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Sherman Cochran

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Sherman Cochran's Degrees

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

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According to Wikipedia, Sherman Cochran is Hu Shih Professor Emeritus of Chinese history at Cornell University. Early life Cochran was born in St. Johns, Portland, Oregon in 1940. He is a graduate of Roosevelt High School. He was a football player in college and won three-year football letterman and received All-Ivy League Honorable Mention in his junior year. He completed his B.A. at Yale University in 1962. Cochran became interested in Chinese history when he lived in Hong Kong immediately after graduating from college. At the time, he was teaching English under the Yale-China Association Program at New Asia College in Kowloon. Cochran then decided to become a Chinese historian and completed his M.A. and Ph.D. at Yale in 1967 and 1975, respectively, where he was a student of Mary C. Wright and Jonathan Spence.

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Sherman Cochran's Published Works

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Big Business in China: Sino-Foreign Rivalry in the Cigarette Industry, 1890-1930. (1981) (104)
Conduction in Random Systems (1973) (55)
Chinese Medicine Men: Consumer Culture in China and Southeast Asia (2006) (47)
Inventing Nanjing Road: Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900-1945 (2001) (43)
Encountering Chinese Networks: Western, Japanese, and Chinese Corporations in China, 1880-1937 (2000) (32)
The Lius of Shanghai (2013) (10)
Cities in Motion: Interior, Coast, and Diaspora in Transnational China (2007) (8)
The Capitalist Dilemma in China's Communist Revolution (2014) (6)
15. Capitalists Choosing Communist China: The Liu Family of Shanghai, 1948–56 (2007) (5)
China on the Margins (2022) (3)
Chinese And Overseas Chinese Business History: Three Challenges To The State Of The Field (2010) (3)
Chinese Medicine Men (2006) (2)
The Opening of a New Archive in Shanghai: The Resource Center for Chinese Business History (2021) (1)
A Guide to Memoirs in Chinese Periodical Literature: A Review of a New Bibliography (1996) (1)
12 The Family’s Postwar Disunion and Reunion (2013) (0)
Big business in China : Sino-American rivalry in the tobacoo industry, 1890-1930 (1978) (0)
The Golden Age of the Chinese Bourgeoisie, 1911–1937 . By Marie-Claire Bergère. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1990. x, 356 pp. $59.50. Translated by Janet Lloyd from L'Age d'or de la bourgeoisie chinoise . Paris: Flammarion, 1986. (1990) (0)
8 Sons Who Became Leaders in War time (2013) (0)
Business and Politics in Republican China: Report on a Conference (1976) (0)
10 A Son Who Battled Depression (2013) (0)
Introduction Family Dynamics under Patriarchy (2013) (0)
7 A Daughter Who Spoiled a Marriage Alliance (2013) (0)
The Lius of Shanghai: A Chinese Family in Business, War and Revolution 劉家の人々ある上海一族とビジネス、戦争、革命 (2013) (0)
Oil For the Lamps of China: Alice Tisdale Hobart’s Dark Novel of American Capitalism and Chinese Revolution (2013) (0)
14 A Daughter Who Forged Family Alliances (2013) (0)
11 Mother’s Struggle to Save Her Marriage (2013) (0)
1 Parents Who Dreamed of a Business Dynasty (2013) (0)
13 Father’s Decision to Live in the People’s Republic (2013) (0)
4 A Son Who Wanted to Drop Out of Harvard (2013) (0)
16 Parents’ Deaths and Children’s Dispersal (2013) (0)
9 A Son Who Joined the Communists (2013) (0)
5 A Son Who Was Sick (2013) (0)
Conclusion The Inner History of a Chinese Family (2013) (0)
Chinese Entrepreneurship at Home and Abroad, 1900-1982 (1983) (0)
3 Sons Who Did Not Want to Become British Citizens (2013) (0)
China's Modern Economy in Historical Perspective . Edited By Dwight H. Perkins. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1975. xiv, 344 pp. Tables, Diagrams, Notes, Index. $13.85 (1976) (0)
Knight Biggerstaff (1906–2001) (2001) (0)
Archives and Works Cited (2013) (0)
6 A Son Who Proposed Marriage to a Westernized Woman (2013) (0)
2 Sons Who Tried for Admission to Cambridge (2013) (0)
15 A Son Who Refused to Return to China (2013) (0)

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