Dr. Usha Chandran

Usha Chandran, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University and Honorary Fellow, at the Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi. She holds a PhD in Chinese on Gender issues in China from JNU. Her major research interests include gender issues in China and comparison with India, interface between gender and language as well as popular culture, women’s subjectivity in literature, and exploring Sociological methodologies to study the Chinese society. Major publications include book chapters and journal articles; Changing Image of Women in India and China - Drawing a few Parallels and Differences (in Chinese, 2013), Whatever Happened to Lu Xun’s Nora (in Chinese, 2016), A Women’s World (2010), Women’s Share in the Sky at the 19th Party Congress (2019), The Masked Gendered Profile of the World Exposed During the Covid-19 Era: Comparing China and India (2020), Gendered Governance: Is China Taking a U-Turn to Solve the Problem Left-Over by Women’s Liberation Movement; The Left-Over Women?(2022) and One Movement Illuminating Another: The Birth of 'New Women' from within the ‘May Fourth Movement’(2023). She is currently working on an authored book titled, Gender Discrimination at Work in Urban China, and an edited volume on Gender in Language and Expression, both accepted for publication by Routledge.