Guy Salvatore Alitto

Associate Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Ph.D. Harvard 1975

FIELD SPECIALTIES

Modern Chinese Intellectual and Social History;
Chinese Labor History;
The Chinese Communist Movement.

BIOGRAPHY

Guy Alitto has taught in all areas of Chinese studies, including the modern and classical Chinese languages and pre-modern history. Most of his courses, and all of his graduate courses, are in the area of modern Chinese history. His research in the last fifteen years has been in local histories at the village, county, and regional levels (Zouping county in Shandong, the Wanxiarea of southwestern Henan), in family history (the Liangs of Guilin), and social history (Chinese banditry 1880-1950). He is especially interested in the connections between political/social realms and the intellectual/cultural, as manifest in specific individuals and local cultures. He continues to be interested in the ongoing Chinese discussion on culture and modernization.

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PUBLICATIONS

"Ershiyi shiji de shijiewenhua hui yanhuazhi rujiahua de wenhua ma?"(Will 21st century culture evolve into a confucianized culture?) in Dushu, (Beijing) 1996 January)

"Zhongguo wenhua xingcheng de yaosu ji qi tezheng" (The essentialelements in the formation of Chinese culture and their special features) in Guo Tingyi xiansheng jiuzhi danchen jinian lunwenji, Taipei 1995

Shijie fanweinei de fanxiandaihua sichao: lun wenhua shouchengzhiyi (Anti-modernizationthought trends in a world-wide perspective: On cultural conservatism) Guiyang,Guizhou Provincial Press, 1991

The Last Confucian: Liang Shu-ming and the Chinese Dilemma of Modernity 2nd ed. 1986, U. of California Press.

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