Ph.D., History, University of California, Santa Cruz

M.A., History, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.A., History, Nankai University, China

Xiaofei Gao is a historian of modern China with research interests in social and labor history, gender and sexuality, environmental history, and transnational and global history. She is currently working on a book manuscript that studies fisheries and the social revolution in twentieth-century China. Before joining CU Denver in 2020, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Asia Center at Harvard University and faculty at Mount Holyoke College.

Professor Gao has been awarded a Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowship in China Studies and is on research leave in 2023-2024.

HIST 3470: Intro East Asia: Since 1800 

HIST 4421/5421: Modern China

HIST 4420/5420: Traditional China 

HIST 6931: Global Labor 

INTS 2020: Foundations of International Studies 

“Making a Coastal Revolution: Farmers, Fishers, and Socialism, 1946–1959.” Twentieth-Century China 48, no. 1 (2023): 3-22. doi:10.1353/tcc.2023.0001.

"Seaweed modernity: Empire, state, and the Sino-Japanese relations" Coastal Studies & Society, 2023, 2(3), 295-310 https://doi.org/10.1177/26349817231189969

“Yellow Sea Studies: Toward a cross-cultural and transboundary approach,” Co-authored with Young Rae Choi and Ronald C. Po, Coastal Studies & Society, 2023, 2(3), 263-273. https://doi.org/10.1177/26349817231191307

“Life and Death in the Fisheries of Northeastern China, 1905-1907,” in Still Facing East: International Scholars on Japanese Culture (Kraków: Wydawnictwo Nowa Strona, 2016), 21-31.

Chinese translation of Gail Hershatter, “中国农村妇女经历过革命吗?今天还剩下什么?” [Did Rural Chinese Women Have a Revolution? If So, What Remains?] 近代中国妇 女史研究 [Research on Women in Modern Chinese History], 26, (December 2015), 193-210.

Co-authored with Li Shaobing, “从“施善教化”到“教育救济”——20世纪上半叶京津善堂善 举的转型”[From Moral Instruction to Educational Relief: Transformation of Charitable Institutions in the Cities of Beijing and Tianjin in the Early Twentieth Century], 历史档案 [Historical Archives] (Beijing: The First Historical Archives of China, Vol. 115, 2009), 97-103.