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    Hongshan Li

    Hongshan Li

    Department of History
    Professor
    Campus:
    Tuscarawas
    Office Location:
    ST 148
    Contact Information
    Email:
    hli@kent.edu
    Phone:
    330-308-7455 Tuscarawas Campus

    Biography

    While teaching a wide range of history courses, I have been interested in doing research and writing in modern Chinese history and U.S.-China relations, especially educational and cultural interactions between the two nations. I have published a number of books, journal articles, book chapters, encyclopedia essays, and book reviews. My current research focuses mostly on educational and cultural relations between the United States, China, and Taiwan during and after the Cold War.

    Expertise

    U.S. China Relations

    Publications

    • Fighting on the Cultural Front: U.S.-China Relations in the Cold War (A Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on American-East Asian Relations), Columbia University Press, 2024, 480p.
    • U.S.- China Educational Exchange: State, Society, and Intercultural Relations, 1905-1950, Rutgers University Press (December 2007)
    • Touguo Lishi Kan Taiwan: Zhanhou Taiwan De Jingji, Zhengzhi, Wenjiao He Duiwai Guanxi (Taiwan in Historical Perspective: Economy, Politics, Culture and Education, and Foreign Relations in Postwar Taiwan), Hong Kong: Asian Science Press, (1999)
    • Image, Perception, and the Making of U.S.-China Relations, University Press of America (July 2, 1998)
    • China and the United States, University Press of America (December 11, 1997)

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