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Yvon Wang

Associate Professor

Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of History

  • Associate Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of History
  • University of Toronto, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St George St, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G3, Canada

BIO

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.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Assistant Professor
    University of Toronto, Department of History, Toronto, CanadaJul 2014 - Jul 2020
  • Associate Professor
    University of Toronto, Department of History, Toronto, CanadaJul 2020 - present

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), History
    Stanford University, Stanford, United StatesJun 2014
  • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History, East Asian Studies, Creative Writing
    Princeton University, Princeton, United StatesJun 2008

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • Stanford Humanities and Sciences Ph.D. Fellowship/Assistantship
    Stanford University, Stanford, United States2008 - 2014
    Postdoctoral Fellowship

LANGUAGES

  • Chinese (Mandarin)
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Japanese
    Can read and understand
  • French
    Can read and understand
  • Spanish; Castilian
    Can read and understand

AVAILABILITY

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

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