Joan Judge is Professor in the Departments of History and Humanities at York University in Toronto, Canada. She is the author of The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China (2008), Print and Politics: ‘Shibao’ and the Culture of Reform in Late Qing China (1996), and co-editor of Beyond Exemplar Tales: Women’s Biography in Chinese History (2011). She is currently involved in a multi-year, international collaborative project entitled “Gender and Cultural Production: A New Approach to Chinese Women's Journals in the Early 20th Century.” The project includes the creation of a comprehensive database of the contents of four significant Chinese women’s journals. Her long-term research goals include a project on “The Desacralization of Knowledge and the Rise of the Common Reader in China, 1850-1950.”  Professor Judge is the invited guest of 2012 Faculty Fellow Ji-Eun Lee.

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