Vita for GAO Chunchang

Basic Information
Rank: professor of History, Ludong University
Email: gaochunchang@163.com
Net Address: http://seasurfing.blogspot.com
Work Address: Faculty of History & Society, Ludong University, Yantai, China, 264025.
Education Background
Ph. D., 1997, Nankai University;
Master's degree, 1991, Hebei Teachers’s College;
Bachelor's degree, 1988, Shandong Teachers’ University.
Professional Experience
2000-present, professor of the Faculty of History & Society, Ludong University;
1997-2000, associate professor of the Department of History, Yantai Teachers’ College;
1991-1997, lecturer of the Department of History, Yantai Teachers’ College.
Selected Publications
“LSD Abuse and the Spiritual Poverty in an Affluent Society”, an article for the international symposium “Crises, Experiences, and Lessons in the Process of World Modernization” sponsored by Nakai University, June 2009;
The Disenchantment of the World: the Religious Spirit of the West, Nanchang: Jiangxi People’s Publisher, 2009;
“Slave Religion in Colonial North America from an Atlantic Perspective: A Cultural Syncretism”, Historical Studies, No.4, 2008;
“Viewpoint of Civilizations in History and the Construction of World History System”, an article for the fifth annual meeting of China’s World History Forum, sponsored by Shandong Teachers’ University, October 2008;
“Herskovits-Frazer Dispute and Its Aftereffects”, History Teaching, No.4, 2007;
"Ethnic Roots of Colonial American Slaves: An Overview", a subject presentation on early labor and slavery in an international conference “Early American History in Global Perspective”, sponsored by Fulbright professor Allan Kulikoff and Nankai University, May 2007;
“The Rise of America: Economic, Institutional and Ideological Causes”, Journal of Ludong University, No.3, 2006;
“America’s East Asian Policy and Its Implications for East Asian Integration”, in American Role in East Asia, World Knowledge Publisher, 2006;
“A Comment on Professor Ma Shengxiang’s French Modernization”, World History, No.5, 2005;
“Thomas Jefferson’s Dilemma on Racial Slavery”, Historiography Monthly, No.6, 2003;
“Demographical Factors and the Evolution of Slavery in the Chesapeake”, American Studies, No.2, 2003;
“The Establishment of American Slavery and the Evolution of Whites’ Self-Consciousness,” Journal of Yantai Teachers’ College, No.2, 2002;
“British Historical Tradition and the Origin of Slavery in North America”, Historical Studies, No.2, 2001;
Cultural Chasm: Black Issues and American Southern Reconstruction, Beijing: China Social Science Publisher, 2000;
African-Americans in the Reconstruction Era, English Edition, New York: Garland Publications, 2000.
Academic Awards
First-class prize of Shandong Education Office’s Excellent Works on Social Science, 2002;
First-class prize of Yantai’s Excellent Works on Social Science, 2002;
Second-class prize of Shandong’s Excellent Works on Social Science, 2001.
Main Grants
The International Cooperation Project for the Young and Middle Aged Teachers, the Education Department of Shandong Province, 2009;
The Innovative Team Fund of Western Religion and Culture, Ludong University, 2008;
The Project for the study of Religious Spirit of the West, the Education Department of Shandong Province, 2005;
The Young and Middle Aged Academic Backbone Project of Shandong Province, 2001;
The Academic Backbone Project of ludong University, 2001;
The Chinese Association for American Studies Publishing Subsidy funded by the Ford Foundation, 2000.
Academic Meeting Sponsored
The Fourth Symposium of Shandong’s World History Studies, October, 2006.