Xiaoping Cong
Assistant Professor (Asia, China)
562 Agnes Arnold Hall
Ph: (713) 743-3096
xcong@mail.uh.edu

Dr. Cong is a scholar of late imperial and 20th century China, focusing on women’s history and intellectual history. She received her Ph.D. from UCLA. She has presented research papers at the 18th international Association of historians of Asia Conference held in Taiwan and has been the co-organizer of panels at the American Historian Association.

Teaching:
Dr. Cong teaches survey courses on the history of East Asia from 1600 to present, focusing on the transformation of society in politics, cultural and economic aspects as well as the most recent development in East Asian countries. She teaches Modern East Asia: China and Japan, Modern East Asia: China since 1600, Women in Late Imperial and Twentieth Century China and East Asian Women in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives.

Research:
Dr. Cong is currently doing research on or forthcoming book, Shaping the Modern Nation-State: Teachers' Schools and the Construction of Culture, Politics and Gender in China and an article titled "Planting the Seeds for the Rural Revolution--Local Teaches' Schools and the Reemergence of Chinese Communism in the 1930s.”

Selected Publications:
" From mother to teachers of citizens--Nation-state building and female public education in the late Qing", Qing shi yanjiu (Studies in Quing history), 2003, no. 1, Beijing.

"Village schools in the reconstruction of community organization--the rural education movement and the village teachers' schools in the 1920s and 1930s", Ershi yi shiji (Twenty-first century), electronic version, 2002, no. 11, Hong Kong.

"Rethinking china's education modernization" Dushu (Reading), No. 11, 1998, pp. 16-21, Beijing.

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