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Dr. Yi Sun
Associate Professor
PhD, Washington State University, 1994

Research specialties:   Chinese women and modernization; Sino-American relations
Teaching specialties:   Modern China, Modern Japan, U.S.-East Asia Relations, Women in East Asia

Selected publications:

  • Mapping the Historical Path of Chinese Americans, in Chinese, co-author with Xiaobing Li and Xiaoxiao Li (Chengdu, China: Sichuan People's Press, 2003)
  • "Social and Legal Deprivation of Women's Rights during China's Economic Transition," in Chinese, in Studies on Chinese Communism (2003)
  • "The Butterfly Effect and the Making of Ping Pong Diplomacy" co-author with Zhaohui Hong, Journal of Contemporary China   9/25 (2000): 429-448 .
  • "Progress or Regress:   Women and the Economic Reforms in China," in Weaving a New Tapestry: Asia in the Post-Cold War World , eds. William   P. Head and Edwin G. Clausen (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999): 229-241
  • "Crisis Management:   John Foster Dulles and the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis," in China and the United States:   A New Cold War History , eds. Xiaobing Li and Hongshan Li (Lanham, MD: The University Press of America, 1998): 73-95.

Office:   Institute for Peace and Justice (IPJ) 270
Phone: (619) 260-6811
Email:   ysun@sandiego.edu
Webpage:   http://home.sandiego.edu/~ysun