Richard P. Madsen CV

Curriculum Vita

June, 2003

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date of Birth: 2 April, 1941

Place of Birth: Alameda, California

Citizenship: U.S.A.

Current Mailing Address: Department of Sociology

University of California, San Diego

La Jolla, California 92093

(858) 534-0486

EDUCATION

1972-77 Ph.D. (June 1977), Department of Sociology, Harvard University. Dissertation Title: Revolutionary Asceticism in Communist China: Social Structural Causes and Effects of Commitment to and Deviance from the Maoist Political Ethic

1972 M.A., Regional Studies: East Asia, Harvard University

1970-71 Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

1968-70 Fu Jen University Chinese Language Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan

1968 M.TH., Maryknoll Seminary

1967 B.D., Maryknoll Seminary

1963 A.B., Department of Philosophy, Maryknoll College

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

1985 - Professor, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California

1984-87 Chair, Program in Chinese Studies, University of California,in San Diego, La Jolla, California

1983-85: Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California

1978-83: Assistant Professor, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California

1977-78: Lecturer and Head Tutor in Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1976-77: Tutor in Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1973-74: Sophomore Tutor in East Asian Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1972-74: Instructor, Chinese Society, Cambridge School for Adult

Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1972: Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1966-68: Organizer and Instructor, adult education courses in Catholic theology, Maryknoll Seminary, New York

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

1996 Co-director of project on Social Development in China, funded by the Ford Foundation.

1993 -9 Board of Directors: National Committee on U.S.-China Relations

1991-2: Levenson Prize Committee

1990-3: Committee on Scholarly Communication with China

1989-92: China and Inner Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies

1987-1989: Assistant Editor for China: Journal of Asian Studies

1985-Present: Member; Board of Advisers, The History of Christianity in China Project (funded by the Henry Luce Foundation)

1980-Present: Member; Editorial Board, Chinese Sociology and Anthropology

1979-Present: Consultant: Maryknoll Fathers, Mission Research and Planning Department

Summer, 1978: Co-editor, Contemporary China, Vol. 2, No. 2.

1977-1981: Member, Screening Committee for Pre-Doctoral research fellowships on China, SSRC

Summer, 1972: Consultant: National Council of Churches of Christ, on project to articulate ethical issues posed by the Chinese revolution

1967: Field Worker: National Urban League remedial education project

1964-72: Member of Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America (Maryknoll Fathers), in the following positions:

Editor-in-Chief of Channel, official journal of Maryknoll Fathers, 1967-68; Assistant Editor, 1965-67

Editor-in-Chief of One Spirit, English and Chinese language newsletter of Association of Major Religious Superiors, Taiwan, 1969-70

Member of organizing committee for Taiwan pastoral theology conference, 1969, 1970

1962-63: Editor-in-Chief: Dupage (Student Newspaper for Maryknoll College, Glen Ellyn, Illinois)

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Sociology of Ideas/Culture

Theory

Political Sociology

Chinese Society

Sociology of Religion

"Moral Anthropology"

LANGUAGES

Chinese

AWARDS AND HONORS

Hume Lecture, Yale University, 1996.

Jury Nominated: Pulitzer Prize, 1986, in General Non-fiction for Habits of the Heart.

C. Wright Mills Award, 1985, for Morality and Power in a Chinese Village.

L.A. Times Book Award, 1985, for Habits of the Heart, for best book in category of "current interest".

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS

Books

The Many and the One: Religious and Secular Perspectives on Ethical Pluralism in the Modern World, co-edited with Tracy. B. Strong.? Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Popular China: Unofficial Culture in a Globalizing Society, co-edited with Perry Link and Paul Pickowicz.? Boulder Co: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.

Meaning and Modernity:? Religion, Polity, Self, co-edited with William Sullivan, Ann Swidler, Steven Tipton. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2001.

China?s Catholics: Tragedy and Hope in an Emerging Civil Society, Berkeley, University of California press, 1998.

China and the American Dream: A Moral Inquiry, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

The Good Society (co-authored with Robert Bellah, William Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven Tipton) New York, Knopf, 1991.

Unofficial China: Popular Thought and Culture in the People's Republic (co-edited with Perry Link and Paul Pickowicz). Boulder, Colorado. Westview Press, 1989 ?

Individualism and Commitment in American Life: A Habits of the Heart Reader, (co-edited with Robert Bellah, William Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven Tipton).? New York, Harper and Row, 1987.

Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life, (co-authored with Robert Bellah, William Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven Tipton).? Berkeley, University of California Press, 1985. Paperbacks: New York, Harper and Row, 1986; London, Hutchinson Education, 1988. Translations in German, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese, Russian.

Morality and Power in a Chinese Village, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1984).

Chen Village, (co-authored with Anita Chan and Jonathan Unger) Berkeley,University of California Press, 1984. Second, enlarged edition, 1992. Translations: Japanese, Chinese.??

Articles

?Chinese Christianity? in Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark Selden, eds. Chinese Society: Change conflict, and resistence (Londonand New York, Routledge Curzon, 2003)

?Catholic Revival during the Reform Era,? The China Quarterly 174 (June, 2003).

?One Country, Three Systems: State-Society Relations in Post-Jiang China? in Gang Lin and Xiaobo Hu, eds. China after Jiang (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press2003).

?Visions of State and Society among Five Generations of American Sociologists? in Yimin Lin and Jow-Ching Tu, eds. Social Change in China?s Reform Era, [in Chinese], Hong Kong, Oxford university Press.

?Confucianism and Civil Society? in Will Kymlicka and Simone Chambers, Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2001.

?Comparative Cosmopolis: Discovering Different Paths to Moral Integration in the Modern Ecumene? in Richard Madsen, William Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven Tipton, eds. Meaning and Modernity:? Religion, Polity, Self, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2001.

"The Catholic Church in China: A New Rites Controversy?" Monumentica Serica, 1994.

"Global Monoculture, Multiculture, and Polyculture", Social Research, Fall, 1993

"The Public Sphere, Civil Society, and Moral Community: A Research Agenda for Contemporary China Studies", Modern China 19:10 (April, 1993).

"The Chinese Catholic Church" in Perry Link, Richard Madsen, and Paul Pickowicz, ed., Unofficial China (Westview, 1989)

"The Academic China Scholars" in David Shambaugh ed., The American Study of Contemporary China (M.E.Sharpe, 1993)

"The Spiritual Crisis of China's Intellectuals" in Ezra Vogel and Deborah Davis, ed. The Social Consequences of the Chinese Reforms (Harvard University, 1991)

"The Bishops and their Critics", co-authored with William Sullivan, Commonweal, Feb. 26, 1988.

"Contentless Consensus: The Moral Discourse of a Segmented Society" in Alan Wolf, American Society, University of California Press, 1991)

"The Politics of Revenge in Rural China during the Cultural Revolution", in Jonathan N. Lipman and Stevan Harrell eds., Violence in China: Essays in Culture and Counterculture (SUNY Press, 1990)

"The Institutional Dynamics of Cross Cultural Communication: The Case of U.S.-China Exchanges in the Social Sciences and Humanities", in Joyce K. Kallgren and Denis Fred Simon, eds. Educational Exchanges: Essays on the Sino-American Experience.? Berkeley, Center for Chinese Studies, 1987.

"The Countryside under Communism", in The Cambridge History of Modern China, vol. 15, John K. Faribank and Roderick MacFarquer eds. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991)

"Harnessing the Political Potential of Peasant Youth" in Victor Nee and David Mozingo, ed., State and Society in Contemporary China (Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 1983).

"The Maoist Ethic and the Moral Basis of Political Activism in China" in Richard W. Wilson, Sidney L. Greenblatt, and Amy Auerbacher Wilson, ed., Moral Behavior in Chinese Society (New York, Praeger, 1981).

"Mass Mobilization in Mao's China" in Problems of Communism 30 (Nov. - Dec. 1981).

"Religion and Feudal Superstition" in Ching Feng (Hong Kong 1980).

"Moral Change and Family Change in China:? a comment on Martin King Whyte's `Family Change in China'" (Taipei, 1979).

Book Reviews

Herve Varenne, ed., Symbolizing America in American Journal of Sociology

Jonathan Rieder, Canarsie in American Journal of Sociology

Alice Rossi, et al., Sociology and Anthropology in the People's Republic of China in Science.

James Brady, Justice and Politics in People's China in Qualitative Sociology.

Martin King Whyte and William L. Parish, Urban Life in ???? Contemporary China in American Journal of Sociology.

Raoul Noroll, The Moral Order in American Journal of Sociology.

Vera Schwartz,? Long Road Home: A China Journal in The Annals 477: 157-58 (1985).

Morris Janowitz, The Reconstruction of Patriotism in Contemporary

???? Sociology 14: 1 (1985).

Alexis Johnson et al., China Policy for the Next Decade; and Stuart Schram, Mao Zedong: a Preliminary Reassessment in The Annals (forthcoming).

Gail Henderson and Myron Cohen, The Chinese Hospital: a Socialist WorkUnit in Science 226: 4681 (1984).

Liu Binyan, People or Monsters? And Other Stories and Reportage fromChina After Mao in Contemporary Sociology 13:3 (1984).

Isador Wallimann, Estrangement: Marx's Conception of Human Nature and the Division of Labor in Social Forces, 61(1): 314-15.

William L. Parish and Martin King Whyte, Village and Family in Contemporary China in Contemporary Sociology 10:1 (1981).

S. N. Eisenstadt, Revolution and the Transformation of Societies in Journal of Asian Studies 38:4 (1979).