Alan T. Wood 穆倫

Professor Emeritus, University of Washington Bothell
E-mail: alantwood@gmail.com
Married to Wei-ping Wood, two children, three grandchildren.

EDUCATION

1971-1981 1972-1973

1965-1966 1963-1968

EXPERIENCE

2015- 1999-2015 2006-2007 Spring 2000 Fall 1999 1995-1999 1995-1999 Fall 1993 1990-1995 1987-1990 1980-1987 1968-1970

BOOKS

Professor Emeritus, University of Washington Bothell
Professor, University of Washington Bothell
Interim Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of Washington Tacoma Semester at Sea voyage around the world
Giovanni and Anne Costigan Endowed Lectureship in History, UW Seattle Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, University of Washington Bothell. Associate Professor, University of Washington Bothell.
Semester at Sea voyage around the world
Assistant Professor, University of Washington Bothell.
Lecturer, University of Washington.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington. Lieutenant, Military Intelligence, U.S. Army

UniversityofWashington(Ph.D.,History,1981;M.A.,History,1976) StanfordCenterforChineseLanguageStudies,Taipei(intensivetraining in spoken Mandarin Chinese)
UniversityofPavia,Italy

UniversityofOregon(B.A.,AsianStudies)

  • Asian Democracy in World History. London: Routledge, 2004. (Translated into Farsi, 2005)

  • What Does It Mean to be Human?: A New Interpretation of Freedom in World History. New York:

    Peter Lang, 2001.

  • Philip Lee Ralph, Robert E. Lerner, Standish Meacham, Edward McNall Burns, Alan T. Wood,

    World Civilizations. Ninth edition. Two volumes. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.

  • Limits to Autocracy: From Sung Neo-Confucianism to a Doctrine of Political Rights. Honolulu:

    University of Hawai‘i Press, 1995.

    OTHER PUBLICATIONS

  • “Confucian Democracy in the Twenty-first Century: A Global Perspective,” in Confucianism for the Twenty-first Century, eds. Chun-chieh Huang and John Tucker (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023), pp. 87-105.

  • “Confucianism and Social Structure,” Oxford Handbook on Confucianism, ed. Jennifer Oldstone- Moore (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023).

  • “The Owl of Minerva: The Humanities as a Repository of Wisdom for a Global Age.” Newsletter of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University (Winter 2014), pp. 1-5.

  • “What Could Possibly Connect Taiwan, Modern Science, Chinese Philosophy, and World History?” Newsletter of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University (Spring 2013), pp. 9-20.

  • “Inventory and Invention: How Can a Classical Education Foster Creativity?” Newsletter of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University (Winter 2012), pp. 25-28.

  • “China: The Northern and Southern Song Eras.” World History Encyclopedia, Era 5: Intensified Hemispheric Interactions, 1000-1500, pp. 401-403. Ed. Alfred Andrea. (Santa Barbara: ABC- CLIO, 2011).

  • “Fire, Water, Earth, and Sky: Global Systems History and the Human Prospect,” Journal of the Historical Society (September 2010).

  • “Big History as Global Systems History,” in The Evolutionary Epic: Science’s Story and Humanity’s Response, pp. 169-173. Santa Margarita, Calif.: Collins Foundation Press, 2009. Proceedings of a conference held in Makaha, Hawaii in January 2008.

  • “Why Do We Educate, Anyway?” Education in a Democracy: A Journal of the NNER (October 2009), pp. 87-101.

  • “What is Renewal? Why Now?” Ed. John I. Goodlad, Roger Soder, and Bonnie McDaniel, in Education and the Making of a Democratic People (Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2008), pp. 29- 45.

  • “Freedom,” Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History. Great Barrington, Mass.: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2005.

  • Ten entries on Ming dynasty philosophers for the Encyclopedia of Confucianism, edited by Yao Xinzhong. London: RoutledgeCurzon Press, 2003.

  • “What Does It Mean to be Human?: Education for World Citizenship.” Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice (September 2002), pp. 96-110.

  • “Nelson Trusler Johnson.” Entry in Notable U.S. Ambassadors, 1775-1996: A Biographical Dictionary. Edited by Cathal J. Nolan. Westport, Ct.: Greenwood, 1997.

  • “Freedom in World History: Can Truffle-Hunters and Parachutists Find Perfect Happiness Together?” AHA Perspectives (January 1991). Reprinted in the World History Bulletin (Spring/Summer 1991), pp. 28-31; in History Anew, edited by Robert Blackey (Long Beach: The University Press, 1993), pp. 243-248; and in Teaching Innovations: World and Global History Washington, DC: American Historical Association, 1999).

  • Syndicated newspaper columns on Asian affairs. A total of 160 columns have appeared in various papers, including the Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Globe, Baltimore Sun, Pittsburgh Post- Gazette, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Chicago Tribune, Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Kansas City Star, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Houston Post, Sacramento Bee, Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, Eugene Register-Guard, Albany Democrat-Herald, Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, Everett Herald, Seattle Times, Anchorage Times, and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.

  • “The Liberal Arts and the Survey Course,” published by Michigan State University in a volume entitled What Americans Should Know: Western Civilization or World History?, proceedings of a conference organized by the National Endowment for the Humanities in April 1985.

    BOOK REVIEWS

• Stuurman, Siep. The Invention of Humanity: Equality and Cultural Difference in World History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017. Review essay in the American Historical Review (December 2017), Volume 122, Issue 5, pp. 1554-1556.

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  • Davis, Kathleen and Nadia Altschul, eds., Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World: The Idea of “the Middle Ages” Outside Europe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. American Historical Review (April 2011), pp. 412-413.

  • Dinnie, Keith. Nation-Branding: Concepts, Issues, Practice. Burlington, Mass.: Elsevier, 2008. Journal of Marketing (May 2009).

  • Hui, Victoria Tin-Bor. War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. American Historical Review (October 2006).

  • Fung, Edmund S. K. In Search of Chinese Democracy: Civil Opposition in Nationalist China,

    1929-1949. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Peace and Change (April 2003).

  • Gyory, Andrew. Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act. Chapel Hill:

    University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pacific Northwest Quarterly (Fall 1999).

  • Martin, Marie Alexandrine. Cambodia: A Shattered Society. Trans. Mark W. McLeod. Berkeley:

    University of California Press, 1994. The Historian 58:1 (Autumn 1996).

  • Ebrey, Patricia Buckley. The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period. Berkeley: University of California Press. The Historian 58:1 (Autumn 1996).

  • de Bary, Wm. Theodore, and John W. Chaffee, eds. Neo-Confucian Education: The Formative

    Stage. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. The History of Education Quarterly (Fall

    1990).

  • Chu Hsi. Learning to be a Sage: Selections from the Conversations of Master Chu, Arranged

    Topically. Translated with a commentary by Daniel K. Gardner. Berkeley: University of California

    Press, 1990. Journal of Asian Studies 49 (November 1990).

  • Lo, Winston. An Introduction to the Civil Service of Sung China: With Emphasis on its Personnel

    Administration. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1987. Bulletin of Sung-Yüan Studies 20

    (1988).

  • Hsieh Shan-yuan. The Life and Thought of Li Kou. San Francisco: Chinese Materials Center, 1979.

    Bulletin of Sung-Yüan Studies 18 (1986).

  • Wines, Roger. Leopold von Ranke: The Secret of World History. New York: Fordham University

    Press, 1981. The History Teacher 16 (May 1983).

    RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES /COMMUNITY SERVICE

  • Member of the Board, University of Washington Retirement Association, 2017-2020.

  • Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Washington Bothell, 2004.

  • Worthington Distinguished Scholar Award, University of Washington Bothell, 2003.

  • Member of book selection committee for the James Henry Breasted Prize of the American

    Historical Association, 2000-2003.

  • Author of 900 terms on world philosophy, religion, art, architecture, music, dance, and painting for

    the Microsoft Encarta 2000 Encyclopedia timeline.

  • Author of article entitled “Rise of Post-war Independence Movements in Africa and Asia” for

    Microsoft Encarta 2000.

  • Member of Local Arrangements Committee, American Historical Association, for the annual

    meeting of the AHA at Seattle, January 8-11, 1998.

  • Member of Board of Directors, Seattle-Chongqing Sister City Association, 1992-1994.