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7704 HUMANITIES SOCSCI
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Bell, Lynda S

Associate Professor of History

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

History


Biography

Lynda Bell was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and spent much of her youth figuring out how she could get to a more glamorous locale. After living in New Haven, Connecticut; Upsala, Sweden; Los Angeles; Nanjing and Beijing in the People's Republic of China; Taibei, Taiwan; and Chicago, she has finally decided to settle down in Riverside. She arrived at UCR in the fall of 1989, after spending six years teaching at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research interests and publications focus on the social and economic history of late nineteenth and early twentieth century China. Her plans for future research include a study of women, local courts, and family law in early twentieth-century China. She was the Director of the University of California Center in Beijing, China from 1999 to 2002.

Former Institution

University of Illinois, Chicago

Degrees

PhD Modern Chinese History 1985

UCLA

BA Asian Studies/History 1970

Washington University

Awards

1997 National Endowment for the Humanities
1997 NEH Summer Seminar Fellow, Columbia University
1986-87 NEH Fellowship for Independent Study & Research
1986 National Endowment for the Humanities


Research Area

modern Chinese History, with emphasis on social and economic history

Publications

She has published a book entitled One Industry, Two Chinas: Silk Filatures and Peasant-Family Production in Wuxi County, 1865-1937 (Stanford University Press, 1999), a study of interrelationships between social/political events and modern silk industry development in Wuxi county.