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SHAO Dan

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Contact Information

East Asian Languages and Cultures
2090A Foreign Language Building
707 South Mathews
Urbana, Illinois 61801

Office Hours

Sabbatical 2023
Department Head (January 1, 2024- ), Associate Professor

Research Interests

legal history,  nationality law, cultures of law, gender studies, gender and law, medical history of ethics and law, borderland studies, ethnic groups in China, U.S.-East Asia relationship, Sino-Japanese relationship

Research Description

As a historian, I primarily study the historical roots of contemporary problems, and particularly problems concerning the making, shifting, and lifting of boundaries and borders in Chinese society. I pay special attention to peoples and places on the margins, intending to enrich our understanding of China as a historical concept and to bridge the gap between Asia-based and Europe/U.S.-based studies on common problems about social boundaries and legal borders. I have endeavored to cross the historical marks that conventionally distinguish “modern” from “pre-modern” and to traverse the existing national borders that define China.

Education

PhD, History Department, University of California Santa Barbara
LLM, College of Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Grants

  • 2022-2023        Chancellor’s Call to Action to Address Racism & Social Injustice Research Program grant, UIUC
  • Summer 2021   Illinois Global Institute Curriculum Development Grant, “Yellow Peril Redux: From Coolies to Cars, Trade Wars and Coronavirus (1800s-present)”
  • 2019-2020        Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Research Cluster
  • 2015-2018        Title VI Grant for course development, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
  • 2014-2016        INTERSECT Grant, Cultures of Law in Global Contexts project
  • 2013-2014        Center for Advanced Studies Residence Fellow, CAS Initiative on Cultures of Law in Global Contexts, UIUC
  • 2013-2015        Andrew Mellon New Directions Grant
  • 2012-2016        Conrad Humanities Scholar Award, UIUC
  • 2012-2014        INTERSECT Grant, Cultures of Law in Global Contexts project
  • 2011-2012        ACLS Grant, Research in Humanities in China-NEH
  • 2011-2012        Illinois Program of Research in Humanities Fellowship, UIUC
  • 2009-2010        Law and Society in China, Focal Point Initiative Grant, UIUC, Graduate College (Collaboration with Law faculty)

 

 

Awards and Honors

2012-2016 Conrad Humanities Scholar Award
2013-2014 Resident Associate, Center for Advanced Studies, UIUC
2011-2012 IPRH Fellowship, UIUC
2009-2010 Beckman Fellowship, Center for Advanced Studies, UIUC
2003-2004 An-Wang postdoctoral fellowship, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University

Courses Taught

EALC 550/398 Cultures of Law in China
EALC 398 Yellow Peril Redux: From Coolies to Cars, Trade Wars and Coronavirus
EALC/GWS361 Gender and Women in East Asia
CHIN 409 Chinese Readings in Social Sciences: Cultures of Law
EALC 550 Gender and Women in China
EALC/HIST120 East Asian Civilization
EALC 550 History of China's Borderlands
EALC 398 Sino-Japanese Relationship
 

Outreach and Publicity

NPR report by Emily Feng on Chinese nationality law: "For some athletes, what is Chinese is not so simple", Feb. 13, 2022.

Highlighted Publications

Shao, D. (2022). Red Star over Medicine: Redefining State-Doctor-Patient Relationship in the Early CPC History (1920s-1950s). East Asian Science, Technology and Society, 14. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/18752160.2021.1971369?journalCode=teas20

Shao, D. (2017). Manchuria in Modern East Asia, 1600s–1949. In D. Ludden (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.141

Shao, D. (2011). Remote Homeland, Recovered Borderland: Manchus, Manchoukuo, and Manchuria, 1907–1985. (The World of East Asia). University of Hawai'i Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824860226

Shao, D. (2009). Chinese by Definition: Nationality Law, Jus Sanguinis, and State Succession, 1909-1980. Twentieth-Century China, 35(1), 4-28. https://doi.org/10.1353/tcc.0.0019

Shao, D. (2009). Borders and Borderlands. In A. Iriye, & P.-Y. Saunier (Eds.), The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History (pp. 99a-102b). Palgrave Macmillan.

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Recent Publications

Dan, S. (2023). Red Star over Medicine: Redefining Doctor-Patient Relationship in Early CPC History (1930s–1960s). East Asian Science, Technology and Society, 17(2), 170-200. https://doi.org/10.1080/18752160.2021.1971369

Shao, D. (2022). Red Star over Medicine: Redefining State-Doctor-Patient Relationship in the Early CPC History (1920s-1950s). East Asian Science, Technology and Society, 14. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/18752160.2021.1971369?journalCode=teas20

Shao, D. (2017). Manchuria in Modern East Asia, 1600s–1949. In D. Ludden (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.141

Shao, D. (2014). Review: Pär Kristoffer Cassel's Grounds of Judgment: Extraterritoriality and Imperial Power in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan. American Historical Review, 119(2), 488-489. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/119.2.488

Shao, D. (2013). Review: Tina Phillips Johnson's Childbirth in Republican China: Delivering Modernity. Journal of Asian Studies, 72(2), 448-450. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911813000168

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