Yvon Wang

I am Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto, St. George. I earned my Ph.D. in 2014 from the History Department at Stanford University. My book about explicit sexual representations in Chinese print commodities, REINVENTING LICENTIOUSNESS: PORNOGRAPHY AND MODERN CHINA (2021), is available via Cornell University Press. EVERYDAY LIVES IN CHINA'S COLD WAR MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX VOICES FROM THE SHANGHAI SMALL THIRD FRONT, 1964-1988, a co-authored book of oral histories from Mao-era military-industrial complexes (1960s-80s) designed for teaching and reference appeared in 2022. Other research interests include the social history of suicide, gender and sexuality, material culture, food, and popular media--in late imperial and twentieth-century China as well as in a broader world-historical perspective.