Bio

I am interested in several different areas of history, including the historical connections between race and ethnicity in America, on the one hand, and foreign relations, on the other, and trans-Pacific relations in their diplomatic as well as their cultural and social dimensions. I have written and continue to publish in the areas of U.S. diplomacy, America-China relations, the Chinese diaspora, Asian American history, and global history. My most recent books have examined the history of Chinese railroad workers in America in the 19th century.

I continue to work with undergraduates, master’s students, and doctoral students.

Academic Appointments

  • Professor, History

Administrative Appointments

  • Senior Associate Vice Provost, VPUE (2019 - 2022)

Honors & Awards

  • Fellow, Society of American Historians (current)
  • Stanford Alumni University Fellow, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (current)
  • Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center (1993-1994, 2002-2003, 2010-2011)
  • Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies (1999-2000)
  • Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (1999-2000)

Program Affiliations

  • American Studies
  • Center for East Asian Studies
  • Modern Thought and Literature

Professional Education

  • Ph.D, Stanford
  • B.A., Princeton

Contact

  • Academic
    gchang@stanford.edu
    University - Faculty Department: History Department Position: Professor
    • BLDG 200 RM 209
    • Stanford,  California  94305-2024 
    (650) 725-0597 (fax)

Additional Info

  • Mail Code: 2024

Links

Current Research and Scholarly Interests

I co-direct an international project that seeks to recover the history of Chinese railroad workers in North America.

2024-25 Courses

Stanford Advisees

All Publications

  • Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad Chang, G. H. 2019
  • The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad edited by Chang, G. H., Fishkin, S. F. Stanford University Press. 2019
  • Fateful Ties: A History of America's Preoccupation with China Chang, G. H. Harvard University Press. 2015
  • Asian American Art History: 1850-1970 edited by Chang, G. H. Stanford University Press. 2008
  • Chinese American Voices edited by Chang, G. H. UC Press. 2006
  • Asian Americans and Politics: Perspectives, Experiences, Prospects edited by Chang, G. H. Woodrow Wilson Center and Stanford Univ. Press. 2001
  • Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: The Wartime Writings of Yamato Ichihashi Chang, G. H. Stanford University Press. 1996
  • Friends and Enemies: The United States, China, and the Soviet Union 1948-1972 Chang, G. H. Stanford. 1990
  • A 'New Normal' or Returning to the 'Old Normal': Deteriorating US<i>-</i> China Relations, Chinese Americans, and the Future JOURNAL OF CHINESE OVERSEAS Chang, G. H. 2024; 20 (1): 42-49

    View details for DOI 10.1163/17932548-12341504

    View details for Web of Science ID 001258122400006

  • Foothills CALIFORNIA HISTORY Chang, G. H. 2019; 96 (2): 105–8

    View details for DOI 10.1525/ch.2019.96.2.105

    View details for Web of Science ID 000475549300011

  • A Note for History INTRODUCTION AMERASIA JOURNAL Chang, G. H. 2019; 45 (1): 3–5

    View details for DOI 10.1080/00447471.2019.1627115

    View details for Web of Science ID 000484363000002

  • The Chinese and the Stanfords: Nineteenth-Century America's Fraught Relationship with the China Men AMERASIA JOURNAL Chang, G. H. 2019; 45 (1): 86–102

    View details for DOI 10.1080/00447471.2019.1611344

    View details for Web of Science ID 000484363000007

  • ghosts of gold mountain: the epic story of the chinese who built the transcontinental railroad Chang, G. H. 2019
  • Gordon H. Chang AMERASIA JOURNAL Chang, G. H. 2018; 44 (3): 133–35

    View details for Web of Science ID 000466246900015

  • The Many Sides of Happy Lim: aka Hom Ah Wing, Lin Jian Fu, Happy Lum, Lin Chien Fu, Hom Yen Chuck, Lam Kin Foo, Lum Kin Foo, Hom, Lim Goon Wing, Lim Gin Foo, Gin Foo Lin, Koon Wing Lim, Henry Chin, Lim Ying Chuck, Lim Ah Wing, et. al. AMERASIA JOURNAL Chang, G. H. 2008; 34 (2): 70-98

    View details for Web of Science ID 000260904300008

  • Remembering Yuji - Yugi Ichioka AMERASIA JOURNAL Chang, G. H. 2002; 28 (3): IX-XIV

    View details for Web of Science ID 000228551800003

  • Writing the history of Chinese immigrants to America SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY Chang, G. H. 1999; 98 (1-2): 135-142

    View details for Web of Science ID 000084801800009

  • HISTORY AND POSTMODERNISM AMERASIA JOURNAL Chang, G. H. 1995; 21 (1-2): 89-93

    View details for Web of Science ID A1995RR43300008

  • TO THE NUCLEAR BRINK - EISENHOWER, DULLES, AND THE QUEMOY-MATSU CRISIS INTERNATIONAL SECURITY Chang, G. H. 1988; 12 (4): 96-123

    View details for Web of Science ID A1988M452300005

  • JFK, CHINA, AND THE BOMB JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY Chang, G. H. 1988; 74 (4): 1287-1310

    View details for Web of Science ID A1988M690300005

  • A SYMPOSIUM ON MARXISM IN CHINA TODAY - COMMENTS BULLETIN OF CONCERNED ASIAN SCHOLARS Chang, G. 1988; 20 (1): 26-27

    View details for Web of Science ID A1988P166800009