Louise Edwards

Biography

Louise Edwards is Emeritus Scientia Professor of Chinese History at UNSW, Sydney. She is also Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong’s School of Modern Languages and Cultures and the University of Technology of Sydney’s Australia-China Research Institute and a Senior Advisor to Asialink at Melbourne University. In 2022 she was appointed as Chair of the Advisory Board to the ANU’s China in the World Centre. Her most recent sole-authored books include Citizens of Beauty: Drawing Democratic Dreams in Republican China (Washington University Press, 2020), Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China (Cambridge University Press 2016), and Women Politics and Democracy: Women’s Suffrage in China (Stanford University Press 2008). She is a PhD graduate from Griffith University’s Division of Asian and International Studies. Louise served as both President and Secretary of the Asian Studies Association of Australia and on the executive of the Chinese Studies Association of Australia. She uses Modern Standard Chinese in her research.