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
"Placing China in Its 'Proper Rank Among the Nations': The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in China and the First Systematic Account of the U.S.A. in Chinese." Journal of World History, 22:3, September 2011.
“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 Third World History
Topics in Asian History
