Limin Teh
University Lecturer Modern Chinese History
- Name
- Dr. L.M. Teh
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 5915
- l.m.teh@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-8661-047X
Limin Teh (PhD, Chicago, 2014) is University Lecturer in Modern Chinese History at Leiden University. Her research examines industrial work, capital, and empire in modern East Asia, with a focus on mining, global labor standards, and reproductive labor.
More information about Limin Teh
PhD candidates
Fields of interest
Global labor history; Political economy of labor; Empire and colonial modernity; Modern Chinese and East Asian history; Reproductive and affective labor; Transnational circulations of capital and labor.
Research
Limin Teh (PhD, University of Chicago, 2014) is University Lecturer in Modern Chinese History at Leiden University. Her research examines industrial work, capital, and empire in modern East Asia, with a focus on mining, global labor standards, and reproductive labor.
Her first book, Laboring for Coal: A History of Chinese Mining Labor in Fushun Coalmine, 1900–1950 (forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan), analyzes coal extraction, labor regimes, and Japanese colonial power in Northeast China. She has also published on wage systems, labor contractors, and China’s engagement with the International Labour Organization in the early twentieth century.
Her current projects extend this research in two directions: one investigates the circulation of labor regulations and international labor standards in East Asia, and the other develops the concept of “archives of care” to explore how migrant workers create solidarity through affective labor and everyday practices of care.
Her work has appeared in International Review of Social History and International Labor and Working-Class History, among other venues. She serves on the editorial committee of the International Review of Social History and is associate editor of Humanities & Social Sciences Communications.
At Leiden, she teaches courses on modern Chinese and East Asian history, labor and political economy, and supervises BA and MA theses across Chinese Studies, International Studies, and Asian Studies.
Education
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Ph.D. in Modern Chinese History, The University of Chicago (2014)
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M.A. in International Relations, The University of Chicago (2005)
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M.A. in Library Science, Rutgers University (2000)
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A.B. in Growth and Structure of Cities, Bryn Mawr College (1998)
Employment
Lecturer in Modern Chinese History, Leiden University (since 2014)
Key publications
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“Labor Control and Mobility in Japanese-controlled Fushun Coalmine, 1905-1932,” International Review of Social History (December 2015).
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“From Company Town to Industrial City: The South Manchuria Railway Company in Fushun, China,” in Marcelo J. Borges and Susana B. Torres, ed., Company Towns: Historical Studies in Global Perspective. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Teaching
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BA1 Chinese Studies: Modern Chinese History
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BA2 Chinese Studies: Work and Workers in Twentieth century China
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BA3 Chinese Studies: Imperialism and Nationalism in Modern Chinese History
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BAIS History: East Asia
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MA Asian Studies: The State in Modern Chinese History
University Lecturer Modern Chinese History
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- SAS China
- Teh L.M. (2023), Review of: Goodman B. (2021), The suicide of Miss Xi: democracy and disenchantment in the Chinese Republic. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. NAN NÜ: Men, Women and Gender in Early and Imperial China 24(2): 334-337.
- Teh L.M. (2023), Enumerating fairness: wages and labour contractors in pre-1949 China. In: Asta M. & Pinto P. (Eds.), The value of work since the 18th century: custom, conflict, measurement and theory. London: Bloomsbury Academic. 145-162.
- Money D.J. & Teh L.M. (2022), Race at work: a comparative history of mining labor and empire on the Central African Copperbelt and the Fushun coalfields, ca. 1907-1945, International Labor and Working-Class History 101: 100-117.
- Teh L.M. (2022), Geopolitics, coal production, and labor processes in the Fushun coalmine, 1946-1948. In: Moll-Murata C. (Ed.), Northeast Asia in focus: life, work and industry between the Steppe and the Metropoles, 1900-2020: essays in commemoration of Flemming Christiansen's retirement: Festschrift. Working papers on East Asian Studies no. 131. Duisburg 45-52.
- Teh L.M. (2022), 1975 - Administrative Districts of China: The Everyday Nationalism of School Maps. In: Storms M., Richard A.I., Schrikker. A., Groesen M. van, Ommen K. van & Verhoeven G. (Eds.), Maps that Made History. Tielt: Lannoo. 383-385.
- Teh L.M. & Money D.J. (2021), The Global History of Race and Labor: Foundations and Key Concepts, JSTOR Daily : .
- Teh L.M. (2020), The International Labour Organization and the Labour Question in Republican China, 1919–1938. In: Bellucci S. & Weiss H. (Eds.), The Internationalisation of the Labour Question: Ideological Antagonism, Workers’ Movement and the ILO since 1919: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Teh L.M. (2020), Review of: Xiao Cong, Marriage, Law and Gender in Revolutionary China, 1940-1960 . Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 132: 695-697.
- Teh L.M. (2020) Love, marriage and revolution. Review of: Cong X. (2018), Marriage, law and gender in revolutionary China, 1940-1960. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 132(4).
- Teh L.M. (2017) Migrant Labor in China. Post-Socialist Transformations. Review of: Pun N. (2016), Migrant Labor in China. Post-Socialist Transformations. Cambridge: Polity. International Review of Social History 62(3): 561-564.
- Teh L.M. (2017), Review of: Ngai Pun (2016), Migrant Labor in China. Post-Socialist Transformations. China Today Series. Cambridge: Polity Press. International Review of Social History 62(3): 561-564.
- Teh L.M. (2016), “Gao Gang,” “Guandong Leased Territory,” “Rao Shushi,” and “Mining” . In: Dillon M. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Chinese History: Routledge.
- Teh L.M. (2016), Review of: Gates H. (2015), Footbinding and Women’s Labor in Sichuan 18(1): 183-186.
- Teh L.M. (2016), Footbinding and Women's Labor in Sichuan, NAN NÜ: Men, Women and Gender in Early and Imperial China 18(1): 183-186.
- Teh L.M. (2015), Labor Control and Mobility in Japanese-Controlled Fushun Coalmine (China), 1907−1932, International Review of Social History 60(1): 95-119.
- Teh L.M. (2012), From Company Town to Industrial City: The South Manchuria Railway Company in Fushun, China. In: Borges M.J. & Torres S.B. (Eds.), Company Towns: Historical Studies in Global Perspective. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 69-90.
- Teh L.M. (2012), From Colonial Company Town to Industrial City: The South Manchuria Railway Company in Fushun, China. In: Borges M.J & Torres S.B. (Eds.), Company Towns: Palgrave Macmillan. 69-90.