Jishun Zhang

Bio

Jishun Zhang is Professor Emeritus of the Si-Mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities of East China Normal University. She studies the history of modern China, with a focus on Shanghai’s history. Her research specifically focuses on grassroots social governance and cultural transformation in the Mao era. She is working with Professor Yuhua Wang in the Harvard University Department of Government on her current project, “The Lane Revolution and Its Legacy: Revisiting Shanghai Neighborhood Committees in Mao’s Era.” 

Professor Zhang’s books include Chinese Intellectuals’ Views on America, 1943-1953, (Fudan University Press, 1999) and A City Displaced: Shanghai in the 1950s (Social Sciences Academic Press, 2015). Zhang is a graduate of Beijing Normal University and Fudan University, where she received her Ph.D. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of East Asia Studies at UC Berkeley in 1994-95 and was a coordinate professor in the Harvard-Yenching Institute in 2012-2013.

Research Interests: Modern China history; history of Shanghai; grassroots social and cultural transformation; history of families and individuals