Weijing Lu (Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 2001, assistant professor) specializes in gender and women’s history in the Ming and Qing eras (the 14th through the 19th centuries). More broadly, she is also interested in social and cultural history of pre-modern China. She teaches courses on women, family, culture and society, and East Asian history. The topics of her research range from the family, marriage, female chastity cult, women’s work to the cultural and intellectual shifts of China’s late imperial period. She is currently working on a project that explores the meanings of marriage as defined by the classics, interpreted by educated men and women, and manifested in daily conjugal and familial interactions in the Qing period.
Office: HSS 5053
Phone: (858) 534-7001
Email: w1lu@ucsd.edu