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Education

Ph.D., History, University of California, Berkeley,
M.A., Asian History, University of California, Berkeley
B.A., History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, with honors

Regional and Thematic Interests

History of modern China

Profile

Professor Weston teaches courses on modern Chinese history, the intersecting histories of modern China and Japan, the history of Chinese – American relations, and the history of the propaganda state. He is particularly interested in the relationship between politics and culture, Asia in a global context, the development and role of the media, and the nature of state power. Some of the courses he offers include: "Introduction to Chinese History Since 1644,"Ìý"Modernity in China and Japan," and "Propaganda States in the Modern World."ÌýProfessor Weston also teaches courses in China for CU students.

Professor Weston published (University of California Press, 2004) and is co-editor of a series of volumes on contemporary China: (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000); (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007); and (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012).ÌýHe is currently completing a book-length study of the rise of the newspaper press in China in the context of nineteenth-century Western imperialism.Ìý

Professor Weston is the past President of the Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China, regularly speaks to the public and writes on modern China for the popular media, and is an alumnus of the Public Intellectuals Program run by the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.

Selected Publications

2013 "Taiwanese Newspapers and Politics in China’s Shadow."ÌýIn Mobile Horizons: Dynamics across the Taiwan Strait, edited byÌýWen-hsin Yeh, 208-234.ÌýBerkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies.

2012 Jensen, Lionel M., and Timothy Weston, eds.ÌýChina in and beyond the Headlines.ÌýLanham, MD:ÌýRowman and Littlefield.

2010 "China, Professional Journalism, and Liberal Internationalism in the Era of the First World War."ÌýPacific AffairsÌý83, no.Ìý2 (June): 327-347.

2007 Jensen, Lionel M., and Timothy Weston, eds.ÌýChina’s Transformations: The Stories beyond the Headlines.ÌýLanham, MD:ÌýRowman & Littlefield.

2004 The Power of Position: Beijing University, Intellectuals and Chinese Political Culture, 1898-1929.ÌýBerkeley, CA:ÌýUniversity of California Press.