Emeritus Professor Louise Edwards
FAHA, FASSA, FHKAH
Louise Edwards is Scientia Professor of Chinese History. She publishes on women and gender in China and Asia. Her most recent books include (Washington University Press, 2020),聽 (Stanford University Press 2008) and (Cambridge University Press 2016). Edwards is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities. Between 2015-2016 she served as聽.
She has taught at a number聽of universities: The University of Hong Kong, University of Technology Sydney, Australian National University, Australian Catholic University and the University of Queensland, and held a visiting fellowship at the Centre for Chinese Studies at the National Central Library in聽Taipei. She studied at the Beijing Languages Institute and Nanjing University and was聽awarded her BA from Auckland University, BA (hons) from Murdoch University, and聽PhD from Griffith University.
Edwards currently holds Honorary Professorships at Hong Kong University, UTS-ACRI, and University of Melbourne.
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Edwards was President of the Asian Studies Association of Australia in 2015 and 2016. She has been elected as a fellow of the Australian Humanities Academy, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities.
A reflection on 100 Years of the USA's Women's Suffrage Movement -- at HKU's Gender Studies Program -- A conversation with Brenda Rodreguez Alegre, Louise Edwards and Martha S. Jones
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The event was co-organised by the Committee on Gender Equality and Diversity and the Gender Studies Programme at the University of Hong Kong,聽with聽the support聽of the U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong and Macau, the University of Hong Kong Libraries, and the HKU American Studies Programme, School of Modern Languages and Cultures.