Donald Sutton Bio

Sutton has worked on three distinct fields in Chinese studies: the origins of warlordism in the early 20th century, the subject of his Provincial Militarism and the Chinese Republic (1980); popular religion in Taiwan (forthcoming: Chinese Folk Religion in Motion: A Taiwan Performance Troupe in the 20th Century [Harvard University Press, Asia Center Series]); and Miao/Han Chinese relations and identities in west central China, especially in the 18th century. He has published a variety of articles, mostly relating to ritual, myth, and spirit possession in the Journal of Asian Studies, the Journal of Social History, the Journal of Ritual Studies, and Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Modern China, Late Imperial China. Like his teaching, this work stands at the intersection of history and anthropology. His ethnographic research along with video and film recording and articles in the East-West Journal and Film & History show an abiding interest in the arts.

	*Donald Sutton, Professor of History*
	Sutton has worked on three distinct fields in Chinese studies: the origins of warlordism in the early 20th century, the subject of his Provincial Militarism and the Chinese Republic (1980); popular religion in Taiwan (forthcoming: Chinese Folk Religion in Motion: A Taiwan Performance Troupe in the 20th Century [Harvard University Press, Asia Center Series]); and Miao/Han Chinese relations and identities in west central China, especially in the 18th century. He has published a variety of articles, mostly relating to ritual, myth, and spirit possession in the Journal of Asian Studies, the Journal of Social History, the Journal of Ritual Studies, and Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Modern China, Late Imperial China. Like his teaching, this work stands at the intersection of history and anthropology. His ethnographic research along with video and film recording and articles in the East-West Journal and Film & History show an abiding interest in the arts.