Professor
Department of History
213-740-1668
furth@usc.edu
Professor Furth studies the late l9th and 20th centuries to Ming-Qing period and beyond. Her abiding interests are found in the cultural studies of science and gender both together and separately. Current projects include an edited volume on Thinking With Cases: Specialist Knowledge in China's Cultural History and an exploration of the neo-Confucian body through the life and work of Zhu Zhenheng, a 14th century physician. She has also been an editorial board member for East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine and Journal of Asian Studies.
Education:
Ph.D. (History), Stanford University, 1965
B.A. (French), University of North Carolina, 1954
Selected Publications:
A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China's Medical History 960-1665 (California 1999); "Solitude, Silence and Concealment: Boundaries of the Social Body in Ming Dynasty China" in Bonnie McDougall,ed., Concepts of Privacy in China (EJ Brill 2002).
"Intellectual Change: From the R eform Movement to the May Fourth Movement, 1895-1920" in The Cambridge History of China, Selected Essays on the Intellectual History of Modern China. 2002.
"Doing Research on the History of the Body: Representation and Experience." In Jindai Zhongguo funu shi yanjiu [Research on the History of Women in Modern China] 8: 179-193 (June 2000).
"Caixian yu ganzhi--shenti shi yanjiu di liang zhong quxiang"[Representation and Experience: Two Approaches to Research on the History of the Body], translated into Chinese by Jiang Zhushan. Xin shi xue [New Historical Studies],10.4 (December 1999):129-43.
"Women as Healers in Ming Dynasty China" Pp 467-77 in Yung Sik Kim and Francesca Bray, eds., Current Perspectives on the History of Science in East Asia. Seoul National University Press, 1999.
"Minchoki no chugoku ni okeru chiryoi toshite no josei" (Women as Healers in Ming Dynasty China). In Ajia joseishi:hikakuushi no kokoromi [Asian Women's History: an Experiment in Comparative History], Hayashi Rieko and Tanagida Setsuko, eds. Tokyo: Meiseki shoten, 1997:484-96.
Review essay on Sex, Culture and Modernity in China: Medical Science and the Construction of Sexual Identities in the Early Republican Period by Frank Dikotter. Chinese Science, 14 1997:139-43.
"From Birth to Birth: the Growing Body in Traditional Chinese Medicine." PP l57-192 in Chinese Views of Childhood ed. Anne Behnke Kinney. University of Hawaii Press, 1995.
"Ming-Qing Medicine and the Construction of Gender" in Jindai /zhongguo funu shi yanjiu (Research on Women in Modern Chinese History) 2 (June l994). Academia Sinica, Institute of Modern History, Taiwan (ROC).
"Rethinking Van Gulik: Sexuality and Reproduction in Traditional Chinese Medicine" in Hershatter and Rofel,eds., Engendering China (Harvard 1994).
Ting Wen-chiang: Science and China's New Culture (Harvard East Asian Monograph 1970).
Honors and Awards:
Fulbright Award, Postgraduate Fellowship, 1954 - 1955
Fulbright Award, Fellowship , 1981-1982
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1972-1973
USC Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, 2001