Wang Zheng

Associate Professor of Women's Studies and History Associate Research Scientist of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender Ph.D., History of Modern China, University of California, Davis

Contact Information:
2156 Lane Hall
204 S. State St.
Ann Arbor, MI  48109-1290
734.763.6635
Email: wangzhen@umich.edu

Biography: Wang Zheng is an Associate Professor of Women's Studies and History and Associate Research Scientist of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Professor Wang's publications concern feminism in China, both in terms of its historical development and its contemporary activism, and changing gender discourses in China's socioeconomic, political and cultural transformations of the past century. Her recent research projects deal with gender and socialist state formation in the Mao era, and contemporary feminist activism in China in a global context. Wang Zheng is the director of the US-China Gender Studies program that collaborates with Chinese universities on developing graduate programs in women's and gender studies in China.

Publications:

Women in the Chinese Enlightenment:  Oral and Textual Histories (University of California Press, 1999)

Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era (Rutgers University Press, 2002, co-edited with Xueping Zhong and Bai Di)

Translating Feminisms in China (Blackwell Publishing, 2007, co-edited with Dorothy Ko)

 Major publications in Chinese:  

Crossing Borders:  Transcultural Feminist Practices (Tianjin People Press, 2004)

The Rise of Women:  A History of Second Wave Feminism in the U.S. (Contemporary China Press, 1995)