East Asian Studies

Ping Wang is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, who specializes in Pre-Modern Chinese literature. Wang received her B.A. in English Literature from Anhui University, China in 1993, M.A. in Chinese Literature from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2000 and her Ph.D. in Chinese Literature from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2006. Her research focuses on Early Medieval Chinese Poetry. She has written on the poetic image of the maple leaf, literary communities in 5th and 6th century China, the literary imagination of the north after its fall in 317, and poetry as cultural capital in Early Medieval China. She is currently preparing a book manuscript based on her dissertation titled “Culture and Literature in an Early Medieval Chinese Court: The Writings and Literary Thought of Xiao Tong (501-531).”