Fan Xin 范鑫
Professor and Vice Dean
Institute of Humanities
ShanghaiTech University
Email: fanxin1@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Education
Ph.D. | Indiana University (Bloomington, IN): Department of History, 2013. |
M.A. | Beijing Normal University (Beijing, China): Department of History, 2003. |
B.A. | Northeast Normal University (Changchun, China): Department of History, 2000. |
Academic Affiliations
· Fellow, Royal Historical Society
· Senior Associate, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge
· International Board Member, Global Intellectual History
Publications
Monographs
Fan, Xin. Global History in China. Palgrave MacMillan, 2024.
Fan, Xin. World History and National Identity in China: The Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, February 2021.
Edited Volumes
Stapleton, Kristin, Xin Fan, and Els van Dongen, eds. The SAGE Handbook of Interpreting Chinese History. SAGE, February 2026.
Renger, Almut-Barbara, and Xin Fan, eds. Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia. Boston: Brill 2018.
Selected Journal Articles
Fan, Xin. “Why science needs the humanities more than ever,” Nature 654, Issue 8120 (June 26, 2026): 866–868.
范鑫：《从剑桥到世界：“冷战”语境中的“两种文化”与文理分野的思想史再解读》，《南国学术——澳门大学学报》第16卷（2026年5月）：第154至164页。
Fan Xin. “Rethinking Global History in China,” Global Intellectual History (December 2025), first view.
Fan, Xin. “Making Sense of the Political in Twentieth-Century China: Translation, Adaptation, and Appropriation,” Contributions to the History of Concepts 19, no. 2 (Summer 2024): 40–64.
范鑫：《“学术社会的双重困境”：知识社会学的考察》，李里峰主编：《表象中的历史：事件·记忆·书写》，《新史学》第17卷（2024年7月）：第47至68页。
———. “‘International Law in Ancient China’: Eurocentrism and the Rethinking of Case Studies in Chinese Intellectual History,” Global Intellectual History 7, no. 2 (May 2022): 265–281. https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2020.1738656
———. “In Search of Contemporaneity in Globality: Qi Shirong and World-Historical Studies in China,” World History Studies 7, no. 1 (June 2020): 86–101.
———. “The Anger of Ping-Ti Ho: The Chinese Nationalism of a Double Exile,” Storia Della Storiografia (History of Historiography) 69, no. 1 (2016): 147–60.
———. “Historiography 1918-Today (China),” 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, edited by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2014-10-08. DOI: 10.15463/ie1418.10307.
———. “The Lost Intellectual Autonomy: State, Society, and Historical Writing in Republican China,” Berliner China-Hefte/Chinese History and Society 43 (2013): 64–76.
———. “Gu Jiegang and the Creation of Chinese Historical Geography.” The Chinese Historical Review 17, no. 2 (2010): 193–218.
Book Chapters
Fan, Xin. “The Development of the History Profession and Its Relation to the State.” In Sage Handbook of Interpreting Chinese History, edited by Kristin Stapleton, Xin Fan, and Els van Dongen, 197–211. Sage, 2026.
Fan, Xin. “The Rise and Transformation of World History in China.” In Routledge Handbook on East Asian Historiography, edited by Q. Edward Wang, 295–309. Routledge, 2026.
范鑫 Fan, Xin. “Nage chonggao de lixiang”––Ou Mei shinian jiaoshi shengya fansi “那個崇高的理想”––歐美十年教師生涯反思 [“That Noble Dream”: Reflections of a decade’s journey of teaching history in Europe and America], in Zai Meiguo jiao lishi––Cong shuzhuo dao jiangtai在美國教歷史––從書桌到講台 [Teaching history in the United States: from study desk to lecture podium], eds. Wang Xi and Yao Ping, 487–500.Beijing: Peking University press, 2022.
Fan, Xin. Historical Analogies, Historia magistra vitae. In Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method Articles. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. Accessed October 21, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350970885.074.
———. Introduction to the English edition of Lei Haizong’s Chinese Army and the Chinese Culture, translated by George Fleming, vii–xi. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Renger, Almut-Barbara, and Xin Fan. “Receptions and Cross-Cultural Transfers: On Greco-Roman Antiquity in East Asia – Introduction.” In Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia, 1–16.
———. “Imagining Antiquity in Twentieth-Century China.” In Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia, 202–218.
———. “The Rise of World History in Late-Imperial China.” In The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History: Circulation, Movement, Encounters, edited by May Hawas, 111–121. London and New York: Routledge, 2017.
———. “The Making of the Zhanguo Ce Clique: The Politicization of History Knowledge in Wartime China.” In The Engaged Historian: Perspectives on the Intersections of Politics, Activism and the Historical Profession, edited by Stefan Berger, 136–150. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019.
Book Reviews
Fan, Xin, Review of Chen Hansheng: China’s Last Romantic Revolutionary, by Stephen MacKinnon. The China Journal, no. 92 (July 2024): 168–170.
———. Review of Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism, by Shadi Bartsch. Journal of Asian Studies 83, no. 1 (2024): 141–143.
———. Review of Modern Erasures: Revolution, the Civilizing Mission, and the Shaping of China’s Past, by Pierre Fuller. Journal of Social History, (August 27, 2023), https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shad055.
———. Review of The Making and Unmaking of the Chinese Radical Right, 1918–1951, by Nagatomi Hirayama. H-Asia Book Review (May 2023), https://networks.h-net.org/node/22055/reviews/12819413/fan-hirayama-making-and-unmaking-chinese-radical-right-1918-1951.
———. Review of Gudai Beijing yu xifang wenming [Ancient Beijing and western civilization] (in Chinese), by Ouyang Zhesheng. Chinese Studies in History 56, no. 2 (2023): 190–191.
———. Review of Chinese Asianism, 1894–1945, by Craig A. Smith. Twentieth-Century China 48, no.1 (Jan. 2023): E-7-E-8.
———. Response to Rong Kong’s review of World History and National Identity in China: The Twentieth Century, by Xin Fan, PRC History Review, no. 45 (August 2022), 5–7.
———. Review of A Sensational Encounter with High Socialist China, by Paul Pickowicz, PRC History Review 4, no. 21 (June 2020), with a response from the author.http://prchistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Pickowicz_review.pdf
———. Review of The Limits of Westernization: American and East Asian Intellectuals Create Modernity, 1860–1960, by Jon Thares Davidann. Frontiers of History in China 14, no. 2 (July 2019): 279–282.
———. Review of Reading Philosophy, Writing History: Intertextual Modes of Making Meaning in Early Medieval China, by Wendy Swartz. Global Intellectual History 4, no.1 (2019): 82–83.
———. Review of Runaway Wives, Urban Crimes, and Survival Tactics in Wartime Beijing, 1937-1949, by Zhao Ma. Frontiers of History in China 11, no. 4 (2016): 678–681.
———. Review of Zaoqi Sichouzhilu Tanwei [A New Survey of the Early Silk Road], by Yang Gongle. World History Studies 1, no.1 (winter 2014): 120-124.
Major Research Grants
2023 July | Anneliese Maier Research Grant provided by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Göttingen University. |
2022 Summer | Fellowship at the Joint Center for Advanced Studies “Worldmaking from a Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China” at the University of Göttingen, Germany, (plus Partnership Grant with Stefan Berger) |
2021 Summer | Visiting Fellowship for the international research project “Writing History with China” at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany |
2019 Summer | Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship, The Library of Congress |
2018 Summer | Visiting Scholar Grant, International Center for Studies of Chinese Civilization, Fudan University, Shanghai |
2016-2017 | Postdoctoral Fellowship in Humanities in Germany, The Volkswagen Foundation/Andrew Mellon Foundation (Deferred to the calendar year of 2017) |
2006-2007 | McNutt Fellowship at Indiana University |
2004 – 2005 | “International Quality Network” program, German Academic Services (DAAD) scholarship, Germany |