M.A. 1982 at Stanford
Ph.D. 1990 at Stanford
With the U of O since 1991
Major Publications
Books
Native Place, City and Nation: Regional Networks and Identities in Shanghai, 1853-1937 (University of California Press, 1995).
Transnationalism and the Chinese Press, Special issue of China Review 4:1 (April 2004). Guest Editor.
Gender in Motion: Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China, (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005). Coeditor.
Articles
"What is in a Network? Local, Personal, and Public Loyalties in the Context of Changing Conceptions of the State and Social Welfare," in At
the Crossroads of Empires: Middlemen, Social Networks and Statebuilding in Republican Shanghai (Stanford University Press, 2007).
"Appealing to the Public: Newspaper Presentation and Adjudication of Emotion," Twentieth Century China (April 2006).
"The New Woman Commits Suicide: The Press, Cultural Memory and the New Republic," Journal of Asian Studies (February 2005).
"Unvirtuous Exchanges: Women and the Corruptions of the Stock Market in Early Republican China" in Women in China: The Republican Period
in Historical Perspective, (Münster: 2005).
"Democratic Calisthenics: The Culture of Urban Associations in the New Republic," in Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Contemporary China,
(Harvard University Press, 2002).
Improvisations on a Semi-Colonial Theme, or, How to Read a Celebration of Transnational Urban Community" (Journal of Asian Studies, 2000)
"Being Public: The Politics of Representation in 1918 Shanghai," Harvard Journal of Asian Studies (June 2000)
Fellowships, Grants, and Honors
Faculty Excellence Award, 2007
Petrone Fellowship, 2004
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2003
Coleman and Guitteau Professorship in the Humanities, 2001-02
Stanford Humanities Center, Faculty Fellowship 1998-99
Visiting Professor Ecole des Hautes Etudes, 1999
Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China, Research Fellow, 1996
ACLS Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1995-1996
Manuscripts in Progress
"Stained with Spots of Blood": The Romance of Bourgeois Modernity in 1920s Shanghai
Recent Teaching
China Past and Present
Introduction to the Study of History: Frameworks, Debates, New Approaches
Modernity and Gender in China
Ethnicity, Nation and "China"
State and Society in Republican China
Shanghai in Chinese and Non-Chinese Cultural Imagination
Cultural Revolution in Fiction, Film and Memoir
China and the Issue of Modernity
Perspectives on Asian Studies
