Rate My Professor Lorraine Wong

Dr. Lorraine C. M. Wong is a Senior Lecturer in the Chinese Programme within the Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of Otago, part of the Division of Humanities. She holds a BA in English from the University of Hong Kong, an MPhil in Sociology from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University. Her interdisciplinary background informs her research on the history of script reforms in modern China and their intersections with modern Chinese literature and literary criticism. Wong examines language rights in China and beyond, comparative script politics, and the culture and history of Hong Kong outside colonial and national paradigms. Her interests extend to literary Esperantists of Chinese and non-Chinese origins, Sinophone literature, modern and contemporary Chinese literature, film, and popular cultures across mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Chinese diaspora. She also explores modern Chinese history, Western intellectual discourses on China, linguistics in Western Marxism, and Romanizations and script reforms in non-Western contexts. Currently, she is completing a book manuscript tentatively titled Script and Revolution in China's Long Twentieth Century, which investigates the transformation of the Chinese script, its ties to the communist revolution, and evolving views on phonocentrism, logocentrism, and script as a political and aesthetic medium.