Dr Amanda Zhang
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Amanda Zhang is a historian of 20th-century China with a focus on gender and social history. She has published on Chinese female spies and is currently writing her first monograph on this subject. Amanda is also working on her second book-length project on steel workers in Maoist China.
Qualifications
- DPhil in Oriental Studies, University of Oxford
- MSt in Chinese Studies, University of Oxford
- Bachelor of Laws, University of Hong Kong
- Bachelor of Social Sciences (Government and Laws), University of Hong Kong
ORCID
0000-0002-5492-495X -
Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Teaching
Teaching modules
- Approaching the Past (HICL200S4)
- Approaching the Past (HICL200S4)
- China and the West: Encounters (HICL248S7)
- China and the West: Encounters (HICL248S7)
- Exploring the Past (SSHC407S5)
- The Cold War: A Global History (SSHC569S5)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- 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 (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 (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.