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Sarah Chang

Education

• PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz
• MA, University of California, Santa Cruz
• BA, Stanford University

Teaching and Research Interests

• Chinese history
• East Asian history
• History of socialism and China’s economic reforms
• Gender and women’s history

Work in Progress

Dr. Chang studies how the rural-urban divide and gender shaped Chinese state factories from the 1950's to today. Her research traces the rise and fall of massive state-owned factories, showing that these symbols of socialist progress were uneven and complex spatial entities.  By looking at how cities and factory spaces were built, she tells the story of how industrial workers and their families experienced life in a changing China, from socialism to capitalism.

Courses Taught

• History of Modern China
• Women & Gender in Modern China
• Gender and Sexuality in Modern East Asia
• Capstone: History in the Digital Age
• Capstone: The Politics of Everyday Life
• Modern East Asia
• History of Modern Japan

Selected Publications

Sarah Chang, review of "Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China’s Capitalist Ascent", by Jason M. Kelly, The PRC History Review No. 52 December 2022.

Sarah Chang. "Factory Girls and the Dancing Queen: The Gender Politics of Social Dance during China's Early Reforms," May 28, 2024 

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