Yuqing Wang

Yuqing Wang received her B.A. in Global Cultural Studies, with a concentration in World Literature, from Duke Kunshan University. She is currently pursuing an M.A. in Critical Asian and Middle Eastern Humanities at Duke University. Her research interests include women’s writing in late imperial China, particularly women’s education and literary culture in the Ming and Qing dynasties, as well as Dream of the Red Chamber. Her current research turns to modern and contemporary Taiwanese fiction, with a particular focus on Lin Yi-han’s Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise. Through the novel, she examines female intimacy, gendered violence, and unequal relations of power.