Shiling McQuaide taught history at Athabasca University AB Canada until 2014. Now she resides in Vancouver Island, BC. Ms. McQuaide was educated both in China and Canada. She earned BA and MA degrees from Beijing University and Beijing Normal Universities respectively; she received her PhD from Queens' University, Kinston, On. Canada. A trained historian, Dr. McQuaide taught courses in Chinese History, Asian History, and World History. Her research work focuses on China, broadly covering several areas of Chinese labour, women, and education. Her scholarship mainly appeared in English journals, including several papers on distance learning programs implemented to universalize education in rural China and historiographical discussion of labour studies in China. She also studied and published on Beijing waitresses in the 1930s and sex workers during the post-reformist era.
