Education
Biography
Professor Brian DeMare specializes in modern Chinese history.
Research Interests
A cultural historian studying the Communist Party's great enterprise, Professor DeMare researches how Chinese citizens have negotiated with the politicization of their everyday lives. Mass campaigns, revolutionary art, and rural cultural workers are the primary concerns driving his research agenda. His first book, Mao's Cultural Army, explores the political uses of cultural performance in the rise of the Chinese Communist Party and the early years of the People's Republic of China. His latest book, Land Wars (2019), deftly blends archival and narrative sources to investigate the most critical moment of Maoist rural revolution. He is currently writing a collection of true-crime studies based on archival documents from a rural county in Jiangxi Province.
See Professor DeMare’s full bio in the Department of History.
Courses
- HISC 2010: History of China, Prehistory to 1800
- HISC 2020: History of China, 1800 to Present
- HISC 6110: Women in East Asian History
- HISC 6210: The PRC - China Under Communism
- HISC 6310: China in Revolution, 1900 - 1949
- HISC 6410: Empire and Rebellion in China
- HISC 6510: Imperialism in East Asia
- HISC 6610: Seminar on Modern Japan