Zheng Wang

Name: Zheng Wang

Title(s):

• Associate Professor

Contact Information: 734.763.6635 , wangzhen@umich.edu

International Institute Affiliation(s):

• CCS

Department Affiliation(s):

• Women's Studies

Research/Teaching Specialization: Wang Zheng is an Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Associate Research Scientist of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She received her Ph.D. in history from University of California, Davis, specializing in the study of women and gender in modern China. Prof. 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 deals with gender in Maoist urban reorganization. She is particularly interested in how gender identities and gendered subjectivity have been variously shaped in competing discourses as well as in heterogeneous cultural and social locations against a rapidly changing historical background. She is the co-director of the UM based program "Creating a Transnational Learning Community" that collaborates with Chinese universities on developing graduate programs in women's and gender studies in China. Major publications in English: 1. Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories (UC Press, 1999). 2. Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era (University of Rutgers Press, 2002, co-edited with Xueping Zhong and Bai Di). 3. From the Soil (UC Press, 1992, co-edited with Gary Hamilton). Major publications in Chinese: 1. Crossing Boarders: Transcultural Feminist Practices (Tianjin People Press, 2004). 2. The Rise of Women: A History of the Second Wave Feminism in the US (Contemporary China Press, 1995). 3. Women and Gender in Chinese History (Tianjin People Press, 2004, co-edited with Du Fangqin). 4. Selected Works on Gender Studies (Sanlian Press, 1998, co-edited with Du Fangqin).