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Journal articles
2023, 'War as Culture: Merging the Martial and the Cultural with Gender in China', NAN NU, 25, pp. 198 - 200, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685268-02512026
,2021, 'Chastity, foreign theories, and national heritage reorganization: Hu Shi (1892-1962) addresses ‘the woman problem’', NAN NU, 23, pp. 272 - 300, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685268-02320026
,2020, '“Soldier Beauties and Sailor Sons in Republican China”', Humanities Australia, pp. 81 - 93, https://www.humanities.org.au/issue-item/humanities-australia-no-11-2020/
,2020, 'Animals and beauties: Zoomorphic inscriptions of a modern gender hierarchy', NAN NU, 22, pp. 265 - 312, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685268-02220002
,2019, 'Victims, apologies, and the Chinese in Australia', Journal of Chinese Overseas, 15, pp. 62 - 88, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341390
,2016, ''The Legacy of the War to End All Wars’', Gender and History, 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12239
,2016, 'International Women’s Day in China: Feminism meets Militarized Nationalism and Competing Political Party Programs', Asian Studies Review, 40, pp. 89 - 105, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2015.1124066
,2015, 'Localizing the Hollywood Star System in 1930s China: Linglong magazine and new moral spaces', Asian Studies, 1, pp. 13 - 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.6551/AS.0101.02
,2013, 'Drawing sexual violence in wartime China: Anti-Japanese propaganda cartoons', Journal of Asian Studies, 72, pp. 563 - 586, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0021911813000521
,2013, 'Beyond Exemplar Tales: Women's Biography in Chinese History.', NAN NU-MEN WOMEN AND GENDER IN CHINA, 15, pp. 337 - 341, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685268-0152P0006
,2012, 'Women sex-spies: Chastity, national dignity, legitimate government and Ding Ling's when i was in Xia Village', China Quarterly, pp. 1059 - 1078, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305741012001208
,2012, 'The Shanghai modern woman's American dreams: Imagining America's depravity to produce China's "moderate modernity"', Pacific Historical Review, 81, pp. 567 - 601, http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/phr.2012.81.4.567
,2012, 'Editing Academic Books in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Maximizing Impact for Effort', JOURNAL OF SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING, 44, pp. 61 - 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jsp.44.1.61
,2011, 'Gender and the "virtue of violence": Creating a new vision of political engagement through the 1911 revolution', Frontiers of History in China, 6, pp. 485 - 504, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11462-011-0138-8
,2011, 'Echoes of Chongqing: Women in Wartime China.', AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, 116, pp. 157 - 157, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/ahr.116.1.157
,2010, 'Transformations of the woman warrior Hua Mulan: From defender of the family to servant of the state', NAN NU, 12, pp. 175 - 214, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852610X545840
,2008, 'Review Article: The ‘Problem of China’ and Chinese Exceptionalism', Journal of Contemporary History, 43, pp. 155 - 164, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022009407084565
,2007, 'Strategizing for politics: Chinese women's participation the one-party state', Women's Studies International Forum, 30, pp. 380 - 390, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2007.07.005
,2006, 'Failure, nationalism, and literature: The making of modern Chinese identity, 1895-1937', CHINA JOURNAL, 56, pp. 193 - 194, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20066211
,2005, 'Jia Baoyu in Honglou meng: Boyhood, adolescence, and adulthood in pre-modern China', Tamkang Review, 36, pp. 35 - 66
,2005, 'Jia Baoyu in Honglou meng: Boyhood, Adolescence and Adulthood in Pre-Modern China', Tamkang Review: a quarterly of comparative studies of Chinese and foreign literatures, XXXVI, pp. 35 - 66
,2002, 'Coopting the Chinese women's suffrage movement for the fifth modernisation — democracy', Asian Studies Review, 26, pp. 285 - 307, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357820208713347
,2002, 'Narratives of race and nation in China: Women's suffrage in the early twentieth century', Women's Studies International Forum, 25, pp. 619 - 630, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0277-5395(02)00340-0
,2001, 'New Hongxue and the ‘Birth of an Author’: Yu Pingbo’s ‘On Qin Keqing’s death’', Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles and Reviews, 23, pp. 31 - 54
,2000, 'Policing the modem woman in republican China', MODERN CHINA, 26, pp. 115 - 147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009770040002600201
,2000, 'Food and immigration: the indigestion trope contests the sophistication narrative', Journal of Intercultural Studies, 21, pp. 297 - 308, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07256860020007458
,2000, 'Policing the modern woman in Republican China', Modern China, 26, pp. 115 - 147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009770040002600201
,2000, 'Women’s Suffrage in China: Challenging Scholarly Conventions', Pacific Historical Review, 69, pp. 617 - 638, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3641227
,1999, 'Creating socialist women in Japan: Gender, labour and activism, 1900-1937', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, 45, pp. 150 - 151, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000079688300048&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,1999, 'Responses', Critical Asian Studies, 31, pp. 37 - 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14672715.1999.10415729
,1999, '‘Must have been the Chinese I ate ‘: Food poisoning, migration and national indigestion', Continuum, 13, pp. 315 - 323, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10304319909365803
,1999, 'From Gender Equality to Gender Difference: Feminist Campaigns for Quotas for Women in Politics', Twentieth Century China, pp. 69 - 105
,1998, 'Baptized in the fire of revolution: The American social gospel and the YMCA in China, 1919-1937', JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, 22, pp. 362 - 364, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000076342800024&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,1997, 'Native and background speakers of Chinese: Australian tertiary educators’ perceptions of the problems and prospects', Asian Studies Review, 20, pp. 91 - 106, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03147539708713129
,1996, 'The China factor in modern Japanese thought: The case of Tachibana Shiraki, 1881-1945 - Li,L', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, 42, pp. 480 - 480, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1996WJ43000043&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,1995, 'Women Warriors and Amazons of the Mid Qing Texts Jinghua yuan and Honglou meng', Modern Asian Studies, 29, pp. 225 - 255, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X00012713
,1995, 'Curricula for Background Speakers of Chinese Languages—Towards a New Link Between Economics and Culture', , 12, pp. 35 - 52
,1995, 'Late Twentieth Century Orientalism: The Discourse of Selection', Renditions, 44, pp. 1 - 11
,1994, 'Chin Sung-ts’en’s A Tocsin for Women—The Dextrous Merger of Radicalism and Conservatism in Feminism of the Early Twentieth Century', , pp. 117 - 114
,1994, 'Chinese for Dinkum Aussies', Asian Studies Review, 18, pp. 53 - 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03147539408712995
,1994, 'Chinese Masculinity: Theorising wen and wu', East Asian History, pp. 137 - 150
,1993, 'Historiography of Lin Siniang: Desirability and Virtue in Eighteenth Century China', New Zealand Journal of East Asian Studies, 1, pp. 63 - 75
,1993, 'Representations of Women and Social Power in Eighteenth Century China: The Case of Wang Xifeng', Late Imperial China, 14, pp. 34 - 59, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/late.1993.0009
,1993, 'Representations of Women and Social Power in Eighteenth Century China: The Case of Wang Xifeng', Late Imperial China, 14, pp. 34 - 59
,1992, 'Broadening Horizons: Representations of Women in Asia', Critical Asian Studies, 24, pp. 59 - 66, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14672715.1992.10412995
,1992, 'DAUGHTERS OF THE CANTON DELTA - MARRIAGE PATTERNS AND ECONOMIC-STRATEGIES IN SOUTH CHINA, 1860-1930 - STOCKARD,JE', BULLETIN OF CONCERNED ASIAN SCHOLARS, 24, pp. 59 - 66, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1992HX27900009&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,1992, 'DIALOGS IN PARADISE - XUE,C', BULLETIN OF CONCERNED ASIAN SCHOLARS, 24, pp. 59 - 66, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1992HX27900008&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,1992, 'STAYING ALIVE - WOMEN, ECOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT - SHIVA,V', BULLETIN OF CONCERNED ASIAN SCHOLARS, 24, pp. 59 - 66, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1992HX27900007&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,1990, 'Asian Studies Association of Australia 8th Biennial Conference', Australian Feminist Studies, 5, pp. 113 - 114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08164649.1990.9961702
,1990, 'Women in Chinese Fiction: The Last Ten Years', Australian Feminist Studies, 5, pp. 95 - 112, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08164649.1990.9961679
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