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Charles W. Hayford

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Independent Scholar, Emeritus

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Charles W. Hayford, having finished two terms as editor of the Journal of American-East Asian Relations, now calls himself “Independent Scholar, Emeritus.” After taking his PhD from Harvard in 1973, he taught at Oberlin College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Northwestern University, Stanford University, Lake Forest College, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Iowa, and Harvard Summer School. His publications include To the People: James Yen and Village China (Columbia University Press, 1990); China (CLIO Press, World Bibliography Series 35, 1996), Draft Bibliography of American-East Asian Relations (Journal of American-East Asian Relations, 2002), and numerous articles. He was Book Review Editor (China/Inner Asia) for Journal of Asian Studies (1990-1994) and on the Advisory Committee of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (1995-2009). His recent interests have run to cultural relations, especially Chinese and Japanese film, Chinese food inside and outside China, and books. His long term book project is America’s Chinas: From the Opium Wars to the 21st Century, which looks at the moral discourse on civilization, power, and history in books written by Americans who lived in China.