A Chinese Family in Business

Sherman Cochran, the Hu Shih Professor of Chinese History in Cornell's Department of History, will give a talk on a Chinese family in business at Cornell University.

Sherman Cochran is the Hu Shih Professor of Chinese History in the Department of History at Cornell University.

Recent Publications and Awards
Books

Cities in Motion: Interior, Coast and Diaspora in Transnational China. Berkeley: University of California Institute of East Asian Studies, 2007. Co-edited with David Strand.

Chinese Medicine Men: Consumer Culture in China and Southeast Asia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006.

Encountering Chinese Networks: Western, Japanese, and Chinese Corporations in China, 1880-1937. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Chinese translation by Cheng Linsun: Da gongsi yu guanxi wang: Zhongguo jingnei de Xifang, Riben he Hua shang da qiye (1880-1937). Shanghai shehui kexueyuan chubanshe, 2002.

Inventing Nanjing Road: Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900-1945, a collection of essays. I edited it, contributed an essay and wrote the editor’s introduction. Ithaca: Cornell East Asia Series, 1999.
Articles

"Capitalists Choosing Communist China," in Jeremy Brown and Paul Pickowicz, eds., Dilemmas of Victory: The Early Years of the People's Republic of China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 359-385.

“Three Challenges for Scholars in Chinese Business History.” In Zhang Zhongmin and Lu Xinglong, eds., Qiye fazhan zhongde zhidu bianqian (Institutional change in Chinese business history). Shanghai: Shanghai shehui kexueyuan chubanshe, 2003, pp. 1-17. (In Chinese.)

“Marketing Medicine and Advertising Dreams in China, 1900-1950,” in Wen-hsin Yeh, ed., Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond, 1900-1950. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. pp. 62-97.
Awards

Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Award from Cornell University, 2010.

Joseph Levenson Prize of 2008 awarded by the Association for Asian Studies for Chinese Medicine Men as the book published in 2006 that makes "the greatest contribution to increasing understanding of the history, culture, society, politics, or economy of China" since 1900.

Henry Luce Senior Fellow at the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 2002-2003.

Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., 1998-99.