XIAOYAN GAO

Last Updated :2026/05/08

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Assistant Professor

Basic Information

Academic Degrees

  • TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
  • TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
  • Doctor of Law, Tohoku University

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2026, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, Modern History of Asia
  2. 2026, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Modern History of Asia
  3. 2026, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Asian History A
  4. 2026, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 4Term, Asian History A
  5. 2026, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, East Asian History
  6. 2026, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Asian Area Studies

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. The Implementation of the Grain Control System and the Militia under the Mao Zedong Regime (1953–1955): An Analysis Based on Materials from District-Level Archives in Shanghai, Monthly journal of Chinese affairs, 78(7), 1-27, 202407
  2. What Was "Mass Mobilization"? : The Development of Agricultural Collectivization and Militia in Northeastern Guizhou Province (1954–1956), Journal of Chinese Studies (Chūgoku Kenkyū Ronsō ), 25-41, 202402
  3. The Institutional Formation of Militia in the Early Years of People’s Republic of China: Focusing on Northeastern Guizhou, Asian studies (Ajia Kenkyu), 68(1), 1-14, 202201

Awards

  1. 2025/02, Institute of Chinese Affairs, 一般財団法人・中国研究所

External Funds

Acceptance Results of Competitive Funds

  1. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Chinese Communist Party's Governance and the Militia : Evidence from Shandong Province, 2024/07/31, 2026/03/31
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  2. A Study on the Governance of the Chinese Communist Party and the Militia: Focusing on the Mao Zedong Era, 2021/04, 2023/03
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  3. Governance and the Militia in the People's Republic of China: Focusing on the Mao Zedong Era, 2020/04, 2021/03