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

She graduated fromHampshire College with a B.A., fromStanford University with a M.A., and fromStanford University with a Ph.D. She was elected vice-president of theAssociation for Asian Studies in 2010^[3] and subsequently elected president the following year.^[4]She was an assistant director for the documentaryThe 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 inShaanxi Province, China, to examine revolutionary China in the 1950s and 1960s.^[7]

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

• Women and China's Revolutions, Rowman & Littlefield, 2019,ISBN 978-1-4422-1570-2
• The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past, University of California Press, 2011,ISBN 978-0-520-26770-1
• The Workers of Tianjin, 1900–1949, Stanford University Press, 1986,ISBN 978-0-8047-2216-2
• Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai, University of California Press, 1997,ISBN 978-0-520-20438-6
• Women in China's long twentieth century, University of California Press, 2007,ISBN 978-0-520-09856-5
• Personal voices: Chinese women in the 1980's, Authors Emily Honig, Gail Hershatter, Stanford University Press, 1988,ISBN 978-0-8047-1431-0
• Remapping China: fissures in historical terrain, Editor Gail Hershatter, Stanford University Press, 1996,ISBN 978-0-8047-2509-5
• Guide to Women's Studies in China, editor Gail Hershatter, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Center for Chinese Studies, 1998,ISBN 978-1-55729-063-2
• Engendering China: Women, Culture, and the State, Editor Christina K. Gilmartin, Harvard University Press, 1994,ISBN 978-0-674-25332-2.

• American sinologists
• Hampshire College alumni
• Stanford University alumni
• University of California, Santa Cruz faculty
• Living people
• 21st-century American historians
• American women historians
• Presidents of the Association for Asian Studies
• Historians of China
• Women's historians
• Women orientalists
• 21st-century American women

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