Paul Bailey
Professor
Department of History
Durham University
United Kingdom
Biography
Paul J Bailey specialises in the social and cultural history of modern China. He grew up in Malaya (as it then was) and West Germany (as it then was) before taking a BA Honours degree in Chinese Studies at Leeds University. He then obtained an MA in Chinese and Japanese history and politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London), and did his doctorate at the University of British Columbia, Canada, where he was also a teaching assistant and the recipient of a Killam doctoral fellowship.While doing his doctorate he spent a year (1980-1981) at Beijing University, China, as a British Council postgraduate scholar.
Research Interest
Research Interests are Gender in twentieth century China, Educational thought and practice in twentieth century China, Sino-French interaction in the 19th and 20th centuries, Cinema and Chinese modernity.
Publications
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(2006). â€Women Behaving Badly†Crime, Gender and Transgressive Behaviour in Early Twentieth Century China. Nan Nu: Men, Women and Gender in Early and Imperial China 8.1: 156-197 (translated into Chinese in Nuxue xuezhi, no.25, June 2008, pp.165-212).
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Bailey, Paul J. (2011). The Sino-French Connection and World War One. Journal of the British Association of Chinese Studies 1(1): 1-19.
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Bailey, Paul J. (2013). Globalization and Chinese Education in the Early 20th Century. Frontiers of Education in China 8(3): 398-419.
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Bailey, Paul J. (2014). Chinese Labour in World War I France and the Fluctuations of Historical Memory. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 14(2): 362-382.
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Bailey, Paul J. (2017). Chinese Women Go Global: Discursive and Visual Representations of the Foreign "Other" in the Early Twentieth Century Chinese Womens and Periodical Press. Nan Nu: Men, Women and Gender in China
