Participant Info
- First Name
- Gina
- Last Name
- Tam
- Country
- United States
- State
- TX Texas
- Gtam@trinity.edu
- Affiliation
- Trinity university
- Website URL
- www.ginaannetam.com
- Keywords
- History of Language, dialect, race and ethnicity, twentieth century
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am an assistant professor of history at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. I completed my Ph.D. in modern Chinese history at Stanford University in 2016, and I received my B.A. in History and Asian Studies from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2008.
At the core of my research interests lies the interplay between identity-building, state-society relations, and the construction of knowledge. My research has examined these themes in the history of modern China—from gender relations, to language policy, and food. My current manuscript, When Languages Don’t Need Armies: Dialect and Nationalism in China 1860-1960 traces the significance of dialect in the construction of Chinese national identity in modern China.
- Recent Publications
“Orbiting the Core”: Politics and the Meaning of Chinese Linguistics, 1927-1957.” Twentieth-Century China Special Issue on National Language, Dialect, and the Construction of Identity 41, no. 3 (October, 2016)
- Media Coverage
- @DGTam86
- Country Focus
- China
- Expertise by Geography
- Asia, China, East Asia
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, Modern, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
