Xiaoping CongXiaoping Cong is a scholar of late imperial and twentieth-century China. Her previous book, Teachers' Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State, 1897–1937 (2007), was awarded a prize from the Chinese Historians in the United States soiety (CHUS) in 2008. Professor Cong has published a number of refereed journal articles and book chapters in both English and Chinese in the United States, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia and the Netherlands. She has also received several prestigious research grants, from Fulbright (2008–9), ACLS (2008–9) and AHA (2006). She was the President of the CHUS from 2011 to 2013, and is currently the secretary-treasurer (2014–16) of the Historical Society of Twentieth-Century China (HSTCC). Read More Read Less