Ph.D. (2017) – History – University of British Columbia (2017)

M.A. (2010)– History – University of Ottawa

BA Hons (2008) – History – University of Ottawa

• Twentieth century Chinese history
• Chinese intellectual history
• The history of the Chinese Communist Party
• Global Maoism
• Contemporary Cambodian history
• The history of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (Khmer Rouge)
• Contemporary Peruvian history
• The history of the Communist Party of Peru-Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso)
• Urban history and built environment in colonial Indochina

Books

• Cultural Revolution in Cambodia: Overseas Chinese, Spies, and Radicalism during Phnom Penh's Global Sixties. Current Manuscript Project

• The Emergence of Global Maoism: China’s Red Evangelism and the Cambodian Communist Movement, 1949-1979. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501761829/the-emergence-of-global-maoism/#bookTabs=1

• with Marc Opper, eds., Experiments with Marxism-Leninism in Cold War Southeast Asia. Canberra, ACT: Australian National University Press, Asian Studies Monograph Series 16, 2022. https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/asian-studies/experiments-marxism-leninism-cold-war-southeast-asia

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• “Forging Autocratic Legitimation: Charisma and Mythmaking in Hun Sen’s Cambodia,” Asia Pacific Journal 21, No. 2, Issue 2 (February 2023): page numbers forthcoming. https://apjjf.org/2023/2/Galway.html

• with Lin Hongxuan, “‘Heirs to What Had Been Accomplished’: D.N. Aidit, the PKI, and Maoism, 1942-1965,” Modern Intellectual History (July 2022): 1-29. 10.1017/S1479244322000282

          https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-intellectual-history/article/abs/heirs-to-what-had-been-accomplished-d-n-aidit-the-pki-and-maoism-19501965/BE78BB30F384953AD5FFA3C55F31BA7F

• “Peasant Worker Communist Spy: A Chinese Intelligence Agent Looks Back at His Time in Cambodia,” Made in China Journal 7, No. 1 (January-June 2022): 100-112. https://madeinchinajournal.com/2022/07/29/peasant-worker-communist-spy-a-chinese-intelligence-agent-looks-back-at-his-time-in-cambodia/

https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/journals/made-china-journal/made-china-journal-volume-7-issue-1-2022?fbclid=IwAR3DqlKNm-6G2owDJIp1ujKXHDCP4Z19Up1auOb0gDhKhl8FQU_5lQzdTZ8

• with Liu Yajuan, “Flirting with the ‘Modern Girl’: Socialism and Cosmopolitanism in the Packaging of Model Laborers in Shanghai, 1949-1963,” Asian Journal of Women’s Studies 29, (June 2022): 1-26. 10.1080/12259276.2022.2086763

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/12259276.2022.2086763?src=

• “Who Are Our Friends?: Maoist Cultural Diplomacy and the Origins of Global China,” Made in China Journal 6, No. 2 (December 2021): 110-125. https://madeinchinajournal.com/2021/12/01/who-are-our-friends-%e2%80%a8maoist-cultural-diplomacy-and-the-origins-of-the-peoples-republic-of-chinas-global-turn/

• “Red Service-Intellectual: Phouk Chhay, Maoist China, and the Cultural Revolution in Cambodia, 1964-1967,” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 52, No. 2 (June 2021): 275-308. 10.1017/s0022463421000436

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-southeast-asian-studies/article/red-serviceintellectual-phouk-chhay-maoist-china-and-the-cultural-revolution-in-cambodia-196467/B6339BBFCDA1FF17C12E377DAA1B6D21

• “Specters of Dependency: Hou Yuon and the Origins of Cambodia’s Marxist Vision (1955-1975),” Cross Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review 31 (2019): 126–161.10.1353/ach.2019.0021  

            https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-31/galway

• with Lu Hua, “Freedom and its Limitations: The Contemporary Mainland Chinese Debate over Liberalism,” China Information 32, No. 2 (June 2018): 1-21. 10.1177/0920203x18760849

            https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0920203X18760849

• with Shi Anshu and Francois Lachapelle, “The Recasting of Chinese Socialism: The Chinese New Left since 2000,” China Information 32, No. 1 (March 2018): 139-159. 10.1177/0920203x18760416

            https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0920203X18760416

• “Una Almenara Resplandeciente: El Maoismo Global y Los Movimientos Comunistas en Peru y Camboya entre 1965 y 1992 (A Shining Beacon: Global Maoism and Communist Movements in Peru and Cambodia, 1965-1992),” Revista Asia América Latina 1, No. 4 (December 2017): 15-47. ISSN 2524-9347 http://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=asia&d=1_4-1_4_3_html

• “From Revolutionary Culture to Original Culture and Back: ‘On New Democracy’ and the Kampucheanization of Marxism-Leninism, 1940-1965,” Cross Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review 24 (September 2017): 132-158. 10.1353/ach.2017.0022

https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-24/galway

• with Kamila Kolpashnikova and Osamu Sudoh, “The Role of Social Capital in the Transformation of Cultural Values and Practices: A Case Study on the Chinese Community in Taiwan,” Review of Religion and Chinese Society 3 (2016): 51-80. 10.1163/22143955-00301002

https://brill.com/view/journals/rrcs/3/1/article-p53_4.xml?rskey=kC7LwK&result=1

• “La situazione è eccellente”: Maoismi globali (‘The Situation is Excellent’: Global Maoism), Zapruder [Italy], No. 37 (May-August 2015): 84-91.http://storieinmovimento.org/2015/08/02/trentasettesimo-numero/

• with Angel Ryono, “Xinjiang Under China: Reflections on the Multiple Dimensions of the 2009 Urumqi Uprising,” Asian Ethnicity 16, No. 2 (2014): 225-255. 10.1080/14631369.2014.906062

            https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14631369.2014.906062

• “Global Maoism and the Politics of Localization in Peru and Tanzania,” Left History 17, No. 2 (Fall/Winter 2014): 9-47. 10.25071/1913-9632.39276

https://lh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/lh/article/view/39276

• “’Overturning the Basket’: Nostalgia, Maoism, and the Roots of the Communist Party of Kampuchea’s Ideology,” Strata 5 (September 2013): 83-113.http://strata.aedhgsa.ca/en/volumes/volume-5-september-2013/

Book Chapters

• “Left-Wing Extremism in Southeast Asia,” in Handbook of Left-Wing Extremism. José Pedro Zúquete, ed. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming in 2023).

• “The Most ‘Dissolute and Dishonest Khmer to Aid China’: Hu Nim and Indigenizing the Maoist Ideological System, 1955-1977,” in Experiments with Marxism-Leninism in Cold War Southeast Asia. Matthew Galway and Marc Opper, eds. (Canberra, ACT: Australian National University Press, 2022), 69-106.  https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/asian-studies/experiments-marxism-leninism-cold-war-southeast-asia

• with Marc Opper, “Introduction,” in Experiments with Marxism-Leninism in Cold War Southeast Asia. Matthew Galway and Marc Opper, eds. (Canberra, ACT: Australian National University Press, 2022), 1-30.https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/asian-studies/experiments-marxism-leninism-cold-war-southeast-asia

• “Building Uhuru: Chinese Workers and Labor Diplomacy on the TAZARA Railway,” in Proletarian China: A Century of Chinese Labour. Ivan Franceschini and Christian Sorace, eds. New York: Verso, 2022, 415-425. https://www.versobooks.com/books/4039-proletarian-china

  https://madeinchinajournal.com/2021/12/01/proletarian-china/ (open access)

• “Off the Prachanda Path: Nepali Communists’ Crisis of Legitimacy,” in Crisis: China Story Yearbook 2021. Jane Golley, Linda Jaivin, Ben Hillman and Sharon Strange eds. Canberra: Australia National University Press, 2021, 249-255.https://www.thechinastory.org/yearbooks/yearbook-2020-crisis/forum-of-mao-and-money/off-the-prachanda-path-nepali-communists-crisis-of-legitimacy/

• “Permanent Revolution,” in Afterlives of Chinese Communism: Political Concepts from Mao to Xi. Ivan Franceschini, Nicholas Loubere, and Christian Sorace, eds. New York and Canberra: Verso/Australia National University Press, 2019, 175-182. https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/afterlives-chinese-communism

• “Introduction to Yuan Shu, ‘The Current Stage of the Chinese Revolution and the Issue of Constitutional Government,’” in Translating the Occupation: The Japanese Invasion of China, 1931-1945. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2020, 288-292. https://www.ubcpress.ca/translating-the-occupation

• with Lu Hua, “’Introduction to ‘Liberalism in the Chinese Context: Potential and Predicaments’ by Liu Qing,” in Voices from China’s Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019, 45-71. http://cup.columbia.edu/book/voices-from-the-chinese-century/9780231195232

• “A Man of Many Facets: Introduction to Yuan Shu, Zhongguo Geming xian Jieduan yu Xianzheng Wenti (Yuan Shu: ‘The Current Stage of the Chinese Revolution and the Problem of Constitutional Government’),” in Translating the Japanese Occupation of China. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, forthcoming, 2019. http://www.ubcpress.ca/translating-the-occupation

Book Reviews

• “Review of Transwar Asia: Ideology, Practices, and Institutions 1920-1960 by Reto Hofmann and Max Ward, eds.,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2023, specifics forthcoming

• “Review of Everyday Lives in China’s Cold War Military-Industrial Complex: Voices from the Shanghai Small Third Front, 1964-1988 by Youwei Xu and Y. Yvon Wang, eds.,” The China Quarterly, First View (2023): 1-2. 10.1017/S0305741023000103

          https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/china-quarterly/article/everyday-lives-in-chinas-cold-war-militaryindustrial-complex-voices-from-the-shanghai-small-third-front-19641988-edited-by-youwei-xu-and-y-yvon-wang-cham-switzerland-palgrave-macmillanspringer-nature-2022-xxvii-371pp-10999-hbk-isbn-9783030996871/B0D64141F108420BFE85C1355E2CB8BE

• “Review of Republicanism, Communism, Islam: Cosmopolitan Origins of Revolution in Southeast Asia by John T. Sidel,” Twentieth Century Communism 22 (2022): 203-207. https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/

• “Review of Left Transnationalism. The Communist International and the National, Colonial and Racial Questions by Oleksa Drachewych and Ian McKay, eds.,” Histoire sociale/Social History, 55, No. 113 (June 2022): 192-194. https://hssh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/hssh/article/view/41225
• “Review of Abolishing Boundaries: Global Utopias in the Formation of Modern Chinese Political Thought, 1880–1940 by Peter Zarrow,” Twentieth Century China 47, No. 1 (January 2022): E16-E19. 10.1353/tcc.2022.0013

https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/twentieth-century-china

https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/47121

• “Review of Utopia and Utopianism in the Contemporary Chinese Context: Texts, Ideas, Spaces by David Der-wei Wang, Angela Ki Che Leung, and Zhang Yinde,” The China Journal, No. 86 (July 2021): 190-193. https://doi.org/10.1086/714400

 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/714400

• “Review of Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell,” PRC History Review, No. 23 (August 2020): 1-8. http://prchistory.org/prc-history-review/?fbclid=IwAR2LZFXZbKt5x5Rh_zE1RlM1VjPBpywivc-TbeIr_9Ez3KUyefn3Wa_wPmo
• “Review of A Social History of Maoist China: Conflict and Change, 1949-1976 by Felix Wemheuer,” H-Net Reviews (October 2019). https://networks.h-net.org/node/22055/reviews/5088939/galway-wemheuer-social-history-maoist-china-conflict-and-change-1949 https://china.usc.edu/wemheuer-social-history-maoist-china-conflict-and-change-1949-1976-2019

• “Review of Violence and the Civilizing Process in Cambodia by Roderic Broadhurst, Thierry Bouhours, and Brigitte Bouhours,” Explorations 15 (2019): 99-103.

• “Review of The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam by Michael G. Vann and Liz Clarke,” Journal of International and Global Studies 10, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 2019): 110-112.

• “Review of Southeast Asia’s Cold War: An Interpretive History by Ang Cheng Guan,” Pacific Affairs 92, No. 1 (December 2018): 167-169.

• “Review of From a British Colony to a Chinese Colony? Hong Kong before and after the 1997 Handover by Gary Chi-hung Luk, ed.,” Journal of International and Global Studies 10, No. 1 (2018): 179-181.

• “Review of Man or Monster: The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer by Alexander Laban Hinton,” Journal of International and Global Studies 8, No 2 (April 2017): 100-102.

• “Review of The Cambodian Wars: Clashing Armies and CIA Covert Operations by Kenneth Conboy,” Journal of East Asian Studies 17, No. 1 (March 2017): 138-139.

• “Review of China’s Civil War: A Social History, 1945-1949 by Diana Lary,” Pacific Affairs 89, No. 2 (June 2016): 421-423.

• “Review of The Khmer Lands of Vietnam: Environment, Cosmology and Sovereignty by Philip Taylor,” Pacific Affairs 89, No. 1 (March 2016): 221-223.

• “Review of Mao's Little Red Book: A Global History by Alexander C. Cook, ed.” International Review of Social History 60, Issue 01 (2015): 129-132.

• “Review of Buddhism in a Dark Age: Cambodian Monks under Pol Pot by Ian Harris,” Pacific Affairs 88, No. 3 (September 2015): 360-362.

• “Review of A Critical Introduction by Timothy Cheek, ed.,” Journal of East Asian Studies 13, No. 2 (May-August 2013): 363-366.

Translations

• with Lu Hua, “Zhongguo yujingxiade ziyouzhuyi: Qianli yu kunjung [Liberalism in Contemporary China: Potential and Predicaments, by Liu Qing,” in Voices from China’s Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019, 45-71. http://cup.columbia.edu/book/voices-from-the-chinese-century/9780231195232

• “Yuan Shu: Zhongguo Geming xian Jieduan yu Xianzheng Wenti (Yuan Shu: ‘The Current Stage of the Chinese Revolution and the Problem of Constitutional Government’),” in Translating the Japanese Occupation of China. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, forthcoming, 2019. http://www.ubcpress.ca/translating-the-occupation

• with Zhang Hongbin, “Zhishi shenghuode wenhua: Chengshi yu zhuanye, Tuomasi Bande zhe (The Cultures of Intellectual Life: The City and the Professions, by Thomas Bender),” Zhishi fenzi luncong [Forum of Intellectuals] 12 (2014): 289-308.

Interviews

• “Vietnam: From Dien Bien Phu to Doi Moi,” Interview by Ali Moore, Ear To Asia, Asia Institute Podcast, University of Melbourne, TBD

• with Carlos Amador, “Exporting Mao: Global Maoism and the Shining Path Movement in Peru,” Interview by Ali Moore, Ear To Asia, Asia Institute Podcast, University of Melbourne (14 April 2020)

• “Cambodia: Hun Sen’s Unrelenting Grip on Power,” Interviewed by Ali Moore, Ear To Asia, Asia Institute Podcast, University of Melbourne (21 February 2019) https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/asia-institute/ear-to-asia/episodes/episode-43

• with Craig Smith, “China’s Long March to a Utopian Society,” Interviewed by Ali Moore, Ear To Asia, Asia Institute Podcast, University of Melbourne (5 February 2019) https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/asia-institute/ear-to-asia/episodes/episode-39

Unpublished Projects

 
Articles

• “Machiavellian Suramarit: Lon Nol, Neo-Khmerism, and ‘Making Cambodia Great Again,’ 1970-1975.” Prospective Article for Submission to the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2020-21.

Tranlations

• with Ma Nan, "Cong 'difang junshihua' dao 'junshi difanghua' - Yi hongsijun 'banzhe fazhan' zhanlüede yuanyuan liubian wei zhongxin by Ying Xing," Xingemingshi [New Revolutionary History] Labs, ongoing 2020-21.

• “Zhongguo zhishi fenzi dui daotongde chengzai yu shiluo—Jianshe xin wenhua renzhong er daoyuan (Intellectuals as Bearers of Orthodoxy: The Long Road and Responsibility of Constructing a New Culture by Zi Zhongyun),” formerly Voices from China’s Century. Columbia University Press; now a stand-alone project under revision, 2021-22.