Bryna Goodman

Office: 353 McKenzie Hall
Phone: (541) 346-4825
E-mail: bgoodman@uoregon.edu

Biographical Information

Professor, specializing in Modern Chinese History
B.A. 1978 at Wesleyan
M.A. 1982 at Stanford
Ph.D. 1990 at Stanford
With the U of O since 1991

Major Publications

Native Place, City and Nation: Regional Networks and Identities in Shanghai, 1853-1937 (University of California Press, 1995).

Transnationalism and the Chinese Press, Special issue of China Review 4:1 (April 2004). Guest Editor.

Gender in Motion: Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China, (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005). Coeditor.

"The New Woman Commits Suicide: The Press, Cultural Memory and the New Republic," Journal of Asian Studies (February 2005).

Improvisations on a Semi-Colonial Theme, or, How to Read a Celebration of Transnational Urban Community" (Journal of Asian Studies, 2000)

"Being Public: The Politics of Representation in 1918 Shanghai," Harvard Journal of Asian Studies (June 2000)

"Unvirtuous Exchanges: Women and the Corruptions of the Stock Market in Early Republican China" in Mechthild Leutner and Nicola
Spakowski, eds., Women in China: The Republican Period in Historical Perspective, (Münster: 2005).

"Democratic Calisthenics: The Culture of Urban Associations in the New Republic," in Elizabeth Perry and Merle Goldman, eds., Changing
Meanings of Citizenship in Contemporary China, (Harvard University Press, 2002).

Fellowships, Grants, and Honors

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2003
Coleman and Guitteau Professorship in the Humanities, 2001-02
Stanford Humanities Center, Faculty Fellowship 1998-99
Visiting Professor Ecole des Hautes Etudes, 1999
Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China, Research Fellow, 1996
ACLS Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1995-1996

Manuscripts in Progress

"Stained with Spots of Blood": The Romance of Bourgeois Modernity in 1920s Shanghai

Recent Teaching

China Past and Present
Introduction to the Study of History: Frameworks, Debates, New Approaches
Modernity and Gender in China
Ethnicity, Nation and "China"
State and Society in Republican China
Shanghai in Chinese and Non-Chinese Cultural Imagination
Cultural Revolution in Fiction, Film and Memoir
China and the Issue of Modernity
Perspectives on Asian Studies