Dr Amanda Zhang
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Amanda Zhang is a historian of twentieth-century China specialising in gender and social history. She holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford and has published in, or has peer-reviewed articles forthcoming in, Past & Present, Gender & History, and Twentieth-Century China. She is completing a monograph on Chinese female spies and developing a second book project on steel workers in Maoist China.
ORCID
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Teaching
Teaching modules
- Exploring the Past
- Global Histories of Feminism
- Approaching the Past
- The Cold War: A Global History
- The Modern World
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Zhang, Amanda (2025) Grassroots officials, worker wrongdoings, and masculinity in the Nantong Municipal Steel Rolling Mill c. 1970. Past and Present ISSN 0031-2746. (In Press)
- Zhang, Amanda (2023) Post-1980 remembrances of female wartime experiences as Communist underground operatives during the Chinese Civil War (1945–1949). Twentieth-Century China 48 (2), pp. 110-129. ISSN 1940-5065.
- Zhang, Amanda (2023) Engendered perceptions - Reconsidering wartime female Tewu (Special Agent) activities and narratives of “Honey Traps” in the early People’s Republic of China, 1949–1959. Journal of Chinese Military History pp. 1-29. ISSN 2212-7445.
- Zhang, Amanda (2020) Beauty is the troubled water that brings disasters: the making of the seductress-spy in Republican China (1911–1949). Intelligence and National Security 35 (6), pp. 840-851. ISSN 0268-4527.
- Zhang, Amanda (2019) Confessions of a dance hostess: social dancing in Shanghai and self-portrayals of Hostess-Writers, 1930-1949. British Journal of Chinese Studies 9 (2), pp. 31-56. ISSN 2048-0601.