Dr. Carol Chin

Biography

Professor Chin’s research and teaching interests focus on late nineteenth and twentieth-century American foreign relations, specializing in U.S.-East Asian relations. She has a particular interest in the intersection of national identity, empire, culture, and gender, and how these themes enhance the study of international relations. She is the author of 'Beneficent Imperialists: American Women Missionaries in China at the Turn of the Century' (Diplomatic History, 2003), 'Translating the New Woman: Chinese Feminists' Views of the West, 1905-1915' (Gender History, 2006), and 'Modernity and National Identity in the United States and East Asia, 1895–1919' (Kent State University Press, 2010).

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