Department of History, Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology & Mr. Simon Suen and Mrs. Mary Suen Sino-Humanitas Institute, HKBU

Weijing Lu (Professor, Department of History, University of California San Diego)

Professor Lu teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Chinese and East Asian history. Her primary research interests include Chinese women's and gender history, the history of the Chinese family and marriage, and late imperial social and cultural history. Her first book, True to Her Word: The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late Imperial China, explores the intellectual controversy and family conflict that surrounded the faithful maidens, and the beliefs, mentality, and lived experiences of these women. Recently, she guest-edited a special issue on China for the Journal of the History of Sexuality (2013).

 

Guotong Li (Professor, Department of History, California State University Long Beach)

Dr. Li’s current research interests focus on gender and family in maritime Asia during the encounters between the Muslim diaspora and Chinese merchants before European hegemony. She has published two monographs, entitled Migrating Fujianese: Ethnic, Family, and Gender Identities in an Early Modern Maritime World (Brill, 2016) and In Quest of Immortality: Women’s Education in Late Imperial China, 1368-1911 (Guangxi Normal University Press, 2014) respectively. She is completing her new book project on a Chinese Muslim community in late imperial Quanzhou, the world’s largest seaport under the Mongol empire. This project was sponsored by a Luce/ACLS fellowship (2015-2016), aiming to bring a more global perspective on local histories and to enrich global maritime history with the human agency of gender and ethnicity. 

 

Yulian Wu (Associate Professor, Department of History, Michigan State University)

Professor Wu's research examines the relationship between ethnic policies, material culture, and gender relations in the High Qing period (1680-1820). Her work asks how the Manchu court, the minority rulers of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), implemented ethnic policies by constructing a material world and how men and women’s lives were influenced and transformed by the changing material culture.