Margaret Kuo
Title:
Professor
Credentials:
BA, MA, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
JD, Georgetown University Law Center
Contact Information:
Email: margaret.kuo@csulb.edu
Office: FO2-205
Bio:
Margaret Kuo is a Professor of History at CSULB and affiliated faculty . She is the author of Intolerable Cruelty: Marriage, Law, and Society in Early Twentieth-Century China. Her current research project examines the history of Asian American women and the law.
Publications:
“Zheng Yuxiu and the Diplomacy of Chinese Nationalism and Feminism.” In Portraits of Women in International Law: New Names and Forgotten Faces. Edited by Immi Tallgren (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023).https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198868453.003.0035
Book Review. American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship by Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas 2020). California History vol. 100, no. 2 (Summer 2023):115-117.https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.2.115
“‘Pagan Babies:’ Orphan Imagery in the Passionist China Collection and the Emergence of American Sympathy for the Chinese in the Early Twentieth Century,” Chinese Historical Review vol. 26, no. 2 (2019): 128-155.DOI: 10.1080/1547402X.2019.1757212
“China through the Magic Lantern: Passionist Father Theophane Maguire and American Catholic Missionary Images of China in the Early Twentieth Century,” U.S. Catholic Historian vol. 34, no. 2 (Spring 2016): 27-42. DOI:10.1353/cht.2016.0014
Review Essay. “Gender and the Politics of Female Infanticide and Prostitution Regulation,” Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review E-Journal No. 13 (December 2014). Reviewing Michelle T. King, Between Birth and Death: Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China (Stanford University Press 2014) and Elizabeth J. Remick, Regulating Prostitution in China: Gender and Local Statebuilding, 1900-1937 (Stanford University Press 2014). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4bk486j9
Intolerable Cruelty: Marriage, Law, and Society in Early Twentieth-Century China (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012). https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442218420.
“Spousal Abuse: Divorce Litigation and the Emergence of Rights Consciousness in Republican China,” Modern China vol. 38, no. 5 (September 2012): 523-558.https://doi.org/10.1177/0097700412456170
“The Construction of Gender in Modern Chinese Law: Discrepant Gender Meanings in the Republican Civil Code,” Frontiers of History in China vol. 7, no.2 (June 2012): 282-309. DOI: 10.3868/s020-001-012-0015-6
“The Legislative Process in Republican China: The 1930 Nationalist Family Law and the Controversy over Surnames for Married Women,” Twentieth-Century China vol. 36, no. 1 (January 2011): 44-66.https://doi.org/10.1179/152153810X12925963452781