Wei Wu
Academic Interests
I have a broad spectrum of research interests in East Asian Studies, ranging from the language, art, cultural and intellectual history of early China, to the economic history of Chinese diaspora and the institutional history of big business from a regional and global perspective.
Ongoing Research Project
My PhD dissertation investigates the institutional history of conglomerates 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
2021–2022 Visiting PhD Scholar, SOAS University of London
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
Publications
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Wu, Wei (2022). A Cultural History of “Redness” in Chinese Civilisation: The Origins: From the Neolithic up to the Qin. Monumenta Serica: Journal of Oriental Studies. ISSN 0254-9948. 70(1), p. 1–31. doi: 10.1080/02549948.2022.2061161. Full text in Research Archive
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Wu, Wei (2014). Color Symbolism of Redness in The Dream of the Red Chamber—Are We All Misunderstanding the Title of Hongloumeng 紅樓夢? European Journal of Sinology (EJSin). ISSN 2190-085X. 5, p. 76–110. Show summary