Yunhe Wu

Biography

Education

• PhD Kent State University, History, August 2024
• MA The State University of New York at Buffalo, History, May 2017
• BA Beijing Normal University, History & English Language and Literature, July 2013

Academic & Professional

Yunhe Wu is an instructor in the Roots of Contemporary Issues program at Washington State University and specialized in American West, Chinese Diaspora, Pacific Ocean, and History of Social Justice. She currently has two major publication projects. Her first book project on women movement in Cantonese villages in China at the turn of the last century, together with strongly gendered anti-Chinese racial prejudices in the United States immigration policy pushed Cantonese/Chinese men in California to reform their ideas of masculinity. Meanwhile, by reading those valuable Classical Chinese sources, her second book project will be on Cantonese women and American prostitution in the progressive era. Her second project would examine the Chinese prostitution issue through a transnational study, highlighting the agency of Cantonese prostitutes, and studying the intersection between Chinese prostitute’s issues, police system, social barriers, and citizenship in the American West.

Because she comes from a working-class community and one ethnic minority group in China living close to the Northern Border, she has committed to her students, particularly first generation college students, in higher education.

Publications

• “‘My Dear Woman: Don’t Ever Think Your Husband Has Betrayed Your Love,’ Negotiating Chinese Masculinity for New Gender Relations during the Progressive Era,” Verge: Studies in Global Asias ( Under Review; Out to Readers)
• Book Manuscript: Becoming Chinese American Men: Chinese Masculinity and Defining American Citizenship in California, from 1865 to 1919 , University of Nebraska Press, (Under Book Contract)