Joan Judge

Joan Judge is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and a Professor in the Department of History at York University in Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Republican Lens: Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press (University of California Press, 2015), The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China (Stanford University Press, 2008), Print and Politics: ‘Shibao’ and the Culture of Reform in Late Qing China (Stanford University Press, 1996), and co-editor of Women Warriors and National Heroes: Global Histories (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), Women and the Periodical Press in China’s Global Twentieth Century: A Space of Their Own? (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and Beyond Exemplar Tales: Women’s Biography in Chinese History (University of California Press, 2011). She is currently engaged in an SSHRC-funded project, China’s Mundane Revolution: Cheap Print, Vernacular Knowledge, and Common Reading in the Long Republic, 1894–1955.

Representative Publications

• Republican Lens: Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015).
• The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China (Stanford:  Stanford University Press, 2008).
• Chinese translation: Lishi baofa: guoqu, xifang yu Zhongguo funü wenti 历史宝筏：过去西方与中国妇女问题  (The precious raft of history: The past, the west, and the woman question in China). (Nanjing: Jiangsu renmin chubanshe 江苏人民出版社, 2011, 319 pp).
• Print and Politics: ‘Shibao’and the Culture of Reform in Late Qing China (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996, 298 pp).
• Chinese translation: Yinshua yu zhengzhi: ‘Shibao’ yu wan-Qing Zhongguo de gaige wenhua 印刷与政治：《时报》与晚清中国的改革文化. (Guilin: Guangxi shifan daxue chubanshe, 2015, 315 pp).
• Judge, Joan and Hu Ying, eds. Beyond Exemplar Tales: Women’s Biography in Chinese History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, 431pp).
• Chinese translations: a. Chaoyue kaimo: chongdu Zhongguo nüxing zhuanji 超越楷模：重讀中國女性傳記 (Taipei: Wunan gufen youxian gongsi, 2011, 451 pp); b. Chaoyue kaimo: chongdu Zhongguo nüxing zhuanji 超越楷模：重读中国女性传记 (Nanjing: Jiangsu renmin chubanshe, 2012, 346 pp).