Dr. Qiang Fang

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Professional Title
Professor of History

Qiang Fang got his Ph.D in Modern Chinese history and 20th Century US history from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2006. His research focuses on Chinese legal and political history. He has authored and edited several books and numerous articles in both English and Chinese. At UMD, Qiang Fang mainly teaches courses on law, politics, and culture of modern East Asia, Sino-US Diplomatic history, and a survey course of Modern World History.

Selected Publications:

  1. Co-editor, China under Xi Jinping: A New Assessment (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2024)

  2. Co-editor, Who is Studying China? A Guideline of Overseas Center for Chinese Studies (谁在研究中国：海外中国研究中心要览) (北京：世界知识出版社, 2024)

  3.  Co-Editor, Sino-American Relations: A New Cold War (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022)

  4. The Communist Judicial System in China, 1927-1976: Building on Fear (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021)

  5. Co-Editor and author of two chapters, A Century of Student Movements in China: The Mountain Movers, 1919-2019 (Lanham: Roman & Littlefield/Lexington Books, 2020)

  6. Primary Editor and author of two chapters, Corruption and Anticorruption in Modern China (Lanham: Roman & Littlefield/Lexington Books, 2019)

  7. Primary Author (wrote more than 95% of the book), Power versus Law in Modern China: Cities, Courts, and the Communist Party (Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2017)

  8. Co-Editor Yang Zhuo, Oumei xuezhe yanjiu zhongguo falushi lunwen xuanyi [Selected Articles of Chinese Legal History by Western Scholars] (In Chinese, Beijing: Law Press, 2017)

  9. A Short History of Chinese Petition (中国上访制度史话) (1100BCE-1949) (北京：中国青年出版社, 2013)

  10. Chinese Complaint Systems: Natural Resistance (U.K: Routledge, 2013)

  11. Co-Editor, Modern Chinese Legal Reform: New Perspectives (Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2013)

Courses Offered:

  • HIST 1400: Modern World History (from 1500)
  • HIST 2405: History of Chinese Culture
  • HIST 2410: Modern East Asia
  • HIST 3463: History of Modern China
  • HIST 3464: History of Modern Japan
  • HIST 3465: Twentieth Century China Politics