Gail Hershatter

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Gail Hershatter is an American historian of Modern China who holds the Distinguished Professor of History chair at the University of California, Santa Cruz.[1] She previously taught in the history department at Williams College.[2]

She graduated from Hampshire College with a B.A., from Stanford University with a M.A., and from Stanford University with a Ph.D. She was elected vice-president of the Association for Asian Studies in 2010[3] and subsequently elected president the following year.[4] She was an assistant director for the documentary The Gate of Heavenly Peace.[5]

Her research interests include modern Chinese women's history and labor studies.[6] Her 2011 monograph, The Gender of Memory, uses the lens of rural women in Shaanxi Province, China, to examine revolutionary China in the 1950s and 1960s.[7]

Awards[edit]

Works[edit]

  • Women and China's Revolutions, Rowman & Littlefield, 2019, ISBN 978-1-4422-1570-2
  • The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past, University of California Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-520-26770-1
  • The Workers of Tianjin, 1900–1949, Stanford University Press, 1986, ISBN 978-0-8047-2216-2
  • Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai, University of California Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0-520-20438-6
  • Women in China's long twentieth century, University of California Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-520-09856-5
  • Personal voices: Chinese women in the 1980's, Authors Emily Honig, Gail Hershatter, Stanford University Press, 1988, ISBN 978-0-8047-1431-0
  • Remapping China: fissures in historical terrain, Editor Gail Hershatter, Stanford University Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-8047-2509-5
  • Guide to Women's Studies in China, editor Gail Hershatter, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Center for Chinese Studies, 1998, ISBN 978-1-55729-063-2
  • Engendering China: Women, Culture, and the State, Editor Christina K. Gilmartin, Harvard University Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-674-25332-2.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "UC Santa Cruz - Department of History - Directory - Gail B. Hershatter". Archived from the original on 2010-06-07. Retrieved 2010-05-15.
  2. ^ Hershatter, Gail (August 1993). The Workers of Tianjin, 1900–1949. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804722162.
  3. ^ "Gail Hershatter elected vice-president of Association for Asian Studies". UC Santa Cruz News.
  4. ^ "Gail Hershatter elected President of the Association of Asian Studies". Archived from the original on 2013-08-22. Retrieved 2013-09-05.
  5. ^ MICHAEL CIEPLY and BROOKS BARNES (2012). "Movies". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2 November 2012.
  6. ^ "Gail Hershatter".
  7. ^ The Gender of Memory. University of California Press.
  8. ^ New Academy Members