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Sarah Chang

Education

• PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz
• MA, University of California, Santa Cruz
• BA, Stanford University

Teaching and Research Interests

• Chinese history
• East Asian history
• History of socialism and China’s economic reforms
• Gender and women’s history

Work in Progress

Dr. Chang’s research examines the rise and fall of large state-owned factories in southwestern China. Her work focuses on how gender and the rural-urban divide served as important axes of difference that facilitated the expropriation of labor and resources in the nation’s pursuit of a communist utopia. Inspired by her childhood memories growing up in the residential neighborhood of a steel tube factory, Dr. Chang’s current book project details the biographies of two steel mills in Chengdu, China, focusing on the creation and disintegration of socialist industrial spaces in China and the experiences of the workers, families, and children who lived in them.

Courses Taught

• HST 354 Modern Chinese History
• HST 470I Women & Gender in Modern China

Selected Publications

Sarah Chang, review of "Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China’s Capitalist Ascent", by Jason M. Kelly, The PRC History Review No. 52 December 2022.