Gail Hershatter Explained

Gail Hershatter is an American historian of Modern China who holds the Distinguished Professor of History chair at the University of California, Santa Cruz.^[1] She previously taught in the history department at Williams College.^[2]

She graduated from Hampshire College with a B.A., from Stanford University with a M.A., and from Stanford University with a Ph.D. She was elected vice-president of the Association for Asian Studies in 2010^[3] and subsequently elected president the following year.^[4] She was an assistant director for the documentary The Gate of Heavenly Peace.^[5]

Her research interests include modern Chinese women's history and labor studies.^[6] Her 2011 monograph, The Gender of Memory, uses the lens of rural women in Shaanxi Province, China, to examine revolutionary China in the 1950s and 1960s.^[7]

Awards

• 1997 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History, American Historical Association
• 2007 Guggenheim Fellow
• 2015 American Academy of Arts and Sciences^[8]

Works

• Women and China's Revolutions, Rowman & Littlefield, 2019,
• The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past, University of California Press, 2011,
• The Workers of Tianjin, 1900–1949, Stanford University Press, 1986,
• Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai, University of California Press, 1997,
• Women in China's long twentieth century, University of California Press, 2007,
• Personal voices: Chinese women in the 1980's, Authors Emily Honig, Gail Hershatter, Stanford University Press, 1988,
• Remapping China: fissures in historical terrain, Editor Gail Hershatter, Stanford University Press, 1996,
• Guide to Women's Studies in China, editor Gail Hershatter, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Center for Chinese Studies, 1998,
• Engendering China: Women, Culture, and the State, Editor Christina K. Gilmartin, Harvard University Press, 1994, .

Notes and References

1. Web site: UC Santa Cruz - Department of History - Directory - Gail B. Hershatter . 2010-05-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100607061538/http://history.ucsc.edu/directory/details.php?id=14 . 2010-06-07 . dead .
2. Book: The Workers of Tianjin, 1900–1949. 9780804722162. Hershatter. Gail. August 1993. Stanford University Press .
3. Web site: Gail Hershatter elected vice-president of Association for Asian Studies. UC Santa Cruz News.
4. Web site: Gail Hershatter elected President of the Association of Asian Studies . 2013-09-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130822190201/http://history.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/hershatter-aas.html . 2013-08-22 . dead .
5. News: Movies. https://web.archive.org/web/20121102132130/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/202021/Gail-Hershatter. dead. 2 November 2012. MICHAEL CIEPLY and BROOKS BARNES. Movies & TV Dept.. The New York Times. 2012.
6. Web site: Gail Hershatter.
7. Book: The Gender of Memory. University of California Press.
8. https://www.amacad.org/multimedia/pdfs/classlist2015.pdf New Academy Members