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Harold M. Tanner

Title: Professor

Department: History

College: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

  • PhD, Columbia University, 1994
    Major: East Asian Languages and Cultures
  • MPhil, Columbia University, 1990
    Major: East Asian Languages and Cultures
  • BA, Beijing Languages Institute, 1987
    Major: Modern Chinese
  • MA, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1985
    Major: Area Studies (China and Japan)
  • BA, New England College, 1983
    Major: International Politics

Current Scheduled Teaching

HIST 4565.001Chinese Military History, 1750 PresentSpring 2025
HIST 3570.431Japanese HistoryFall 2024 Syllabus
HIST 3560.001Modern ChinaFall 2024 Syllabus
Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Previous Scheduled Teaching

HIST 4565.001Chinese Military History, 1750 PresentSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 3570.001Japanese HistorySpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5565.001Military History of Modern ChinaSpring 2024 SPOT
HIST 3550.001Imperial ChinaFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 3570.031Japanese HistoryFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6950.707Doctoral DissertationSpring 2023
HIST 4560.001Modern ChinaSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6900.703Special ProblemsSpring 2023
HIST 4075.001The Korean and Vietnam WarsSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6950.732Doctoral DissertationFall 2022
HIST 4550.001Imperial ChinaFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4570.031Japanese HistoryFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5900.701Special ProblemsSummer SUM 2022
HIST 5900.702Special ProblemsSummer SUM 2022
HIST 6900.701Special ProblemsSummer SUM 2022
HIST 6950.707Doctoral DissertationSpring 2022
HIST 4560.002Modern ChinaSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5130.002Studies in World History: Latin American or AsianSpring 2022 SPOT
HIST 6950.732Doctoral DissertationFall 2021
HIST 5130.001Studies in World History: Latin American or AsianFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4075.001The Korean and Vietnam WarsFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4565.001Chinese Military History, 1750 PresentSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6950.707Doctoral DissertationSpring 2021
HIST 4560.001Modern ChinaSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5130.002Studies in World History: Latin American or AsianSpring 2021 SPOT
HIST 6950.732Doctoral DissertationFall 2020
HIST 4570.001Japanese HistoryFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5900.711Special ProblemsFall 2020
HIST 5130.001Studies in World History: Latin American or AsianFall 2020 SPOT
HIST 6950.707Doctoral DissertationSpring 2020
HIST 5950.713Master's ThesisSpring 2020
HIST 6950.732Doctoral DissertationFall 2019
HIST 5950.732Master's ThesisFall 2019
HIST 6950.707Doctoral DissertationSpring 2019
HIST 6900.707Special ProblemsSpring 2019
HIST 6950.732Doctoral DissertationFall 2018
HIST 4560.001Modern ChinaFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5900.711Special ProblemsFall 2018
HIST 6950.707Doctoral DissertationSpring 2018
HIST 6900.707Special ProblemsSpring 2018
HIST 4075.001The Korean and Vietnam WarsSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6950.732Doctoral DissertationFall 2017
HIST 4550.001Imperial ChinaFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5900.711Special ProblemsFall 2017
HIST 6940.714Individual ResearchFall 2016
HIST 4570.001Japanese HistorySummer 5W2 2016 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4900.704Special ProblemsSpring 2016
HIST 5900.714Special ProblemsSpring 2016
HIST 6900.707Special ProblemsSpring 2016
HIST 4263.004Topics in African, Asian, or Latin American HistorySpring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4550.001Imperial ChinaFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6900.717Special ProblemsFall 2015
HIST 6940.746Individual ResearchSpring 2015
HIST 4560.001Modern ChinaSpring 2015 Syllabus
HIST 6900.707Special ProblemsSpring 2015
HIST 4263.003Topics in African, Asian, or Latin American HistorySpring 2015 Syllabus
HIST 4550.001Imperial ChinaFall 2014 Syllabus
HIST 6940.714Individual ResearchFall 2014
HIST 6900.762Special ProblemsFall 2014
HIST 4263.002Topics in African, Asian, or Latin American HistoryFall 2014 Syllabus
HIST 4550.001Imperial ChinaSpring 2014 Syllabus
HIST 4570.001Japanese HistorySpring 2014 Syllabus
HIST 4900.745Special ProblemsSpring 2014
HIST 6900.746Special ProblemsSpring 2014
HIST 6940.732Individual ResearchFall 2013
HIST 5130.001Studies in World History: Latin American or AsianFall 2013
HIST 4263.004Topics in African, Asian, or Latin American HistoryFall 2013 Syllabus
HIST 5950.746Master's ThesisSpring 2013
HIST 4560.001Modern ChinaSpring 2013 Syllabus
HIST 4263.003Topics in African, Asian, or Latin American HistorySpring 2013 Syllabus
HIST 5950.732Master's ThesisFall 2012
HIST 4560.001Modern ChinaSpring 2012 Syllabus
HIST 5900.746Special ProblemsSpring 2012
HIST 4263.004Topics in African, Asian, or Latin American HistorySpring 2012 Syllabus
HIST 4550.001Imperial ChinaFall 2011 Syllabus
HIST 5950.732Master's ThesisFall 2011
HIST 5130.001Studies in World History: Latin American or AsianFall 2011
HIST 4550.001Imperial ChinaSpring 2011 Syllabus
HIST 1060.003World History from the Sixteenth CenturySpring 2011 Syllabus
HIST 1060.002World History from the Sixteenth CenturyFall 2010 Syllabus
HIST 4560.001Modern ChinaSpring 2010
HIST 1060.005World History from the Sixteenth CenturySpring 2010
HIST 4550.001Imperial ChinaFall 2009
HIST 4260.004Topics in HistoryFall 2009
HIST 5900.705Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2009
HIST 4263.001Topics in African, Asian, or Latin American HistorySummer 5W1 2009
HIST 4550.001Imperial ChinaSpring 2009
HIST 5900.746Special ProblemsSpring 2009
HIST 4263.003Topics in African, Asian, or Latin American HistorySpring 2009
HIST 4560.001Modern ChinaFall 2008
HIST 5130.001Studies in World History: Latin American or AsianFall 2008
HIST 4900.702Special ProblemsSummer 5W2 2008
HIST 5900.729Special ProblemsSummer 5W2 2008
HIST 5130.001Studies in World History: Latin American or AsianSummer 5W2 2008
HIST 4263.001Topics in African, Asian, or Latin American HistorySummer 5W2 2008
HIST 4550.001Imperial ChinaSpring 2008
HIST 4263.003Topics in African, Asian, or Latin American HistorySpring 2008
HIST 4560.001Modern ChinaFall 2007
HIST 1060.004World History from the Sixteenth CenturyFall 2007
HIST 4560.001Modern ChinaSpring 2007
HIST 4900.712Special ProblemsFall 2006
HIST 5220.001Studies in United States Military/Diplomatic HistoryFall 2006
HIST 4560.001Modern ChinaSpring 2006
HIST 1060.002World History from the Sixteenth CenturySpring 2006
HIST 4560.001Modern ChinaSpring 2005
HIST 4910.705Special ProblemsSpring 2005
HIST 4900.712Special ProblemsFall 2004
HIST 5130.001Studies in World History: Latin American or AsianFall 2004
Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • Single-author book. (2015). Where Chiang Kai-shek Lost China: The Liao-Shen Campaign, 1948. 384 pages. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press. http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=807588
  • Tanner, H.M. (2013). The Battle for Manchuria and the Fate of China: Siping, 1946.
  • Tanner, H.M. (2009). China: A History.
  • Tanner, H.M. (1999). Strike Hard: Anti-Crime Campaigns and Chinese Criminal Justice, 1979-1985 ..

    • Book Chapter

  • Tanner, H.M. (2010). "The People's Liberation Army and China's Internal Security Challenges" in Kamphausen, Lai and Scobell, eds., The PLA at Home and Abroad: Assessing the Operational Capabilities of China's Military.
  • Tanner, H.M. (2009). "Railways in Communist Strategy and Operations in Manchuria, 1945-1948," in Bruce Elleman; Stephen Kotkin, eds. Manchurian Railways and the Opening of China: An International History.

    • Book Review

  • Tanner, H.M. (2008). Susan Trevaskes. Courts and Criminal Justice in Contemporary China, by (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007)..
  • Tanner, H.M. (2006). Michael Dutton. Policing Chinese Politics: A History. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005..
  • Tanner, H.M. (2005). Philip F. Williams and Yenna Wu. The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp Through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage. University of California Press, 2004..
  • Tanner, H.M. (2004). Gary J. Bjorge. Moving the Enemy: Operational Art in the Chinese PLA's Huai Hai Campaign. Leavenworth Paper No. 22. Ft. Leavenworth, Kans.: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2004..
  • Tanner, H.M. (2003). Chien-ming Chao and Bruce Dickson, ed., Remaking the Chinese State: Strategies, Society, and Security. New York: Routledge, 2001..
  • Tanner, H.M. (2003). Odd Arne Westad. Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003..
  • Tanner, H.M. (2001). Jeffrey C. Kinkley. Chinese Justice, the Fiction: Law and Literature in Modern China. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2000..

    • Journal Article

  • Tanner, H.M. (2014). Learning Through Practice Lin Biao and the Transition to Conventional Combined Operations in China's Northeast, 1946-1948.
  • Tanner, H.M. (2012). Big Army Groups, Standardization, and Assaulting Fortified Positions: Chinese 'Ways of War' and the Transition from Guerrilla to Conventional Warfare in China's Northeast, 1945-1948.
  • Tanner, H.M. (2012). Chinese Civil War, 1945-1949 (peer-reviewed bibliographic article, published online:http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791279/obo-9780199791279-0031.xml?rskey=7C7bzF&result=16&q=.
  • Tanner, H.M. (2007). "Law and Government in the Mao Years (1949-1976)".
  • Tanner, H.M. (2003). "Guerilla, Mobile, and Base Warfare in Communist Military Operations in Manchuria, 1945-1947." republished in Kenneth Swope, ed., Warfare in China Since 1600. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2005..
  • Tanner, H.M. (2000). "The Offense of Hooliganism and The Moral Dimension of China's Pursuit of Modernity, 1979-1996.".
  • Tanner, H.M. (1995). "Policing, Punishment, and the Individual: Criminal Justice in China.".
  • Tanner, H.M. (1995). "The Empirical Limitation of Theoretical Insight: Review Rejoinder,".
  • Tanner, H.M. (1994). "China's 'Gulag' Reconsidered: Labor Reform in the 1980s and 1990s.".
  • Tanner, H.M. (1994). "Chinese Rape Law in Comparative Perspective.".
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Summative Rating		 Challenge and
Engagement Index		 Response Rate

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  • Overall Summative Rating (median):
    This rating represents the combined responses of students to the four global summative items and is presented to provide an overall index of the class’s quality. Overall summative statements include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 5 = Excellent, 3 = Good, and 1= Very poor):
    • The course as a whole was
    • The course content was
    • The instructor’s contribution to the course was
    • The instructor’s effectiveness in teaching the subject matter was
  • Challenge and Engagement Index:
    This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):
    • Do you expect your grade in this course to be
    • The intellectual challenge presented was
    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
    • The amount of effort to succeed in this course was
    • Your involvement in course (doing assignments, attending classes, etc.) was
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