Robert Culp

Short Biography

Robert Culp has a B.A. from Swarthmore College (1988), M.A. from University of Michigan (1992), and Ph.D. from Cornell University (1999). His first book, Articulating Citizenship: Civic Education and Student Politics in Southeastern China, 1912–1940 focuses on conceptions of citizenship as spread through and practiced in Republican-era secondary schools in the lower Yangzi region. He also has an ongoing interest in the politics of popular historiography in modern China, as manifested most recently in The Politics of Historical Production in Late Qing and Republican China, which he co-edited with Tze-ki Hon. His current project, ‘Print Capitalism, Education, and Cultural Power in Early Twentieth-Century China’, explores how China's transitional intellectuals used commercial publishing as a vehicle for self-production and cultural transformation after the end of China's civil examination system in 1905.