Dr. Yihong Pan
Office hours: T R 2:30-4:00
Department Profile
Title(s):
Professor of History; Affiliate of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
Education:
- PhD 1990, University of British Columbia
- MA, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China
- BA, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China
Teaching and Research Interests:
- Tang history (618-907)
- China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
- Chinese women's history
Courses Recently Taught:
- HST 206 Introduction to Historical Inquiry
- HST 354 Modern Chinese History
- HST 383Women in Chinese History
- HST 434/534 China and the Silk Road before 1600
- Miami University China Semester Program, Shanghai
Selected Publications:
- "Crafting the 'New Woman' in China's left-wing cinema of the 1930s: Sun Yu's three films," Frontiers of History in China, Volume 6, Number 2, June 2011
- "From Red Guards to Thinking Individuals: China's Youth in the Cultural Revolution," Education About Asia, Vol. 14, No. 3, Winter 2009
- “Their ‘Quiet’ Devotion: Communist Women in the War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945),” The Chinese Historical Review, Spring 2009
- “Zhao Ruiqin: A Peasant Woman in Gansu and Domestic Worker in Beijing,” The Human Tradition in Modern China, ed. Kenneth J. Hammond and Kristin Stapleton, Rowman and Littlefield, 2008
- Tempered in the Revolutionary Furnace: China’s Youth in the Rustication Movement, Lexington Books, 2003
- Son of Heaven and Heavenly Qaghan: Sui-Tang China and Its Neighbors, Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, 1997
Work in Progress:
Dr. Pan is currently writing a monograph on Chinese women in the War of Resistance against Japan. It is a thematic analysis of the personal and political experiences of Chinese women as narrated through memoirs, biographies, and oral history interviews.