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Acknowledgements
I am deeply grateful to my advisor, Ann Waltner, for being my mentor during my six-year PhD study in the history department at the University of Minnesota. Ann is a serious scholar and a caring advisor. She has provided the best advice and encouragement at every stage. I will never forget how she went the extra mile to help me secure scholarship and research funds at a time when budget cuts were affecting many departments and graduates. She introduced me so that I could present my early work at the Comparative Women's History Workshop in the history department and helped me to learn how to appreciate, accept, and absorb critical comments. I had the opportunity to participate in graduate seminars from Christopher Isett, Wang Liping, Elyssa Faison, David Tucker, and Sara Evans. Those stimulating sessions set the intellectual foundation of my career as a historian. Isett's theoretical approach in teaching and research has both challenged and inspired me. I also benefited from working as a research assistant to Erika Lee, which gave me an opportunity to observe how a brilliant young professional published her first book.