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Wang Jinping

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Profile: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/3625-jinping-wang

Jinping Wang is an Associate Professor of History at the National University of Singapore. She is a social-cultural historian of pre-modern China, and holds a PhD. from Yale University (2011). Before joining NUS in 2013, Prof Wang was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include Chinese history, Chinese religions, regional studies, epigraphic studies, and the Mongol-Yuan and Ming Empires.

Her first monograph, In the Wake of the Mongols: The Making of a New Social Order in North China, 1200-1600 (Harvard University Asia Center in 2018), recounts a riveting story of how northern Chinese men and women interacted with their alien Mongol conquerors to create a drastically new social order. It depicts a north China where Mongol patrons, Daoist priests, Buddhist monks, and sometimes even single women—not Confucian gentry—exercised power and shaped events, a portrait that upends the conventional view of imperial Chinese society.

Prof Wang is currently working on three new projects, "Family and the Way: An Intellectual and Cultural history of Quanzhen Daoism in Yuan-Ming China," “Steles as a Form of Media in Middle-Period North China,” and "Empire on the Ground: Ming-Mongol Relations in the Northern Frontiers of Datong."

TEACHING AREAS:
  • History of imperial China
  • Chinese culture
  • East Asian religions
  • The Mongol Empire
  • Asia and the Modern World
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Books

  • Chinese Translation: 王锦萍著，陆骐、刘云军译，《蒙古征服之后：13-17世纪华北地方社会秩序的变迁》，上海：上海古籍出版社，2023年.

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