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Gail B. Hershatter

Gail B. Hershatter   
Gail B. Hershatter
    Title:  Professor
    Type:  Faculty Member
    Concentration:  Asia and the Islamic World
    Email:  gbhers@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-4041 Office
(831) 459-1924 Message
    Office:  533 Humanities 1
    Office Hours:  Fall 2009: Wednesdays, 1:30 - 3:30pm and by appointment

Courses Taught 
HIS-140C-01 - Revolutionary China, 1895-1960
HIS-140D-01 - Recent Chinese History
HIS-194G-01 - China Since the Cultural Revolution: Histories of the Present
HIS-194H-01 - Gender, Family and State in China, 1600 to Present
HIS-230B-01 - Engendering China
HIS-238A-01 - Research Methods: China
HIS-238B-01 - China: Research Methods
HIS-40B-01 - Modern East Asia

Research Focus 
Modern Chinese social and cultural history, labor history, women's history, history of sexuality, feminist theory; history, memory, and nostalgia

2007 Guggenheim Fellowship award recipient.

Education History 
B.A. Hampshire College
M.A. Stanford University
Ph.D. Stanford University

Selected Publications 
Women in China’s Long Twentieth Century (University of California International and Area Studies Project, in conjunction with the University of California Press and the California Digital Library, 2007).

"Kioku No Jendaa: Chuugoku Ni Okeru Josei To Nouson Shuudanka No Kako" [The Gender of Memory: Women and Rural China’s Collective Past], trans. Fumie Ohashi , Chikaki ni arite : Kingendai Chuugoku Wo Meguru Touron No Hiroba, 48 (January 2006): 11-21.

"What’s in a Field? Women, China, History, and the ‘What Next?’ Question," Jindai Zhongguo funüshi yanjiu/Research on Women in Modern Chinese History 13 (December 2005), 167-195.

"Yanjiu lingyu nei qiankun: nüxing, Zhongguo, lishi yu ‘zhihou ruhe’ wenti" (Chinese version of preceding article, trans. Yu Fengzhen, Ye Yijun, and Mo Yajun), Jindai Zhongguo funüshi yanjiu/Research on Women in Modern Chinese History 13 (December 2005), 197-216.

"Shengyu de gushi: 1950 niandai Zhongguo nongcun jiesheng yuan" [Birthing stories: Midwives in 1950s Rural China], in Bainian Zhongguo nüquan sichao yanjiu [Research on a Century of Feminist Thinking in China], ed. Wang Zheng and Chen Yan (Shanghai: Fudan daxue chubanshe, 2005), 301-327.

"Virtue at Work: Rural Shaanxi Women Remember the 1950s," in Gender in Motion, ed. Bryna Goodman and Wendy Larson, Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005.

"State of The Field: Women in China’s Long Twentieth Century," Journal of Asian Studies 63.4 (November, 2004).

"Making the Visible Invisible: The Fate of 'the Private' in Revolutionary China." Women, Nation, and Society in Modern China (1600-1950). Taipei: Institute of Modern History, 2003.

Guide to Women's Studies in China, ed. with E. Honig, S. Mann, and L. Rofel. Berkeley: University of California, Institute of East Asian Studies, 1998.

"The Gender of Memory: Rural Chinese Women and the 1950s." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 28:1 (2002).

Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in 20th-Century Shanghai. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. (Winner of American Historical Association's Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History.) Chinese translation: Weixian de yuyue, trans. Han Minzhong and Sheng Ning, Jiangsu renmin chubanshe, 2003.