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Areas of Expertise

Professor Ye’s area of specialty is modern Chinese history. She teaches courses on the history of East Asia and women in Asia. Professor Ye's research interests are in the social, cultural, and intellectual history of twentieth-century China. She has published books on Chinese students in the United States and on women in the Chinese Revolution. Professor Ye is currently working on a study of the generational cohort that joined the Chinese Communist Party at the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War.

Degrees

PhD Yale University

Professional Publications & Contributions

• "The Class of 1936": The Missing Generation in the Making of the Chinese Revolution (in progress).
• Dongdang de Qingchun [Turbulent Youth] (Zinhua Publishing House, 2008).
• Growing Up in the People's Republic: Conversations between Two Daughters of China's Revolution (Palgrave MacMillan, 2005).
• Seeking Modernity in China's Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 1900-1927 (Stanford University Press, 2001).

Additional Information

Spring 2013 Office Hours: TTh (1:30-2:30 p.m.) or by appointment

Dr. Ye studies 20th-century Chinese history, especially in the subfields of intellectual, social, and cultural histories, and the history on Chinese women. She has received fellowships and grants from the American Philosophical Society, Fulbright Scholar Program, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Harvard University's Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies.

Courses Offered

• ASIAN 178: Introduction to Asian Studies
• HIST L160: East Asian Civilization to 1850
• HIST L161: East Asian Civilization since 1850
• HIST L359: Women in Modern China
• HIST L361: Traditional China (to 1800)
• HIST L361: History of Modern China
• HIST L363: Modern Japan
• China Today: Culture, History, and Society (study abroad program for CCDE)

Professor Ye's CV