Xiaorui Zhou

周曉睿

2025-26 Desmond & Whitney Shum Fellow

Shum Fellow

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Xiaorui Zhou (周曉睿) is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at Harvard University. Her research focuses primarily on 20th Century Chinese history. Specifically, she studies women’s experiences, narrations, and memories of the Second Sino-Japanese War through the prisms of displacement, labor, and sexual violence.

Research interests: 20th Century China; Second Sino-Japanese War/WWII in China; social history; gender history; social mobility