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Weijing Lu

Vita

Publications

Current Research

Courses

 

Vita

Weijing Lu received her B.A. in history and M.A. in literature from Fudan University in Shanghai, China. She came to the U.S. to study in 1993, and received her doctoral degree from the University of California, Davis in 2001. Her research interests include women's and gender history in China, the history of the Chinese family and marriage, and late imperial social and cultural history. She has taught courses on the history of women and family in China, late imperial China, and East Asian history from the 13th through the 19th centuries. She is planning to offer a course on women and gender in East Asia.

Publications

  • "Beyond the Paradigm: Tea-Picking Women in Imperial China." Journal of Women's History 15.4 (Winter 2004).
  • "Poems on Tea-picking." In Under Confucian Eyes: Writings on Gender in Chinese History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
  • "Uxorilocal Marriage among Qing Literati." Late Imperial China 19.2 (December 1998).
  • "Liu Yuxi's Poem 'Presented in Fun to the Gentlemen Who Enjoy Flowers' and the Question of His Second Exile to Lianzhou." Fundan University Journal of Social Sciences 4 (1993).
  • "The Guoqing Temple." In Ten Greatest Temples of China. Shanghai: Guji chubanshe, 1992.
  • "Men of Letters in the Wei and Jin Dynasties and Their Elegies." Fudan University Journal of Social Science 5 (1988).

Current Research

  • True to Their Word: The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late Imperial China

Courses

  • HILD 11. East Asia and the West, 1279-1911.
  • HIEA 137. Women and Family in Chinese History.
  • HIGR 264. Readings in the Late Imperial Chinese History, 1200-1800