Deng Xiaonan
Chinese historian (born 1950)
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Deng Xiaonan (born June 1950) is a Chinese historian and the Boya Chair Professor at Peking University's Centre for Research on Ancient Chinese History.[1] She is known for her research on Song history, Ancient Chinese bureaucratic systems and female history of the Tang and Song.[2] She is currently serving as the director of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences of PKU.
Deng Xiaonan | |
|---|---|
| 邓小南 | |
| Born | June 1950 (age 75) Beijing, China |
| Alma mater | Peking University |
| Father | Deng Guangming |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | History |
| Institutions | Centre for Research on Ancient Chinese History, Peking University |
Early life
Deng was born in 1950 in Beijing. Her father is the noted Chinese academic Deng Guangming.[3]
Career
Education
Deng completed her undergraduate degree in Chinese history at Peking University in 1982. She graduated from her master's in 1985 from the same institution.[1]
Academia
Deng became a lecturer in 1987. She became an assistant professor in 1991. She was made a professor in 1997.[1]
Deng ran a 16-episode open-access class online with Yan Buke. Deng led the classes on Ancient Chinese governance and the Silk Road. As of 2016, the open class has had over 2,500 participants.[4]
She attended Harvard University as a Coordinate Research Scholar specialising in Chinese History at the Harvard-Yenching Institute in 2014.[5]
Deng has given lectures on women's development history and gender at Osaka City University, Academia Sinica in Taiwan and a United Nations workshop.[6]
Selected works
- Xiaonan Deng and Christian Lamouroux. "The "Ancestors' Family Instructions": Authority and Sovereignty in Song China." Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, no. 35 (2005): 79-97. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23496184.
- Xiaonan Deng and Christian Lamouroux. «Les "règles familiales des ancêtres". Autorité impériale et gouvernement dans la Chine médiévale». Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 3/2004 (59e année), p. 491-518.
- Xiaonan Deng. "Women in Turfan during the Sixth to Eighth Centuries: A Look at Their Activities Outside the Home." The Journal of Asian Studies 58, no. 1 (1999): 85–103. doi:10.2307/2658390