Q Edward Wang

Biographic Data

ID324366
NAMEQ Edward Wang
GIVEN NAMESQ Edward
FAMILY NAMEWang
SIGNATUREWANG Q E
AFFILIATIONSRowan University
ORCID0009-0001-8333-2689
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS54
TOTAL CITATIONS19
AUTHOR COUNT50
EDITOR COUNT4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Rethinking “China”

    Q Edward WangARTICLEChinese Studies in History2026

    In recent decades, the question of what “China” (Zhongguo 中國) means—historically, culturally, and politically—has ceased to be self-evident. Once treated as a stable civilizational container or an

  • Yuan Tongli nianpu changbian [Yuan Tongli]

    Q Edward WangARTICLEThe Journal of Asian Studies2026

  • The grand canal in China’s past and present

    Q Edward WangARTICLEChinese Studies in History2025

    This issue is dedicated to studies of the Grand Canal (known in Chinese as 大運河 Dayunhe) and its role in China’s past and present. Extending over 1,700 kilometers from Hangzhou to Beijing, the Canal

  • Sexuality in modern China—Editor’s introduction

    Q Edward WangARTICLEChinese Studies in History2025

    Q. Edward WangThe study of sexuality as a facet of human behavior has long been marginalized within the discipline of history. For much of the modern era, historians were primarily concerned with p

  • Modernity from the margins

    Q Edward WangARTICLEChinese Studies in History2025

  • Beyond class struggle

    Q Edward WangARTICLEChinese Studies in History2025

    The French Revolution has long occupied a central place in Chinese scholarship on European history. From the early years of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), it became not only a subject of his

  • The Metaphysics of Chinese Historiography

    Open AccessQ Edward WangARTICLEMedieval Worlds2024

    This paper delves into the complex legacy of the Han dynasty’s collapse and its impact on subsequent Chinese historiography, particularly through the legitimacy or »zhengtong« debate. Examining how the Han’s cultural and political glory influenced historical narratives of later periods, the author compares the Han’s legacy with that of the Roman Empire in Europe, highlighting a similar quest for legitimacy by successor regimes. Central to his ana…

  • The reception of Sima Qian in the world—Editor’s introduction

    Q Edward WangARTICLEChinese Studies in History2024

    Of the many distinguished historians in the extensive tradition of Chinese historiography stretching back into the distant past of thousands of years, Sima Qian (aka. Ssu-ma Ch’ien, c. 145–87 BC) i

  • Leisure and pleasure in Late Imperial China—Editor’s introduction

    Q Edward WangARTICLEChinese Studies in History2024

    Q. Edward WangTimothy Brook, an eminent contemporary Ming historian at the University of British Columbia, begins his vivaciously written The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming Ch

  • The Threshold

    Q Edward WangARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2024

  • Middle-Class Education Anxiety in China

    Open AccessQ Edward Wang, Qianyi Wang et al.ARTICLEChinese Education & Society2024Cited by: 1References: 6

  • Truthful Is Moral

    Open AccessQ Edward WangARTICLEHistory and Theory2024

    In recent years, efforts have been made to reevaluate the tradition of Chinese historical thought and writing. This article seeks to further these efforts and offer a new understanding of the characteristics of historical writing in traditional China. It argues that, at the level of practice, traditional Chinese historians, like their counterparts in the rest of the world, were deeply concerned with establishing and communicating facts in histori…

  • Environmental history in China—Editor’s introduction

    Q Edward WangARTICLEChinese Studies in History2023

    Of the new schools that have risen in the gardens of history around the world, environmental history is one that has seen exponential growth over the past decades. While writing a review essay in 2

  • Spatiality in Chinese history

    Q Edward WangARTICLEChinese Studies in History2023

    This is the second time that this journal has devoted a special issue to topics related to the study of urban history in China. There are several reasons for this. One, of course, is that over the

  • Animal history

    Q Edward WangARTICLEChinese Studies in History2021

    Hailed as a major form of the attempt at “non-anthropocentric history” or post-humanist history,1 animal history as a new school of historiography has caught a growing attention around historical c

  • Emotions history in China—Editor’s introduction

    Q Edward WangARTICLEChinese Studies in History2021

  • The South China School

    Q Edward WangARTICLEChinese Studies in History2021

  • US–China relations

    Q Edward WangARTICLEChinese Studies in History2021

    There is no gainsaying that US–China relations are at a crossroads with the transition of power from Donald Trump to Joseph Biden at the beginning of this year. Indeed, over the past four years und

  • The Translatability of Revolution

    Q Edward WangARTICLEThe Chinese Historical Review2021

    As a controversial and versatile cultural figure in modern China, Guo Moruo can certainly be viewed, evaluated, and presented in many different ways. Over the past decades, there indeed have appear

  • The scholarship on oracle bones and oracle bone inscriptions

    Q Edward Wang, Guolong LaiARTICLEChinese Studies in History2020

    In autumn 1928, Fu Sinian 傅斯年 (1896–1950), founder of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, sent an excavation team to Anyang 安陽, Henan, which was one of the very first modern ar

  • Dunhuang on the Silk Road

    Huaiyu Chen, Q Edward WangARTICLEChinese Studies in History2020

    While a neologism coined only in the late nineteenth century, the term “Silk Road” has become widely known among peoples around the world today. By comparison, Dunhuang is lesser known, even though

  • History of Western historiography

    Q Edward WangARTICLEChinese Studies in History2020

    This issue presents a group of articles written by Chinese scholars on the tradition and transformation of Western historiography. Perhaps somewhat surprising to some of our readers, the subject is

  • Worldviews in Twentieth-Century Chinese Historiography

    Q Edward WangARTICLEGlobal Intellectual History2020Cited by: 1References: 2

    There are three reasons for this special issue on ‘Worldviews in Twentieth-Century Chinese Historiography.’ One is that in historical practices around the world, global history, or interest in a gl

  • World History on a Par with Chinese History? China's Search for World Power in Three Stages

    Q Edward WangARTICLEGlobal Intellectual History2020Cited by: 1References: 3

    In 2011, the Department of Education in China made a policy change by elevating the study and teaching of world history to a first-class academic field. This article argues that this elevation reflects an unprecedented move by both the Chinese government and historical community to put world history on a par with Chinese history with regard to their importance as subjects of knowledge. It discusses the three periods where world history developed …

  • Fabio Lanza. The End of Concern

    Open AccessQ Edward WangARTICLEThe American Historical Review2020