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Jenny Huangfu Day

Professor of History

Jenny Huangfu Day

I am a historian of modern China at 微密圈 College, where I teach courses on East Asian civilization, late imperial and modern China, modern Japan, and a variety of topics courses on East Asia’s encounter with the West. My research focuses on the diplomatic, legal, and cultural history of China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

My work centers on questions of sovereignty, jurisdiction, cross-cultural imagination, and the role of information and communication in modern state-making. My research projects don’t reflect a single school of inquiry, but follow questions that occurred to me in reading and teaching. Many of these questions came from archival research, teaching, and the lacunae exposed by contemporary debates, when political events reveal how much our understanding of modern China and its relationship with the West still rests on over-simplification of complex issues and entrenched myths. What these projects have in common is a belief in combining the classic toolkit of the historian — archival research — with interdisciplinary perspectives to shed new light on those myths and keep opening new lines of inquiry.

I am currently working on several projects, including a monograph tentatively titled “Song Qingling and the Afterlives of the Chinese Revolution,” which explores Song's political career after the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925 and the institutionalization of her image after her death in 1981. It will be the first English-language study that seeks to place the story of her life in conversation with broader scholarship on gender, media, revolutionary mythmaking, and public memory.

For detailed information on my scholarship, please visit my website:

Books

  • The Qing World, co-edited with Bian He and Emily Mokros. Routledge. Under Contract.
  • Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018. (Outstanding Academic Title of 2019 by ACRL Choice.)
  • (Chinese translation) 上海人民出版社, 2024.
  • ]. Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe 上海古籍出版社, 2020.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

  • “,” in , ed. Cyrus Schayegh, Leiden: Brill, 2025: 49-70.
  • “History Textbooks and Historical Education in Republican China,” in , eds. Kristin Stapleton, Xin Fan, Els van Dongen, Sage Publications, 2025: 212-226.
  • Journal of Modern Chinese History, vol. 16, no. 1 (2022): 91-122.
  • Law and History Review, vol. 39, no. 3 (2021): 415-450.
  • Modern Asian Studies, vol. 55, no. 4 (2021): 1151-1184.
  • Twentieth-Century China, vol. 46, no. 2 (2021): 105-129.
  • 中華文史論叢, no. 2 (2020): 85-115.
  • Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, vol. 21, no. 1 (2015): 50-63.
  • Late Imperial China, vol. 35, no. 1 (June 2014): 1-37.
  • Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, vol. 22, no. 2 (Fall 2010): 39-87.

Other Publications

  • “” 我在美国大学教中国历史：算法时代与“特朗普冲击”下的课堂, 澎湃, May 12, 2026.

  • “Guo Songtao: Diplomat and First Chinese Minister to Britain,” in
  • [On the history of diplomacy and information order across disciplines], 澎湃, 5/17/2021.
  • 10/23/2020.
  • Education about Asia, vol. 24, no. 3 (2019).