Dorothy Y. Ko

Dorothy Ko (Chinese: 高彦頤; pinyin: Gāo Yànyí; born 1957) is a Professor of History and Women's Studies at the Barnard College[1] of Columbia University.[2] She is a historian of early modern China, known for her multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional research. As a historian of early modern China, she has endeavored to engage with the field of modern China studies; as a China scholar, she has always positioned herself within the study of women and gender and applied feminist approaches in her work; as a historian, she has ventured across disciplinary boundaries, into fields that include literature, visual and material culture, science and technology, as well as studies of fashion, the body and sexuality.[3]

Dorothy Y. Ko
高彦頤
Born1957 Edit this on Wikidata (age 66)
Employer
Awards

Prior to joining the faculty of Barnard and Columbia, Ko has taught at the University of California, San Diego and at Rutgers University. Ko's research has been supported by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, among others. She was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022.[4]

Education

Ko received secondary education at the Queen Elizabeth School, Hong Kong. She pursued university and doctoral education at Stanford University, where she received the B.A., M.A., and PhD degrees.

Works
  • Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China (Stanford University Press, 1994)[5]
  • Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet (University of California Press, 2001)[6]
  • Cinderella’s Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding (University of California Press, 2005).[7] This book is awarded the Joan Kelley Memorial prize from the American Historical Association for the best book on women's history or feminist theory published in the year.[8]
  • Women and Confucian cultures in pre-modern China, Korea, and Japan (University of California Press, 2003), co-edited by Ko, JaHyun Kim Haboush, and Joan R. Piggott[9]

References
  1. Barnard CV
  2. Columbia profile
  3. Asian Institute
  4. "New Members". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
  5. Reviews of Teachers of the Inner Chambers include:
    • Brokaw, Cynthia (December 1996). "Reviewed Work: Teachers of The Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China by Dorothy Ko". Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews. 18: 187–193. JSTOR 495632.
    • Dennerline, Jerry (June 1997). "Reviewed Work: Teachers of The Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China by Dorothy Ko". Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 57 (1): 220–228. JSTOR 2719367.
    • Taylor, Romeyn (1995). "Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China". History: Reviews of New Books. 24 (1): 41–42. doi:10.1080/03612759.1995.9949213.
    • Ebrey, Patricia (1998). "Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China (review)". China Review International. 2 (2): 492–498. doi:10.1353/cri.1995.0083.
  6. Reviews of Every Step a Lotus include:
    • Smith, Stephen R. (2002). "Review of EVERY STEP A LOTUS: Shoes for Bound Feet". Material Culture. 34 (2): 57–59. ISSN 0883-3680. JSTOR 29764163.
    • Dauncey, Sarah (2003). "Review of Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 66 (1): 131–132. ISSN 0041-977X. JSTOR 4145732.
  7. Reviews of Cinderella’s Sisters include:
    • Ropp, Paul S. (2006). "2". China Review International. 13 (2): 305–311. doi:10.1353/cri.2008.0055.
    • Asim, Ina (2007). "Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding. By Dorothy Ko. (Berkeley and Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. xix, 332. $29.95.)". The Historian. 69 (3): 572–574. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.2007.00189_46.x.
    • Furth, Charlotte (March 2007). "Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding. DOROTHY KO. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005. xix + 332 pp. £18.95. ISBN 0-520-21884-1". The China Quarterly. 189: 219–220. doi:10.1017/S0305741006001159.
    • Evans, Harriet (October 2007). "DOROTHY KO. Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2005. Pp. xix, 332. $29.95". The American Historical Review. 112 (7): 1118–1120. doi:10.1086/ahr.112.4.1118.
  8. Le, Huy Anh S. (2014). "Revisiting Footbinding: The Evolution of the Body as Method in Modern Chinese History". Inquiries Journal. 6 (10).
  9. Lee, Lily Xiao Hong (2004). "Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan, and: Images of Women in Chinese Thought and Culture: Writings from the Pre-Qin Period through the Song Dynasty (review)". China Review International. 11 (1): 15–21. doi:10.1353/cri.2005.0024.
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