Jenny Huangfu Day
Professor and Interim Chair Fall 2025
Jenny Huangfu Day »ΚΈ¦αΏαΏ is a Professor of History and the Francis Young Tang ΅®61 Chair in China Studies at ΞΆΓάΘ¦ College. She obtained her PhD in History from the University of California San Diego in 2012 and her BA from the University of Washington in 2007. She has published works in intellectual, diplomatic, and legal history of late imperial and modern China.
Her forthcoming monograph examines international law and transnational fugitives in modern China. It examines the role of Sino-foreign diplomats, jurists, and political actors in creating the boundaries of legitimate political actions. It tells the story about how the Qing and its Republican successor states negotiated for the right to declare their enemies, define their crimes, and gain juridical sovereignty over transborder rebels from the 1860s to the 1930s.
Her next book project will explore the politicization of history in modern China. It seeks to understand how policymakers, bureaucrats, intellectuals, and grassroots educators understood the goals of historical education from the late Qing to the post-Mao period.
Books
- Transborder Fugitives, Extradition, and Political Crimes in Modern China. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
- . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018. (Outstanding Academic Title of 2019 by ACRL Choice.)
- (Chinese translation in progress) Zouru Taixi de l¨Ήzhe : wan Qing waijiao yu xinxi zhixu ΧίΘλΜ©ΞχµΔΒΓΥί£ΊΝνΗεΝβ½»ΕcΠΕΟΆΦΘΠς. Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe ΙΟΊ£ΘΛΓρ³φ°ζΙη, forthcoming.
- ]. Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe ΙΟΊ£ΉΕΌ®³φ°ζΙη, 2020.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- 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.
- ΦΠΘAΞΔΚ·Υ“…², 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
- ΅°Guo Songtao: Diplomat and First Chinese Minister to Britain,΅± in
- [On the history of diplomacy and information order across disciplines], ΕμΕΘ, 5/17/2021.
- 10/23/2020.
- Education about Asia, vol. 24, no. 3 (2019).