Home / People / Dr. Aihua Zhang Dr. Aihua Zhang Associate Professor of History Education Ph.D.: State University of New York at Stony Brook M.A.: Department of History, Bowling Green State University, Ohio B.A.: Department of English, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi鈥檃n, China Biography Dr. Aihua Zhang joined Gardner鈥慦ebb University after serving as a visiting assistant professor at Stockton University. Her research focuses on modern China, women and gender, East Asian culture and society, social activism, transnationalism, and global history. Her monograph,聽The Beijing Young Women鈥檚 Christian Association, 1927鈥�1937: Materializing a Gendered Modernity聽(Lexington Books, 2021), is the first full-length study of the YWCA in a Chinese city. In addition to contributing a chapter to聽Christianity and the Modern Woman in East Asia聽(Brill), she has published multiple peer-reviewed works, including 鈥淭he Making of Modern Female Citizens in Republican China鈥� in聽The American Journal of Chinese Studies; 鈥淩einventing Tradition and Indigenizing Modernity: The Beijing New Women and Their Creation of a New Feminine Leisure Culture, 1911鈥�1937鈥� in聽Women鈥檚 History Review; and the co鈥慳uthored study 鈥淲omen鈥檚 Leisure and Leisure Satisfaction in Contemporary China鈥� in聽World Leisure Journal. Courses Taught Pre-modern Chinese History, Modern China, Chinese Culture, Revolution/Democracy in East Asia, East Asian Traditions and Culture, World Civilizations, and Histories of Feminism
