Gina Anne Tam
I am an associate professor of history and co-chair of Women and Gender Studies at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.
My research interest, at its core, is how the exploration of the identities we ascribe to ourselves or are ascribed to us-- including gender, national identity, race, ethnicity, and class-- translate into access or the removal of access to cultural, political, and material power in the modern Sinophone world. My first book, Dialect and Nationalism, winner of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Best Book Prize, explores the relationship between language and national identity from the late Qing through the height of the Maoist period. My current research explores the relationship between gender and post-colonialism in the history of protests in post-war Hong Kong.
I completed her Ph.D. in modern Chinese history at Stanford University in 2016, and received my B.A. in History and Asian Studies from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2008. I am a fourth-generation Italian-American originally from Lakewood, Colorado.
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My research interest, at its core, is how the exploration of the identities we ascribe to ourselves or are ascribed to us-- including gender, national identity, race, ethnicity, and class-- translate into access or the removal of access to cultural, political, and material power in the modern Sinophone world. My first book, Dialect and Nationalism, winner of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Best Book Prize, explores the relationship between language and national identity from the late Qing through the height of the Maoist period. My current research explores the relationship between gender and post-colonialism in the history of protests in post-war Hong Kong.
I completed her Ph.D. in modern Chinese history at Stanford University in 2016, and received my B.A. in History and Asian Studies from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2008. I am a fourth-generation Italian-American originally from Lakewood, Colorado.
Please see more at http://www.ginaannetam.com
Address: San Antonio, TX, United States
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This course will focus not just on what we know about Chinese history, but how we know it. Through a variety of primary and secondary readings, as well as several papers and projects, you will understand how historians create history. These skills will help you develop skills of critical thinking, argumentation, and empathy that will serve you in your professional and personal development.
This class proceeds chronologically. In units 1 and 2, we will examine how elite and common notions of masculinity and femininity were constructed, respectively. These units will focus on how gender roles were ingrained and challenged through law, literature, and through elite example, as well as how these roles changed with increasing commercialization, dynastic change, and shifting scientific practices. In unit 3, we examine how the "modern" both upended and maintained gender roles of earlier periods, exploring urbanization and global networks galvanized changes in those who had the power to define normalcy and deviancy. In unit 4, we probe the role of gender in a revolutionary context, from the inner workings of party politics to the dynamics of the Chinese countryside. Finally, we will end by considering how globalization, notions of race, and China's opening up reforms have affected how people imagine men and women in a new China.
This class is an upper-level colloquium. Throughout the course, you should focus on two goals: (1) critically analyzing class themes in order to consider how they texture our lived experience today; (2) exploring how historians construct historical knowledge and argumentation.
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This course will focus not just on what we know about Chinese history, but how we know it. Through a variety of primary and secondary readings, as well as several papers and projects, you will understand how historians create history. These skills will help you develop skills of critical thinking, argumentation, and empathy that will serve you in your professional and personal development.
This class proceeds chronologically. In units 1 and 2, we will examine how elite and common notions of masculinity and femininity were constructed, respectively. These units will focus on how gender roles were ingrained and challenged through law, literature, and through elite example, as well as how these roles changed with increasing commercialization, dynastic change, and shifting scientific practices. In unit 3, we examine how the "modern" both upended and maintained gender roles of earlier periods, exploring urbanization and global networks galvanized changes in those who had the power to define normalcy and deviancy. In unit 4, we probe the role of gender in a revolutionary context, from the inner workings of party politics to the dynamics of the Chinese countryside. Finally, we will end by considering how globalization, notions of race, and China's opening up reforms have affected how people imagine men and women in a new China.
This class is an upper-level colloquium. Throughout the course, you should focus on two goals: (1) critically analyzing class themes in order to consider how they texture our lived experience today; (2) exploring how historians construct historical knowledge and argumentation.