A native of western Massachusetts, Peter Worthing teaches courses on Chinese and Vietnamese history. He has degrees from Trinity College (B.A.) and the University of Hawaii (M.A. and Ph.D.), and studied Chinese at Tunghai University in Taiwan and Shaanxi Normal University in Xi'an, People's Republic of China. Prior to joining the TCU History Department in the fall of 2002, he taught at Muskingum College and the University of North Florida. His research interests include the military, diplomatic and political history of China's Republican period (1911-1949). He is the author of Occupation and Revolution: China and the Vietnamese August Revolution of 1945(Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 2001), which deals with the Chinese nationalist army's occupation of northern Vietnam at the end of the Pacific War and its impact on the Vietnamese August Revolution. His second book, A Military History of Modern China: From the Manchu Conquest to Tian'anmen Square (Praeger Security International, 2007) is a chronological survey of modern Chinese military history. He is currently working on a book length study of Chinese General He Yingqin and the role of the military in Republican China. Peter is married to Mona Narain, a professor of Postcolonial and 18th Century British literature, and has a daughter, Tanushri. He is an avid hockey player and fan.

Visit Dr. Worthing's Web site at http://personal.tcu.edu/~pworthing.