Kong Yuye

Kong Yuye holds a bachelor degree in Literature and Philosophy and a Master of Journalism from Peking University. She is interested in media, technology and gender in 20th century China and has published “8 March Restaurant” Blossoming with Flowers of Innovation: Women and Technical Labor During the Great Leap Forward the politics of technology and women’s liberation in socialism. In her research, she focused on women and textile in the Chinese revolution, as well as the dissemination, reform and practice of textile technology at Chinese borders, exploring the gender aspect of political revolution in socialism through the lens of vernacular textile. She is a journalist and an editor.