Shengqing WU | DIVISION OF HUMANITIES

Shengqing WU (吳盛青) PhD, UCLA

Room No: 2380

Shengqing Wu holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is a Professor of Chinese Literature at the HKUST. Prior to teaching in Hong Kong, she was an associate professor at Wesleyan University. Professor Wu’s research interests encompass the literary and intellectual history of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century China, image-text relations, the history of Chinese photography, and sensory studies. She has received fellowships from the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Harvard-Yenching Institute, and the National Humanities Center.

Research Interests

Chinese literary and visual modernity; Media, visual, and verbal culture; Chinese poetry; History of photography in China.

Representative Publications

Book

Photo Poetics: Chinese Lyricism and Modern Media Culture (Columbia University Press, 2020).

Modern Archaics: Continuity and Innovation in the Chinese Lyric Tradition 1900-1937 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center Press, 2013), 437 pages.

Edited Volumes

Co-editor (with Xuelei Huang), Sensing China: Modern Transformations of Sensory Culture (London: Routledge, 2023).

Co-editor (with Zong-qi Cai), the special issue on “Emotion and Visuality in Chinese Literature and Culture,” Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture 6:1 (2019).

Co-editor (with Ko Chia Cian), the special issue on “the Twentieth-century Chinese Classical-style Poetry and Culture 二十世紀的舊體詩詞與文化”， Modern Chinese Literature 中國現代文學，No. 31 (Spring, 2017).

Editor, 旅行的圖像與文本：現代華語語境中的媒介互動 (Traveling Image and Text in Modern China) (Shanghai: Fudan University Press, 2016).

Co-editor (with Ko Chia Cian), 抒情傳統與維新時代：辛亥前後的文人、文學、文化 (Lyricism and the Reformist Era) (Shanghai: Shanghai Literature and Arts Publishing House, 2012).

Guest co-editor (with Mingwei Song) of the special issue, “‘The Obscure Decade:’ The Literary Imagination in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the PRC, 1949-1959五十年代的文學想像與政治文化：香港、台灣、中國大陸,” Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報 (vol. 9.2, July, 2009) (bilingual).