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Alexander F. Day <aday@wayne.edu> Wayne State University |
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| Address: | Department of History, Wayne State University 3094 FAB 656 W. Kirby St. Detroit, MI 48202 United States |
| Web Page: | http://www.alexanderday.net |
| List Affiliations: | Reviewer for H-Urban |
| Reviews: | Uneven Urban Aesthetics in Contemporary China |
| Interests: | Area Studies Asian History / Studies Contemporary History Cultural History / Studies East Asian History / Studies Intellectual History Rural History / Studies Social History / Studies Urban History / Studies World History / Studies |
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Bio: Alexander Day grew up in Maine and New Zealand, and has spent over five years in Asia, mostly in China. He received a B.A. from Colby College, Waterville, ME, in East Asian Studies and a Ph.D. in the history of modern East Asia with a research focus on modern China from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2007. He is currently completing a book--based on his dissertation--that examines contemporary debates on China’s emerging rural crisis and its relationship to intellectual politics in the reform era (1979 to the present), putting these debates into the historical context of China's changing relationship to the world across the twentieth century. Prof. Day’s second teaching field is world history. Focusing on the late-imperial period through the twentieth century, his research interests include the history of radicalism and populism, the politics of rural society and the rural-urban relationship, the connection between historical writing and politics, colonialism and anti-colonial movements, and transnationalism. |
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