Madeleine Yue Dong

About

Madeleine Yue Dong is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Washington, with a joint appointment in the Jackson School of International Studies. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego, in 1996. Her research focuses on modern China, including social, cultural, gender, and urban history, as well as historiography and empire and colonialism. She has contributed to the understanding of modern Chinese history through her publications, including 'Everyday Modernity in China' and 'Republican Beijing: The City and Its Histories.' Dong is involved in research groups such as The Modern Girl Around the World and has advised students on topics related to Korean identity under Japanese rule and Chinese national identity. She teaches courses on modern China, Chinese social history, and related topics, and has been recognized with the Vincent Y.C. Shih Endowed Professorship in China Studies.

Research topics

• History
• Political science
• Sociology
• Geography
• Economic history

Selected publications

• The Modern Girl around the World: A Research Agenda and Preliminary Findings

  Gender & History · 2005-08-01 · 95 citations

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  Our research collaboration examines how the Modern Girl emerged as a global phenomenon in the first half of the twentieth century. By wearing provocative fashions and pursuing romantic love, Modern Girls everywhere appeared to disregard the roles of dutiful daughter, wife and mother. We develop the Modern Girl as a heuristic category that allows new insights into forces of globalisation and manifestations of gendered modernity. Through a case study of cosmetics advertising in China, India, South…

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• The Modern Girl Around the World

  2008-01-01 · 65 citations

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• Republican Beijing

  2019-07-24 · 44 citations

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  Old Beijing has become a subject of growing fascination in contemporary China since the 1980s. While physical remnants from the past are being bulldozed every day to make space for glass-walled skyscrapers and towering apartment buildings, nostalgia for the old city is booming. Madeleine Yue Dong offers the first comprehensive history of Republican Beijing, examining how the capital acquired its identity as a consummately "traditional" Chinese city. For residents of Beijing, the heart of the cit…

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• Who Is Afraid of the Chinese Modern Girl?

  2008-01-01 · 15 citations

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• The Modern Girl as Heuristic Device

  2008-01-01 · 12 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Priti Ramamurthy

  National Geophysical Research Institute

  3 shared

• Lynn M. Thomas

  3 shared

• Tani E. Barlow

  Rice University

  3 shared

• Uta G. Poiger

  3 shared

• Alys Eve Weinbaum

  University of Washington

  3 shared

• Berhanu Abegaz

  William & Mary

  2 shared

• Susan Moller Okin

  Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education

  1 shared

• Karl H. Schwerin

  1 shared

Labs

• Madeleine Yue Dong LabPI

Awards & honors

• Vincent Y.C. Shih Endowed Professorship in China Studies (Ju…

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