Yun Zhang

Dr. Yun Zhang

Her research interests mainly lie in modern Chinese history, women’s and gender history, the history of health and medicine, as well as science and technology studies, with a particular focus on the global knowledge production and circulation of women’s reproductive health and technologies in China’s global twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

She has published on women’s print and publishing history, conceptual history of gender in modern China, and the history of feminism and nationalism. Her first monograph Engendering the Woman Question: Men, Women, and Writing in China’s Early Periodical Press was published by Brill in 2020.

Selected Publications

Book and Articles

Engendering the Woman Question: Men, Women, and Writing in China’s Early Periodical Press. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020.

“Feminism in the Vernacular: Baihua Writing, Gender, and Identity in Late Qing China,” Twentieth-Century China 45, no. 1 (January 2020): 85–104.

“Nationalism and Beyond:  Writings on Nüjie and the Emergence of a New Gendered Collective Identity in Modern China,” Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China 17, no. 2 (2015): 245–275.

“The Emerging Modern Woman: Representations of the “Girl Student” in Early Twentieth-Century Urban China,” special issue of “Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Asia,” Harvard Asia Quarterly 16, no. 3 (2014): 50–59.

Scholarly Translation

贺萧：《记忆的性别：农村妇女和中国集体化历史》, Beijing: Renmin chubanshe, 2017. Translated from Gail Hershatter, The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013).