About

Madeleine Yue Dong is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Washington, with a joint appointment in the Jackson School of International Studies. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego, in 1996. Her research focuses on modern China, including social, cultural, gender, and urban history, as well as historiography and empire and colonialism. She has contributed to the understanding of modern Chinese history through her publications, including 'Everyday Modernity in China' and 'Republican Beijing: The City and Its Histories.' Dong is involved in research groups such as The Modern Girl Around the World and has advised students on topics related to Korean identity under Japanese rule and Chinese national identity. She teaches courses on modern China, Chinese social history, and related topics, and has been recognized with the Vincent Y.C. Shih Endowed Professorship in China Studies.

Research topics

• History
• Political science
• Sociology
• Geography
• Economic history

Selected publications

• 8 Nationalizing Food Provision in Beijing

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• The Suicide of Miss Xi: Democracy and Disenchantment in the Chinese Republic By Bryna Goodman. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2021. 352 pp. ISBN: 9780674248823 (cloth).

  The Journal of Asian Studies · 2022-02-01

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  The Suicide of Miss Xi: Democracy and Disenchantment in the Chinese Republic By Bryna Goodman. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2021. 352 pp. ISBN: 9780674248823 (cloth). - Volume 81 Issue 1

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• Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940 By Eugenia Lean. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 416 pp. $65.00 (cloth).

  Journal of Chinese History · 2020-08-27

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  Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940 By Eugenia Lean. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 416 pp. $65.00 (cloth). - Volume 5 Issue 1

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• Frontmatter

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• Republican Beijing

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  Old Beijing has become a subject of growing fascination in contemporary China since the 1980s. While physical remnants from the past are being bulldozed every day to make space for glass-walled skyscrapers and towering apartment buildings, nostalgia for the old city is booming. Madeleine Yue Dong offers the first comprehensive history of Republican Beijing, examining how the capital acquired its identity as a consummately "traditional" Chinese city. For residents of Beijing, the heart of the city lay in the labor-intensive activities of "recycling," a primary mode of material and cultural production and circulation that came to characterize Republican Beijing. An omnipresent process of recycling and re-use unified Beijing's fragmented and stratified markets into one circulation system. These material practices evoked an air of nostalgia that permeated daily life. Paradoxically, the "old Beijing" toward which this nostalgia was directed was not the imperial capital of the past, but the living Republican city. Such nostalgia toward the present, the author argues, was not an empty sentiment, but an essential characteristic of Chinese modernity.

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• Conclusion

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• PART I. The City of Planners

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• PART II. The City of Experience

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• Index

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• PART III. The Lettered City

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Frequent coauthors

• Priti Ramamurthy

  National Geophysical Research Institute

  3 shared

• Lynn M. Thomas

  3 shared

• Tani E. Barlow

  Rice University

  3 shared

• Uta G. Poiger

  3 shared

• Alys Eve Weinbaum

  University of Washington

  3 shared

• Berhanu Abegaz

  William & Mary

  2 shared

• Susan Moller Okin

  Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education

  1 shared

• Karl H. Schwerin

  1 shared

Labs

• Madeleine Yue Dong LabPI

Awards & honors

• Vincent Y.C. Shih Endowed Professorship in China Studies (Ju…