Deng Xiaonan (born June 1950) is a Chinese historian and the Boya Chair Professor at Peking University's Centre for Research on Ancient Chinese History. She is known for her research on

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history, Ancient Chinese bureaucratic systems and female history of the Tang and Song. She is currently serving as the director of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences of PKU.

Early life

Deng was born in 1950 in

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. Her father is the noted Chinese academic

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Career

Education

Deng completed her

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in Chinese history at

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in 1982. She graduated from her

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in 1985 from the same institution.

Academia

Deng became a lecturer in 1987. She became an assistant professor in 1991. She was made a professor in 1997. Deng ran a 16-episode open-access class online with Yan Buke. Deng led the classes on Ancient Chinese governance and the

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. As of 2016, the open class has had over 2,500 participants. She attended

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as a Coordinate Research Scholar specialising in Chinese History at the Harvard-Yenching Institute in 2014. Deng has given lectures on women's development history and

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in Taiwan and a

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workshop.

Selected works

*Xiaonan Deng and Christian Lamouroux. "The "Ancestors' Family Instructions": Authority and Sovereignty in Song China." ''Journal of Song-Yuan Studies'', no. 35 (2005): 79-97. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23496184. *Xiaonan Deng and Christian Lamouroux. «Les "règles familiales des ancêtres". Autorité impériale et gouvernement dans la Chine médiévale». ''Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales'', 3/2004 (59e année), p. 491-518. *Xiaonan Deng. "Women in Turfan during the Sixth to Eighth Centuries: A Look at Their Activities Outside the Home." ''The Journal of Asian Studies'' 58, no. 1 (1999): 85–103.

References

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