Qian Zhu

Her research focus on history of twentieth-century China, specializing in the intellectual, socio-cultural, and transnational history of grassroots politics, movements, and nation-building. Her teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include common core course China in the world, history of pre-modern and modern China, and internationalization of modern China, as well as senior seminar of Global China Studies major. Dr. Zhu is also a recipient of an Apereo Atlas Teaching Award for his work on the DKU core course China in the World and a recipient of the Excellent Mentorship Award of Center of Contemporary China Studies at DKU. She is also the PI of the research lab—(post)modernity and China, which focuses on the comparative and transnational histories and theories of modernity and  has published a special issue on China’s modernization since the 19^th century.

She has co-edited and published two special issues in leading academic journals including Villages Make the City: Displacement, Dispossession, and Class in China’s Urban Villages (positions: asia critique) and The Modern Questions: China and Beyond, (Journal of Chinese History Review). She also published peer-reviewed articles in leading journals in Chinese history and Asian studies including China and Asia: A Journal in Historical Studies, International Journal of Asian Studies, and International Journal of Gender and Women’s Studies. Her first book is “Everyday Leftism, Mass Democracy, and National Salvation in Republican China, 1919-1946,” currently under review. Her second book project is on China’s grassroot and state community-building and housing projects in the Republican era. She serves as book and article manuscript reviewer for Routledge, Leiden, positions: asia critique, and Twentieth-Century China, and The Journal of Chinese History and has been a longstanding member of several esteemed academic organizations, including the American Historical Association (AHA), the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), the World History Association (WHA), ASIANetwork, and the Association for Cultural Studies (ACS).

Zhu has a B.A. and M.A in history from Shandong University, China, and a Ph.D from University of New York. Before joining Duke Kunshan, she was assistant professor of Asian history and Chinese at Wabash College and a Global Fellow at NYU-Shanghai.

朱倩博士的研究聚焦二十世纪中国史，专攻基层政治、社会运动与民族国家建构的思想史、社会文化史及跨国史研究。在昆山杜克大学，她的授课领域包括核心通识课程“世界中的中国”、中国古代与近现代史、近代中国国际化进程，以及全球中国研究专业的高年级研讨课。朱教授还因其在杜克大学核心课程”世界中的中国”中的教学工作，荣获Apereo Atlas教学奖。她还获评昆山杜克大学当代中国研究中心优秀导师奖。她同时负责昆杜（后）现代性与中国研究室的工作。此研究室致力于现代性理论与历史的研究，特别是中国自19世纪以来的现代化的研究成果已以专题出版。

她曾合作主编并发表两期权威学术期刊专题：包括《村庄筑就城市：中国城中村的迁移、征用与阶级问题》（positions: asia critique，杜克大学出版社，2022年）及《现代之问：中国与更广阔世界》（《中国历史学刊》，泰勒-弗朗西斯出版集团，2025年）。此外，她在《中国与亚洲：历史研究学刊》《国际亚洲研究学刊》《国际性别与妇女研究学刊》等中国史与亚洲研究领域知名期刊发表多篇同行评审论文。其首部专著《日常左翼、大众民主与救亡图存：中华民国时期（1919-1946）》正处于评审阶段，第二部书稿专注于民国时期基层与国家社区建设及住房项目。她担任劳特里奇出版社、莱顿大学出版社、《亚洲批判》《二十世纪中国》《中国历史学刊》等机构的书稿与论文评审人，并长期是美国历史学会、亚洲研究协会、世界史协会、亚洲研究学术联盟、文化研究协会等多个权威学术组织的成员。

朱博士于山东大学取得历史学学士与硕士学位之后，在纽约大学取得了历史学博士学位。再加入昆杜之前，她担任瓦百士大学亚洲研究与中文的助理教授，并在纽约大学上海分校担任“全球学者”进行教学研究工作。