Chunmei Du
Biographic Data
| ID | 195778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chunmei Du |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chunmei |
| FAMILY NAME | Du |
| SIGNATURE | DU C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Kentucky University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3332-4055 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Uneasy Allies: Sino-American Relations at the Grassroots, 1937–1949
This timely collection of essays examines Sino-American relations during the Second World War, the Chinese Civil War and the opening of the Cold War. Drawing on new sources uncovered in China, Taiwan, the UK and the US, the authors demonstrate how 'grassroots' engagements - not just elite diplomacy - established the trans-Pacific networks that both shaped the postwar order in Asia, and continue to influence Sino-US relations today. In these cruci…
Everyday Occupation: American Soldiers and Chinese Civilians after World War II
'In this rich history of everyday encounters between US soldiers and Chinese civilians, Chunmei Du explores their entangled relations from the end of World War II to the founding of the People's Republic of China. Drawing upon official, popular and personal accounts from both countries, Du examines the sensorial, material, and symbolic exchanges that took place between GIs and ordinary Chinese people-stall vendors, pedestrians, rickshaw pullers, …
Occupational Hazard: American Servicemen’s Sensory Encounters with China, 1945–1949
In January 1947, William W. Lockwood, future president of the Association for Asian Studies, who had served for eighteen months as a U.S. Army officer in China, wrote that the “first venture in large scale American tourism in China” caused “many sour, even hostile, reactions to the Chinese.” He asked: Did millions of returned young GIs “gain a sympathetic and tolerant understanding of that world? Or were their home town prejudices simply confirme…
Rape in Peking: Injured woman, microhistory and global trial
In December 1946, college student Shen Chong was raped by an inebriated US Marine in Peking. Although the initial trial by the court martial in China found the Marine guilty, the verdict was overturned by Judge Advocate General of the Navy in Washington. Student protests quickly turned into a nationwide anti‐American movement. In contrast to previous studies that emphasise the event's political impacts from the perspective of American imperialism…
Jeep Girls and American GIs: Gendered Nationalism in Post-World War II China
Over a hundred thousand US servicemen were stationed in post-World War II China, resulting in the largest grassroots interactions in Sino-US history. Reexamining this unprecedented encounter in the context of American global military empire, this article investigates the sociocultural tensions caused by GIs' sexual relations with Chinese women between 1945 and 1949. While conservatives maligned "Jeep girls" out of racial and sexual anxieties, lib…
Escaping Sugamo Prison with a no. 2 pencil: The drawings of Japanese war criminal Tobita Tokio
Tobita Tokio spent 10 years as war crimes suspect and convicted war criminal in Sugamo Prison, a facility recommissioned by American occupiers in 1945 as one element of a larger programme designed to refashion Japan into a more peaceful and cooperative member of the community of nations. From 1945 to 1955, Tobita produced hundreds of drawings depicting life in Sugamo Prison and gave most of them to American jailors and fellow Japanese inmates. As…
Manufacturing Naxi’s original ecological culture in contemporary China
For over a decade, original ecological (yuanshengtai原生态) has contested ethnic (minzu) as an influential framework in representing minority folk culture in Chinese official and popular media. This article explores the ideological implications of such a shift in the context of state-minority relationships. By examining Han elites’ invention of the neologism and Naxi elites’ adaptations, I argue that YST transforms local ethnic categories into a tra…
Travel Along the Mobius Strip: Somerset Maugham and Gu Hongming East of Suez
During his 1919–20 trip to China, English writer Somerset Maugham paid a special visit to Gu Hongming, an Edinburgh-educated Chinese philosopher and so-called ‘Confucian Sage’. By exploring the enigmatic interactions between Maugham and Gu in the context of colonial travel, this article illustrates the important role of psychological projection in the exchanges among elite travellers during an age of empire. Beyond a simple Orientalist or Occiden…
Travel Along the Mobius Strip: Somerset Maugham and Gu Hongming East of Suez
During his 1919–20 trip to China, English writer Somerset Maugham paid a special visit to Gu Hongming, an Edinburgh-educated Chinese philosopher and so-called ‘Confucian Sage’. By exploring the enigmatic interactions between Maugham and Gu in the context of colonial travel, this article illustrates the important role of psychological projection in the exchanges among elite travellers during an age of empire. Beyond a simple Orientalist or Occiden…
Manufacturing Naxi’s original ecological culture in contemporary China
For over a decade, original ecological (yuanshengtai原生态) has contested ethnic (minzu) as an influential framework in representing minority folk culture in Chinese official and popular media. This article explores the ideological implications of such a shift in the context of state-minority relationships. By examining Han elites’ invention of the neologism and Naxi elites’ adaptations, I argue that YST transforms local ethnic categories into a tra…
Travel Along the Mobius Strip: Somerset Maugham and Gu Hongming East of Suez
During his 1919–20 trip to China, English writer Somerset Maugham paid a special visit to Gu Hongming, an Edinburgh-educated Chinese philosopher and so-called ‘Confucian Sage’. By exploring the enigmatic interactions between Maugham and Gu in the context of colonial travel, this article illustrates the important role of psychological projection in the exchanges among elite travellers during an age of empire. Beyond a simple Orientalist or Occiden…
Escaping Sugamo Prison with a no. 2 pencil: The drawings of Japanese war criminal Tobita Tokio
Tobita Tokio spent 10 years as war crimes suspect and convicted war criminal in Sugamo Prison, a facility recommissioned by American occupiers in 1945 as one element of a larger programme designed to refashion Japan into a more peaceful and cooperative member of the community of nations. From 1945 to 1955, Tobita produced hundreds of drawings depicting life in Sugamo Prison and gave most of them to American jailors and fellow Japanese inmates. As…
Manufacturing Naxi’s original ecological culture in contemporary China
For over a decade, original ecological (yuanshengtai原生态) has contested ethnic (minzu) as an influential framework in representing minority folk culture in Chinese official and popular media. This article explores the ideological implications of such a shift in the context of state-minority relationships. By examining Han elites’ invention of the neologism and Naxi elites’ adaptations, I argue that YST transforms local ethnic categories into a tra…
Jeep Girls and American GIs: Gendered Nationalism in Post-World War II China
Over a hundred thousand US servicemen were stationed in post-World War II China, resulting in the largest grassroots interactions in Sino-US history. Reexamining this unprecedented encounter in the context of American global military empire, this article investigates the sociocultural tensions caused by GIs' sexual relations with Chinese women between 1945 and 1949. While conservatives maligned "Jeep girls" out of racial and sexual anxieties, lib…
Occupational Hazard: American Servicemen’s Sensory Encounters with China, 1945–1949
In January 1947, William W. Lockwood, future president of the Association for Asian Studies, who had served for eighteen months as a U.S. Army officer in China, wrote that the “first venture in large scale American tourism in China” caused “many sour, even hostile, reactions to the Chinese.” He asked: Did millions of returned young GIs “gain a sympathetic and tolerant understanding of that world? Or were their home town prejudices simply confirme…
Rape in Peking: Injured woman, microhistory and global trial
In December 1946, college student Shen Chong was raped by an inebriated US Marine in Peking. Although the initial trial by the court martial in China found the Marine guilty, the verdict was overturned by Judge Advocate General of the Navy in Washington. Student protests quickly turned into a nationwide anti‐American movement. In contrast to previous studies that emphasise the event's political impacts from the perspective of American imperialism…
Uneasy Allies: Sino-American Relations at the Grassroots, 1937–1949
This timely collection of essays examines Sino-American relations during the Second World War, the Chinese Civil War and the opening of the Cold War. Drawing on new sources uncovered in China, Taiwan, the UK and the US, the authors demonstrate how 'grassroots' engagements - not just elite diplomacy - established the trans-Pacific networks that both shaped the postwar order in Asia, and continue to influence Sino-US relations today. In these cruci…
Everyday Occupation: American Soldiers and Chinese Civilians after World War II
'In this rich history of everyday encounters between US soldiers and Chinese civilians, Chunmei Du explores their entangled relations from the end of World War II to the founding of the People's Republic of China. Drawing upon official, popular and personal accounts from both countries, Du examines the sensorial, material, and symbolic exchanges that took place between GIs and ordinary Chinese people-stall vendors, pedestrians, rickshaw pullers, …
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · China (5 works) · History (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Japanese History and Culture (4 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (4 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (3 works)