University of Colorado Denver College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Bio

Xiaojia received her PhD from Cornell University in 2008, with a major in modern Chinese history and a minor in Russian history and political science. Her research interests include comparison of communist movements in China and in the Soviet Union, Mao Zedong and China's revolution in the 20th century, and the transformation of China since the 1950s. She is now working on her manuscipt on China's collectivization in the 1950s, as well as developing a course on the Soviet Union.

Select Publications

"'Get Organized': The Impact of the Soviet Model on the CCP's Rural Economic
Strategy, 1949-l953," in China Learns from the Soviet Union, 1949-present, edited by Thomas P. Bernstein and Hua-yu Li, Lexington Books, 2010.

"Rural Policy in Flux: Lai Ruoyu's Challenge to the Party Center in the Early 1950s" in China on the Margins, edited by Sherman Cochran and Paul G. Pickowicz, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010.

Courses Taught

HIST 3451, Introduction to Asian History
HIST 4420/5420, Traditional China
HIST 4421/5421, Modern China
HIST 4431/5431, Modern Japan
HIST 6989, Cold War seminar