Biographical information  

• Professor, Modern Chinese History
• Ph.D. 1990, Stanford University (Chinese History)
• M.A. 1982, Stanford University (History)
• Editorial Board, Twentieth Century China (2008-)
• Modern China Editor, Journal of Asian Studies (2004-2006)
• With the U of O since 1991

Books and Edited Volumes in Print and in Preparation

• Native Place, City and Nation: Regional Networks and Identities in Shanghai, 1853-1937 (University of California Press, 1995).
  

• Transnationalism and the Chinese Press, Special Issue of China Review 4:1 (April 2004). Guest Editor

• Gender in Motion: Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005). Co-editor, with Wendy Larson.
• Twentieth-Century Colonialism and China: Localities, the Everyday, and the World. Coediting with David Goodman, in preparation.
• Stained with Spots of Blood: The Romance of the Bourgeois Public in 1920s Shanghai, monograph in preparation.

Recent Research Articles

• "Colonialism and China," in Bryna Goodman and David Goodman, eds., Twentieth-Century Colonialism and China (in preparation).
• "Things Unheard of East or West: Colonial Contamination and Cultural Purity in Early Chinese Stock Exchanges," (in preparation).
• "Words of Blood and Tears: Petty Urbanites Write Emotion," Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China (2009).
• "What is in a Network? Local, Personal and Public Loyalties and Changing Conceptions of the State and Social Welfare, in Nara Dillon and Jean Oi, eds., At the Crossroads of Empires, Middlemen, Social Networks, and Statebuilding in Republican Shanghai (Stanford University Press, 2007).
• "Appealing to the Public: Newspaper Presentation and Adjudication of Emotion," Twentieth-Century China (2006).
• "The New Woman Commits Suicide: The Press, Cultural Memory and the New Republic," Journal of Asian Studies (2005).
• "Unvirtuous Exchanges: Women and the Corruptions of the Stock Market in Early Republican Shanghai," in Mechthild Leutner and Nicola Spakowski, eds., Women in China: The Republican Period in Historical Perspective, (LIT Verlag, 2005).
• "The Vocational Woman and the Elusiveness of 'Personhood' in Early Republican China," in B. Goodman and Wendy Larson, eds., Gender in Motion (2005).
• "Axes of Gender: Divisions of Labor and Spatial Separation," in B. Goodman and Wendy Larson, eds., Gender in Motion (2005).
• "Semi-Colonialism, Transnational Ties, and Press Culture in Early Republican Shanghai," China Review ((2004).
• "Democratic Calisthenics: The Culture of Urban Associations in the New Republic," in Elizabeth Perry and Merle Goldman, eds., Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Contemporary China (Harvard University Press, 2002).
• "Improvisations on a Semi-Colonial Theme, or, How to Read a Celebration of Transnational Urban Community, JAS (2000).
• "Being Public: The Politics of Representation in 1918 Shanghai," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (2000).

Recent Fellowships, Grants, Honors

• Faculty Excellence Award, 2007-2012
• Visiting Researcher, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (Nov/Dec. 2005)
• Petrone Fellow, 2004-2007
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2003)
• Coleman and Guitteau Professorship in the Humanities (2002)
• Association for Asian Studies Conference Grant, Co-Author (2001)
• Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Conference Grant, Co-Author (2001)
• Oregon Humanities Center, Research Fellowship Award (2000)
• Visiting Professor, École des Hautes Études, Paris (June 1999)
• Faculty Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center (1998-99)

Conference Organization

• Co-Organizer, International Conference on "Colonialism and Chinese Localities," Qingdao, China, September 2007.
• Organizer, International Workshop on "Newspapers and Transnational Journalism in Late Imperial and Republican China," University of Oregon, October 2002.
• Co-Organizer, "Gender in Motion: Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China," University of Oregon, October 2001.