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Dorothy Ko
Professor
Columbia University
History, Barnard College |
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Biography
Dorothy
Ko, a native of Hong Kong, received her B.A., M.A.,
and Ph.D. from Stanford University. A cultural historian
of early modern China, she taught at the University
of California at San Diego and Rutgers University before
joining Barnard. Her first monograph, Teacher of the
Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century
China (Stanford, 1994), deconstructs the modern nationalist
myth of women-as-victims in traditional China. In her
second book, Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet
(California, 2001), she experiments with using material
culture—embroidered slippers in this case—to
reconstruct social history. A recent monograph, Cinderella’s
Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding (California,
2005), concludes her investigations into the relationship
between the body, language, and historical reality.
She has won a Guggenheim Fellowship and an appointment
at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton for her
current research projects on textiles, fashion, and
women’s handwork. | |
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