Prof. DU, Chunmei (杜春媚)

Ph.D., Princeton University, 2009

• General Research Grant, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2027-2029

• Residential Fellowship, National Humanities Center, U.S.A., 2027 (declined)   

• Fellow, Institute of Transnational History of China, The University of Hong Kong, 2026-2027

• Associate, Harvard University Asia Center, 2025-2027

• General Research Grant, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, January 2025-December 2027

• Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme, September 2024-August 2025
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, U.S.A., July 2024-June 2025
• Visiting Fellow, The Needham Research Institute, Cambridge University, July-August 2024
• General Research Grant, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2021-2023

Books:

•    Rape in Peking: Injured Woman, Global Trial, and China-U.S. Sexual Politics. Under contract with Cornell University Press.

•     Everyday Occupation: American Soldiers and Chinese Civilians after World War II. Cambridge University Press, 2025, in print and open access.

•    奇士异旅：辜鴻銘还乡记. 北京: 社会科学文献出版社, 2026.

•    Ed., The United States and East Asian Societies during the Cold War 冷戰時期的美國與東亞社會. Taipei: Showwe Publishing, 2023.

•    Gu Hongming’s Eccentric Chinese Odyssey. The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.

•    Notes of Insanity: My Experience Working in an American Psychiatric Hospital 疯癫笔记——我在美国精神病院的实习经历. Nonfiction. Nanjing: Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing, 2017.

Articles and Book Chapters:

“The Debate over ‘Jeep Girls’ in Postwar China” in Uneasy Allies: Sino-American Relations at the Grassroots, 1937–1949, eds. Zach Fredman and Judd Kinsley. Cambridge University Press, 2024.

“Rape in Peking: Injured Woman, Microhistory, and Global Trial,” Gender & History Gender & History 36, no. 2 (2024): 620-638.  
 

“Occupational Hazard: American Servicemen’s Sensory Encounters with China, 1945-1949,” Diplomatic History 47, no. 1 (2023): 55-84.

“Jeep Girls in China” 吉普女郎在中國, in The United States and East Asian Societies during the Cold War, 25-40. Ed. Chunmei Du. Taipei: Showwe Publishing, 2023.

“Gu Hongming (1857-1928): World Thinker and Eccentric Loyalist,” in Creators of Modern China: 100 Lives from Empire to Republic, 1796-1912, 284-286. Eds. Jessica Harrison-Hall and Julia Lovell. Thames and Hudson, 2023.

“Jeep Girls and American GIs: Gendered Nationalism in Post-World War II China,” The Journal of Asian Studies 81, no. 2 (2022): 341-63.

“Isadora Duncan and Modern China” 現代舞之母鄧肯與二十一世紀中國, Twenty-first Century 二十一世紀 184 (April 2021): 45-56.  

“John Chinaman’s Journey to the East” 約翰中國佬的東方之旅, Dushu 讀書 11 (2020): 159-167.

“The Shen Chong Rape Case,” Contemporary Women’s History in Asia  アジア現代女性史 11 (2017): 88-95.

“Escaping Sugamo Prison with a No.2 Pencil: The Drawings of Japanese War Criminal Tobita Tokio,” Visual Studies 30, no. 1 (2015): 1-19, co-authored with Lindsey Powell.

“Manufacturing Naxi’s Original Ecological Culture in Contemporary China,” Asian Ethnicity 16, no. 4 (2015): 549-567.

“The Love Suicide Mystique: Fabricating Authentic Naxi Culture in Contemporary China,” Frontiers of History in China 10, no. 3 (2015): 486-512.

“Travel Along a Mobius Strip: Somerset Maugham and Gu Hongming East of Suez,” The International History Review 36, no. 1 (2014): 1-18.

“Gu Hongming as a Cultural Amphibian: A Confucian Universalist Critique of Modern Western Civilization,” Journal of World History 22, no. 4 (2011): 715-746.

“Everyday Occupation: American Soldiers and Chinese Civilians, 1945-1949,” Department of History, The University of Hong Kong, March 19, 2025

Organizer and chair, roundtable titled “AI in Action: Enhancing Asian Studies Education through Practical Applications,” AAS-in-Asia, Kathmandu, Nepal, June 2025

Chair, “Negotiating the Locality and Subjectivity: On the Ethnic Chinese Under Imperial Order and Global Discourse,” AAS-in-Asia, Kathmandu, Nepal, June 2025

“Occupying China: Mission Impossible,” in workshop titled “Walfare in Modern China Revisited: Sources, Scope, and Methods,” Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, July 22-23, 2024.

Invited Talk, “A New Look at the Shen Chong Affair,” Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, July 18, 2024.

“‘Born to Defend’: Popular Chinese Anti-American Nationalism, 1940s–1990s,” the Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Seattle, March 14, 2024.

“Staging American Victory: Japanese Surrender Ceremonies in China,” American Historical Association, 122nd Annual Meeting in San Francisco, January 4, 2024.

“Entangled Objects: American Goods in Occupied China,” AAS-in-Asia, Daegu, June 25, 2023.

“Everyday Diplomacy: U.S. Servicemen in Post-World War II China,” the Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Boston, March 17, 2023.

“Rape in Peking: Reexamining the ‘Injured Woman’ of the Infamous 1946 Case,” the Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Honolulu, March 26, 2022.

“‘Jeep Girls’ and American Servicemen in Post-WWII China,” in the second workshop titled “Uneasy Allies: Sino-American Relations at the Grassroots, 1940-1949,” University of California, Berkeley-virtual, September 4-5, 11-12, 2020.

“‘Jeep Girls’ and American Servicemen in Post-WWII China,” in the first workshop titled “Uneasy Allies: Sino-American Relations at the Grassroots, 1940-1949,” Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, China, July 11-13, 2019.

“‘Jeep Girls’ and American Servicemen in Post-WWII China,” Hong Kong Institute of the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, April 16, 2019.

“Travels of ‘Chinese’ letters” 中國書信之旅, in workshop titled “Differentiation in Context: Case Studies and Macroscopic Views of History” 和而不同：史學個案研究與宏觀視野, The International Center for Studies of Chinese Civilization, Fudan University, December 19-20, 2018.

“U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan’s Views of China” 美國國務卿布萊恩的中國觀, in workshop titled “Understanding America: Scholarships and Sino-U.S. relations” 理解美國：對美國的研究與中美關係, Fudan University, Shanghai, December 15, 2018.

Organizer, roundtable titled “Reexamining Cold War Politics in China behind Front Lines, 1940s-1950s,” the Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., March 25, 2018.

Organizer, international workshop titled “The United States and East Asian Societies during the Cold War,” The International Center for Studies of Chinese Civilization, Fudan University, China, June 16-17, 2017.

“The Peking Rape Incident and Anti-Americanism in Republican China” 北平強姦案和反美主義, in workshop titled “Public Memoires and National Identities in Modern China” 現代中國公共記憶與民族認同研究, Centre for Asia-Pacific Development Studies, Nanjing University, China, December 12, 2017.

“Clash of Civilizations: A Confucian Challenge to Christian Moralism,” in workshop titled “New directions in the cultural and intellectual history of China,” New York University, May 1-3, 2015.

“A Hybrid Son: Gu Hongming and His Worlds,” Brown Bag Lunch Series sponsored by the Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, April 28, 2011.

“Recovering Chinese Tradition from Abroad: Gu Hongming’s Reconstruction of Confucianism,” the Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, March 25-28, 2010.

Panel chair and discussant, “Asian Societies and the Outside World,” Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Louisville, Kentucky, January 15-17, 2010.

“A Comparative Study of the South Sea and the East Sea as a Framework in Global History,” in The International Symposium on East Asian Maritime World in Global History, jointly held by the Institute of Oriental Culture at the University of Tokyo and the National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, June 18-19, 2009.

“Seeking Authenticities: Diasporic Chinese Professionals in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries,” Historical Society for Twentieth Century China: Biennial Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, June 16-17, 2008.

Presenter and panel organizer, “’To Become a Chinaman Again’: Gu Hongming as a Cultural Amphibian,” the Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA, April 3-6, 2008.

“A War of Words: A ‘Chinese’ Scholar-official’s Critique of Modern Western Civilization,” American Historical Association, 122nd Annual Meeting in Washington D.C., January 3-6, 2008.

“Newspaper, Telegraph, and War of Words in Late Qing China,” New York Regional Conference on Asian Studies, Binghamton, NY, October 26-27, 2007.