U.C. Davis History Department - Faculty

Susan Mann
Professor

E: slmann@ucdavis.edu
T: 530-752-8576
O: 4207 SSH

Academic Biography

On sabbatical 2007-8. Writing a book on the history of gender and sexuality in modern China.

Research Interests

Late imperial China (Ming and Qing dynasties); history of the family and gender relations in East Asia; women in Chinese history; social, cultural economic history of the Qing period.

Selected Publications

The Talented Women of the Zhang Family (2007, University of California Press) (2008 Kiriyama Prize Finalist)

“Women, Families, and Gender Relations,” in Willard J. Peterson, ed., The Cambridge History of China, Volume 9, Part One: The Ch'ing Empire to 1800 (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 428-472. * [co-edited with Yu-Yin Cheng], Under Confucian Eyes: Writings on Gender in Chinese History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001).

Precious Records: Women in Chinas Long Eighteenth Century (Stanford University Press, 1997)

"Widows in the Kinship Class and Commmunity Structures of Qing Dynasty China," The Journal of Asian Studies 46.1 (February, 1987) 37-56

Local Merchants and the Chinese Bureaucracy, 1750-1950 (Stanford University Press, 1987)

Courses Taught

I sometimes teach History 9A (Introduction to Chinese Civilization); regularly teach History 191C (Late Imperial China) and History 191F (The People's Republic of China, 1949-present). My two most recent senior seminars are 102X (The Boxer Rebellion), designed for students interested in European, U.S., and Chinese or Japanese history; and 102H (Sexualities in the History of China and Japan). At the graduate level I periodically teach the core seminar in Cross-Cultural Women's History, 201Q, as well as seminars and reading courses in late imperial Chinese history. With Professor Bossler, I participate in the intercampus seminar on gender in Chinese historical studies, a series of video-conferencing seminars conducted jointly with UCSC faculty and graduate students.

Current Graduate Advisees

Jeremiah Jenne, Nicole Richardson, Elly Wang, Jake Whittaker, Yulian Wu