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Di Yang Lecturer

Academic Area: 
  • Sociology
  • History
Research Interests: 
  • Gender studies
  • Social & women's history
  • Modernity and gender discourse
  • reconstruction of motherhood
  • gender issues involved in globalization
  • concepts of modernity in the transitional period in China
Bio: 

Department of Women’s Studies,

Ginling College, Nanjing Normal University

Professional Rank: Instructor

Major: Modern and contemporary history of China

Highest attained degrees: Ph. D.

* Educational Background 

2008.9-2012.12     Modern and contemporary history of China, Department of history, Nanjing University, Ph.D

2005.9—2008.7,  Modern and contemporary history of China, A.M.

2001.9—2005.7,  Liberal Art, Department of Intensive Instructions, Nanjing University,B.A.

* Other Educational Experience

2016.5.28-6.4     International Kassel Summerschool 2016: “Making Globalization Fair”, held by University of Kassel, Department 5, Globalization and Politics and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES).Germany

2013.6.23-7.5      The Forth International Summer School on China Studies: “Social Sciences Approaches to Chinese Everyday Life since 1978: Family, Education, Religion and Consumption” held by Nanjing University and co-hosted by the China Studies Centre of the University of Sydney, the Harvard-Yenching Institute

2009.9-2010.9      Visiting scholar in Department of Women’s Studies, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

* Major Academic Activities

2013.11.15-17   International Symposium on Women’s and Gender History in East Asia, hosted by Women’s History Society, Japan. Participate in Session 3: “Migration and Labor( 19th -20th century)”, presentation title:“Migration to Nan Yang”

2011.10.25-27   The 4th Sino-Nordic gender and women’s studies conference, hosted Department of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark, participate in the Workshop 2: “Women’s empowerment in urban and rural areas”, presentation title: “The life and welfare of the mobilizing rural families in China”

* Project

2016-2018  “Reconstruction of the Motherhood under the New Situation of Population”,  Youth Project of National Social Science Fund

2014-2016   “Construction of the Modernity in the Education and the Case Study of the Christian Colleges In China”, Guided Project of Philosophy and Social Science Research in Colleges and Universities in Jiangsu Province

2012-2014 “The Tendency of Diversity of Marriage Residence Model in Chinese Rural Area and Gender Equality: Case Studies in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province” ,  Youth Project of Empirical Research on Women and Gender sponsored by Chinese Women’s Research Society

* Publications

Book

Educational Theory and Practice of Wu Yifang, co-author,  Nanjing: Jiangsu People Press, China, 2005  

Papers

Breaking the Wall of the Gender Division in Science—Educational Practice and Inspiration of Ginling College, Collection of Women’s Studies, 2016.01

Migrating to Nan Yang: Chinese Women’s Migration to Southeast Asia during the Republican Period (Japanese, translated by Ohashi Fumie), co-author, Broadening the Horizons of History: The East Asian World from the Perspective of Women’s and Gender History, Hayakawa Noriyo(chief eds.), Tokyo: Ochanomizu Press, 2015.6, pp205-226.

Coming into the Times of “Competing Mothers in Educational Field”: The Popularity of Parentocracy and Reconstruction of Motherhood, co-author, Nanjing Journal of Social Sciences, Issues 328, 2015.2, pp. 61-67.

Gender Politics of Watching and being Watched: Stories of Ginling college and Jinling University in the Republic of China, Collection of the Women’s Studies, 2012(Issues 6), pp.82-87.

Ginling College in the Movement of Restore the Educational Rights, Academia Bimestries, 2012(5),pp.28-35.

Gender discourse in the cultural context of globalization: transmission, conflict and discourse competition, Advances in Gender Research 16: Social production and reproduction at the interface of public and private sphere, Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie Demos, Esther Ngan-ling Chow, eds. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2011.7, pp.211-255.

Changes of Families and Family-Supporting Policies: Commentary of “International Seminar on transition of Chinese Families and Public Policies of Families”, Collection of the Women’s Studies,2011(6),pp.89-104.

Watching the West and East Series: The Confliction and Transition among the Gender Discourse in the Popular Culture, Journal of Huangzhong University of Science and Technology (Social Science Edition),2009.5,Issues 23(3),pp.106-114.

The Urban Development from Gender Perspective, Collection of the Women’s Studies, Issues 89,2008,pp. 82-84

*  Awards      

 “Gender Politics of Watching and being Watched: Stories of Ginling college and Jinling University in the Republic of China”, won the third prize (papers) of the “2010-2014 Outstanding achievements in Women’s and Gender studies in China” held by Chinese Women’s Research Society and All-China Women’s Federation,2015

“Between the Marriage and Career: focuses on the four Ginling students’ individual lives”(unpublished dissertation), won the third prize of outstanding dissertation(PhD.) in the 5th. “Outstanding degree papers of A.M. or PhD. in Women’s and Gender Studies” held by Chinese Women’s Research Society and All-China Women’s Federation, 2015

Educational Theory and Practice of Wu Yifang, co-author, won the first prize on theoretical creation of Jiangsu Province Outstanding Works in education science (the 2nd.) 2005

*Social Activities

2014-2011 One of the Team supervisor of the social service program “civil education for new generation of migrant workers”, collaborated with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University-Peking University China Social Work Research Centre

2010-2012 major participant in UN project of “Anti-domestic violence against girls”

2008 volunteers in social service project “Home for new citizens” which offers various social services for migrant families in City of Nanjing