Peter Worthing
Associate Professor of History
Director of Graduate Studies

PhD, University of Hawaii, 1995
MA, University of Hawaii, 1991
BA, Trinity College (CT), 1987
Curriculum Vita

Library B16C
(817) 257-6656
p.worthing@tcu.edu

Areas of Study

  • Modern China
  • Chinese Military History
  • Vietnam War

Courses

  • Asian Civilizations To 1500
  • Asian Civilizations Since 1500
  • History of Modern China
  • The Vietnam War
  • Chinese Military History
  • Chinese History Through Literature and Film
  • Graduate Seminar: China in Revolution
  • Graduate Seminar: The Vietnam War

Major Publications

Books

  • Occupation and Revolution: China and the Vietnamese August Revolution of 1945. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 2001.
  • A Military History of Modern China: From the Manchu Conquest to Tian`anmen Square. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Security International, 2007.

Articles

  • "Toward the Minjiu Incident: Militarist Conflict in Guizhou, 1911-1921," Modern China, 33, 2 (April 2007): 258-283.
  • "The Road Through Whampoa: The Early Career of He Yingqin," The Journal of Military History, 69, 4 (October 2005): 953-986.
  • "Strange Bedfellows: China and Cambodia since1949," The American Asian Review, XVIII, 3 (Fall 2000): 53-76.
  • "Strangers in Hanoi: Chinese, Americans, and the Vietnamese August Revolution of 1945." Journal of American-East Asian Relations, 6, 2-3 (Summer-Fall 1997): 125-144.

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