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

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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. doi:10.2307/2658390.

References

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