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Gail Hershatter's Degrees

PhD History Stanford University
Masters History Stanford University
Bachelors History University of California, Santa Cruz

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

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Gail Hershatter's Published Works

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Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980's (1989) (270)
Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai (1997) (203)
Engendering China: Women, Culture, And The State (1994) (130)
Women in China's Long Twentieth Century (2007) (125)
Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980s. (1990) (111)
The Gender of Memory (2011) (96)
State of the Field: Women in China's Long Twentieth Century (2004) (94)
The Subaltern Talks Back: Reflections on Subaltern Theory and Chinese History (1993) (54)
The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past (2011) (54)
The Gender of Memory: Rural Chinese Women and the 1950s (2002) (53)
The Workers of Tianjin, 1900-1949 (1986) (53)
Chinese History: A Useful Category of Gender Analysis (2008) (31)
Personal Voices (1988) (24)
Private Life Under Socialism (2004) (21)
The Hierarchy of Shanghai Prostitution, 1870-1949 (1989) (19)
Concubines and Bondservants: The Social History of a Chinese Custom . By Maria Jaschok. London: Zed Books Ltd., 1988. ii, 156 pp. $49.00 (cloth); $15.00 (paper). (1989) (16)
Flying Hammers, Walking Chisels (1983) (16)
Guide to Women's Studies in China (1999) (11)
Making a Friend: Changing Patterns of Courtship in Urban China (1984) (10)
Prostitution and the Market in Women in Early Twentieth-Century Shanghai (1991) (9)
Disquiet in the House of Gender (2012) (7)
Modernizing Sex, Sexing Modernity: Prostitution in Early-Twentieth-Century Shanghai (2002) (6)
14. Birthing Stories: Rural Midwives in 1950s China (2007) (5)
Women and China's Revolutions (2018) (4)
Reflections on the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing and Huairou, 1995 (1996) (4)
Notes from the alleyway: Zhang Jishun’s A City Displaced and the promise of archival research (2016) (2)
Modernizing Sex, Sexing Modernity: (1994) (1)
Gao Yuan. Born Red: A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1987. Pp. xxxii, 380. Cloth $39.50, paper $7.95. and Nien Cheng. Life and Death in Shanghai. New York: Grove. 1986. Pp. ix, 547. $19.95 (1989) (1)
Elizabeth J. Perry. Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1993. Pp. ix, 327. $35.00 (1994) (1)
Courtesans and Streetwalkers : The Changing Discourses on Shanghai Prostitution , 1890-1949 (2008) (1)
Twentieth-Century China: New Approaches (review) (2004) (1)
Fighting for Her Life (2002) (1)
Chinese Sexuality:: A Survey of Recent Writings (1990) (1)
Gender Trouble's Afterlife in Chinese Studies (2020) (1)
Women and Writing in Modern China (review) (2000) (0)
. Marriage, Family, Sexuality, and Gender Difference (2007) (0)
SHAO YUNG ON KNOWLEDGE AND SYMBOLS OF REALITY (2008) (0)
2. No One Is Home (2019) (0)
Davin, Delia (1944–2016), China scholar (2020) (0)
Women in China's Long Twentieth Century - eScholarship (2007) (0)
Women of China: Economic and Social Transformation . Edited by Jackie West, Zhao Minghua, Chang Xiangqun and Cheng Yuan. [Basingstoke: Macmillan; and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. xxi + 238 pp. £45.00. ISBN 0-333-74088-2.] (2000) (0)
Stigma, Pleasures, and Dutiful Daughters (1998) (0)
The Workers of Tianjin, 1900–1949 . By Gail Hershatter. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986. viii, 313 pp. Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $37.50. (1987) (0)
Thoroughly Modern Millions (1988) (0)
Reading IACS in a season of discontent: an appreciation (2010) (0)
Appreciating Judith Walkowitz, Then and Now (2017) (0)
Guide to Women's Studies in China@@@Women in Republican China: A Sourcebook (2000) (0)
Gender & Chinese History: Transformative Encounters (2015) (0)
Announcements (1985) (0)
Introduction (1994) (0)
Laurel Bossen.Chinese Women and Rural Development: 60 Years of Change in Lu Village, Yunnan. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. Pp. xxxvii+391. $85.00 (cloth); $31.95 (paper). (2004) (0)
Women, the Family and Peasant Revolution in China. Kay Ann JohnsonThe Unfinished Liberation of Chinese Women, 1949-1980. Phyllis AndorsPatriarchy and Socialist Revolution in China. Judith Stacey (1985) (0)
Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China . By Johanna S. Ransmeier . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2017. 408 pp. $49.95 (cloth). (2017) (0)
GENDER IN HISTORY AND MEMORY: A CONVERSATION WITH GAIL HERSHATTER (2014) (0)
Reviews of Books:Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915-1953 Susan L. Glosser (2004) (0)
Born Red: A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution@@@Life and Death in Shanghai (1989) (0)
BOOK REVIEW Jie Li, Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020) (2021) (0)
3. Widow (or, the Virtue of Leadership) (2019) (0)
Introduction (1994) (0)
Foreword (2020) (0)
Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women. By Chino Kwan Lee. [Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1998. 223 pp. Hard cover $45.00, £35.00, ISBN 0-520-21125-1; paperback $16.95, £12.95, ISBN 0-520-21127-8.] (2000) (0)

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