Xiaofei Kang Bio

Xiaofei Kang has a B.A and M.A in Chinese language and literature from Beijing University and a Ph.D. in Chinese History from Columbia University. Prior to coming to Carnegie Mellon, she taught history at St. Mary's College of Maryland. She emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches in her research. Her first book, The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China, combines the disciplines of ethnography, literature, and cultural history to examine the relationship among religion, gender, and power. Her current research examines gender and religious power in conjunction with ethnicity and modernity in twentieth-century and contemporary China.

	*Xiaofei Kang, Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies*
	Xiaofei Kang has a B.A and M.A in Chinese language and literature from Beijing University and a Ph.D. in Chinese History from Columbia University. Prior to coming to Carnegie Mellon, she taught history at St. Mary's College of Maryland. She emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches in her research. Her first book, The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China, combines the disciplines of ethnography, literature, and cultural history to examine the relationship among religion, gender, and power. Her current research examines gender and religious power in conjunction with ethnicity and modernity in twentieth-century and contemporary China.