Professor of the East Asian Languages and Civilizations, De-partment of History at the University of Chicago, U.S. Major research fields: modern intellectual history, oral history, local histories at the village, county, and regional levels family histo-ry, intellectual history and social history; Selected publications: The Last Confucian: Will man survive? (2006) [Chinese], Anti-modernization Thought Trends in A World-wide Perspective: On Cultural Conservatism(1991) [Chinese], Liang Shuming and the Chinese Dilemma of Modernity (1986), etc.