Xiaofei Kang

	Rank:		Assistant Professor of Chinese
	Ph.D.		Columbia University
	Department Member Since: 2006

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, sheI 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.

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Xiaofei Kang
Department of Modern Languages
Carnegie Mellon University
Baker Hall 160
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Office: BH 154f
Phone: (412) 268-1971
Fax: (412) 268-1328
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