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John G. Blair: PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS (scholarly monographs):
Western Civilization with Chinese Comparisons, (with Prof.. Jerusha Hull McCormack). Shanghai:
Fudan University Press, 2010. 3rd edition 622 pp in print, 1680 pp on CD-ROM. A sourcebook of
comparative readings: 500,000 words in English and 90,000 Chinese characters. Earlier editions,
2006 & 2008.
Modular America: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Emergence of an American Way,
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988: Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize for interdisciplinary contributions
to the field, conferred by the American Studies Association (USA)
The Confidence Man in Modern Fiction, London: Vision Press, 1979.
The Poetic Art of W. H. Auden, Princeton University Press, 1965, paper 1966.
SELECTED ARTICLES & CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:
“Three Perspectives on 9/11: Entertainment, Politics, Mentality,” Changes and Continuities: the
United States after 9.11, ed. Mei Renyi & Fu Meirong, Beijing: World Affairs Press, 2009, 415-
425 (in Chinese).
“Comparing China and the West: Who Is Ready for the Challenge,” (with Jerusha McCormack),
ASIANetwork Exchange, 16 (Fall, 2008), 48-56.
“Liberal Education at BFSU: A Pioneering Project,” (with Jerusha McCormack), in English Education
and liberal Education, ed. Sun Youzhong et al (Beijing: foreign Language Teaching and Research
Press, 2008), 262-277.
“’Feeling the Pulse’ in the Chinese and Western Medical Traditions: The Importance of Qièmai (切脉)
as a Diagnostic Technique,” (with Jerusha McCormack) in Thieme Almanac 2008: Acupuncture
and Chinese Medicine, ed. Michael McCarthy (Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag, 2008), 331-338.
“Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth: Its Special Challenge to Chinese Environmentalists,” Friends of
Nature Newsletter (Beijing), 12 (Winter 2007), 26-28.
“China and the West: A Fresh Strategy against Provincialism,” (with Jerusha McCormack),
Education About Asia 12:3 (Winter, 2007), 63-68.
“Against American Exceptionalism: Post-Colonial Perspectives on Irish Immigration,” in American
Foundational Myths, ed. M. Heusser & G. Grabher (Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2002), 15-28.
“Agon: Disciplinary Imperialism in the Intellectual Life of the Western World,” in Culture Agonistes,
ed. Theodore Tsimpouki & Angeliki Spiropoulou (Bern: Peter Lang, 2002), 97-111.
“Thinking Through Binaries: Conceptual Strategies for Interdependence,” American Studies
International 28 (2000), 23-38.
“First Steps toward Globalization: 19th-century Exports of American Entertainment Forms,” in
‘Here, There and Everywhere’: The Foreign Politics of American Popular Culture, ed. Reinhold
Wagnleitner & Elaine May, Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2000, 1-33.
“Navigating Globally: A Guidance System Called Comparative Culture Studies,” in The Global
Village: Dead or Alive? ed. R. B. Browne & M. Fishwick. Bowling Green, OH: BGSU Press,
1999, 134-45.
“Asian American Writing as Culture Studies: The Difference that Distance Makes," Hitting Critical
Mass, 4 (Fall 1997), 27-38.
"Imagining a Habitable Imperium, Facing West: The Cultural Work of Ante-bellum Stage
Entertainments," in Empire, ed. J. Blair & R. Wagnleitner, Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1997, 61-79.
"Blackface Stereotypes in American Culture," in An American Mosaic: Rethinking American
Culture Studies, ed. Marshall Fishwick. New York: American Heritage, 1996, 151-65.
"The Cultural Work of Religion in Cold War America," in Anti-Communism and McCarthyism in
the United States (1946-1954), ed André Kaenel (Paris: Editions Messene, 1995), 109-22.
"Change and Cultures: Reality Presumptions in China and the West," New Literary History, (1993),
927-45.
"Intellectual Trade Imbalances: What Teaching American Studies in China Brought Home to Me,"
in Exporting America: Essays On American Studies Abroad, ed. Richard Horwitz, (New York:
Garland, 1993), 263 85.
"Guan yü qua wen hua fen si de ji dian kan fa," [Some pointers about cross-cultural analysis], in Ba
shi nian dai de xi fang shi xue [Western Historical Studies in the 1980s], (Beijing: History and
Theory Series, 1990), 240-55 (in Mandarin).
"Blackface Minstrels in Cross Cultural Perspective," American Studies International 28 (1990),
52-65.
"China and Democracy," Raritan 9 (1990), 78-98.
"Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull: The Wild West as a Media Event," in The American West As Seen by
Europeans and Americans, ed. R. Kroes (Amsterdam: Free University Press, 1989), 262-81.
"Multum in parvo: Moby Dick, the Swiss Army Knife and the Poetics of Infinity," in The Structure
of Texts, ed. Udo Fries, (Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1987), 209 20.
"Cowboys, Europe and Smoke: Marlboro in the Saddle," Revue française d'études américaines,
No. 24/25 (May 1985), 195-212.
"'What's American About America': A Structuralist Approach," Prospects: An Annual of American
Culture Studies, ed. J. Salzman, 5 (NY: Burt Franklin, 1980), 1-16.
"Structuralism, American Studies and the Humanities," American Quarterly, 30 (1978), 261-81.
"Thoreau on Katahdin," (with Augustus Trowbridge), American Quarterly, 12 (1960), 508-17