Dr. Cong is a scholar of late imperial and 20th century China, focusing on women's history, intellectual history, history of modern education in China. She received her Ph.D. from UCLA in 2001 and joined the University of Houston community in the same year.
Dr. Cong is on leave for the year of 2008-09 with the support of both Fulbright Research Grant to China and the ACLS-American Research of Humanities in China.
Teaching:
Dr. Cong teaches survey courses on the histories of China, from early civilization up to the present, and Japan since 1600. She also teaches upper division courses on "Women in Late Imperial and Twentieth Century China"; "East Asian Women in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives"; "Perceptions of China in the West"; "Confucianism and Chinese Modernity"; "Chinese women in Twentieth-Century Revolutions and Reforms," as well as a graduate seminar, "Education and Society in Late Imperial and Twentieth-Century China".
Research:
Dr. Cong's previous research focused on the special role of teacher's schools in the social and political transformation during the first four decades of twentieth-century China. Her book, Teacher's Schools and the Making of Chinese Modern Nation-State, 1897-1937, was published by British Columbia University Press (2007). This book has received the Academic Excellence Award from the Chinese Historian in the US (CHUS) association in 2008.
Dr. Cong recently is working on her new book project in which, she examines how a 1943 legal case of marriage dispute in a small village in the Communist controlled region developed into a series of national cultural products which helped the construction of communist gender ideology. This project has received Fulbright Scholar Grant to China and a grant of ACLS-American Research of Humanities in China. Currently she is doing research in China.
Selected Publications:
Book:
Teacher's Schools and the Making of Modern Schinese Nation-state, 1897-1937, Toronto: the University of British Columbia Press, 2007.
Article/Chapter in edited volume (in English):
"Planted the Seeds for the Rural Revolution - Local Teachers' Schools and the Reemergence of Chinese Communism in the 1930's." Twentieth Century China, 32: 2 (April 2007): 135-65.
"From 'Cainü' to 'Nü jiaoxi': Female Normal Schools and the Transformation of Women's Education in Late Qing China, 1895-1911 "in Richard J. Smith, Grace Fong, and Nanxiu Qian,eds., Different Worlds of Discourse: New Views of Gender and Genre in Late Qing and Early Republican China (Brill Academic Publishers, 2008), 115-44.
Articles (in Chinese)
"The Bridge to the Rural Revolution - Local Teachers' Schools and the Transformation of the Chinese Communist Revolution in the 1930's," Twenty-First Century (Hong Kong), 2006, no. 8: 38-51. (Long version see the ePublication)
"From Motherhood to Teachers of Nation - Nation-State Building and Normal Schools for Women during the Waning Years of the Qing Dynasty," Studies in Qing History (Beijing), 2003, no. 1: 87-97.
"Rethinking China's Modernization of Education," Dushu (Reading) (Beijing), 1998, No. 11:16-21.
ePublication:
"The Bridge to the Rural Revolution - Local Teachers' Schools and the Transformation of the Chinese Communist Revolution in the 1930s" (Long version), Twenty-First Century (electronic version: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/21c/index.html), 2007, no. 3, Hong Kong
"Village Schools in the Reconstruction of Community Organization - the Rural Education Movement and Village Teachers' Schools in the 1920s and 1930s," Twenty-First Century (electronic version: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/21c/index.html), 2002, no. 11, Hong Kong
"Doing Research in China's Libraries and Archives" (electronic publication), at Chinese History Research Site at UCSD, University of California, San Diego, 1999. (http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/chinesehistory/archive_users.htm)
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