Faculty Directory

- Title
- Professor
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- History Department
- Affiliations East Asian Studies, Feminist Studies Department
- Phone 831-459-3710 (office)
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 332 Humanities 1
- Office Hours Fall 2019: Weds., 2-3:45
- Mail Stop Humanities Academic Services
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
- Courses HIS 140C: Revolutionary China 1895-1960; HIS 194A: Gender, Class, and Sex in Shanghai; HIS 194F: Jewish Shanghai; HIS 194J: The Poor and the Everyday in Modern China; HIS 230B: Engendering China; HIS 230C: Readings in 20th-Century China; HIS 231: Historicizing the People's Republic of China
Research Interests
Gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in modern Chinese history; comparative labor history; Chicana history; nationalism and sexuality in the Third World; oral history
Biography, Education and Training
Ph.D., History Stanford University
Selected Publications
- "Socialist Sex: The Cultural Revolution Revisited," in Modern China, 29.2, April 2003:153-75.
- "Maoist Mappings of Gender: Reassessing the Red Guards," in Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities, editors Susan Brownell and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
- "Iron Girls Revisited: Gender and the Politics of Work in the Cultural Revolution," in Barbara Gutwisle and Gail Henderson, eds., Re-Drawing the Boundaries of Work, Households, and Gender, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
- Creating Chinese Ethnicity: Subei People in Shanghai, 1850-1980, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992.
- Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980's, with Gail Hershatter, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1988.
- Sisters and Strangers: Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919-1949, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1986.