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Croft News
April 20, 2015

University Lecture Series: Did Chinese Women Have a Revolution?

Monday, April 20, 2015 - 7 p.m. - The Joseph C. Bancroft Conference Room (Croft 107) -  Prof. Gail Hershatter

The Croft Institute is proud to host Professor Gail Hershatter, Distinguished Professor of History, University of California, Santa Cruz. As part of the University Lecture Series, Professor Hershatter will be speaking on Monday, April 20, at 7 p.m. in the Joseph C. Bancroft Conference Room (Croft 107).  Professor Hershatter is one of the preeminent historians working on modern Chinese social and cultural history, the history of memory, and women's history. She has authored numerous publications and received distinguished awards, including the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History for her book, Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai, and election as President of the Association for Asian Studies, 2011-12. Professor Hershatter's most recent research examines the history and memory of rural-based women during the 1950s and 1960s and forms the basis of her lecture, "Did Chinese Women Have a Revolution?"