Academic World History Articles and Essays

This is a collection of peer-reviewed academic world history essays and articles. We invite and encourage anyone interested in teaching, researching, or studying world history and global studies to contribute and comment.

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Hong-Ming Liang

Chief Editor of The Middle Ground Journal. Executive Council, The World History Association (WHA), 2013-2015. Founding member, The Midwest World History Association (MWWHA). Assistant Professor of History and Politics, The College of St. Scholastica. Advisor to the Pre-Law Society, History and Politics Club, and Anime Club. Pre-Law Advisor. Chair of the Faculty Assembly, 2012-2013.

Professor Liang's research and teaching interests include world history, East Asian history, nationalism and national identity, Taiwanese history, democracy and democratic consolidation, popular culture and historical memory, and international politics, especially relations among Taiwan, Japan, China, and the United States. As a Fulbright Scholar, he conducted archival research in Taiwan and China, combing through the holdings of the Chinese Nationalist Party (Guomindang) in an effort to understand how this anticommunist yet Leninist party debated and created policies on Chinese nationalism and modern citizenship during the 1930s. Professor Liang has taught at The College of Wooster, Case Western Reserve University, and John Carroll University.