Professor, History
East Asian Focus
Phone: (541) 346-4825
Email: bgoodman@uoregon.edu
Bryna Goodman specializes in modern China with research interests in Chinese society, urban history and gender. She is the author of Native Place, City and Nation: Regional Identities and Organization in Shanghai, 1853-1927 (University of California Press, 1995); special issue editor for Networks of News: Power, Language and Transnational Dimensions of the Chinese Press, 1850-1949, China Review (April 2004), and co-editor of Gender in Motion: Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005). Dr. Goodman's other recent publications include, "The New Woman Commits Suicide: The Press, Cultural Memory and the New Republic," Journal of Asian Studies (February 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 (Munster 2005); "Semi-Colonialism, Transnational Ties, and Press Culture in Early Republican China," China Review, (2004); "Being Public: The Politics of Representation in 1918 Shanghai," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (June 2000); and "Improvisations on a Semi-Colonial Theme, or, How to read a Celebration of Transnational Urban Community," Journal of Asian Studies (November 2000). Her current research, supported by grants from the American Council of Learned Societies/ Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, the Stanford Humanitites Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, is on newspapers, public associations and gender in early Republican China.