H-PRC is the H-Net presence of the PRC History Group, a network of scholars with interests in the history of the People’s Republic of China. We define history broadly, to encompass a wide variety of disciplinary approaches, and we understand the history of the PRC to include eras prior to the official change of state power in 1949.
The PRC History Group is pleased to announce the first issue in the PRC History Review Book Review Series. Spencer Stewart reviews Sigrid Schmalzer's Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China (University of Chicago Press, 2016), with a response from the author. http://prchistory.org/prc-history-review/
Dear H-PRC: I have a new contribution coming out on the Confucius Institutes:
Fiskesjö, Magnus. Who’s Afraid of Confucius? Fear, Encompassment, and the Global Debates over the Confucius Institutes.
In: Yellow Perils: China Narratives in the Contemporary World, ed. Franck Billé and Sören Urbansky. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2018, pp. 221-245.
The book will come out very soon, this month or next, it is already listed: http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9993-9780824875794.aspx
Dear Colleagues,
Dear all:
I have received numerous reports via various channels regarding a number of archives denying access to post-1949 materials. I have updated the PRC History Resources wiki to reflect these:
http://www.prchistoryresources.org/doku.php?id=archives
I also added updated information regarding several other archives. We all know that archival access can be tricky in China, but recent changes are particularly distressing, with no end in sight.
Dear all,
This is my new article on how media swallows, and helps disseminate (sometimes unwittingly), the worst kind of Chinese state propaganda: the TV confessions spectacles, coerced and produced under torture:
Fiskesjö, Magnus. "Confessions Made in China." Made in China 3.1 (January-March 2018), p. 18-22; 108-109 (list of references). http://www.chinoiresie.info/made-in-china-quarterly/
Note from the editors: As Josh says below, you can contact him privately if you have relevant info -- But other members might be interested in this question too, so feel free to respond to the entire list as well.
Hello PRC historians all
Bao Hongwei (2018) Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China. Copenhagen: NIAS Press.
Dear friends,
An H-PC member has recently published a book. This interesting book focuses on a greatly under-explored topic of how the Chinese cen- tral government governs civil service pay.
