Amanda Zhang

Amanda Zhang is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the History Department at Stanford university, specializing in the history of Franco-Chinese relations in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Her research explores the intersections between the French empire and Qing frontier history. Her past and current work focuses on the making of the Yunnan-Haiphong railway, bringing together strands of French imperial expansionism, late Qing modernization and local activism. Expanding on her interests in transimperial studies, her project will investigate the interplay of race & ethnicity, gender, and religion in the context of French missionary activities on Qing imperial borderlands.