Guest

Dr. Jennifer Altehenger

10.04.2023 - 21.04.2023

Contemporary History

  • Guest Researcher

    Research topic at the GWZO:
    Furnishing the World? Chinese Design, Industry and Trade between East and West

  • Institution

    Merton College, University of Oxford, Great Britain

  • Research region

    China (in relations to and with Eastern Bloc countries)

  • Research focuses

    • History of material culture and industry
    • trans-national exchanges across socialist countries
    • social and cultural history

  • Publications (selection)

    • Legal Lessons: Popularizing Laws in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1989. Harvard University Press/Harvard University Asia Cen-tre, 2018. Paperback 2021.
    • ‘Modelling Modular Living: Furniture and Life magazine and interior design in 1980s China’, Journal of Design History, Vol. 35, Iss. 2 (June 2022): 151-167.
    • ‘Bamboo Objects and Socialist Construction’, in Jennifer Altehenger and Denise Y. Ho (eds.), Material Contradictions in Mao's China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022.
    • ‘Industrial and Chinese: Exhibiting Mao’s China at the Leipzig Trade Fairs’, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 55, Iss. 4 (Oct 2020): 845-870.
    • ‘On Difficult New Terms: the Business of Lexi-cography in Mao Era China’. Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 51, No. 3 (May 2017): 622-661.

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