CURRICULUM VITAE
Wang Zheng
Women’s Studies Program
Institute for Research on
Women and Gender
University of Michigan
E-mail: wangzhen@umich.edu
2156 Lane Hall
204 South Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1290
Phone: 734-763-6635
Fax: 734-764-9533
Education
Doctor of Philosophy in History with a Designated Emphasis in Social Theory and
Comparative History
University of California, Davis, 1995
Master of Arts in History
University of California, Davis, 1988
Bachelor of Arts in English
Shanghai Normal University, 1982
Current Position
Associate Professor with tenure, Women’s Studies Program, University of
Michigan
Associate Research Scientist, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, UM,
winter 2002Faculty Associate, Center for Chinese Studies, UM, 2002Previous Academic Appointments
Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, 2000-2001
Academic advisor, “Creating Women’s and Gender Studies in China” (national
project funded by the Ford Foundation), 2000Affiliated Scholar, Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the Stanford
University, 1996-2001
Lecturer, Women’s Studies at the University of California, Davis, 1995
Instructor, Shanghai Normal University, 1982-1985
Administrative Experience
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Co-Director, UM-Fudan Joint Institute for Gender Studies, Fudan University,
Shanghai, 2005Co-Director, Transnational Learning Community Project, University of Michigan,
2002Co-Director, Joint Women’s Studies Graduate Program, University of Michigan,
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Chinese Women College (funded by the Henry
Luce Foundation), 2002Coordinator, Chinese women’s studies delegation to the US, 1998
Honorary Positions
Academic Advisor, National Network of Gender Studies, China, 2005Adjunct Professor, Fudan University, 2005Adjunct Professor, Tianjin Normal University, 2003Adjunct Professor, Chinese Women’s College, 2001-2003
Visiting Professor, Hebei University, 2001-2002
Academic Advisor, Center for Gender and Development, Fudan University, 2001Internal Grants & Fellowships
Research Grant, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 2005
Research Grant, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 2004
Faculty Development Fund Grant, University of Michigan, 2003
Research Grant, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 2003
Research Grant, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 2002
External Grants & Fellowships
Henry Luce Foundation Grant, 2006-2009
Ford Foundation Individual Grant, 2005
Oxfam Foundation Grant, 2003
Ford Foundation Individual Grant, 2003
Henry Luce Foundation Grant, 2002-2004
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Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship, 2000-2001
Ford Foundation Individual Grant, 2000-2002
American Council of Learned Societies Research Award, 1999
Shaler Adams Foundation Award, 1999
Ford Foundation Individual Grant, 1998
Ford Foundation Individual Grant, 1997
Marilyn Yalom Research Fund at the Stanford University, 1997
U. C. Davis Research Fellowship, 1994-1995
Reed-Smith Award, University of California, Davis, 1994
Research Award, Women’s Resources and Research Center, UC Davis, 1990
Publications
Books
2005, Bainian Zhongguo nvquan sichao [Chinese feminism in the twentieth century],
co-edited with Chen Yan, Shanghai, Fudan University Press.
2004, Shehui xingbie [Gender studies], Vol. II, co-edited with Du Fangqin, Tianjin
People’s Press, Tianjin
2004, Lishi zhongde funü yu xingbie [Women and gender in Chinese history], coedited with Du Fangqin, Tianjin People’s Press, Tianjin.
2004, Yuejie: kua wenhua nüquan shijian [Crossing borders: transcultural feminist
practices], Tianjin People’s Press, Tianjin.
2004, Shehui xingbie [Gender studies], Vol. I, co-edited with Du Fangqin, Tianjin
People’s Press, Tianjin.
2001, Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era, co-edited with Xueping
Zhong and Bai Di, Rutgers University Press, Piscataway.
1999, Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories, University of
California Press, Berkeley.
1998 Shehui xingbie yanjiu xuanyi [Selected works on gender studies], co-edited
with Du Fangqin, Sanlian Press, Beijing.
1995 Nüxing de jueqi: meiguo dangdai de nüquan yundong [The rise of women: a
history of the contemporary feminist movement in the United States], Dangdai
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Zhongguo chubanshe, Beijing.
1992 From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society a translation of Fei Xiaotong’s
work with an introduction and an epilogue, co-authored with Gary Hamilton,
University of California Press, Berkeley.
Peer Review Articles
2005 “’State Feminism?’ Gender and Socialist State Formation in Maoist China,”
Feminist Studies. Vol. 31, no. 3, fall, 519-551.
2004, “Miandui nüquan xueshu” [Encountering feminist scholarship], Zhongguo
xueshu [China Scholarship], Vol. 17, No. 1,
2004, “Guanyu shehuixingbie de fanyi,” [On translating “gender”], Shehui Xingbie
[Gender studies], Vol, 1: 16-32.
2003, “Nuxingxue de quanqiuhua yu bentuxing” [Localized women’s studies and
globalization], Zhongguo nuxing wenhua [Chinese women’s culture], Vol. 3: 61-68.
2002, “Funüxue de neirong yu mubiao”[The goals of Women’s studies], Sixiang
zhanxian [Intellectual front], No. 1: 102-105. Reprinted in Funü yanjiu [Research on
women], 2002, No. 2: 4-7.
2001, “Call Me Qingnian But Not Funü: A Maoist Youth in Retrospect,” Feminist
Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1, spring: 9-34.
2001, “Qianyi shehui xingbiexue zai zhonggguo de fazhan” [On the development
of gender studies in China], Shehuixue yanjiu [Sociological Research], Vol. 96, No. 5:
34-44. Reprinted in Funü yu shehui xingbie yanjiu zai zhongguo: 1987-2003 [Women’s
and gender studies in China: 1987-2003], edited by Du Fangqin and Wang
Xiangxian, Tianjin People’s Press, 2003: 19-44.
2000, “Xinzhi de xuanze”[The choice of heart and mind], Baihua zhou, Vol. 1, No. 1.
Reprinted in Nuxing? Zhuyi? [Feminism?], Li Xiaojiang, ed., Jiansu People’s Press,
Nanjing. 2001: 203-226.
1997, “Guowai xuezhe dui Zhongguo funü yu shehui xingbie yanjiu de
xianzhuang” [An analysis of recent Western scholarship on gender Issues in
China], in The Journal of Shanxi Teachers University [Shanxi shida xuebao], 1997, vol.
24, No. 4: 47-51. Reprinted in Shiji zhijiao de zhongguo funü yu fazhan [Chinese
women and development at the turn of the century], edited by Jin Yihong and Liu
Bohong, Jiangsu People’s Press, 1999: 27-41
1997, “‘Nüxing yishi’ ‘shehui xingbie yishi’ bianyi’ [On the differences between
female consciousness and gender consciousness], in Collection of Women’s Studies
[Funü yanjiu lunchong], 1997, No. 1: 14-20. Reprinted in Funü yu shehui xingbie
yanjiu zai zhongguo: 1987-2003 [Women’s and gender studies in China: 1987-2003],
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edited by Du Fangqin and Wang Xiangxian, Tianjin People’s Press: 77-93.
1997, “Maoism, Feminism and the UN Conference on Women: Women’s Studies
Research in Contemporary China,” in The Journal of Women’s History, Winter 1997,
Vol. 8, No. 4: 126-152.
1996, “A Historic Turning Point of the Women’s Movement in China,” in Signs,
Autumn 1996, Vol. 22, No. 1: 192-199.
1994, “Meigou funü jiankang yundong” [The US women’s health movement].
Funü yanjiu luncong No. 1(January): 55-59.
1990, “Meiguo dangdai funü yundong qiyin chutan” [On the causes of the
contemporary women’s movement in the United States], Shijieshi No. 6
(December): 80-90.
1990, “The Chinese Socialist Revolution and the Status of Chinese Women.”
Chinese Historians Vol. 3, No. 2 (July): 59-68.
1988, “Three Interviews of Chinese Female Writers.” Modern Chinese Literature Vol.
4, No. 1&2 (Spring and Fall): 99-148.
1993, “Three Interviews of Chinese Female Writers.” Reprinted in Gender, Politics
in Modern China (159-208), ed. by Tani Barlow, Duke University Press.
Articles in Collections
2005, “Gender and Maoist Urban Reorganization,” in Gender in Motion: Divisions of
Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China, eds., Wendy Larson
and Bryna Goodman, Rowman and Littlefield Publisher, pp. 189-209.
2003, “Juweihui de gushi” [The emergence of residents committee], in Jindai
Zhongguo de funü yu guojia[Women and state in modern China], ed. Lu Fangshang,
the Academia Sinica, Taipei, pp. 165-198.
2003, “Gender, Employment and Women’s Resistance,” in Chinese Society, Second
Edition: Change, Conflict and Resistance (158-182), eds., Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark
Selden, RoutledgeCurzon, London & New York.
2000, “Feminism: China,” in Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women (736-739),
eds., Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender, Routledge Ltd, London.
2000, “Gender, Employment and Women’s Resistance,” in Chinese Society: Change,
Conflict and Resistance (62-82), eds., Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark Selden, Routledge
Ltd, London. Revised for 2nd edition in 2003.
1998, “Research on Women in Contemporary China,” in Guide to Women’s Studies
in China (1-43), Gail Hershatter, et al. eds., Institute of East Asian Studies, Berkeley.
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1995, “Meiguo nüxing zhuyi dui Zhongguo funüshi yanjiu de xinjiaodu” [New
perspectives on Chinese women’s history], in Xifang nüxing zhuyi yanjiu pingjie
[Introduction to Western feminist scholarship] (259-175), ed. Bao Xiaolan, Sanlian
shudian, Beijing.
Newspaper Articles
2003, “Shehui xingbie yu Zhongguo xiandaixing,” [Gender and Chinese
modernity], Wenhuibao [Wenhui Daily], January 12.
2002, “Kongque de xingbie wenti” [Peacock and gender], Wenhuibao [Wenhui
Daily, February 7.
Book Reviews
2002, Ellen R. Judd, The Chinese Women’s Movement between State and Market. The
Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 61, No. 4, November.
2002, Shu-mei Shih, The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China,
1917-1937. The American Historical Review, Vol. 107, No. 2, April.
1996, “A Review of Engendering the Chinese Revolution” [Pingjie Ke Linqing de cong
shehui xingbie jiaodu can Zhongguo geming], in Research on Women in Modern
Chinese History, June 1996, No. 4, Taiwan: 237-249.
Keynote Addresses and Invited Lectures
“Gender Studies in China,” Talk at the Women’s Studies Faculty Seminar,
University of California, Santa Cruz, April 4, 2006.
“Development of Women’s and Gender Studies,” Lecture at Nanjing University,
Nanjing, September 29, 2005.
“Gender and Our Lives,” Lecture at Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing,
September 29, 2005.
“Engendering Democracy in China: Contemporary Chinese Feminist Activism,”
Hopkins-Nanjing University Sino-US Cultural Exchange Center, Nanjing,
September 28, 2005.
“Development of Women’s and Gender Studies,” Lecture at Nanjing Normal
University, Nanjing, September 28, 2005.
“Feminist Oral History,” Lecture at the Shaanxi Association of Research on
Women and Marriage, Xian, September 25, 2005.
“Global Feminisms and China,” Lecture at the Shaanxi Association of Research on
Women and Marriage, Xian, September 24, 2005.
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“Development of Women’s and Gender Studies,” Lecture at the Shaanxi
Association of Research on Women and Marriage, Xian, September 24, 2005.
“Gender Studies Abroad,” Lecture at Northwest University of Industry, Xian,
September 23, 2005.
“Feminist Oral History,” Lecture at Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, September 21,
2005.
“Developing Women’s Studies in China,” Lecture at Northwest Normal
Universities, Lanzhou, September 21, 2005.
“Gender and Our Lives,” Lecture at Northwest Normal Universities, Lanzhou,
September 20, 2005.
“Development of Women’s and Gender Studies,” Lecture at Northwest Normal
University, Lanzhou, September 20, 2005.
“Development of Women’s and Gender Studies,” Lecture at Guangxi Medical
University, Nanning, September 17, 2005.
“Global Feminisms and China,” Lecture at Guangxi Medical University, Nanning,
September 17, 2005.
“Development of Women’s and Gender Studies,” Lecture at Guangxi University of
Nationalities, Nanning, September 16, 2005.
“Development of Women’s and Gender Studies,” Lecture at Guangxi University of
Commerce and Economics, Nanning, September 15, 2005.
“Feminist Oral History,” Lecture at the Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences,
Kunming, September 13, 2005.
“Development of Women’s and Gender Studies,” Lecture at Yunnan University of
Nationalities, Kunming, September 12, 2005.
“Global Feminisms and China,” Lecture at Yunnan University of Nationalities,
Kunming, September 12, 2005
“Gender Studies Abroad,” Lecture at Hunan Women College, Changsha,
September 10, 2005.
“Gender Studies Abroad,” Lecture at the Yulu Academy, Hunan University,
Changsha, September 9, 2005.
“Development of Women’s and Gender Studies,” Lecture at Hunan Normal
University, Changsha, September 9, 2005.
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“Development of Women’s and Gender Studies,” Lecture at Zhongnan University,
Changsha, September 9, 2005.
“Development of Women’s and Gender Studies,” Lecture at Hunan College of
Commerce, Changsha, September 8, 2005.
“Global Feminisms and China,” Lecture at Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang,
September 7, 2005.
“Development of Women’s and Gender Studies,” Lecture at Guizhou University,
Guiyang, September 7, 2005.
“Gender Theories and China,” Lecture at the Guizhou Academy of Social Sciences,
Guiyang, September 3, 2005
“Development of Women’s and Gender Studies,” Lecture at the Chinese Women
College, Beijing, September 1, 2005.
“Global Feminisms and China,” Lecture at the Beijing Feminist Salon, Beijing,
August 31, 2005.
“On Mainstreaming Gender Equality in China,” Lecture at the Women’s
Federation of Yining Autonomous District, Yili, August 9, 2005.
“Gender Equality and Global Feminisms,” Lecture at the Women’s Federation of
Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Urumqi, August 5, 2005.
“Gender Theories and Feminist Scholarship in China,” Lecture at Shi Hezi
University, Shi Hezi, August 4, 2005
“Global Feminisms,” Lecture at Xinjiang University, Urumqi, August 3, 2005
“Gender Theories and Feminist Scholarship in China,” Lecture at Xinjiang
University, Urumqi, August 3, 2005
“Women’s Studies and Critical Thinking,” Lecture at the national workshop on
women’s studies curriculum development, the Zhejiang Academy of Social
Sciences, Hangzhou, July 26, 2005.
“Gender Theories and Feminist Scholarship in China,” Lecture at the Shanghai
Academy of Social Sciences, July 8, 2005.
“Recent Development of Chinese Feminism,” Lecture at the Shanghai Academy of
Social Sciences, July 8, 2005.
“Revolutionizing Knowledge, East and West,” Keynote address at the Institute for
Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University, April 2, 2005.
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“Engendering Democracy in China: Contemporary Chinese Feminism,” Lecture at
the Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, March 8, 2005.
“Feminist Movements and Globalization,” Lecture at the Institute for Research on
Women, All-China Women’s Federation, August 12, 2004.
“Gender and Globalization,” lecture at Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, July 13,
2004.
“Feminist Movements and Globalization,” lecture at Shanghai Women’s
Federation Cadre’s Training Seminar, June 14, 2004.
“Funü, nüxing, shehuixingbie, and Chinese Modernity,” lecture at Tianjin Normal
University, Tianjin, November 29, 2003.
“’State Feminism?’ Gender and State Formation in Mao’s China,” lecture at the
Distinguished Scholars Lecture Series, Department of History, Stanford University,
October 16, 2003.
“Translating Gender Theories,” lecture at the workshop on Feminist Pedagogy,
Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, December 20, 2002.
“Gender and Chinese Modernity,” lecture at Fudan University, Shanghai,
December 9, 2002.
“Women’s Studies and Chinese Higher Education,” lecture at Yunnan University,
Kunming, October 27, 2001.
“Women’s Studies and Chinese Higher Education,” lecture at Hebei Normal
University, Baoding, September 26, 2001.
“Engendering Chinese Academy,” lecture at Northeastern Normal University,
Changchun, September 5, 2001.
“Globalization of Women’s Studies,” lecture at the workshop on Gender Studies,
Chinese Women’s College, Beijing, August 9, 2001.
“Chinese Feminism: From the Enlightenment to Contemporary,” lecture at the
IRWG, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, November 20, 2000.
“Oral History and Chinese Women’s History,” lecture at the Beijing Normal
University, December 24, 2000.
“Gender Studies and Pedagogy in China,” lecture at the workshop on Gender and
Pedagogy, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, December 23, 2000.
“Oral History and Development Projects,” lecture at the workshop on Gender and
Development, Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences, Kunming, December 20, 2000.
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“On Establishing Gender Studies in China,” lecture at the workshop on Gender
and Sociology, Zhejiang Academy of Social Sciences, Hangzhou, December 16,
2000.
“Challenges in Creating Women’s Studies in Chinese Universities,” lecture cosponsored by the AAUW Palo Alto Branch, Center for East Asian Studies, the
Women's Center, Bechtel International Center and the Institute for Research on
Women and Gender, Stanford University, November 11, 2000.
“An Analysis of Contemporary Gender Discourse in China,” lecture at the
“Second Women’s History Workshop in China,” Tianjin Normal University,
August 16, 2000.
“Gender as an Analytical Category in Studying Chinese Women,” lecture at the
“Gender and Development Workshop,” Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences,
Kunming, February 17, 2000.
“Feminist Oral History: Theory and Methods,” lecture at the “Oral History
Workshop” at the Shaanxi Association of Marriage and Family Studies, Xi’an,
January 16, 2000.
“Engendering the Study of Chinese History,” lecture at the “First Women’s
History Workshop in China,” Tianjin Normal University, August 12, 1999.
“Feminism and China’s Modernity: Reinterpreting May Fourth Feminism,” lecture
at University of Wisconsin, Madison, March 5, 1998.
“Chinese Feminism and the UN Conference on Women,” lecture at University of
Wisconsin, Whitewater, March 4, 1998.
“Gender issues in Contemporary China,” Keynote address at the International
Institute on China and Japan, Boise State University, June 11, 1997.
“The US Women’s Health Movement,” lecture at the workshop on women’s
health and development, Tianjin Normal University, July 12, 1993.
Conference Papers
“Victim Discourse and Cultural Representation,” presented at the 58th Annual
Meeting of Asian Studies Association, San Francisco, April 8, 2006.
“Victim Discourse and Cultural Representation,” presented at the Symposium on
“The Cultural Revolution Forty Years After,” Center for Culture Studies,
University of California, Santa Cruz, April 5, 2006.
“Dilemmas of Inside Agitators: Chinese State Feminists in 1957,” presented at The
China Quarterly’s conference on “The History of the People’s Republic of China,
1949-1976,” SOAS, University of London, October 8, 2005.
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“Global Issues, Local Strategies: Chinese Feminism since 1995,” presented at the 9th
International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Seoul, June 20, 2005.
“Building a Transnational Learning Community,” presented at the conference of
the National Council for Research on Women, New York, June 7, 2005.
“Global Issues, Local Strategies: Chinese Feminism since 1995,” presented at the
Thirteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Claremont, June 3,
2005.
“On Transnational Cooperation of Teaching Women’s Studies,” presented at the
symposium on “Research and teaching on women’s and gender studies” at Taiwan
National University, Taipei, December 6, 2003.
“Woman-work and Social Reorganization in the 1950s,” presented at the
conference “Educating for the Future: Crossing Borders, Building Coalitions in
Graduate Women’s Studies Around World,” University of Maryland, July 2, 2003.
“Woman-work and Social Reorganization in the 1950s,” presented at the
Association of Asian Studies annual meeting, New York, March 29, 2003.
“Gender and Maoist Urban Reorganization,” presented at the conference “Gender
in Motion: Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern
China,” University of Oregon, Eugene, October 5-7, 2001.
“Juweihui de gushi” [The emergence of residents committee], presented at
International Symposium on Women, Nation and Society in Modern China (16001950), Taibei, August 23-25, 2001.
“Call Me Qingnian But Not Funü: Gender Implications of the Construction of
Maoist Youth.” Presented at the Association of Asian Studies annual meeting,
Boston, March 14, 1999.
“Feminism and Political Culture,” presented at the Annual Conference of the
American Studies Association, Washington D.C., November 1, 1997.
“An Analysis of Recent Western Scholarship on Gender Issues in China.”
presented at the Conference on Women and Development, Jiangsu Academy of
Social Sciences, Nanjing, July 21, 1997.
“On the Differences between Female Consciousness and Gender Consciousness:
An Analysis of Trends in Contemporary Chinese Feminism.” presented at the
International Conference on “Feminism and Feminist Philosophy” held by the
China Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, October 28, 1996.
“The Legacy of May Fourth Feminism in China.” presented at the NGO Forums of
the Fourth UN Conference on Women, Beijing, September 1, 1995.
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"Research on Women in Contemporary China: Problems and Prospects." presented
at the 108th Annual Meeting of American Historical Association, San Francisco,
January 9, 1994.
“New Perspectives in the Study of Chinese Women’s History.” presented at the
Fifth Annual Meeting of the Association of the Chinese Historians in the U.S. ,
Clark University, Worcester, August 2, 1991.
“Sexism within the Democracy Movement in Beijing.” presented at the 12th
Annual NWSA Conference, University of Akron, June 22, 1990.
“Thoughts on the applicability of Western Feminism to the Chinese society.”
presented at the Third Annual Meeting of the Association of the Chinese
Historians in the United States, UC Los Angeles, August 12, 1989.
Conference Organizer & Discussant
Organizer, national conference on “Building the national network of women’s and
gender studies in China,” Fudan University, Shanghai, July 28-30, 2005.
Discussant, panel on “The Journal of Asian Women’s Studies,” at the 9th
International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Seoul, June 22, 2005.
Organizer, Michigan-Fudan international conference on “Feminism since ‘The
Women’s Bell’”, Fudan University Shanghai, June 15-19, 2004
Discussant, panel on “Feminism and the CCP’s Women’s Liberation,” at the
Michigan-Fudan international conference, June 18, 2004
Discussant, panel on “ Dynamics and Dilemmas: Women and Modernization in
China” at the ASIANetwork 2002 conference, Lisle, Illinois, April 20, 2002
Discussant, panel on “Meanings of Gender in Modern China” at the 54th Annual
Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Washington, DC, April 7, 2002
Discussant, panel on “Feminisms Today- Liberating or Censoring” at the
Censoring Feminism Conference, University of Michigan, March 22, 2002.
Organizer, panel on “Conceptualizing Youth in Twentieth Century China,”
Association for Asian Studies annual meeting, Boston, March 14, 1999
Editorial Positions
Co-editor, Shehui xingbie [Journal of gender studies in China], 2003Member of editorial collective, Gender and History, 2002Editorial consultant, Journal of Women’s and Gender Studies, 200212
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Executive Committee of the Women’s Studies Progam, 2002Executive Committee of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, 2002Executive Committee of the Center for Chinese Studies, 2002-2003, 2005
Admission and Fellowship Committee of the Center for Chinese Studies, 2004
Faculty Advisor to the Michigan Chinese Fellows, a Chinese graduate student
organization on campus, 2003-
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