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Phone: 716/673-3876
E-mail: blaine.gaustad@fredonia.edu
Specializes in teaching East Asian history, with particular emphasis on modern China.
Teaches the following courses:
- HY201 Doing History
- HY264 East Asian Civilizations
- HY366 Late Imperial China
- HY367 20th Century China
- HY368 Modern Japan
Research focuses on modern Chinese history, particularly the evolution of popular religious sects during the Manchu Qing dynasty (1644-1912).
"Prophets and Pretenders: Inter-sect Rivalry in Qianlong China." Late Imperial China 21.1 (June 2000)
"China," in Encyclopedia of Millenialism and Millenial Movements, edited by Richard Landes (New York: Routledge, 2000)
"Religious Sectarianism and the State in Mid-Qing China: Background to the White Lotus Uprising of 1796-1804 ." Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of History, University of California at Berkeley, 1994.
Links to Asian Studies Sites on the World Wide Web
Revolution to Reform: Chinese Propaganda Posters of the Four Modernizations Era