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William T. Rowe

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#2830

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#1081

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#36

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#46

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William T. Rowe's Degrees

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

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According to Wikipedia, William T. Rowe is a historian of China, and John and Diane Cooke Professor of Chinese History, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University. He considers himself a social historian of modern China, with both "social" and "modern" very broadly conceived, and works on every century from the 14th to the 20th.

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William T. Rowe's Published Works

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Hankow: Commerce and Society in a Chinese City, 1796-1889. (1984) (172)
Hankow: Conflict and Community in a Chinese City, 1796-1895 (1989) (95)
Saving the World: Chen Hongmou and Elite Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century China (2001) (85)
The Problem of "Civil Society" in Late Imperial China (1993) (83)
Review Article : The Public Sphere in Modern China (1990) (82)
China's Last Empire: The Great Qing (2009) (71)
Crimson Rain: Seven Centuries of Violence in a Chinese County (2006) (31)
Ancestral Rites and Political Authority in Late Imperial China (1998) (29)
After Empire: The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885–1924, by Peter Zarrow. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. xvi + 395 pp. US$85.00 (hardcover), US$27.95 (paperback and eBook). (2013) (23)
Social Stability and Social Change (2002) (23)
Women and the Family in Mid-Qing Social Thought: The Case of Chen Hongmou (2011) (19)
Hankow, Conflict and Community in a Chinese City, 1796-1895. (1990) (19)
Rewriting the Qing Constitution: Bao Shichen's “On Wealth” (Shuochu) (2012) (18)
State and Market in Mid-Qing Economic Thought. The Case of Chen Hongmou (1696-1771) (1993) (18)
Owen Lattimore, Asia, and Comparative History (2007) (17)
Introduction: The Significance of the Qianlong-Jiaqing Transition in Qing History (2012) (17)
Review Article: Recent Writing in the People's Republic on Early Ch'ing Economic History (1982) (16)
Ming-Qing Guilds (1992) (16)
Tears from Iron: Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China (2009) (15)
State and Market in Mid-Qing Economic Thought. The Case of Chen Hongmou (1993) (15)
Demon Hordes and Burning Boats: The Cult of Marshall Wen in Late Imperial Chekiang. (1997) (14)
Bao Shichen and Agrarian Reform in Early Nineteenth-Century China (2014) (13)
China's Last Empire (2010) (12)
Medicine in China: A History of Ideas (1988) (10)
Water Control and the Qing Political Process (1988) (9)
Technology Status of Jet Noise Suppression Concepts for Advanced Supersonic Transports (1977) (8)
Hu Lin-i's Reform of the Grain Tribute System in Hupeh, 1855-1858 (2011) (7)
Money, Economy, and Polity in the Daoguang-Era Paper Currency Debates (2011) (6)
Perspectives on a Changing China (1980) (6)
Perspectives on a Changing China. (1980) (4)
Political, Social and Economic Factors Affecting the Transmission of Technical Knowledge in Early Modern China (2012) (3)
Advanced supersonic transport propulsion and configuration technology improvements (1981) (3)
AST Propulsion Comparisons (1975) (3)
The Cultured Nature of Imperial Foraging in Manchuria (2011) (3)
The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China . By Timothy Brook. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1998. xxv, 320 pp. $40.00. (1999) (3)
Advanced supersonic transport engine integration studies for near-term technology readiness date (1978) (3)
Urban agency in early modern and modern China (2016) (2)
Speaking of Profit: Bao Shichen and Reform in Nineteenth-Century China (2018) (2)
Design feasibility of an advanced technology supersonic cruise aircraft (1976) (2)
Saving the World (2001) (2)
Violence in Ming-Qing China : An Overview (2014) (2)
Technology Status for an Advanced Supersonic Transport (1982) (1)
Remaking the Chinese City: Modernity and National Identity, 1900—1950 . Edited by Joseph W. Esherick. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000. x, 278 pp. $55.00. (2000) (1)
A Note on Ti-pao (1977) (1)
The Qingbang and Collaboration Under the Japanese, 1939-1945 (1982) (1)
Chinese Imperial City Planning . By Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt. [Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990. 228 pp. $38.00. ISBN 0–8248–1244–1.] (1994) (1)
The Making of a New Rural Order in South China: I. Village, Land, and Lineage in Huizhou, 900–1600. By Joseph P. McDermott. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xvi, 466 pp. ISBN: 9781107046221 (cloth; also available in paper and as e-book). (2016) (1)
Profit and Statecraft in Nineteenth-Century China (2022) (1)
HELEN DUNSTAN, Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age: A Documentary Study of Political Economy in Qing China 1644-1840. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies, 1996. 363 pp. (1999) (0)
Original art deco designs: 80 plates (1973) (0)
HELEN DUNSTAN. State or Merchant? Political Economy and Political Process in 1740s China. (Harvard East Asian Monographs, number 273.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2006. Pp. xv, 523. $54.95 (2007) (0)
Michael Szonyi — Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China (2004) (0)
Empire, Nation, and beyond: Chinese History in Late Imperial and Modern Times: A Festschrift in Honor of Frederic Wakeman. Joseph W. Esherick , Wen-hsin Yeh , Madeleine Zelin (2007) (0)
Book Reviews (2011) (0)
The Soul in Eighteenth-Century China: Depei's Confucian Christianity (2020) (0)
Man-houng Lin. China Upside Down: Currency, Society, and Ideologies, 1808–1856. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006. xxvi + 362 pp. ISBN 0-674-02268-8, $49.95 (2007) (0)
Goldman, Andrea S., Opera and the City: The Politics of Culture in Beijing, 1770–1900. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-804-77831-2. 386pp. $55.00 (hardcover). (2013) (0)
一个中国城市的商业和社会(1796-1889) = Commerce and society in a Chinese city, 1796-1889 (2005) (0)
Floral illustrations : a treasury of nineteenth-century cuts (1990) (0)
Art Deco Spot Illustrations and Motifs: 513 Original Designs (1985) (0)
Chung-kuo chin-tai ching-chi-shih [Modern] Chinese economic history] . 2 vols. By the Modern Chinese Economic History Compilation Group, Department of Political Economy, Chinese People's University. Peking: Jen-min ch'upan'she, 1979. 335; 266 pp. Tables. N.p. (1982) (0)
Editor's Note (2007) (0)
China Upside Down: Currency, Society, and Ideologies, 1808–1856 (review) (2007) (0)
Machine modification for roof bolt placement in low coal. Final report, Jun--Oct 1974 (1974) (0)
Introduction (2019) (0)
Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China (review) (1998) (0)
The Salt Merchants of Tianjin: State Making and Civil Society in Late Imperial China . By Kwan Man Bun. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. viii, 240 pages. $42.00 (cloth). (2001) (0)
Varia Violence in MingQing China : An Overview (2019) (0)
Original Art Deco Designs (1976) (0)
The Cambridge History of China. Vol. II: Late Ch'ing, Part 2. Edited by John K. Fairbank and Kwang-ching Liu. [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. 754 pp. £39·50.] (1983) (0)
Urban Control in Late Imperial China: The Pao-chia System in Hankow (2019) (0)
Man-houng Lin. China Upside Down: Currency, Society, and Ideologies, 1808-1856 (2007) (0)
Shijiu shiji houbanqi de Zhongguo caizheng yu jingji [Government finance and the economy in late-nineteenth-century China]. By Peng Zeyi. Beijing: Renmin chubanshe, 1983. 222 pp. 0.79 yuan. (1985) (0)
Flora and fauna design fantasies (1976) (0)
Analysis of wind-tunnel investigations of trailing-edge flaps on swept-back wings (1950) (0)
Review of Chinese and Japanese Scholarship : SAEKI TOMI (1977) "Shindai ni okeru sansei shonin" (Shanxi merchants in the Qing dynasty). Shirin 60, 1 (January): 1-14 (1978) (0)
The price of rice: market integration in eighteenth‐century China – By Sui‐wai Cheung (2009) (0)
Letter from the Editors (2011) (0)
Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko, and Robert Gardella, eds. Contract and Property in Early Modern China. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. vii + 398 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4639-7, $65.00 (2005) (0)
Materials on Manchuria, Inner Asia, and China Held at the Johns Hopkins University (1985) (0)
Lifestyle and Entertainment in Yangzhou (2010) (0)
Goods and merchandise : a cornucopia of nineteenth-century cuts (1982) (0)
In Memory of Mary Rankin (2020) (0)
New art deco borders and motifs (1984) (0)
The Workers of Tianjin, 1900–1949 . By Gail Hershatter. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986. viii, 313 pp. Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $37.50. (1987) (0)
Economic Transition in the Nineteenth Century (2022) (0)
Statecraft and Political Economy on the Taiwan Frontier, 1600–1800 . By John Robert Shepherd. [Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. xvii + 596 pp. $65.00. ISBN 0-8047-2066-5.] (1994) (0)
Technology development status at McDonnell Douglas (1981) (0)
The Making of a Hinterland: State, Society, and Economy in Inland North China, 1853–1937 . By Kenneth Pomeranz. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. xxiii, 336 pp. $40.00. (1994) (0)
Nature fantasies : a coloring book : 45 original plates (1977) (0)
Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China: Popular Deceptions and the High Qing State by Mark McNicholas (review) (2018) (0)
Contract and Property in Early Modern China (review) (2005) (0)
Exotic alphabets and ornament (1974) (0)
中国农民“反行为”调查》(Gao Wangling. Report on Peasants’ “Counter- Action” during the Era of the People’s Commune in China), Beijing: Zhonggong (2012) (0)
Qingdai tudi kaiken shi [A history of land reclamation in the Qing period]. By Peng Yuxin. Beijing: Nongye chubanshe, 1990. 285 pp. RMB 6.85 (paper). (1991) (0)
Bird fantasy designs : 45 original plates (1986) (0)
Zhongguo xiandaihua te quyu yanjiu: Jiangsu sheng, 1860-1916 (1988) (0)
Nature fantasy designs : 45 original plates (1985) (0)
Steven C. Averill (April 1, 1945–September 17, 2004) (2005) (0)
The Sea of Learning: Mobility and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Guangzhou. By Steven B. Miles (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Asia Center, 2006) 450 pp. $49.95 (2008) (0)
Editor's Note (1999) (0)
List of Contributors (2011) (0)
Machinery and Mechanical Devices: A Treasury of Nineteenth-Century Cuts (1987) (0)
The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China (review) (2007) (0)
From Ming to Ch'ing along the Great Divide = 明清之際的大別山區域 : the Fu Ssu-nien memorial lectures 2004 (2005) (0)
一个中国城市的冲突和社区(1796-1895) = Conflict and community in a Chinese city, 1796-1895 (2008) (0)
Lynn A. Struve, editor. The Qing Formation in World-Historical Time. (Harvard East Asian Monographs, number 234.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center. 2004. Pp. xiv, 412. $49.50 (2006) (0)
C. Martin Wilbur (1907–1997) (1997) (0)
Shifting Communities and Identity Formation in Early Modern Asia (review) (2004) (0)
Review of Chinese and Japanese Scholarship : SHIBA YOSHINOBU (1974) "Chugoku toshi o meguru kenkyu gaikyo: hoseishi o chushin ni" (A survey of studies dealing with Chinese cities, with emphasis on legal history). Hoseishi kenkyu 23: 185-206 (1978) (0)
White Lotus Rebels and South China Pirates: Crisis and Reform in the Qing Empire by Wensheng Wang (review) (2015) (0)
The Sea of Learning: Mobility and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Guangzhou (review) (2007) (0)
Joanna Handlin Smith, The Art of Doing Good : Charity in Late Ming China, 2009 (2009) (0)
Empire, Nation, and Beyond: Chinese History in Late Imperial and Modern Times - a Festschrift in Honor of Frederic Wakeman [Book Review] (2007) (0)
The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China. By Madeleine Zelin (New York, Columbia University Press, 2005) 406 pp. $45.00 (2007) (0)

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