Wei Wu

Academic Interests

I have a broad spectrum of research interests in Chinese Studies, ranging from the language, art, cultural and intellectual history of early China, to the economic history of Chinese diaspora from a regional and global perspective.

Ongoing Research Project

My PhD dissertation investigates the role of Cantonese diaspora in the capital accumulation in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century East Asia. This project aims to contribute to the European Research Council-funded interdisciplinary project "Brokering China’s Extraversion: An Ethnographic Analysis of Transnational Arbitration" from a historical dimension.

Background

2019–            Doctoral Research Fellow, the University of Oslo

2017–2019    Research Fellow, TU Darmstadt

2016              Teaching Assistant, the University of Oslo

2016              MPhil, the University of Oslo

2015–2016    Erasmus+ Master's exchange, Heidelberg University

2011              BA, Fudan University

2009              Undergraduate exchange, UCLA