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Prof. WU Cuncun 吳存存教授
Chinese Language and Literature Programme
Professor
BA (Hangzhou), MA (Nankai), PhD (Melbourne)
852-39174606
852-28581334
Rm 820, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
Ancient Chinese Culture and Art, Chinese Culture Studies, Drama, East-West Cultural Exchange, Fiction, Gender and Sexuality, Ming-Qing Literature, Ming-Qing Studies, Songbooks
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2024 |
2024/25 Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship (HSSPFS): "Not Only Lost Commoner Women's Voice: What Late-Qing Popular Songbooks Reveal Regarding the Definition, Stratification and Memory of Traditional Chinese Popular Literature". |
CERG (GRF) |
HK$526,915 |
12 month |
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2020 |
Street Literacy: Songbooks and Voices of Lower-Class Urban Women in Nineteenth-Century North China |
General Research Fund (GRF) |
HKD 636,570 |
2020-2023 |
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2019 |
‘Bun shop books’ and the passion of lower-class men and women during the late Qing period |
Hsu Long Sing Research Fund |
HKD 71,000 |
2019 |
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2018 |
The circulation of erotic paintings and prints among the urban commoners in Qing China |
Hsu Long Sing Research Fund |
HKD 59,715 |
2018 |
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2016 |
A Vulgar Half-Century: Urban Commoners and the Production of Early Seventeenth-Century Popular Pornography in the Lower Yangtze Delta |
General Research Fund (GRF) |
HKD 373,999 |
2016-2019 |
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2016 |
“The Urban Commoner Pornographic Imaginary: A Study of the Early Qing Pornographic Novel Preposterous Words (姑妄言 Guwangyan) |
Louis Cha Fund |
HKD 55,300 |
2016 |
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2012 |
Pornography and the origins of early Chinese modernity in the late Ming, 1522-1680 |
General Research Fund (GRF) |
HKD 437,490 |
2012-2015 |
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2011 |
Peking Opera, Epitheatre and Writing in Nineteenth Century Beijing |
Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (ARC) |
AUD 110,000 |
2011-2013 |
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2020 |
Winner of Judges’ Citation, 2020 Australia China Alumni Award for Research and Science. |
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2019 |
Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Humanities. |
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2019 |
Visiting Scholar, Sino-British Trust Visitorship, Oxford University (for visiting Oxford University in 2022 – delayed by pandemic). |
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2014 |
Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute |
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2013 |
Visiting Scholar, King’s/HKU Fellowship. |
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2012 |
Visiting Scholar, Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Fellowships |
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2007 |
Visiting Scholar, Centre for Chinese Studies, Taiwan. |
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2006 |
Visiting Fellow, International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden University. |
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