Visual Representation of Gender and Class in a Changing China
Friday, March 18th, 2016
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, March 18, 2016 | 11:00AM - 1:00PM | Seminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place M5S 3K7 |
Series
East Asia Seminar Series and Critical China Studies Workshop
Description
Wang Zheng is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and History and Associate Scientist of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan. She is the author and editor of Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories, From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society, Translating Feminisms in China, and Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era. Her new book Finding Women in the State: A Socialist Feminist Revolution in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1964 is forthcoming from University of California Press in 2016.
A long-term academic activist promoting gender studies in China, she is the founder and co-director of the University of Michigan-Fudan Joint Institute for Gender Studies. She has also authored two books and co-edited nine volumes on feminism and gender studies in Chinese.
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