Alexander Day grew up in Maine and New Zealand, and has spent over five years in Asia, mostly in China. He received a B.A. from
Colby
College, Waterville, ME, in East Asian Studies and a Ph.D. in the history of modern East Asia with a research focus on modern China from the
University of
California,
Santa Cruz, in 2007. His dissertation examines contemporary debates on China’s emerging rural crisis and its relationship to intellectual politics in the reform era (1979 to the present), putting these debates into historical perspective. Prof. Day’s second teaching field is world history. His research interests include the history of radicalism and populism, the politics of rural society and the rural-urban relationship, the connection between historical writing and politics, colonialism and anti-colonial movements, and transnationalism.
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