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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

Date Title Fund source Amount Period

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

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

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

2018

The circulation of erotic paintings and prints among the urban commoners in Qing China

Hsu Long Sing Research Fund

HKD 59,715

2018

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

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

2012

Pornography and the origins of early Chinese modernity in the late Ming, 1522-1680

General Research Fund (GRF)

HKD 437,490

2012-2015

2011

Peking Opera, Epitheatre and Writing in Nineteenth Century Beijing

Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (ARC)

AUD 110,000

2011-2013

2020

Winner of Judges’ Citation, 2020 Australia China Alumni Award for Research and Science.

2019

Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Humanities.

2019

Visiting Scholar, Sino-British Trust Visitorship, Oxford University (for visiting Oxford University in 2022 – delayed by pandemic).

2014

Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute

2013

Visiting Scholar, King’s/HKU Fellowship.

2012

Visiting Scholar, Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Fellowships

2007

Visiting Scholar, Centre for Chinese Studies, Taiwan.

2006

Visiting Fellow, International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden University.