Sherman Cochran
Hu Shih Professor
Office: 432 McGraw Hall
Phone: (607) 255-6740
Fax: (607) 255-0469
E-Mail: sgc11@cornell.edu
Office Hours: TBA
Education
Ph.D. Yale University, 1975
M.A. Yale University, 1967
B.A. Yale University, 1962
Courses
| Fall 2008: | 1910 |
Introduction to Modern Asian History |
|---|---|---|
4930 / 6930 |
Problems in Modern Chinese History | |
| Spring 2009: | On Leave |
Recent Publications and Awards
Books
Cities in Motion: Interior, Coast and Diaspora in Transnational China. Berkeley: University of California Institute of East Asian Studies, 2007. Co-edited with David Strand.
Chinese Medicine Men and Consumer Culture in China, 1880-1956 (Harvard University Press, 2006).
Encountering Chinese Networks: Western, Japanese, and Chinese Corporations in China, 1880-1937. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Chinese translation by Cheng Linsun: Da gongsi yu guanxi wang: Zhongguo jingnei de Xifang, Riben he Hua shang da qiye (1880-1937). Shanghai shehui kexueyuan chubanshe, 2002.
Inventing Nanjing Road: Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900-1945, a collection of essays edited by Cochran with one contributed essay and editor’s introduction. Ithaca: Cornell East Asia Series, 1999. Issued in both hardback and paperback.
“Preface to the Chinese Edition,” Da gangsi yu guanxi wang (listed above), pp. 1-4 (In Chinese).
Articles
“Three Challenges for Scholars in Chinese Business History.” In Zhang Zhongmin and Lu Xinglong, eds., Qiye fazhan zhongde zhidu bianqian (Institutional change in Chinese business history). Shanghai: Shanghai shehui kexueyuan chubanshe, 2003, pp. 1-17. (In Chinese.)
“Rong Family” an essay in The Oxford Economic History of China. Oxford University Press, 2002.
Henry Luce Senior Fellow at the National Humanities center, Research Triangle Park, North Caroline, 2002-2003.171-181.
“Alice Tisdale Hobart and the Writing of Oil for the Lamps of China,” an introduction to a new edition of Oil for the Lamps of China which was originally published in 1933 and was republished by East Bridge Press in 2002, pp. i-xvi.
“Intra-Asian Marketing: Aw Boon-haw’s Commercial Network, 1910-1937.” In S. Sugiyama and Linda Grove, eds. Commercial Networks in Modern Asia. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 2001. pp. Awards
“Homogenizing the World’s Cultures? Globalization in Chinese History.” Jindai Zhongguo lishi yanjiu tongxin (Newsletter for Modern Chinese History), Academia Sinica no. 31 (March 2001): 37-52.
“Knight Biggerstaff (1906-2001),” Journal of Asian Studies vol. 60, no. 3 (August 2001): 933-35. Co-authored with Charles A. Peterson.
“Marketing Medicine and Advertising Dreams in China, 1900-1950,” in Wen-hsin Yeh, ed., Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond, 1900-1950. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. pp. 62-97.
“Marking Chinese Urban History Comparative,” Wall and Market 5.1-2 (Spring and Fall 2000) 15-16.
“Micro Networks and Asian Trade.” In Shinya Sugiyama, and Linda Grove, eds. Commercial Networks in Asia 1850-1930. Tokyo: Shobunsha, 1999. Pp. 323-325. (In Japanese).
“Intra-Asian Marketing: Aw Boon Haw’s Commercial Network, 1910-1937.” Shinya Sugiyama and Linda Grove, eds., Commercial Networks in Modern Asia. Tokyo: Shobunsha, 1999. Pp. 195-209. (In Japanese).
“Encountering Chinese Networks” (two chapters from separate book with same title) translated into Chinese by Guo Xunche, Guomin yanjiu 5 (1999): 75-90. (In Chinese).
“Globalization and Localization” in Zhang Zhongli, Xiong Yuezhi, and Shen Zuwei, eds., Zhongguo chengshi fazhan yu shehui jingji (Urban development and the society and economy of modern China). Shanghai: Shanghai shehui kexue yuan chunabshe, 1999. Pp. 340-344. (In Chinese).
“The Economic Position of Shanghai during the Sino-Japanese War.” Zhongguo jindai chengshi: qiye shehui, kongjian (China’s modern cities: enterprises, society, spaces). Shanghai: Shanghai shehui kexue yuan, 1998. Pp. 72-82. (In Chinese).
Awards
Henry Luce Senior Fellow at the national Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 2002-2003.
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Fellowship, summers of 1998 and 1999.
Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., 1998-99.