Rate My Professor Cuncun Wu

Wu has authored and edited several influential books, including Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China (RoutledgeCurzon, 2004), which analyzes male homoerotic culture during the Qing dynasty; Homoeroticism in Imperial China: A Sourcebook, co-authored with Mark Stevenson (Routledge, 2012); and Wanton Women in Late-Imperial Chinese Literature: Models, Genres, Subversions and Traditions, edited with Mark Stevenson (Brill, 2017). She also published 戲外之戲：清中晚期京城的戲園文化與梨園私寓制 (Hong Kong University Press, 2017) and 明清社會性愛風氣 (People's Literature Publishing House, 2000). Notable articles include 'Speaking of Flowers: Theatre, Public Culture, and Homoerotic Writing in Nineteenth-Century Beijing' (Asian Theatre Journal, 2010) and 'Pornographic Modes of Expression and Nascent Chinese Modernity in Late Imperial China' (Modernism/modernity, 2016). At the University of New England, she served as Chief Investigator on Australian Research Council Discovery Project grant DP110102651, funding research into flower guides, prostitution, and theatrical culture in Qing Beijing. Wu received a Center for Chinese Studies research grant in 2007 and was a finalist for the 2020 Australia China Alumni Award for Research and Science. Her work has been translated into Japanese and Korean, contributing significantly to international understandings of cultural history in China.