Dr. Cong is a scholar of late imperial and 20th century China, focusing on women's history, intellectual history, history of modern education in China. She received her Ph.D. from UCLA in 2001 and joined the University of Houston community in the same year.
Teaching:
Dr. Cong teaches survey courses on the histories of China, from early civilization up to the present, and Japan since 1600. She also teaches upper division courses on "Women in Late Imperial and Twentieth Century China"; "East Asian Women in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives"; "Perceptions of China in the West"; "Confucianism and Chinese Modernity"; "Chinese women in Twentieth-Century Revolutions and Reforms," as well as a graduate seminar, "Education and Society in Late Imperial and Twentieth-Century China".
Research:
Dr. Cong's previous research focused on the special role of teacher's schools in the social and political transformation during the first four decades of twentieth-century China. Her book, Teacher's Schools and the Making of Chinese Modern Nation-State, 1897-1937, has recently come out (British Columbia University Press, 2007) in both hardcover and paperback. This book is a part of the UBC Press's series of "Contemporary Chinese Studies."
Dr. Cong recently is working on the project which, through examination of some legal cases and the propaganda literatures from the 1940s to 1960s, explores how the Communist gender ideology was constructed.
Selected Publications:
Book:
Teacher's Schools and the Making of Modern Schinese Nation-state, 1897-1937, Toronto: the University of British Columbia Press, 2007. (see the link)
http://www.ubcpress.ubc.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=4600
Article/Chapter in edited volume (in English):
"Planted the Seeds for the Rural Revolution - Local Teachers' Schools and the Reemergence of Chinese Communism in the 1930's," Twentieth-Century China, 32.2 (April, 2007): 135-165.
"From 'Cainü' to 'Nü jiaoxi': Female Normal Schools and the Transformation of Women's Education in Late Qing China, 1895-1911, "in Richard J. Smith, Grace Fong, and Nanxiu Qian,eds., Different Worlds of Discourse: New Views of Gender and Genre in Late Qing and Early Republican China, Brill Academic Publishers, forthcoming, 2007.
Articles (in Chinese)
"The Bridge to the Rural Revolution - Local Teachers' Schools and the Transformation of the Chinese Communist Revolution in the 1930's," Twenty-First Century (Hong Kong), 2006, no. 8: 38-51. (Long version see the ePublication)
"From Motherhood to Teachers of Nation - Nation-State Building and Normal Schools for Women during the Waning Years of the Qing Dynasty," Studies in Qing History (Beijing), 2003, no. 1: 87-97.
"Rethinking China's Modernization of Education," Dushu (Reading) (Beijing), 1998, No. 11:16-21.
ePublication:
"The Bridge to the Rural Revolution - Local Teachers' Schools and the Transformation of the Chinese Communist Revolution in the 1930s" (Long version), Twenty-First Century (electronic version: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/21c/index.html), 2007, no. 3, Hong Kong
"Village Schools in the Reconstruction of Community Organization - the Rural Education Movement and Village Teachers' Schools in the 1920s and 1930s," Twenty-First Century (electronic version: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/21c/index.html), 2002, no. 11, Hong Kong
"Doing Research in China's Libraries and Archives" (electronic publication), at Chinese History Research Site at UCSD, University of California, San Diego, 1999. (http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/chinesehistory/archive_users.htm)
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