艾愷(Guy Salvatore Alitto),1975年獲美國哈佛大學哲學博士學位,師從費正清、史華慈,是當代最活躍、最有影響力的漢學家之一,在梁漱溟研究上堪稱第一人,現任芝加哥大學歷史教授。著有《最後的儒家》、《這個世界會好嗎?》、《Has Man A Future?》(2006年中文版上市,2010年4月外語教學與研究出版社人文社科分社推出英文版)、《吾曹不出如蒼生何》、《南京十年的鄉村建設》、《世界範圍內的反現代思潮》等。
Professor in History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Teaching/Research interests
Modern Chinese intellectual and social history, labor history, the Chinese Communist movement.
Guy Alitto has taught in all areas of Chinese studies, including modern and classical Chinese languages and pre-modern history. Most of his courses, and all of his graduate courses, are in the area of modern Chinese history. His research in the last fifteen years has been in local histories at the village, county, and regional levels (Zouping county in Shandong, the Wanxi area of Southwestern Henan), in family history (the Liangs of Guilin), and social history (Chinese banditry 1880-1950). He is especially interested in the connections between political/social realms and the intellectual/cultural, as manifest in specific individuals and local cultures. He continues to be interested in the ongoing Chinese discussion on culture and modernization.
Selected publications
"Ershiyi shiji de shijiewenhua hui yanhuazhi rujiahua de wenhua ma?" (Will 21st century culture evolve into a Confucianized culture?) in Dushu (Beijing 1996).
"Zhongguo wenhua xingcheng de yaosu ji qi tezheng" (The essential elements in the formation of Chinese culture and their special features) in Guo Tingyi xiansheng jiuzhi danchen jinian lunwenji (Taipei 1995).
Shijie fanweinei de fanxiandaihua sichao: lun wenhua shouchengzhiyi (Anti-modernization thought trends in a world-wide perspective: on cultural conservatism) (Guiyang: Guizhou Provincial Press 1991).
The Last Confucian: Liang Shu-ming and the Chinese Dilemma of Modernity 2nd ed. (University of California Press, 1986).
Courses
Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: China (Autumn 2005)