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Catherine Yeh

Associate Professor of Chinese

Convener (division head) of Chinese

• BA, University of California, Santa Cruz
• MA, Harvard University
• PhD, Harvard University

Professor Yeh's teaching and research interests include 19th and 20th century Chinese literary, media, and visual culture. Her publications include Performing the 'Nation': Gender Politics in Literature, Theatre and the Visual Arts of China and Japan, 1880-1940 (Co-edited with Doris Croissant, Joshua S. Mostow, forthcoming); Shanghai Love: Courtesans, Intellectuals and Entertainment Culture, 1850-1910 (2006); “Shanghai Leisure, Print Entertainment, and the Tabloids, xiaobao” (in Rudolf G. Wagner ed, Joining the Global Public, 2007); “The Press and the Rise of Peking Opera Singer as National Star: The Case of Theater Illustrated (1912-17)” (East Asian History, 2006); “From Male ‘Flower’ to National Star: Choreographing Mei Lanfang’s Rise to Stardom” (in Erika Fischer-Lichte ed., Performativität und Ereignis 2003); "Representing the City: Shanghai and its Maps" (in David Faure ed., Town and Country in China, 2002); "The Life-Style of Four Wenren in Late Qing Shanghai" (in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 1997). She currently has two works-in-progress: The Chinese Political Novel in the Early 20th Century and The Rise of the Chinese Actor as National Star: The Female Impersonator and Social Transformation during the Early Republican Era. She is the recipient of a German Research Foundation project grant, a Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation project grant, and a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship.