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In the 2022/23 term, I am a Teaching Assistant for History 432, the history of international relations from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, addressing questions of war, peace, balance of power, and the evolution of the international system in global economic, cultural, and social contexts.
Guest Lectures and Presentations include: “Teaching techniques for the first class: establishing dynamics and facilitating discussion”; “The Third (Communist) International and the Fourth (Trotskyist) International”; “The Soviet Union, the Chinese Communist Party, and the Kuomintang”; “Russian revolutions.”
In 2021/2022, I was the Teaching Assistant for History 103, World History Since 1900 with Professor Steven Hugh Lee.
In the spring of 2021, students of History 350 (Soviet Union), selected Wikipedia stub pages from a list I provided, expanding the pages based on sources they had used in the course and additional sources specific to the topic. After reviewing their drafts and suggesting edits, I asked students to publish their edits. Since that time, many pages have had their ‘stub’ status removed and other contributors have added content.
Maoist practice and Trotskyist critique of exclusion and suppression of urban working-class initiative in the overthrow of the Kuomintang and struggle against its landlord and capitalist supporters.
Book Review of Harold Isaacs. The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2009 [1938]. Full review at SFU Chinese History (see link in description)
Western Historiography of the Chinese Revolution: Research Questions from the 1960s and 1970s;
Continuity and Discontinuity in the Chinese Revolution: Western Historiography of China in the 21st Century
I worked with Professor Timothy Cheek and other colleagues to interrogate the intellectual world of scholarly and public debate about the history of China’s twentieth-century revolutions and what they mean for China today and tomorrow. The project involves co-production of knowledge in mapping an intellectual field, collaborative translation, co-authoring analyses and translations and preparing these annotated translations for publication.
With Professor Gregor Benton and other colleagues, I contributed to a collection of English translations of the writings of Chinese Trotskyist Zheng Chaolin (1901-1998), who spent the years between 1952-1979 in prison in the PRC. The collection, Zheng Chaolin, Selected Writings, 1942-1998, will be published by Brill as part of its Historical Materialism Series.
In the 2020/2021 semester, I was the Teaching Assistant for History 350, The Soviet Union, with Professor Alexei Kojevnikov.