Professor Emeritus and former Doehler Chair in Asian History
kschoppa@loyola.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Biography

R. Keith Schoppa has a Ph.D. in modern Chinese history from the University of Michigan. He is author of a number of monographs and textbooks on Chinese history, including Blood Road, which won the international Association for Asian Studies 1997 Levenson Prize for the best book on twentieth century China.

Area of Specialization

• Chinese Political, Social and Cultural History from 1900-1950

Courses

• HS 372 Vietnam War through Film and Literature
• HS 374 East Asia through Film and Literature
• HS 377 Modern Chinese History
• HS 378 History of Japan
• HS 484 Seminar: Chinese Revolution

News

• Congratulations to Professors Kelly DeVries, Thomas Pegram, and Keith Schoppa on their books! Read about Besieged Rhodes: A New History, One Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, and In a Sea of Bitterness: Refugees during the Sino-Japanese War.

Publications

	Blood Road (California 1995)
	Twentieth Century China (Oxford University Press, 2004)
	Revolution and Its Past (Prentice Hall, 2005)
	Writing Biography, Historians and Their Craft (University of Nebraska Press. 2004)
	East Asia: Identities and Change in the Modern World (1700 to Present) (Prentice Hall, 2008)