#340 Melanie Meng Xue: Economics And Gender In Imperial And Modern China
RECORDED ON April 16th, 2020.
Dr. Melanie Meng Xue is assistant professor in the Social Science Division at New York University in Abu Dhabi. Her research lies at the intersection of economic history and political economy. She has studied the rise of gender-equitable beliefs and the deterioration of civil society in the context of imperial China. By tracing the impact of historical events over time and in various institutional settings, her work isolates the role of values, beliefs and norms in shaping economic and political disparities. Another strand of Dr. Meng Xue’s research concerns the decoding of folklore and mythology as a new approach to understanding historical values.
In this episode, we talk about how to study values, beliefs, and norms, and how they change over time, from a historical perspective. We go through the example of the history of China, and the transition from imperial China to communist China and State capitalist China, and we focus mostly on how gender beliefs changed over time.
Time Links:
Studying China’s history of values, beliefs, and norms
What are values, beliefs, and norms?
What can we learn from folklore and mythology?
The role of institutions
On imperial China, its politics, economics, and social factors
Economic inequality in the history of China
Gender values in China, and how they changed over time
Follow Dr. Xue’ work!
Follow Dr. Xue’ work:
Faculty page: http://bit.ly/37QSvCK
Website: http://bit.ly/35EmvjZ
Papers on ResearchGate: https://bit.ly/3afzpXU
Twitter handle: @Melanie_Xue