Robert Eric Entenmann

Professor of History and Asian Studies             

St. Olaf College

Northfield, MN 55057-1098

(507) 786-3427; fax (507) 786-3462

e-mail: entenman@stolaf.edu

                                                                                                                                     

Education:

  1982  Ph.D. Harvard University, History and East Asian Languages

                                    (Dissertation: "Migration and Settlement in Sichuan, 1644-1796")            

  1975-76     Inter- University Program for Chinese Language and Area Studies, Taipei, Taiwan

  1973  M.A.  Stanford University, East Asian Studies  

  1971  B.A.  University of Washington, Far Eastern Studies

 

Other teaching positions held (all part-time):

  2002-2003                 Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor of History, Carleton College

  1980-1981                 Instructor in History, Harvard University

  1974-1975, 76-80     Teaching Fellow in History and in General Education, Harvard University  

  1978                          Teaching Assistant, History, Brandeis University

 

Book:

Yan Huayang 鄢華陽 [Robert Entenmann] et al., Zhongguo Tianzhujiao lishi yiwenji 中國天主 教歷史譯文集 (Translated essays on the history of Chinese Catholicism), trans. Gu Weimin 顧衛民.  Taipei: Jidujiao Yuzhouguang  基督教宇宙光, 2006. 

 

Selected Articles:

•  “The Myth of Sonom, the Hmong King,” Hmong Studies Journal, 6 (2005), 1-14.
•  “Linus Zhang Feng (1669?-1743): A Catholic Lay Evangelist in Early Qing　Sichuan,” in Bettina Gransow, Pál Nyíri, Shiaw-Chian Fong (eds), China: New Faces of　Ethnography, Berliner China-Heft, no. 28 (Muenster, Hamburg, Berlin, Wien, London: LIT, 2005.
• Entry on "The Creation of Christian Communities” (Ninth period: 1721-1800), in N. Standaert, ed., Handbook of Christianity in China, volume I:635-1800 (Handbuch der Orientalistik, vol. 15.1; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2001).
• “The Problem of Chinese Rites in Eighteenth-Century Sichuan,” in Stephen Uhalley, Jr., and Xiaoxin Wu, eds., China and Christianity: Burdened Past, Hopeful Future (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2001.
• “Andreas Ly on the First Jinchuan War in Western Sichuan, 1747-1749,” Sino-Western Cultural Relations Journal, no. 19 (1997), pp. 6-21.
• “Catholics and Chinese Society in Eighteenth-Century  Sichuan," in Daniel H. Bays, ed., Christianity and China, The Eighteenth Century to the Present (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996).
• “Christian Virgins in Eighteenth-Century Sichuan, in Daniel H. Bays, ed., ibid.
• “Chinese Catholic Communities in Early Ch'ing Szechwan, ” in Actes du VIIe Colloque International de Sinologie de Chantilly, Échanges culturels et religieux entre la Chine et l’Occident (Variétés Sinologiques, nouvelle séries, no. 83; San Francisco: Ricci Institute and Paris: Institut Ricci, 1995).
• “Chinese Catholic Clergy and Catechists in Eighteenth-Century Szechwan, ” in Actes du VIe Colloque International de Sinologie de Chantilly, Images de la Chine: le contexte occidental de la sinologie naissante (Variétés Sinologiques, nouvelle séries, no. 78; San Francisco: Ricci Institute and Paris: Institut Ricci, 1995).
•  “Christian Norms and Chinese Mores: Catholicism, Marriage, and the Family in Eighteenth-Century China, ” in Li  Zhiping 李治平, ed., Jidujiao yu Zhongguo xiandai hua 基督教与 中国现代化 (Taipei: Yuzhouguang, 1994).
• Nine articles in Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1993; CD-ROM version, 1999).
•  “Clandestine Catholics and the State in Eighteenth-Century Szechwan, ” American Asian Review, 5.3 (Fall, 1987); also published in Li Qifang 李齐芳, ed.,  Zhongguo jindai zhengjiao guanxi guoji xueshu yantiaohui lunwenji 中国近代 政教关系国际学术研讨会论文集 (Tamsui, Taiwan: Tamkang University, 1987).
• “Sichuan and Qing Migration Policy,” Ch'ing-shih wen-t'i, 4.4 (December 1980).
• “Chinese Woodcut Art, 1929-1949, ” Stone Lion Review, 1 (Spring 1978).
• “An Inside Look at Student Life in China, ” with Molly Coye, Mademoiselle, September 1972.

                       

Selected papers:

“Joachim Enjobert de Martiliat in China, 1732-1746,” Ninth International Symposium on the History of the Chinese Catholic Church, Ferdinand Verbiest Instituut, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, September 6-9, 2007.

“Christianity as a Chinese Religion: Catholicism in Early Qing Sichuan,” International Conference on Regional History of Christianity in China, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, September 21-23, 2005.

“Chinese Clergy and their European Colleagues in Sichuan, 1720-1803,” Eighth International Symposium on the History of the Chinese Catholic Church, Leuven, Belgium, August 31-September 3, 2004.

“Chinese Catholics and the State During the White Lotus Rebellion, 1796-1805,” Conference on Contextualization of Christianity in China,” International Institute of Asian Studies, University of Leiden, June 6-7, 2002. 

“The Chinese Writings and Translations of Andreas Ly,” Seventh International Symposium on the History of the Catholic Church in China, Fujen University, September  7- 9, 2001.

"Christianity, Missionaries, and Imperialism in China: A Reassessment," for the James Legge Conference, University of Aberdeen, April 1997.

 

Work in progress:

Introduction and Annotations to a translation of Gabriel de Magalhães, "An Account of the Loss and Destruction of the Province and Christian People of Sichuan" (1649).

Monograph on the social history of Chinese Catholics in eighteenth-century Sichuan province, China.

 

Other lectures and presentations:

• “China As An Imagined Community,” Asian History Symposium: China Kaleidoscope, Minnesota State University Mankato, April 13, 2007.
• “China’s Ecological History,” Panel on Ecology and Development, ASIANetwork annual meeting, Lisle,. Illinois, April 21-23, 2006.
• “Clandestine Christianity in Early Modern China and Japan,” Davidson College, January 23, 2006.
• Panelist, “Echoes of Empire: America and the Contest for Cultural Preeminence,” University of Minnesota, November 4, 2004.
• “Chinese Muslims and Other Muslims in China,” Presidential Panel on Islam in Asia, Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Wittenberg University, September 27, 2002.
•  “Chinese Catholics in Eighteenth-Century Sichuan,” Department of History, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, May 28, 1997.
• “Immigrant Society and Chinese Catholics in Eighteenth-Century Sichuan,” Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences, Chengdu, China, May 23, 1997.
• “Recent American Scholarship on modern Chinese history,” Department of History, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, May 21, 1997, and Department of History, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, China, May 27, 1997.
• "Chinese Language Components in Chinese History Courses," Panel on Interdisciplinarity in Asian Studies Courses, ASIANetwork Annual Meeting, St. Petersburg, Florida, April 23, 1995.
• "Catholicism in Eighteenth-Century Sichuan," Center for Religious Studies, Jinling Theological Seminary, Nanjing, China, January 21, 1986.
• "Settlement and Government in Early Ch'ing Szechwan," John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, March 18, 1982.
• St. Olaf chapel talks, September 13, 1983; April 23, 1985; November 1, 1988, November 4, 1991; February 23, 1999, May 1, 2006, April 11, 2007.

 

Honors, fellowships, and grants:

2007    Mellby Lecturer, St. Olaf College

2006    Faculty development grant for travel to China and Mongolia (summer 2006) funded by the Freeman Foundation grant to Asian Studies at St. Olaf

2005        ASIANetwork-Freeman Foundation Fellowship for Faculty-Student research in Japan on “Kakure Kirishitan (Hidden Christians) in Japan, Past and Present”

2003        Gertrude Hilleboe Award for Faculty Involvement in Student Life;

            Faculty development grant for travel to Tibet and Xinjiang (spring 2004) funded by the Freeman Foundation grant to Asian Studies at St. Olaf

2002        Center for Technology Across Languages and Cultures course release for application of technology to Chinese foreign language component in History classes   2001   

2001    ASIANetwork-Freeman Foundation Fellowship for Faculty-Student research in Thailand on “Hmong Assimilation in Thai Society”

2000    Robert Sloan Award for Promotion of Academic Freedom and Shared Governance, Minnesota Conference of the American Association of University Professors

            Summer research grant, St. Olaf Faculty Development Committee

1998    ASIANetwork Freeman Foundation College in Asia Institute;

            co-writer, Department of Education Asian Studies grant

1997    Midwest Faculty Seminar Occasional Fellowship, University of Chicago;

            American Philosophical Society grant for research in China;

            Harvard-Yenching Library travel grant

1995        St. Olaf Faculty Development summer curricular grant, coordinator  (Global Histories workshop)

1993    St. Olaf Faculty Development summer research grant;

            Midwest Faculty Seminar Occasional Fellowship, University of Chicago

1989    Travel to collections award, NEH

1988    Postdoctoral fellowship, History of Christianity in China Project

1987        St. Olaf Faculty Development summer research grant

1986    Postdoctoral fellowship, History of Christianity in China Project

            National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend

1985    St. Olaf Faculty Development grant, travel to China

1979    Foreign Language and Area Studies Title VI Fellowship

            1975    Tuition Fellowship, Inter-University Program for Chinese Language and Area Studies, Taiwan

1972    National Defense Foreign Language Title VI Fellowship

1971    Phi Beta Kappa;

            Pollard Book Prize, Far Eastern and Russian Institute, University of Washington

1967    Captain, University of Washington College Bowl team

 

College Service:

Admissions, Retention, and Financial Aid Committee, 1997-1999

American Association for University Professors, chapter secretary, 1996-97, 1999-2002;  president 1998-1999, 2005-

Center for Lifelong Learning, study tour leader (1994, 2003, 2005, 2007)

Department chair, History, 1990-1995, 2001-2002; Asian Studies, 2005-2006

Faculty Development Committee, 1990-1992 (chair, 1991-1992)

Faculty Observer to the Board of Regents, 1992-93

Hmong Awareness Group, faculty advisor, 1999-2003, 2004-

Paracollege tutor, 1985-1988, 1992-1993, 1997-98

Phi Beta Kappa, 1982- (president, 1997-98, 2002-2003; treasurer, 1987-1989; members-in-course committee, 1999-2001)

Review and Planning Committee, 1985-1988 (secretary, 1987-1988)

Review and Planning Committee Subcommittee on Tenure and Promotion Procedures, 1999-2000

Search Committee for Vice President and Dean of the College, 1985-1986

Tenure and Promotion Committee, 1999-2002 (chair, 2001-02); 2004-07 (chair, 2006-07)

Term in Asia  (field supervisor, fall 1995; program advisor, 2000-2003, 2004- )

 

Community activities:

First United Church of Christ, Northfield

            College Relations Committee, 2000-2002 (Chair, 2002)

            Board of Deacons, 2004-2006

            Sabbatical Committee, 2007

     Service and Social Responsibility Committee, 2008-

Northfield Union of Youth, Adult Board, 2001-2005

Prairie Creek Community School

            Community Council, 1993-95

            Educational Resources Committee, 1997

Prison Education Project, volunteer instructor, 1980-81