Bryna Goodman
Professor, History; Director, Asian Studies (2009-2012)
Phone: (541) 346-4825
Email: bgoodman@uoregon.edu
Bryna Goodman specializes in modern China, with research interests in Chinese society, urban history, print culture, modernity, and gender. She is author of Native Place, City and Nation: Regional Networks and Identities in Shanghai, 1853-1937 (UC Press, 1995), co-editor of Gender in Motion: Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China, (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005) and special issue editor for Networks of News: Power, Language and Transnational Dimensions of the Chinese Press, 1850-1949, China Review, (2004). Recent publications include "What is in a Network? Local, Personal, and Public Loyalties in the Context of Changing Conceptions of the State and Social Welfare," in At the Crossroads of Empires: Middlemen, Social Networks and Statebuilding in Republican Shanghai, (Stanford University Press, 2007); "Appealing to the Public: Newspaper Presentation and Adjudication of Emotion," Twentieth Century China, special issue on journalism in Republican China, 31:2 (April 2006); “The New Woman Commits Suicide: The Press, Cultural Memory and the New Republic” in Journal of Asian Studies, (2005; “Unvirtuous Exchanges: Women and the Corruptions of the Stock Market in Early Republican China” in Women in China: The Republican Period in Historical Perspective, (2005); “Semi-Colonialism, Transnational Ties, and Press Culture in Early Republican Shanghai,” in China Review, (2004); “Being Public: The Politics of Representation in 1918 Shanghai,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, (2000); and “Improvisations on a Semi-Colonial Theme, or, How to Read a Celebration of Transnational Urban Community,” Journal of Asian Studies, (2000). She is currently co-editing Twentieth-Century Colonialism and China: Localities, the Everyday, and the World and completing a manuscript on public culture in 1920s Shanghai, based on research supported by the American Council of Learned Societies/ Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, the Stanford Humanities Center and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her recent awards include a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2003), a David and Nancy Petrone Fellowship (2004), a UO Faculty of Excellence Award (2007), and a UO Oregon Humanities Center Research Fellowship (2010). She is on the editorial board of Twentieth Century China.
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