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Brett George SheehanAssociate Professor of HistoryContact Information E-mail: bsheehan@usc.edu Phone: (213) 821-3128 Office: SOS 173 LINKS Curriculum Vitae |
Biographical Sketch |
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| Brett Sheehan is associate professor of Chinese history at the University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley in 1997. He is the author of Trust in Troubled Times: Money, Banking and State-Society Relations in Republican Tianjin, 1916-1937, Harvard University Press, 2003, and numerous articles and book chapters. He is currently working on a book exploring the relationship between authoritarian developmental states and capitalism from about 1900 to 1953 in China. | |
Education |
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 Ph.D. Modern Chinese History, University of California, Berkeley, 12/1997
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Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History |
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Associate Professor, University of Southern California, 2006-
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Description of Research |
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Summary Statement of Research Interests |
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| My research lies at the intersection of politics, society, and economics. It addresses a series of questions: How did people come to trust financial institutions? What was the relationship between capitalism and authoritarianism? How did economic institutions shape Chinese elite structures and state-society relations? | |
Research Keywords |
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| modern china business history trust capitalism authoritarianism terrorism society and economy political economy financial crises money and banking bank runs | |
Research Specialties |
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| Modern China, economy and society, money and banking, business | |
Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions |
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Chinese Business History, Associate Editor,http://www.umassd.edu/cas/history/cbh/welcome.cfm
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Publications |
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Book |
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Sheehan, B. G.
(2003).
Trust in Troubled Times: Money, Banks and State-Society Relations in Republican Tianjin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
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Book Chapter |
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Sheehan, B.
(2012).
"Unorganized Crime: Forgers, Soldiers, and Shopkeepers in Beijing, 1927, 1928". The Order of Space in Republican Chinese City pp. 13. Brill.
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Sheehan, B.
(2007).
"Banks and Bankers in Motion" In Cities in Motion. pp. 81-105. Berkeley, California: UC, Berkeley, Institute of East Asian Studies.
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Sheehan, B. G.
(2006).
"The Modernity of Savings." In Everyday Modernity in China. (Vol. 121-155). Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press.
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Sheehan, B. G.
(2000).
"Urban Identity and Urban Networks in Cosmopolitan Cities: Banks and Bankers in Tianjin, 1900-1937." In Remaking the Chinese City: Modernity and National Identity, 1900-1950. pp. 47-64. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press.
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Sheehan, B.
(2000).
"The Persistence and Limits of Localism: State Power, the Public Sphere and the Money Economy in Tianjin, 1916-1937." In Guoshishang zhongyang yu difang de guanxi [Central and Local Relations in Chinese History]. pp. 1311-1386. Taipei: Academia Historica.
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Journal Article |
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Sheehan, B.
(2010).
"Boycotts and Bombs: The Failure of Economic Sanctions in the Sino-Japanese Conflict in Tianjin, China, 1928-1932". Management and Organizational History.
Vol. 5 (2), pp. 197-220.
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Sheehan, B.
(2008).
An Awkward but Potent Fit: Photographs and Political Narratives of the Tianjin Incidents During the Sino-Japanese Conflict, November 1931. European Journal of East Asian Studies.
Vol. 7 (2), pp. 193-227.
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Sheehan, B. G.
(2005).
"Myth and Reality in Chinese Financial Cliques in 1936". Enterprise and Society.
Vol. 452-491
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Sheehan, B.
(1998).
"Warlords, Cadres and Bankers: Private Commercial Banking in the Republican and Post-Mao Periods". Journal of Asian Business.
Vol. 14 (1), pp. 5-22.
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Research Report |
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Sheehan, B.
(2007).
"Civilization and Economy: Is Synthesis Possible in the Age of Micro History?" Conference Report on "The Economic Performance of Civilizations: Roles of Culture, Religion, and the Law," organized by the Institute of Economic Research on Civilizations, University of Southern California, February 23-27, 2007. Chinese Business History.
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Honors and Awards |
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Dorothy and Hsin-Nung Yao Outstanding Teaching Award, 2003-2004
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Service to the Profession |
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Editorships and Editorial Boards |
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Book Review Editor for modern China, Journal of Asian Studies, 09/15/2012-
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Enterprise and Society, 01/2007-
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Professional Memberships |
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American Historical Association, 01/01/1998-
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Association for Asian Studies, 01/01/1998-
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