Faculty Name
Yan Xu, Ph.D.
Title
eSpeman Online Program Director, Associate Professor of History
Department
eSpelman
Phone
404-270-5515
Office Location
Camille Olivia Hanks Cosby, Ed.D. Academic Center 407
Education
Ph.D., M.A., The Ohio State University
B.A., Nanjing University, China
Courses Taught
SHIS 202: Research Methods in History
SHIS 241: Traditional China and Japan
SHIS 242: Modern China and Japan
SHIS 302: Pre-Modern World
SHIS 343: Modern Chinese History
SHIS 344: Women in Modern China (Honors Elective)
SHIS 386: Women and Gender in World War II
SHIS 492: Senior Honors Thesis
SHIS 443: War and Revolution in Modern China
SHIS 444: World War II in East Asia: History and Film
AS 200: Introduction to Asian Studies
FYE 101: First Year Experience
Research Interests
Military history; women and gender; political Chinese history; Japanese history; women in China; women and war; world history; Asian history; history research methods; world wars in history and literature
Publications
Books
Xu, Yan. "The Soldier Image and State Building in Modern China," 1924-1945. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2019.
Xu, Yan, and Jeffrey Copeland, ed. "The YMCA at War: Collaboration and Conflict During the World Wars." Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018.
Book Chapters
“Serving Our Wounded Heroes: Military Welfare Programs of the Chinese YMCA during the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945,” in The YMCA at War: Collaboration and Conflict During the World Wars, ed. Yan Xu and Jeffrey Copeland (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018).
News
Recipient of the 2019 Spelman Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarship