Jeremy Murray
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Jeremy Murray teaches and writes about modern China and US-China relations, and has published work on Hainan island, Asian cultural traditions, and pop culture. He serves as faculty co-advisor for the award-winning student-run history journal, History in the Making. He coordinates the CSUSB Modern China Lecture Series and helps to coordinate the CSUSB Conversations on Race and Policing, the Disability Studies Lecture Series, and Critical Perspectives on "AI" in Education. His books include China's Lonely Revolution: The Local Communist Movement of Hainan Island, 1926-1956 (SUNY, 2017), Asian Cultural Traditions (with Carolyn Brown Heinz, Waveland, 2019), China Tripping: Encountering the Everyday in the People's Republic (with Perry Link and Paul Pickowicz, eds., Rowman & Littlefield, 2019), and Pop Culture in Asia and Oceania (with Kathleen Nadeau, eds., ABC-CLIO/Bloomsbury, 2016). He was a Wilson Center China Fellow for the 2022-23 year and visiting faculty with National Taiwan University in fall 2025.
Some recent writing for the Los Angeles Review of Books are here.
Email jmurray@csusb.edu for office hours or Zoom appointment.
Visit these series pages for some upcoming and archived events.
Conversations on Race and Policing
Education
University of California, San Diego, PhD, Modern Chinese History
Columbia University, MA, East Asian Languages and Cultures
State University of New York, Albany, BA, East Asian Studies
Courses/Teaching
HIST 1400 World Civilizations II (ca. 500 BCE to ca. 1500 CE)
HIST 4260 Ancient and Early Imperial China
HIST 4280 Medieval China
HIST 4290 Modern China I: 1644-1911
HIST 4310 Modern China II: 1911-present
HIST 4330 Modern Chinese History in Fiction and Film
HIST 4350 World War II in the Pacific
SSCI 3010 Revolutions and Revolutionary Ideas
CAL 3888 Asian Humanities in a Globalized World
HIST 5840 Proseminar in History
HIST 5850 Research Seminar in History
Research and Teaching Interests
Modern China, Hainan, Marginal Histories of China, Island Histories, Film and Popular Culture in History, Asian History and Culture