Michael C. Lazich
Michael C. Lazich
Associate Professor
(716) 878-5529
Campus Address: Classroom Building C234
lazichmc@buffalostate.edu
Ph.D., University at Buffalo
East Asia, Southeast Asia, World History
Publications
Books
Qianxinian De Ganzhao (The Impulse of the Millennium). A Chinese translated edition of E. C. Bridgman (1801-1861): America’s First Missionary to China, Yin Wenjuan, trans. Guilin, China: Guangxi Normal University Press, 2008.
E. C. Bridgman (1801-1861): America’s First Missionary to China. Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.
Articles/Book Chapters
“Bridgman, E. C. and the First History of America in China.” The Berkshire Encyclopedia of China, 2009
“Seeking Souls through the Eyes of the Blind: The Birth of the Medical Missionary Society in Nineteenth-Century China.” Healing Bodies, Saving Souls: Medical Missions in Asia and Africa. London: The Welcome Trust Center for the History of Medicine at University College, London, 2006.
“American Missionaries and the Opium Trade in Nineteenth-Century China." Journal of World History, 17:2, June 2006.
“People’s Republic of China.” Encyclopedia of the Developing World. Berkshire Reference Works/Routledge Press, 2005.
“Deng Xiaoping.” Encyclopedia of the Developing World. Berkshire Reference Works/Routledge Press, 2005.
“The Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in China: The Canton Era Information Strategy.” Mapping Meanings: The Field of New Learning in Late Qing China. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2004.
“The 'Term Question' Revisited: Missionary Constructions of a Confucian Theology.” Journal of the Society of Indian Philosophy & Religion, Vol. 9, 2004.
“Chinese Popular Religion.” Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History. Berkshire Reference Works/Routledge Press, 2004.
“Baha’i.” Encyclopedia of Religious Ritual. Berkshire Reference Works/Routledge Press, 2003.
“Buddhism, Mahayana.” Encyclopedia of Religion and War. Berkshire Reference Works/Routledge Press, 2003.
“Zhang Zhidong” and “Liang Qichao.” Encyclopedia of Modern Asia. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2002.
“Asia and Millennialism.” Encyclopedia of Millennial Movements. Berkshire Reference Works/Routledge Press, 2000.
“E. C. Bridgman and the Missionary Roots of American Sinology.” Sino-Western Cultural Relations Journal, Vol. XX, 1998.
“Reason as Antithesis: Dialectical Theology and the Crisis of Modern Culture.” International Studies in Philosophy, XXVIII/4, 1996.
Courses Taught
Undergraduate
Global History of the Twentieth Century
Modern Asia
World Civilizations to 1600
History of India
East Asia: The Traditional Era
Modern History of China
Modern Japan and Korea
Vietnam and the Vietnam War
Patterns of History in Southeast Asia
Graduate
Topics in World History
