Associate Professor Cuncun Wu
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Arts
Qualifications
BA (Hangzhou), MA (Nankai), Grad Dip Asian Stud (Vic), PhD (Melb)
Contact
| Email: | wucuncun@hku.hk |
| Room: | Other |
I deeply enjoy teaching Chinese and researching Chinese cultural studies. It is very rewarding to be able to interest students in China’s cultural heritage and what it teaches us about human histories. I taught traditional Chinese literature at Nankai University (Tianjin, China) for over a decade before I moved to Melbourne in 1998. In Melbourne I taught Chinese at Victoria, La Trobe, and Melbourne universities. I joined the Chinese Discipline at UNE following completion of my PhD in Chinese Studies at the University of Melbourne in 2002.
Research interests
My research interests are mainly in traditional Chinese literature, cultural history, and sexuality, specialising in the Ming and Qing dynasties. I have published widely in these areas, including Ming-Qing shehui xing’ai fengqi (Sex and Sensibility in Ming and Qing society, Beijing: People’s Literature Press, 2000) and Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China (RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2004).
Publications
Wu, C., 2008, 'Issues on the circulation of flower-guides in the Qing period' (Qingdai liyuan huapu liuxing zhuangkuang kaolue), in Chinese Studies (Hanxue yanjiu), Taiwan (in Press), Vol. 26, No. 2,
Wu, C., 2007, 'Remarkable liaisons among the well-to-do', in IIAS Newsletter, Vol. 44, pp. 27,
Wu, C., 2006, 'Ruanhong chen li zhu xinshu: Xiangxi Yuyin Fengcheng pinhuaji yu wan Qing de ‘huapu’' (New books composed amid the dust of red carpets: Xiangxi Yuyin’s Notes of Flower Appreciation from the Phoenix City and the late Qing ‘flower guides.’), Zhonguo wenhua (Journal of Chinese Culture, ed. Liu Mengxi), Vol. 23, pp. 73-85,
Wu, C., 2006, 'Prostitution and Theatre in Imperial China', in Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work, ed. Melissa Hope Ditmore, Greenwood Publishing Group, New York,
Wu, C., Stevenson, M., 2006, 'Male love lost: the fate of male same-sex prostitution in Beijing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries', in Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation and Chinese Cultures, eds F.Martin and L. Heinrich, Hawaii University Press, Honolulu, pp. 42-59,
Wu, C., 2004, Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China, , RoutledgeCurzon, London,
Wu, C., Stevenson, M., 2004, 'Quilts and quivers: dis/covering male homoeroticism in late imperial China', in Tamkang Review, Vol. XXXV, No. 1, pp. 119-167,
Wu, C., 2003, 'Beautiful boys made up as beautiful girls ...': elements of anti-mascline taste in Qing dynasty writing and male homosexual sensibilities, Asian Masculinities: The Meaning and Practice of Manhood in China and Japan, ed. Kam Louie, RoutledgeCurzon, London, pp. 19-40,
Wu, C. (translator), Stevenson, M. (translator), 2003, 'Zhaojun's dream' (Xue Dan, Zhaojun meng), in Renditions, No. 59 & 60, pp. 154-180,
Wu, C. (translator), Stevenson, M. (translator), 2002, 'A tale of an infatuated woman' (Furong Zhuren, Chipozi zhuan), in Renditions, No. 58, pp. 47-97,
Wu, C., 2001, 'Wan-Ming shehui nanfeng liuxing zhuangkuan xulue' (An outline of the fashion for homoeroticism in late Ming society), in Zhongguo Wenhua (Chinese Culture), ed. Liu Mengxi, Vol. 17 - 18, pp. 256-269,
Wu, C., 2000, Ming-Qing shehui xing’ai fengqi (Sex and sensibility in Ming and Qing society), , Renmin Wenxue Chubanshe (Peoples Literature Press), Beijing,
Wu, C., 2000, 'Xingbie wenti yu Zhongguo xingshi de yanjiu' (Gender and Chinese sexual history research), in Xingbie shixue (Gendered Poetics), ed. Ye Shuxian, Zhongguo shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe, Beijing, pp. 117-126,