WU Cuncun 吳存存 (Fellow)
Fields of Study:
Gender and sexuality in traditional Chinese literature
Profile:
Wu Cuncun (PhD, Melbourne, 2002) is Professor of Traditional Chinese Literature as well as the Head of School, School of Chinese.
She is a Life Member of the HKAH.
Wu joined the School in 2010, having been senior lecturer in Chinese in the School of Arts, University of New England, Australia, and before that an associate professor of Chinese literature in the Chinese Department at Nankai University, Tianjin.
Wu has published widely in both Chinese and English, specializing in late imperial Chinese literature as well as gender and sexuality in Chinese history. Her books include 《明清社會性愛風氣》(Sex and Sensibility in Ming-Qing Society, People’s Literature Press, 2000), Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China (RoutledgeCurzon, 2004), Homoeroticism in Imperial China: A Sourcebook (co-authored with Mark Stevenson, Routledge, 2012), and《戲外之戲：清中晚期京城的戲園文化與梨園私寓制》(Drama Beyond the Drama: The Private Apartment System and Beijing Theatre Culture, 1790-1911, Hong Kong University Press, 2017).
She is currently principal investigator on her second GRF project, “A Vulgar Half-Century: Urban Commoners and the Production of Early Seventeenth-Century Popular Pornography in the Lower Yangtze Delta” (2016-2019).
Wu’s undergraduate courses are CHIN2125 Ci Poetry from the Tang to the Qing, CHIN2127 Chinese Classical Fiction, and CHIN2151 Gender and Sexuality in Ming and Qing Fiction. She also supervises MA, MPhil and PhD theses in her areas of expertise.