Dr Amanda Zhang
Lecturer (Modern China)
Profile
Biography
Amanda Zhang is a historian of twentieth-century China specialising in gender and social history. She is completing a monograph on female spies of the Chinese Communist Party and developing a second book on masculinity and the lives of steelworkers in Maoist China. Her research has appeared in Past & Present, Gender & History and Twentieth-Century China, and has been supported by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust and the Esherick–Ye Foundation. She completed her DPhil at the University of Oxford as a Swire Scholar, and her thesis was shortlisted for the British Association for Chinese Studies’ Best Doctoral Thesis Award in 2022. In 2026, she was awarded second place in the European Association for Chinese Studies’ Early Career Scholar Award.
Research
Overview
Gender/social/labour history
Teaching
Undergraduate
- HIS00048H-A - History Dissertation
- HIS00053M-A - Making the Contemporary World: History, Politics & Ideas since 1945
- HIS00104C-A - Arguments & Analysis
- HIS00202H-A - Mao & Maoism - Semester 1
- HIS00227H-A - English and History Bridge Dissertation