Guo Shiyou

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Guo Shiyou
Native name	郭世佑
Born	1957
💼 Occupation	Historian

Guo Shiyou (Chinese: 郭世佑) is a Chinese historian. He is a professor and Director of the History Institute at Tongji University, a senior visiting professor at China University of Political Science and Law and Yuelu Academy of Hunan University, an overseas senior research fellow at the Modern China Research Center of Hong Kong Baptist University, and a senior visiting professor at Hoover Institution of Stanford University.

Education and career

Guo received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Hunan Normal University in 1982, and his PhD in history from Hangzhou University in 1997.

From 1997 to 2003 Guo directed the doctoral program in history in Zhejiang University. From 2003 to 2012 he served as Director of the History Institute and Associate Director of the Liberal Education Committee at China University of Political Science and Law. After that, he joined Tongji University.

Guo is also a public speaker on multiple subjects including historical methodology, the philosophy of history, and education. He has given hundreds of speeches in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, the United States, Japan, and other countries and regions.

Works

• Guo, Shiyou, New Theory on the Political Revolution in the Late Qing Dynasty （First edition, Hunan: Hunan People’s Press，1997. ISBN 7-5438-1573-7 Search this book on .). (Second edition, Beijing: Chinese People's University Press,2010. ISBN 978-7-300-11808-6 Search this book on .).《晚清政治革命新论》，第一版，湖南，湖南人民出版社,1997。 第二版，北京，中国人民大学出版社，2010。
• Guo, Shiyou, History and Law as Source and Stream (Beijing: China University of Political Science and Law Press, 2007. ISBN 978-7-5620-3097-3 Search this book on .). 《史源法流》，北京，中国政法大学出版社，2007。
• Guo, Shiyou, History isn’t a Damsel (Xiangtan: Xiangtan University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-7-81128-047-0 Search this book on .). 《历史不是小姑娘》，湘潭：湘潭大学出版社，2008。
• Guo, Shiyou et al, The Journey of Awakening of a Nation in the series of History of Chinese People’s Endeavor in the Past One Hundred Years, ed. Yi Dai and Bingqing Li (Jinan: Shandong Educational Press, 1999. ISBN 7-5328-2642-2 Search this book on .). 《民族觉醒的历程》《中国人民百年奋斗史丛书》，戴逸，李炳清主编，济南，山东教育出版社，1999。
• Guo, Shiyou et al, Breaking Through: Early Modernization Effort in China (Kaifeng: Henan University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-7-81091-994-4 Search this book on .). 《突破重围——中国早期现代化研究》，开封，河南大学出版社，2009。
• Guo, Shiyou, Ups and Downs in Search of Truth of Modern History (Beijing: Beijing Normal University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-7-303-11949-3 Search this book on .). 《记问沉浮：近代史的求真之旅》，北京，北京师范大学出版社，2011。
• Guo, Shiyou, The Misconstrued History (Beijing：Sanlian Bookstore, 2014. ISBN 978-7-108-04798-4 Search this book on .). 《历史的误读》，北京，生活·读书·新知三联书店，2014。
• Guo, Shiyou, Ideas and Words: Shiyou Guo Speeches （Hongkong: Wen Yuan Press Limited, 2019. ISBN 978-988-19672-7-5 Search this book on .). 《思与言——郭世佑演讲集》，香港，文源出版社有限公司，2019。
• Guo, Shiyou et al, Silhouette across Times: Our Fathers, stories as told by North American Alumni of Huanan Normal University in China，ed. Shiyou Guo (Changsha: Hunan Normal University Press,2018. ISBN 978-7-5648-3401-2 Search this book on .). 《故园的背影——湖南师范大学北美校友笔下的父亲》，长沙：湖南师范大学出版社，2018。

Awards

• Guo’s book New Theory on the Political Revolution in the Late Qing Dynasty (晚清政治革命新论), published in 1997 by Hunan People’s Press, with a new edition published in 2010 in the collection Contemporary Humanities by Chinese People’s University Press, won First Prize of Zhejiang University（浙江大学） Dong Jianhua Foundation for Literature, History, and Philosophy (1998)
• Guo's BA thesis won the First Conference of Hunan College Student Research Paper Award

Review of Guo's Work

In History Research, an academic journal on Chinese history, his book New Theory on the Political Revolution in the Late Qing Dynasty (晚清政治革命新论) was described as "an outstanding contribution to the research of late Qing dynasty political revolution due to its inclusion of both Constitutionalists aspiring for capitalist democracy led by Sun Yat-sen and the advocates of constitutional monarchy led by Liang Qichao（梁启超）and Zhang Jian（张謇）in the broad context of late Qing dynasty political revolution. Guo’s new theory transcended the tangled academic debate in recent years about the merits and faults of Constitutionalists and constructed a new framework for late Qing dynasty political revolution research."

In another review of the book, also in History Research, historian Chen Tie-jian（陈铁健 ） pointed out that Guo "questioned the concept of revolution that in Chinese scholarship had been defined as violent class struggle rather than fundamental social and economic changes. Based on a thorough examination of abundant historical data and in-depth research and thought, Guo challenged established theories and offered a refreshing and convincing analysis of the political revolution in the late Qing dynasty."

In History of Modern China, a New Edition by Beijing and Taiwan, the author referenced Guo's essay in Break Through：Early scholarship in China’s modernization and credited him with pioneering research on China's early modernization efforts, using a modernized perspective and achieving broad agreement on the movement's narrative.

Guo’s collection of essays Ups and Downs in Search of Truth of Modern History （记问沉浮：近代史的求真之旅）resolved several puzzles in modern Chinese history, questioning established scholarship on "Constitutional Reform" and "Restoration of Monarchy" in the early 20th century. Guo's pursuit of truth extends beyond historical research. He criticized the impact of neoliberalism, bureaucracy, and utilitarianism in higher education in China. Liu Jilin, a professor of sociology at Nankai University, commented on the collection, "There’s a saying ‘Ignorance leads to fearless’. Here, we see 'Truthfulness leads to fearless'."

Guo’s book Ideas and Words (思与言), a collection of his public speeches in China and the US, was published in Hong Kong in 2019. Xu Yi-qing(徐轶青), an associate professor of Political Science at Stanford, recalls attending Guo’s speech at the Harvard Xinhai Revolution Forum in 2011, "Guo’s solid research, deep insights, eloquence, and humor were impressive."

He Weifang (贺卫方), a law professor at Beijing University, also a public speaker, remembers the interaction between Guo and his audience in his numerous speeches, "A quality academic speech requires fresh ideas, knowledge, rhetorical skill, and allows room for reflection. It was like an orchestra performance, an exploration with a tightly-knit team."

Yuan Nansheng (袁南生), the former Consul General of the People's Republic of China in San Francisco and Executive Vice President of the Chinese Society of International Law, composed a traditional Chinese 7-line poem to commemorate the publication of Guo’s Ideas and Speeches: "Frozen earth yearning for spring, truthful words spread throughout the land."

In 2018, he served as chief editor of a collection of essays written by 27 fellow alumni from Hunan Normal University in China, living and working in the US and Canada, about their fathers, for the school's 80th-anniversary homecoming. This collection is included in the "Recommended Booklist for Nationwide Secondary Education School Libraries".

External links

• China Digital Times-Guo shiyou's works
• Tongji University School of Hunanities Staff Archived 2020-10-23 at the Wayback Machine

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