Fang Yu Hu is an assistant professor of History at Cal Poly Pomona who specializes in modern East Asian history, with a focus on Taiwan, gender, colonialism, and cross-border flows. She received her B.A. in history from UC Berkeley, M.A. in social sciences from the University of Chicago, and M.A. and Ph.D. in history from UC Santa Cruz. Before arriving at Cal Poly Pomona, Dr. Hu taught various East Asian and world history courses at Santa Clara University for a year and at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga for eight years. She enjoys teaching courses on the modern world, ancient to contemporary China and Japan, gender and sexuality in modern East Asia, and World War II Memories in East Asia with attention to Okinawa (Ryukyus) and Taiwan. Dr. Hu has published in the journals ERAS of Monash University and Twentieth-Century China. Her first book, Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls under Japanese Rule (University of Washington Press, 2024), examines the discourse, implementation, and impact of Japanese colonial education on Han Taiwanese girls in 20th-century Taiwan. Her current research focuses on Taiwanese migrants to mainland China and Southeast Asia in the first half of the 20th century.
