Louise Edwards (historian)

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University of Technology Sydney
Australian National University
Australian Catholic University
University of Queensland
University of New South Wales|education=University of Auckland
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Louise Edwards {{post-nominals|country=AUS|FASSA|FAHA}} FHKAH is an Australian sinologist. Her work has focused on women and gender issues in China and Asia. As of 2022, she is Emeritus Professor of Chinese History at the University of New South Wales and an honorary professor at both the Australia-China Research Institute and the University of Hong Kong.

Education

Edwards completed a BA at the University of Auckland, followed by a second BA at Murdoch University (1987).{{Citation|author1=Edwards|first=Louise|title=Post–1949 critiques of Honglou meng: The assessment of Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/18385891|publication-date=1987|access-date=23 January 2022}} In 1991 she graduated from Griffith University with a PhD for her thesis, "The use of the discourse of sexual equality in Hongxue of the twelve beauties (1979–1989)".{{Citation|author1=Edwards|first=Louise Patricia|title=The use of the discourse of sexual equality in Hongxue of the twelve beauties (1979–1989)|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32955053|publication-date=1991|publisher=Division of Asian and International Studies, Griffith University|access-date=23 January 2022}} In addition to these degrees, Edwards spent time at two Chinese universities, the Beijing Language and Culture University and Nanjing University.{{Cite web|title=Emeritus Professor Louise Patricia Edwards|url=https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/louise-edwards|access-date=2022-01-23|website=UNSW Sydney|language=en}}

Career

Over her career, Edwards has worked at a number of universities including the University of Hong Kong and in Australia at the University of Queensland, Australian National University and Australian Catholic University.{{Cite web|title=Louise Edwards|url=https://unsw.adfa.edu.au/louise-edwards|access-date=2022-01-23|website=unsw.adfa.edu.au|language=en}}

She has written or edited 18 books on women in China and Asia.{{Cite web|title=Select Publications by Emeritus Professor Louise Patricia Edwards|url=https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/emeritus-professor-louise-patricia-edwards/publications?type=books|access-date=2022-01-23|website=UNSW Research|language=en}} She was joint editor of volume four of The Cambridge World History of Violence: 1800 to the Present.{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1151591942|title=The Cambridge world history of violence: 1800 to the Present|date=2020|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-316-58502-3|editor-last=Edwards|editor-first=Louise|volume=4|location=Cambridge|oclc=1151591942|editor-last2=Penn|editor-first2=Nigel|editor-last3=Winter|editor-first3=J. M.}}

As of 2022, she is emeritus professor of Chinese History at the University of New South Wales and an adjunct professor at the Australia-China Research Institute, University of Technology Sydney. She is also an honorary professor at the University of Hong Kong.{{Cite web|last=|date=2021-03-12|title=Professor Louise Edwards|url=https://www.australiachinarelations.org/content/professor-louise-edwards|access-date=2022-01-23|website=UTS Australia–China Relations Institute|language=en}}

Edwards served as president of the Asian Studies Association of Australia from 2015 to 2017.{{Cite web|title=Academy Fellow: Professor Louise Edwards FASSA, FHKAH, FAHA|url=https://socialsciences.org.au/academy-fellow/|access-date=2022-01-23|website=Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia|language=en-AU}} She also edits the Women in Asia publications for that Association.

She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2007,{{Cite web |title=Fellow Profile: Louise Edwards |url=https://humanities.org.au/fellows/fellow-profile/?fellow_id=341 |access-date=2024-06-07 |website=Australian Academy of the Humanities |language=en-AU}} of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2008 and of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities.

Selected publications

= Books =

{{Citation|author1=Edwards|first=Louise|title=Men and women in Qing China: Gender in the Red chamber dream|year=1994 |publication-date=1994|publisher=E.J. Brill|isbn=978-90-04-10123-4}}
{{Citation|author1=Edwards|first=Louise|title=Recreating the literary canon: Communist critiques of women in the Red chamber dream|publication-date=1995|publisher=Projekt Verlag|isbn=978-3-928861-46-5}}
{{Citation|author1=|title=The politics of dress in Asia and the Americas|year=2009 |publication-date=2007|editor-last=Roces|editor-first=Mina|publisher=Sussex Academic Press|isbn=978-1-84519-155-9|editor2-last=Edwards|editor2-first=Louise}}
{{Citation|author1=Edwards|first=Louise|title=Gender, politics, and democracy: Women's suffrage in China|year=2008 |publication-date=2008|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-5688-4}}
{{Citation|author1=|title=Women in Asia: Critical concepts in Asian studies|publication-date=2009|editor-last=Edwards|editor-first=Louise|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-44528-3|editor2-last=Roces|editor2-first=Mina}}
{{Citation|author1=Edwards|first=Louise|title=Women warriors and wartime spies of China|publication-date=2016|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-316-53634-6}}
{{Citation|author1=Edwards|first=Louise|title=Citizens of beauty: Drawing democratic dreams in republican China|date=11 April 2020 |publication-date=2020|publisher=University of Washington Press|isbn=978-0-295-74703-3}}

References

External links

[https://chinamatters.org.au/rethinking-china/rethinking-china-with-louise-edwards/ Rethinking China with Louise Edwards] – 9 December 2021 lecture hosted by China Matters

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Category:Australian sinologists

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Category:21st-century Australian historians

Category:Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

Category:Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia