Margo Gewurtz

Margo Gewurtz has held several senior administrative posts including Associate Director of the Toronto-York Joint Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Chair of the Division of Humanities, Vice-Chair of Senate and Master of Founders College. Her research interests are in the field of Sino-Western cultural relations. She is co-author of Guide to Canadian Archival Sources on Missionaries in East Asia (1989) and author of Between America and Russia: Chinese Student Radicalism & Travel Books of Tsou Tao-Fen (1975). She has published numerous essays on Canadian China missionaries and their Chinese coworkers. One of her recent publications is “The Afterlife of Memory in China: Yang Jiang’s Literary Memoir”, published in ARIEL, Life Writing in International Contexts Issue v.39 (1-2).
Keywords: Sino-Western cultural relations; missionaries in East Asia; China