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Michael Szonyi's Degrees

PhD History University of California, Berkeley
Masters History University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors History University of British Columbia

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According to Wikipedia, Michael A. Szonyi is Professor of Chinese History at Harvard University and former director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. His research focuses on the local history of southeast China, especially in the Ming dynasty, the history of Chinese popular religion, and Overseas Chinese history.

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Review: Miscellaneous: The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Era of Reform (2002) (131)
Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China (2002) (78)
The Illusion of Standardizing the Gods: The Cult of the Five Emperors in Late Imperial China (1997) (53)
China and Southeast Asia's Ethnic Chinese: State and Diaspora in Contemporary Asia (2000) (51)
The cold war in Asia: The battle for hearts and minds (2010) (35)
Secularization Theories and the Study of Chinese Religions (2009) (30)
The Art of Being Governed (2019) (25)
The Cult of Hu Tianbao and the Eighteenth-Century Discourse of Homosexuality. (1998) (21)
Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line (2008) (21)
Making Claims about Standardization and Orthopraxy in Late Imperial China (2007) (14)
Practicing Kinship (2002) (12)
The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China (2017) (12)
The Temple of Memories (1997) (10)
Mothers, Sons and Lovers: Fidelity and Frugality in the Overseas Chinese Divided Family Before 1949 (2007) (8)
Family lineage organization and social change in Ming and Qing Fujian (2001) (8)
Introduction : new approaches to the study of the cold war in Asia (2010) (7)
Local Cult, Lijia, and Lineage: Religious and Social Organization in the Fuzhou Region in the Ming and Qing (2000) (5)
China's Changing Family Structure: DIMENSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS (2019) (4)
SPROUTS OF CAPITALISM (2007) (4)
The Graveyard of Huang Xiulang: Early Twentieth Century Perspectives on the Role of the Overseas Chinese in Chinese Modernization (2001) (2)
Lineages and the Making of Contemporary China (2016) (2)
Printing for Profit: The Commercial Publishers of Jianyang, Fujian (11th–17th Centuries). By Chia Lucille. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center for Harvard-Yenching Institute, 2002. xxi, 442 pp. $50.00 (cloth). (2004) (2)
State institutions, local society, and historical continuity (2020) (1)
An Officer in Cahoots with Pirates (2019) (1)
The Case in the Vase: What Can a Ming Novel Tell Us about Traditional Chinese Legal Culture?* (2018) (1)
Zhanhuo Xia De Jiyi Zhengzhi: Jinmen, 1949-2008 [The Politics of Memory in a Geopolitical Flashpoint: Jinmen (Quemoy)] (2009) (1)
A Companion to Chinese History (2017) (1)
Chinese History in the Era of the China Dream (2016) (1)
The Cold War on the Ground: Reflections from Jinmen (2016) (1)
Women's Liberation in Cold War China, (2010) (1)
The cemetery of Huang Xiulang: Transnationalism and the Overseas Chinese in the early twentieth century (2006) (1)
A Younger Brother Inherits a Windfall (2019) (0)
A Family Reunion Silences a Bully (2019) (0)
China (2000) (0)
A Soldier Curses a Clerk (2019) (0)
Sarah Schneewind, Community Schools and the State in Ming China, 2006 (2006) (0)
Review: China's Techno-Warriors (2003) (0)
Conclusion (2019) (0)
Review: China's Transition (2000) (0)
Fieldwork for Ming historians (2019) (0)
Gunjika, Kioku, Jinmen Shakai - 1949-1992. [Militarization, Memory and Jinmen (Quemoy) Society, 1949-1992.] (2011) (0)
Guest Editor's Introduction (2001) (0)
An Interview with Michael Szonyi (2020) (0)
A Tender Voyage: Children and Childhood in Late Imperial China, by Ping-chen Hsiung (2006) (0)
Kathryn Bernhardt — Women and Property in China, 960-1949 (2000) (0)
Chinese Modernity and the Peasant Path: Semicolonialism in the Northern Yangzi Delta, by Kathy Le Mons Walker (2001) (0)
A Father Loses Three Sons to the Army (2019) (0)
National Gods and Local Contexts: Distinguishing the Five Emperors and the Five Manifestations in Late Imperial China (1995) (0)
Review: China's Leaders (2001) (0)
Cadres and Kin: Making a Socialist Village in West China, 1921-1991, by Gregory A. Ruf (2001) (0)
Book Reviews: Portrait of a Community: Society, Culture, and the Structures of Kinship in the Mulan River Valley (Fujian) from the Late Tang through the Song. By Hugh R. Clark (2008) (0)
Glossary of Selected Terms (2017) (0)
JAS volume 63 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (2004) (0)
A God Becomes an Ancestor (2019) (0)
Introduction (2018) (0)
Ming Fever: The Past in the Present in the People’s Republic of China at 60 (2011) (0)
P.B. Keating, Two Revolutions: Village Reconstruction and the Cooperative Movement in Northern Shaanxi, 1937-1945 (1999) (0)
Book Review: Leaving China: Media, Migration and Transnational Imagination (2003) (0)
Review: Asia: East Asia at the Centre (2002) (0)
China: The Years Ahead (2000) (0)
Kokka, Chih? Shakai To Gend? Seisaku: Senchi Jinmen No Josei No Yakuwari Oyobi Im? Ji No Saigen [Nation-State, Memory and Gender Policy: The Reproduction of Female Roles and Representations in Militarized Jinmen] (2011) (0)
Jinmen Zai Qianxian: 1949 Vilai Diyu Zhengzhi, Liang’an Guanxi He Difang Shehui [Jinmen on the Front Line: Geopolitics, Cross-Strait Relations and Local Society since 1949] (2011) (0)
The Chinese in Vancouver, 1945–80: The Pursuit of Identity and Power by Wing Chung Ng (review) (2014) (0)
A Temple with Two Gods (2019) (0)
Guest Editor's Introduction (2001) (0)
An Officer Founds a School (2019) (0)
Ethnography in China Today: A Critical Assessment of Methods and Results . Edited by Daniel L. Overmyer with Chao Shin-yi. Taipei: Yuan-Liou, 2002. 382 pp. $25.00 (cloth). (2004) (0)
Review: General: China and Southeast Asia's Ethnic Chinese (2001) (0)

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