PERSONAL DATA
Brian DeMare
Professor and Chair
History Department
Tulane University
Ph.D.: University of California Los Angeles, in History, 2007. Major field in modern Chinese history; Minor fields in modern Japanese history, early modern French history, and cultural history. Dissertation committee members: Philip Huang, Lynn Hunt, Kathryn Bernhardt, and Fred Notehelfer. Dissertation: Turning Bodies and Turning Minds: Land Reform and Chinese Political Culture, 1946-1952.
MA: Columbia University, in East Asian Languages and Cultures, 1999.
BA: Occidental College, in History, 1996.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
· 2020-2022: Professor, Tulane University, History Department
· 2016-2019: Associate Professor, Tulane University, History Department
· 2009-2016: Assistant Professor, Tulane University, History Department.
· 2007-2009: Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University, History Department
· 2004-2005: Visiting Instructor, Qinghua University (Beijing), Sociology Department
UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP
· Fall 2022-Present: Chair, Department of History
· Fall 2018-Spring 2019: Senator-at-Large, University Senate
· Fall 2018-Spring 2021: Chair, Library Committee
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs
1. Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman: Echoes of Counterrevolution from New China. Stanford University Press, August 2022.
3. Mao’s Cultural Army: Drama Troupes in China’s Rural Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, May 2015.
Edited Volumes
1. Cultural History of Contemporary China: Selected Essays. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, May 2023.
2. On the Communist Revolution. Co-edited with Fangchun Li. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. In progress.
Book Chapters
1. “Drama from Beijing to Long Bow: Reforming Shanxi Stages in Socialist China,” in Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theaters of Reform: Performance Practice and Debate in the Mao Era. Edited by Xiaomei Chen, Tarryn Chun, and Siyuan Liu. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021.
2. “Production in Revolution: Agricultural and Political Labour during Land Reform,” in Landscapes of Chinese Labour: A History of China’s Working Class, edited by Ivan Franceschini, Kevin Lin, Nicholas Loubere, and Christian Sorace. Canberra: Australian University Press, 2022.
3. “Fifty Years of Fanshen: One Chinese Village and Mao’s Rural Revolution,” in China by the Book. Edited by Charles Hayford. To be submitted to Rowman & Littlefield.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
1. “Blacklisting Tradition: Political Campaigns and Cultural Markets in Hubei, 1958-1964.” Twentieth Century China Vol. 42, No. 2 (Spring 2017).
2. “The Romance and Tragedy of Rural Revolution: Narratives and Novels of Land Reform in Mao’s China.” Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History Vol. 43, No. 4 (Summer 2014).
3. “Local Actors and National Politics: Rural Amateur Drama Troupes and Mass Campaigns in Hubei Province, 1949-1953.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Vol. 24, No. 2 (Fall 2012).
4. “Casting (Off) Their Stinking Airs: Chinese Intellectuals and Land Reform, 1946-1952.” The China Journal No. 67 January 2012, #67.
Other Publications
2. “You Can’t Understand Modern China Without Looking at the History of Land Reform.” Jacobin (May 23, 2023).
3. “Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman: A Few Words on the Sources.” The Asia-Pacific Journal Vol. 20, No. 13 (September 15, 2022).
4. “Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman: A Conversation with Brian DeMare.” With Ivan Franceschini. Made in China Journal (August 29, 2022).
5. “Land Reform Educated Me.” The PRC History Review Vol. 6, No. 2 (March 2021).
6. “It Takes a Village: Land Reform in the Classroom.” The PRC History Review Vol. 4, No. 2 (August 2019).
7. “Response to Liang Luo’s Review.” The PRC History Review Book Review Series No. 7 (July 2019).
9. “Structures of ‘Land Reform Narratives’” (“土改叙事”的特殊结构). Open Times (开放时代) #1 (2017).