美国学者曼素恩Susan Mann)多年来从事中国明清史、妇女史与社会性别史的研究,现为美国戴维斯加州大学历史系教授,代表性著作有《缀珍录:十八世纪及其前后的中国妇女》(Precious Record:Women in China’s Long Eigteen Century)①和《张家才女》(The TalentedWomen of the Zhang Family)。其《缀珍录》作为海外社会性别研究的一部力作,曾获美国亚洲研究会Levenson(利文森)奖,被誉为近年来研究中国妇女史和社会性别史最重 Susan Mann, an American scholar, has been studying the history of the Ming and Qing dynasties in China, women’s history and gender history for many years. Now she is a professor of history at the University of California, Davis. Her representative works include “Zhen Zhen Lu: The 18th Century The Precious Record: Women in China’s Long Eigteen Century ”and The Talented Women’s the Zhang Family. As a masterpiece of overseas gender research, the “Zhenzheng Lu” has won the Levenson Award of the Asian American Studies Society and is honored as the most important study of the history of Chinese women and gender history in recent years