Guojun Wang

Guojun Wang specializes in early modern Chinese literature and culture, with a particular interest in the intersections between writing, performance, materiality, gender, and legal practices. 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. He is currently working on a project about the representation of dead bodies in the forensic literature of early modern China.

Wang is co-editor of “Rethinking Authorship and Agency: Women and Gender in Late Imperial China,” a special issue of the Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023). His papers have appeared in Late Imperial China, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, CLEAR, T’oung Pao, and Nan nü, among others. His projects have received funding from 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 about Chinese literature, culture, and the Asian diaspora.