Tani E Barlow

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Nationality US Institutions Rice University		Name Tani Barlow


Fields History, gender studies, China Alma mater University of California, Davis Education University of California, Davis, San Francisco State University Books The Question of Women i, Gender Politics in Modern C, New Asian Marxisms Similar People Swapan Kumar Chakravorty, Dai Jinhua, Ding Ling, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Tani Barlow is a scholar of feminism, postcoloniality, and history in Asia and most specifically in China. She is the T.T. and W.F. Chao Professor of History and director of the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. Formerly, Prof Barlow was a professor of history and women studies at the University of Washington. She is known for her research on Chinese feminism.

Barlow edits the journal positions: east asia cultures critique, for which she received the 1995 Best New Journal Award, the 2009 Best Special Issue Award and the 2011 Best Special Issue Award by The Council of Editors of Learned Journals of the Modern Language Association

Education

1985 Ph.D. History, University of California, Davis,

1979 M.A. History, University of California, Davis

1975 B.A. History and Chinese language dual degree, San Francisco State University

Publications

Tani Barlow, Madeleine Dong, Uta Poiger, Priti Ramamurthy, Lynn Thomas, and Alys Weinbaum (eds.) The Modern Girl Around the World, Durham: Duke University Press, 2008

Tani Barlow, The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism, Durham: Duke University Press, 2004

Tani Barlow (ed.) New Asian Marxisms, Durham: Duke University Press, 1997

Tani Barlow (ed.), Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asia, Durham: Duke University Press, 1997

Tani Barlow (ed.), Gender Politics in Modern China: Writing and Feminism, Durham: Duke University Press, 1994

Tani Barlow and Angela Zito, Body, Subject, and Power in China, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994

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A lecture at Duke University

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