Guojun Wang
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Associate Professor of Asian Studies (he/him/his) Office: Buttrick 260 Email: guojun.wang@vanderbilt.edu Website: guojunwang.org |
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BiographyGuojun Wang specializes in early modern Chinese literature and culture, with a particular interest in the intersections between writing, performance, materiality, and gender. His first book, Staging Personhood: Costuming in Early Qing Drama (Columbia University Press, 2020), examines theatrical costuming in 17th-century China when the Manchu rulers regulated hairstyles and clothing based on ethnicity and gender. The book argues that theatrical costuming provided a productive way to reconnect bodies, clothing, and identities dissociated by political turbulence during China’s dynastic transition. He is currently working on a book project about dead bodies in forensic literature of early modern China. Wang’s recent publications have appeared in Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China, T’oung Pao, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews, and Late Imperial China. His works have been funded by institutions such as the American Council of Learned Societies, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, the American Society for Theatre Research, and the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation. Wang teaches widely on Chinese literature, culture, and Asian diaspora. His courses cover both the pre-modern and modern periods and involve Chinese literature in all its principal genres. |
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