Guojun Wang
Associate Professor
Richard Charles & Esther Yewpick Lee Chair in Chinese Cultural Studies
Guojun Wang is a scholar of early modern Chinese literature and culture, with particular interests in the intersections of writing, performance, materiality, gender, and legal practice. His first book, Staging Personhood: Costuming in Early Qing Drama (Columbia University Press, 2020), explores theatrical costuming in 17th-century China, a period when the Manchu regime imposed hairstyle and clothing regulations based on ethnicity and gender. He is currently working on a project about forensic literature in early modern China. Wang is also the co-editor of the special issue Rethinking Authorship and Agency: Women and Gender in Late Imperial China (Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture, 2023).
Dr. Wang has held leadership roles in the Modern Language Association and the Society for Ming Studies. His research has been published in Late Imperial China, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews, T’oung Pao, and other academic journals. His work has received support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, and the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation. He teaches widely on Chinese literature and culture, as well as on topics related to the Asian diaspora.
Personal website: guojunwang.org
Chinese vernacular literature, performance, materiality, women and gender, law and literature