Professional Activities, Dr. Tanner, Department of History, University of North Texas

Ph.D. research project: Crime and criminal justice in post-Mao China.
Publications:

Strike Hard: Anti-Crime Campaigns and Chinese Criminal Justice, 1979-1985. Cornell East Asia Series, Cornell University East Asia Program, Ithaca N.Y., 1999.

"The Offense of Hooliganism and The Moral Dimension of China's Pursuit of Modernity, 1979-1996." Twentieth Century China (peer-reviewed journal) 26:1 (November 2000), pp. 1-40.

"Policing, Punishment, and the Individual: Criminal Justice in China." Invited review article in Law and Social Enquiry Vol. 20, no. 1 (Winter 1995), pp. 277-303. (Law and Social Inquiry is the journal of the American Bar Foundation, published by the University of Chicago Press.)

"The Empirical Limitation of Theoretical Insight: Review Rejoinder," Law and Social Enquiry Vol. 20, no. 1 (Winter 1995), pp. 317-324.

"China's 'Gulag' Reconsidered: Labor Reform in the 1980s and 1990s." China Information Vol.9, Nos.2/3 (Winter 1994/95), pp. 40-71. (Peer-reviewed journal published by the Documentation and Research Center for Contemporary China, Leiden University).

"Chinese Rape Law in Comparative Perspective." The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, no.31 (January 1994), pp. 1-23. (Peer-reviewed journal published by the Contemporary China Center, Australian National University. This periodical is now published under the title The China Journal).

Current research projects:

1. The Chinese Civil War in Manchuria. I am revising an article on this topic for publication.
2. Mount Emei. I am doing preliminary research for a book on this Daoist and Buddhist holy mountain located in Sichuan province on the borderlands between Han Chinese and Tibetan culture.

As a professor, I realize that what I can do in the classroom is determined in part by the level of preparation that my students bring with them when they enter the University of North Texas. I also realize that high school history teachers are often assigned to teach courses in content areas, particularly World History, in which they have had little or no training. Others, wanting to learn more and stretch themselves intellectually seek out new challenges and volunteer for existing courses or develop new courses that require them to learn about times and places that they had not studies before. College professors are in a position to help teachers to enrich the content of their courses by introducing new knowledge, new perspectives, and new resources.

I have been involved in the following teacher outreach projects:

1. Co-designed and co-taught Advanced Placement World History Summer Institutes for teachers preparing to teach AP World History.

2. Directed and taught a Faculty Development Seminar on East Asia

3. Delivered talks on various aspects of Chinese and Japanese history to teachers in the North Texas region

4. Made presentations on Chinese and Japanese History for the AP World History course at the AP World History Summer Institute at Rice University (July 2002)

5. Been a presenter at the annual Teaching of History Conference at the University of North Texas