Norman Smith
Campus: Guelph
Office: 2017 MacKinnon Extension
Email: nsmith06@uoguelph.ca
My main research area is modern Chinese history, with a focus on the Northeast and women. I am especially interested in supervising studies on Asian history, imperialism, women and gender, popular culture, and alcohol and other drugs.
To date, my most important scholarly contribution is the book Resisting Manchukuo: Chinese Women Writers and the Japanese Occupation, but my research has also been published in various journals including Modern China, Journal of Women’s History, Modern Asian Studies, Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, and Journal of the History of Sexuality.
I have published work in Chinese, most notably in the books Zhang Quan, ed. Kang-Ri zhanzheng shiqi lunxianqu shiliao yu yanjiu, di’yi ji (Studies of the Occupied Areas During the Anti-Japanese War, Volume 1) and Hou Jianfei, ed. Mei Niang jin zuo ji shujian (Mei Niang: Recent Writings and Correspondence).
My current SSHRC-funded research project, “Addictions on the Northern Frontier,” analyses discourses of alcohol and opiate addiction in North China during the first half of the twentieth century.