Gail Hershatter

Gail Hershatter is an American historian, and professor at University of California, Santa Cruz.^[1]

She graduated from Hampshire College with a B.A., from Stanford University with a M.A., and from Stanford University with a Ph.D. She was elected vice-president of the Association for Asian Studies.^[2] She was assistant director of the documentary The Gate of Heavenly Peace.^[3]

Awards

The Workers of Tianjin, 1900-1949, Stanford University Press, 1993, ISBN 9780804722162
Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai, University of California Press, 1997, ISBN 9780520204386
Women in China's long twentieth century, University of California Press, 2007, ISBN 9780520098565
Personal voices: Chinese women in the 1980's, Authors Emily Honig, Gail Hershatter, Stanford University Press, 1988, ISBN 9780804714310
Remapping China: fissures in historical terrain, Editor Gail Hershatter, Stanford University Press, 1996, ISBN 9780804725095
Guide to Women's Studies in China, editor Gail Hershatter, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Center for Chinese Studies, 1998, ISBN 9781557290632
Engendering China: Women, Culture, and the State, Editor Christina K. Gilmartin, Harvard University Press, 1994, ISBN 9780674253322.