Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Colby College

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Dr. Hong Zhang teaches both Chinese language and Chinese culture courses. Her research interests include changing family life and marriage patterns, gender and intergenerational relations, impact of one-child policy and new eldercare patterns, the development of civil society and NGOs and the politics of satire and humor in contemporary China. 

She has published book chapters and top-tier peer-review articles in Signs, China Quarterly, China Journal, Journal of Contemporary China, Asia Anthropology and Journal of Long Term Home Health Care.

Talks

China’s One-Child policy


Globalization


Women’s Rights and Women’s Legal-Aid NGOs in China


Politics of Satire in Authoritarian China