standardization of Bank Accounting Classification and Terminology in Earl. Accounting, Organizations and Society. Volume, 33. Issue, 1. Pages, 73-102.
Journal Article, Academic Journal
(2007). The Rule of Law without Due Process: Punishing Robbers and Bandits in Early-Twentieth-Century China. Modern China: An International Journal of History and Social Sciences. Volume, 23. Issue, 2. Pages, 230-257.
Book, Scholarly-New
(2007). Minguo Shiqi De Guojia Yu Shehui (State and Society in Republican China). New Star Press. Issue, 2007. Pages, 348.
Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
(2006). Negotiating Western Models and Chinese Practices: Judicial Reform in the Late Qing New Policy, 1901-1911. Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. Issue, 2006. Pages, 99-121.
Journal Article, Academic Journal
(2004). Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Transnational Networks: The Chenbao Fujuan, 1921-1928. China Review. Volume, 4. Issue, 1. Pages, 145-173.
Journal Article, Academic Journal
(2003). Becoming Professional: Chinese Accountants in Early Twentieth-Century Shanghai. Accounting Historian Journal. Volume, 30. Issue, 1. Pages, 129-153.
Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
(2001). Human Rights and the Discourse on Universality: A Chinese Historical Perspective. Columbia U. Press. Pages, 217-241.
Book, Scholarly-New
(2001). Chinese Professionals and the Republican State: The Rise of Professional Associations in Shanghai, 1912-1937. Cambridge University Press.
Journal Article, Academic Journal
(1998). Between State and Society, Between Professionalism and Politics: the Shanghai Bar Association in Republican China, 1912-1937. Twentieth Century China. Volume, 24. Issue, 1. Pages, 1-29.
Journal Article, Academic Journal
(1997). National Essence vs. Science: Chinese Native Physicians' Fight for Legitimacy, 1912-1937. Modern Asian Studies. Volume, 34. Issue, 4. Pages, 847-878.
Journal Article, Academic Journal
(1997). The Dilemma of Accommodation: Reconciling Christianity and Chinese Culture in the 1920s. The Historian. Volume, 60. Issue, 1. Pages, 21-38.
Journal Article, Academic Journal
(1997). The Fate of Judicial Independence in Republican China, 1912-1937. China Quarterly. Issue, 149. Pages, 1-28.
Journal Article, Academic Journal
(1996). The Discourse on Love, Marriage, and Sexuality in Post-Mao China: A Reading of the Journalistic Literature on Women. Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique. Volume, 4. Issue, 2. Pages, 381-414.