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.

Publications

• True to Her Word: The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late Imperial China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008.
• "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

• Meanings of Marriage in China: 1650-1850.

Courses

• HILD 11. East Asia and the West, 1279-1911.
• HIEA 137. Women and Family in Chinese History.
• HIEA 125. Women and Gender in East Asia.
• HIEA 162/262. Women and the Chinese Revolution.
• HIEA 171/271. Society and Culture in pre-modern China.
• HIGR 264. Readings in the Late Imperial Chinese History, 1200-1800