American historian
Gordon Hsiao-shu Chang (simplified Chinese: 张少书; traditional Chinese: 張少書; pinyin: Zhāng Shàoshū; born 1948) is an American historian and writer. He is a professor and vice provost at Stanford University.
Early life and education
Born in British Hong Kong,[1] Chang earned a degree in history from Princeton University. Chang earned his PhD in history from Stanford University.[2][3]
Career
In 1991, Chang joined Stanford University. Chang is the Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities and a professor of American history at Stanford University. Chang's academic interests lie in the connection between race and ethnicity in America, and American foreign relations. Chang has written on Asian-American history and US–East Asian interactions, and he also researches the fields of US diplomacy, the US-Soviet Cold War, modern China, and international security.
In 1990, Chang published his first book Friends and Enemies: The United States, China and the Soviet Union, 1948-1972.[6][7] In 1997, Chang's second book was Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Wartime Writing, 1942-1945, about a Japanese-American professor at Stanford University who was interned during the war.[7] Chang's other books include Asian Americans and Politics: An Exploration (2001), Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present (2006), Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 (2008), and Fateful Ties: A History of America's Preoccupation with China (2015).
In 2015, Chang was inducted as a member of Committee of 100,[8] a leadership organization of Chinese Americans in business, government, academia and the arts whose stated aim is "to encourage constructive relations between the peoples of the United States and Greater China."[9]
In April 2019, Chang became a senior associate vice provost for undergraduate education at Stanford University.[3]
