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Professor Emily Hill is a specialist on the history of China during the twentieth century. Her main area of research has been China’s political and economic development during the period 1931-58. Her new project on the political economy of agriculture examines land reform programs in relation to the industrialization of agriculture in mainland China and Taiwan since the 1950s.
Selected Publications
Chiang Kai-shek's Critical Years, 1935-50
University of British Columbia Press
2025
Smokeless Sugar: The death of a provincial bureaucrat and the construction of China's national economy
University of British Columbia Press
2010
Recent work
- Smokeless Sugar: The death of a provincial bureaucrat and the construction of China's national economy. University of British Columbia Press, 2010. For the Introduction and a sample chapter, visit:
- "War, disunity, and state building in China, 1912–1949." Twentieth-Century China 47.1 (2022): 20-29.
- Chiang Kai-shek's Critical Years, 1935-50. University of British Columbia Press, 2025. .
Graduate supervision
Professor Hill supervises MA and PhD students working on the history of China since the late nineteenth century.
