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HAROLD M. TANNER
WORK
Department of History, Box 310650.
University of North Texas
Denton, Texas
76203-0650
(940) 891-6789
EDUCATION
September 1987-May 1994: Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University. M.Phil., East Asian Languages and Cultures, October 1990; Ph.D. in Modern Chinese and Japanese History, May 1994.
September 1985-July 1987: Beijing Languages Institute, Beijing, China. B.A. (Xueshi) in Modern Chinese, July 1987.
October 1984-September 1985: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. M.A. in Area Studies (China and Japan), December 1985.
September 1981-January 1982: Participant in Semester Abroad program in Kathmandu, Nepal under the auspices of the Experiment in International Living, Brattleboro, Vermont.
September 1979-December 1982: New England College, Henniker New Hampshire and Arundel, England. B.A. in International Politics, May 1983.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of North Texas (August 2005-present)
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History, University of North Texas (September 2001-August 2005). As chair, was responsible for budgets, scheduling, strategic planning, recruitment, and general management and supervision of an academic department of over 20 full-time faculty and around 15-20 part-time instructors teaching around two thousand students each regular semester.
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of North Texas (August 2000-August 2001)
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of North Texas (September 1994-August 2000)
Courses taught:
The People’s Republic of China (graduate level)
Imperial China
Crime and Criminal Justice in Chinese History
Modern China
Twentieth Century China
Japanese History
World History to 1500
World History from 1500
HONORS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
Listed in Who’s Who Among American Teachers volumes 8 (2003-2004) and 9 (2004-2005) and in Who’s Who in American Education, 7th edition (2006-2007).
Two-year grant (2004-2005) from the Freeman Foundation to direct and teach faculty development institutes on incorporating East Asia into the secondary curriculum as part of the National Consortium for Teaching About Asia. Total grant amount: $84,500.00.
Developing Scholars Award, University of North Texas, 1999-2000.
Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, University of North Texas. Summer 1998.
Sasakawa Fellowship for participation in the National Faculty Institute on “Incorporating Japanese Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum” at San Diego State University, 1995.
Ph.D. dissertation on “Crime and Punishment in China, 1979-1989” passed with Distinction by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University.
Doctoral research in Chinese criminal justice at the Universities Service Center, Hong Kong Chinese University, sponsored by the Fulbright Foundation, 1992-93
Doctoral research in Chinese criminal law and criminal procedure at the Law Department, Beijing University, sponsored by the National Program for Advanced Study and Research in China, 1991-92.
Foreign Languages and Area Studies scholar in Chinese, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, 1989-90.
B.A. Magna cum laude, New England College.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Strike Hard: Anti-Crime Campaigns and Chinese Criminal Justice, 1979-1985. Cornell East Asia Series, Cornell University East Asia Program, Ithaca N.Y., 1999.
ARTICLES
“Guerilla, Mobile, and Base Warfare in Communist Military Operations in Manchuria, 1945-1947.” Originally published in Journal of Military History 67:4 October 2003), 1177-1222, republished in Kenneth Swope, ed., Warfare in China Since 1600. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2005.
“Guerilla, Mobile, and Base Warfare in Communist Military Operations in Manchuria, 1945-1947.” Journal of Military History (peer-reviewed journal) 67:4 October 2003), 1177-1222.
“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).
BOOK REVIEWS
Philip F. Williams and Yenna Wu. The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp Through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage. University of California Press, 2004. In The China Journal, January 2005, 250-252.
Gary J. Bjorge. Moving the Enemy: Operational Art in the Chinese PLA’s Huai Hai Campaign. Leavenworth Paper No. 22. Ft. Leavenworth, Kans.: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2004. In The Journal of Military History 68:4 (October 2004), 1305-1306.
Odd Arne Westad. Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. In The Journal of Military History 67:4 (October 2003), 1333-1334.
Chien-ming Chao and Bruce Dickson, ed., Remaking the Chinese State: Strategies, Society, and Security. New York: Routledge, 2001. In The Journal of Asian Studies 62:1 (February 2003), 227-229.
Jeffrey C. Kinkley. Chinese Justice, the Fiction: Law and Literature in Modern China. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2000. In American Historical Review June 2001, 958-959.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Democratization, Modernization, and Policing: Lessons From China’s Historical Experience.” Paper presented at the Istanbul Conference on Democracy and Global Security, Istanbul, Turkey, June 9-11, 2005.
“The Liao-Shen Campaign: Historiographic Perspectives and Issues.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, University of Houston, October 10-11, 2003.
“Guerilla, Mobile and Base Warfare in Communist Operations in Manchuria, 1945-1947.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, San Antonio, October 12-13 2001.
“Experiences and Suggestions for Future Improvements in Teacher Training Programs for World History and AP World History.” Talk given at Roundtable “Lessons Learned: Recommendations on Faculty Development and Curricular Materials Needed to Establish World History as a Teaching Field.” Annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Boston, January 5, 2001.
“China, Japan, and the Formation of the Global Market, 1000-1750.” Presentation at the annual meeting of the National Council of Social Studies, San Antonio, November 17, 2000.
“Asia in World History.” Presentation at the annual meeting of the National Social Studies Supervisors Association, San Antonio, November 16, 2000.
“Is Chinese Criminal Justice Unique? Comparative Perspectives on Crime and Criminal Justice in China, 1979-1996.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies March 9-12 2000 San Diego.
“The Offense of Hooliganism and the Moral Dimension of China’s Pursuit of Modernity, 1979-1996.” Paper presented at the Joint Meeting of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies and the Historical Society for Twentieth Century China at Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, October 23, 1999.
“Crime, Punishment and Modernization in China.” Paper presented at the Joint Meeting of the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies and the Southwestern Conference on Asian Studies in El Paso, Texas, October 16, 1998.
“Approaches to the Problem of Crime: Is there a ‘Chinese Way?’” Paper presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, Grossman International Conference Center, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas, October 18, 1997.
“The Chinese Revolution.” Talk given at the Teaching of History Conference and World History Association of Texas, Fall Meeting, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, September 6, 1997.
“From Resistance to Civil War: Communists and Nationalists in Manchuria, 1945-47.” Paper presented at the Silver Anniversary Annual Meeting of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, October 18, 1996.
“Criminal Justice and China’s Transition to Modernity.” Paper presented at the 1995 Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Towson, Maryland, October 1995.
“Historical Continuity, Discontinuity, and the Uses of History: The Case of Chinese Criminal Justice.” Paper delivered at the New York Conference on Asian Studies, New Paltz, New York, October 15, 1993.
TEACHER OUTREACH
Director and lead instructor, Faculty Development Institute on East Asia (part of the National Consortium for Teaching About Asia, funded by the Freeman Foundation and organized through Columbia University) (2001, 2003, 2004, 2005)
AP World History Summer Institute, June 2001 and June 2002. (I co-designed and co-taught these 5-day teacher training institutes with Carole Buchanan and Richard Golden.)
“Three Chinese Explorers: Zhang Qian, Xuanzang, and Zheng He.” Talk delivered at teacher inservice, Garland Independent School District, Garland Texas, August 8, 2001.
AP World History Summer Institute, June 2000. (I co-designed this 10-day teacher training institute with Heidi Roupp, Carole Buchanan, and Richard Golden, co-taught with Carole Buchanan and Richard Golden.)
INVITED TALKS AND LECTURES
“Qianlong as Military Leader: Image and Reality.” Gallery Talk at the Dallas Museum of Art, April 21, 2005 in conjunction with the exhibition “Splendors of the Forbidden City: The Glorious Reign of Emperor Qianlong.” Another version of the talk was delivered on April 22, 2005 at the DMA as part of a four-part course on the exhibition offered jointly by the DMA and Southern Methodist University.
“Beneath The Glazed Surface: The Historical Context of Shunzhi Porcelain.” Docent’s training lecture, Trammel and Margaret Crowe Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, October 28, 2002.
“The Worlds of the Chinese Scholar.” Docents’ training lecture, the Trammel and Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, September 28, 2000.
“Beyond ‘Red Corner’—Historical Perspectives on Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern China.” Invited talk at the China Seminar of the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, April 16, 1999.
“The Yellow Peril and Other Myths in Chinese-American Foreign Relations.” Talk delivered at the Phi Alpha Theta Public Affairs Symposium, East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas, May 4, 1996.
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
Secretary-Treasurer of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, October 1999-present.
Member (ex officio) of the Board of Directors of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, October 1999-present.
Member of the Board of Directors of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, October 1998-October 1999.
DEPARTMENTAL/UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Department Chair, Department of History, September 2001-August 2005
Elected member of the Faculty Council of the College of Arts and Sciences, 2000-2003
Elected member of the Department Affairs Committee, fall 2000-spring 2002
Member of the African American Search Committee, Department of History, 2000-2001
Faculty Advisor for the Interdisciplinary Minor in Asian Studies, 1994-
Member of the Library Committee, Department of History, 1994-
Member of the ad hoc committee to revise the process for teaching evaluation, Department of History, spring 1995.
Secretary for Departmental meetings, Department of History, fall 1995-spring 1998.
Member of the ad-hoc Map Committee, Department of History, spring 1997-fall 1997.
Member of the Graduate Committee, Department of History, fall 1998-spring 1999.
Undergraduate Co-Advisor, fall 1999-summer 2001
Member (ex officio) of the Undergraduate Committee, Department of History, fall 1999-summer 2001
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Association for Asian Studies
Southwest Conference on Asian Studies
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Chinese (Mandarin—reading, writing, and speaking ability), French (reading ability), Japanese (basic reading ability).