Deng Xiaonan

Deng Xiaonan
Born	1950 Beijing, China
Nationality	People's Republic of China
Alma mater	Peking University
Scientific career
Fields	History
Institutions	Centre for Research on Ancient Chinese History, Peking University

Deng Xiaonan (born 1950) is a professor of history at Peking University's Centre for Research on Ancient Chinese History. She is known for her research on Song history, Ancient Chinese bureaucratic systems and female history of the Tang and Song.

Deng was born in 1950 in Beijing. Her father is the noted Chinese academic Deng Guangming.

Deng completed her undergraduate degree in Chinese History at Peking University in 1982. She graduated from her Master's in 1985 from the same institution.

Deng became a lecturer in 1987. She became an assistant professor in 1991. She was made a professor in 1997.

Deng ran a 16 episode open-access class online with Yan Buke. Deng led the classes on Ancient Chinese governance and the Silk Road. As of 2016, the open class has had over 2,500 participants.

She attended Harvard University as a Coordinate Research Scholar specialising in Chinese History at the Harvard-Yenching Institute in 2014.

Deng has given lectures on women's development history and gender at Osaka City University, Academia Sinica in Taiwan and a United Nations workshop.

In 2008, a post by Fan Meizhong was spread among netizens prompting discussion. Fan wrote a description of several members of Peking University's history faculty, including Deng. He described Deng as a woman who, "never dresses up [and] completely lacks any feminine tenderness." He also lamented that, despite being Deng Guangming's daughter, she, "nevertheless seems to be nothing more than this - a woman." Fan had already received attention for publishing a blog post on why he abandoned his school pupils during the Sichuan earthquake earlier in 2008.

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