Faculty Member Since 2014.
Yan Xu, Ph.D. is the eSpeman Online Program Director and Associate Professor of History.
Military history; women and gender; political Chinese history; Japanese history; women in China; women and war; world history; Asian history; history research methods; world wars in history and literature
Books
Xu, Yan. "The Soldier Image and State Building in Modern China," 1924-1945. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2019.
Xu, Yan, and Jeffrey Copeland, ed. "The YMCA at War: Collaboration and Conflict During the World Wars." Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018.
Book Chapters“Serving Our Wounded Heroes: Military Welfare Programs of the Chinese YMCA during the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945,” in The YMCA at War: Collaboration and Conflict During the World Wars, ed. Yan Xu and Jeffrey Copeland (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018).
Recipient of the 2019 Spelman Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarship