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Brown, Shana J. 佘小娜

CCS Faculty
Assistant Professor, History

Sakamaki B404: 956-7151
Department: 956-7687
Fax: 956-9600

BA 1993, Amherst College
MA 1997, University of California, Berkeley
PhD 2003, University of California, Berkeley

Professor Brown’s area of expertise is twentieth-century China, with a focus on intellectual and cultural history. Her interests include social and political modernity, visual representation, and popular culture. Her doctoral dissertation discussed the indebtedness of modern historical scholarship, to the collection of ancient archaeological artifacts by late-Qing Dynasty scholars. Future research projects include the history of photography in modern China.

China-Related Courses

  • History 410 Twentieth-Century China
  • History 417 Chinese Intellectual History
  • History 420 People's Republic of China
  • History 661 Seminar in Chinese History
  • History 713 Chinese Historical Literature

Publications

  • "Luo Zhenyu in Manchuria, 1932-1940: History and Historiography," The Politics of Historical Production in Late Qing and Republican China, ed. Robert Culp and Tze-ki Hon (Leiden: Brill, 2006 forthcoming)
  • "Wu Dacheng yu wan Qing de jin shi shou can" [Wu Dacheng and the Late-Qing Collection of Antiquities], Dongya xueshu (East Asian Scholarship)(2006 forthcoming)
  • "Object(ive) Measurement in Late-Qing Antiquarian Practice," Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Ancient Chinese Books and Records of Science and Technology (Zhengzho: The Elephant Press, 2005)