{"id":138,"date":"2016-01-15T12:32:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T19:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sintellectual.org\/hstr467\/?p=138"},"modified":"2016-01-15T12:35:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T19:35:30","slug":"an-intro-from-the-professorial-overlord-overlord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sintellectual.org\/hstr467\/2016\/01\/15\/an-intro-from-the-professorial-overlord-overlord\/","title":{"rendered":"An intro from the professorial overlord (\u201coverlord\u201d)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I demanded all of you do a self-introduction, I thought it was only fair that I do my own – even though I babbled at you plenty at our introductory course meeting.<\/p>\n

I am a modern Chinese cultural historian: my primary work currently is on cultural reform and censorship in the People’s Republic of China between 1949 and 1966. I look at a wonderful, amazing literary genre called\u00a0chuanqi<\/em>, “miraculous tales” (which means everything from ghosts to gods to fox spirits), particularly ghost opera. I\u00a0write<\/a>\u00a0a<\/a>\u00a0lot<\/a>\u00a0about\u00a0my research<\/a>\u00a0on my personal blog (and\u00a0elsewhere<\/a>), and am always happy to talk ghosts, superstition, and issues related to censorship. My next big research project is going to consider the history of\u00a0high altitude mountaineering in China<\/a>\u00a0– it’s one I’m very excited to get underway, especially considering the awesome scholars of the environment and science we have here at MSU. It’s the reason I’m teaching this seminar!<\/p>\n

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Reading Mao’s Little Red Book @ 6800 m on Everest.<\/p><\/div>\n

I am\u00a0very<\/em>\u00a0excited about this class, and I am excited to have all of you for a semester & see how things develop. I look forward to a fun, productive semester talking about cool stuff and writing good things about our own particular interests vis-\u00e0-vis mountains.<\/p>\n

I can be found\u00a0on Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or at my website’s blog,\u00a0The Wayward Historian<\/a>\u00a0(my current claim to fame<\/a> is having posted\u00a0a 1980s Chinese comic book version of\u00a0Star Wars<\/em><\/a>\u00a0that went viral back in 2014 & keeps popping up: probably the first and\u00a0last<\/em>\u00a0time I’ll be on the BBC & Rolling Stone websites, among many others). I also have the world’s cutest pit bull, who is an excellent hiking companion and handles elevation gain way<\/em> better than I do!<\/p>\n

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Since I demanded all of you do a self-introduction, I thought it was only fair that I do my own – even though I babbled at you plenty at our introductory course meeting. I am a modern Chinese cultural historian: my primary work currently is on cultural reform and censorship in the People’s Republic of…<\/p>\n

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