Hanchao Lu

Professor

Hanchao Lu (PhD, UCLA 1991) is a historian of East Asia who specializes in China’s socioeconomic history and popular culture as well as urbanization in China. He has served as the President of the Chinese Historians in the United States (CHUS) and was a visiting fellow of the East Asian Institute, Singapore. He is currently an honorary Senior Research Professor at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. Lu is an editor of the refereed journal Chinese Historical Review, and the editor of a twelve-volume series, The Culture and Customs of Asia. Lu has published widely in both English and Chinese. Before joining the Georgia Tech faculty, he published a biography of Robert Hart (1835-1911), a history of Shanghai, and numerous articles in major journals and edited books. His recent publications include Modernity and Cultural Identity in Taiwan (Global, 2001) and two prize-winning books, Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century (California, 1999/2004), which won the Urban History Association’s Best Book Award, and Street Criers: A Cultural History of Chinese Beggars (Stanford, 2005), which won the Cecil B. Currey Best Book Award of the Association of Third World Studies.

Contact Information: D.M. Smith 307
Phone: 404.894.6844
E-mail: hanchao.lu@hts.gatech.edu