Public Lecture – Chinese Jeep Girls and American Soldiers (Prof. Chunmei Du, Associate Professor, Lingnan University)
KB132Between 1945 and 1949, up to 113,000 American soldiers were stationed in China for various missions. This talk analyzes the vibrant debate over “Jeep girls” (吉普女郎), a term coined to describe Chinese females who socialized, sometimes intimately, with American soldiers during and after World War II, revealing key features of gendered Chinese nationalism. Dr. Chunmei Du is […]