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THOMAS DAVID DUBOIS 杜博思
Professor of Humanities, Beijing Normal University
PhD, UCLA, 2001
MA, BA, University of Chicago, 1991
POSITIONS HELD (post-PhD)
Fudan University, Development Inst.
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Australian National University
National Univ. of Singapore
Washington University St. Louis
BOOKS
- China in Seven Banquets: A History of Food from Neolithic to Now (Reaktion Books forthcoming 2023)
- 中国的牛肉:一部全球视野下的文化史 [Beef in China: A global cultural history] (Beijing 2023)
- Empire and the Meaning of Religion in Northeast Asia: Manchuria 1900–1945 (Cambridge 2017)
- Religion and the Making of Modern East Asia (Cambridge 2011)
- Sacred Village: Social Change and Religious Life in Rural North China (Hawaii 2005)
- Fieldwork in Modern Chinese History: A Research Guide, Ed. with Jan Kiely (Routledge 2019)
- Agricultural production and Rural Transformation, Ed. with Huaiyin Li (Brill 2016)
- Casting Faiths: Imperialism and the Transformation of Religion in East and Southeast Asia Ed. (Palgrave 2009)
RESEARCH ARTICLES: FOOD
- “Cookbooks as a source for Chinese food history” (in preparation)
- “Counting cows: A new look at Republican China’s cattle trade” (Under review)
- “Beef in China: A history in eight dishes” (Forthcoming)
- “China’s food OFDI between state and market: A tale of two dairies” Asian Studies Review (2022)
- “Counting the carnivores: Who ate meat in Republican-era China?” Social Science History (2022)
- 刘芹利,杜博思. “民国时期牛贩子的商业风俗与贸易网络” [Cattle trade customs and commercial networks in the Republican period] 《民俗研究》2 (2022)
- “Soy in China,” Brian Lander and Thomas DuBois, in The Age of Soybeans: An Environmental History of the Soyacene During the Great Acceleration, ed. Claiton Marcio da Silva (White Horse 2022)
- 杜博思. “从中介视角理解中国牛贸易体系” [Understanding China’s cattle trade systems from the perspective of intermediation] 《世界历史评论》3: 269-285.
- “ ‘There’s a body in the kitchen!’ A cook’s-eye view of Sichuan cuisine” KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge (2021)
- “Fast food for thought: Finding global history in a Beijing McDonald’s” World History Connected (2021)
- “China’s old brands: Commercial heritage and creative nostalgia” International Journal of Asian Studies (2020)
- “Milk From the Butterfly Spring: State and Enterprise in the Yunnan Dairy Industry,” Rural China (2020)
- “Borden and Nestlé in East Asia, 1870-1929: Branding and retail strategy in the condensed milk trade” Business History (2020)
- “Walking a Production Chain” in Fieldwork in Modern Chinese History: A Research Guide, Kiely and DuBois ed. (Routledge 2019)
- “China’s dairy century – making, drinking and dreaming of milk” in Animals and Human Society in Asia: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Kowner, et al, eds. (Palgrave 2019)
- “Many roads from pasture to plate: A commodity chain approach to China’s beef trade, 1732-1931” Journal of Global History (2019)
- “Big meat: The rise and impact of mega-farming in China’s beef, sheep and dairy industries” Alisha Gao and Thomas DuBois, Asia Pacific Journal (2017)
RESEARCH ARTICLES: RELIGION AND LAW
- “西方汉学与中国研究范式的历史阶段” [Historical stages of western Sinological and China research paradigms] 《汉籍与汉学》(2022)
- “Religious violence in early modern East Asia” Cambridge World History of Violence, Vol. 3 ⎯ AD 1500- AD 1800, eds. Robert Antony, et al. (Cambridge, 2018)
- “Religious violence in China since 1850” Cambridge World History of Violence, Vol. 4 ⎯ AD 1800-AD 2000, eds. Louise Edwards, et al. (Cambridge, 2018)
- “Religious freedom in East Asia: Historical norms and the limits of advocacy” Journal of Religious and Political Practice (2018)
- “Before the NGO: Chinese charities in historical perspective” Asian Studies Review (2015)
- “Opiate of the Masses with Chinese Characteristics: Chinese scholarship on the meaning and future of religion” Religious Studies and Marxist Approaches to Religions in China, (2014)
- “Public health and private charity in Manchuria, 1905-1945” Frontiers of History in China (2014)
- “The salvation of religion? Public charity and the new religions of the early Republic” Minsu quyi (2011)
- “Religion and the Chinese state: Three crises and a solution,” Australian Journal of International Affairs (2010)
- “Inauthentic sovereignty: Law and legal institutions in Manchukuo,” Journal of Asian Studies (2010)
- “Manchukuo’s filial sons: States, sects and the transformation of graveside piety” East Asian History (2008)
- “Rule of law in a brave new empire: Legal rhetoric and practice in Manchukuo,” Law and History Review (2008)
- “Local religion and the cultural imaginary: the development of Japanese ethnography in occupied Manchuria” American Historical Review (2006)
- “Imperialism, Hegemony and the Construction of Religion in East and Southeast Asia” History & Theory (2005)