Teaching the History of Women in China and Japan: Challenges and Sources

Studying the history of Chinese and Japanese women provides American students with a thematic approach to Asian Studies. This paper reflects on the challenges I face in teaching women’s histories in China and Japan. It also discusses the pedagogy and sources I use in teaching the course. The paper argues that teaching the history of women in China and Japan will allow us to move beyond the conventionally regional or national focused approach to Asian Studies and enable us to re-imagine old narratives and to introduce students to new methods of understanding both the universality and diversity within Asian history

26th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2017): Part 3 - Meeting Abstracts - Antwerp, Belgium. 15–20 July 2017

This work was produced as part of the activities of FAPESP Research,\ud Disseminations and Innovation Center for Neuromathematics (grant\ud 2013/07699-0, S. Paulo Research Foundation). NLK is supported by a\ud FAPESP postdoctoral fellowship (grant 2016/03855-5). ACR is partially\ud supported by a CNPq fellowship (grant 306251/2014-0)

Women’s Movement in the Chongqing Region during China’s War of Resistance against Japan, 1937-1945

Existing Western scholarship on women in the 20th century China mostly focuses on the May Fourth era and the Chinese revolution. Most of the works place the study of Chinese women in the War of Resistance against Japan at the margins of the long history of Chinese revolution and are incomplete in their coverage. They focus mainly on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-held border regions in rural areas and pay little attention to women in the more urban, Nationalist-held regions. As Louise Edwards demonstrates in her 2007 study, women\u27s movement in China has continued from the late 19th century to the late 1940s, including during the Second Sino-Japanese War in the GMD-held areas

Echoes of Chongqing: Women in Wartime China [Chinese]

Description from an earlier 2010 edition: University of Illinois Press This collection of annotated oral histories records the personal stories of twenty Chinese women who lived in the wartime capital of Chongqing during China\u27s War of Resistance against Japan during World War II. By presenting women\u27s remembrances of the war, this study examines the interplay between oral history and traditional historical narrative, public discourse, and private memories. The women interviewed came from differing social, economic, and educational backgrounds and experienced the war in a variety of ways, some of them active in the communist resistance and others trying to support families or pursue educations in the face of wartime upheaval. Their stories demonstrate that the War of Resistance had two faces: one presented by official propaganda and characterized by an upbeat unified front against Japan, the other a record of invisible private stories and a sobering national experience of death and suffering. The accounts of how women coped, worked, and lived during the war years in the Chongqing region recast historical understanding of the roles played by ordinary people in wartime and give women a public voice and face that, until now, have been missing from scholarship on the war