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Margaret Mih Tillman

Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Mid career · publishing since 2009
Chinese history and philosophyVietnamese History and Culture StudiesHistorical Gender and Feminism StudiesHistorical Studies and Socio-cultural AnalysisJapanese History and Culture

Publications

34

Citations

83

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

16

Publishing since 2009

Research summary
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Margaret Mih Tillman is a historian who studies childhood, motherhood, and gender in modern China, particularly during the early twentieth century through the Communist revolutionary period. Her work examines how children were raised, mobilized, and imagined by reformers, missionaries, and revolutionaries, drawing on case studies like child welfare contests, collective childcare, and youth mobilization campaigns. Her book 'Raising China's Revolutionaries' traces how ideas about childhood shaped nationalist and communist politics from the 1920s to 1950s.

History of childhood and children in ChinaGender and motherhood in modern Chinese historyPolitical mobilization of youth in revolutionary ChinaMissionary and religious influences on Chinese societyComparative East Asian social and cultural history

Publication output peaked in 2018 with a cluster of book-related works, then slowed considerably, averaging fewer than one publication per year over the last five years.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 0.6/year recently
2017: 1 publication172018: 8 publications8182019: 2 publications192020: 4 publications20212022: 2 publications22232024: 1 publication242526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Columbia University Press eBooks×6
  • University of Hawaii Press eBooks×2
  • The Journal of Asian Studies×2
  • European Journal of East Asian Studies×1
  • Modern Asian Studies×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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