Tag: Guojun Wang

January 7, 2021

Announcing Our 2021 Literary Studies Catalog

Letter from the Editors: We are pleased to present the 2021 Columbia University Press literary studies catalog. The past year was a challenging one on many fronts and we hope the books in this catalog reflect the various ways in...

January 7, 2021

Browse Our MLA Virtual Book Exhibit with Philip Leventhal

Welcome to the Columbia University Press virtual exhibit for the MLA conference. I am Philip Leventhal, editor for literary studies, and while it is disappointing not to have the opportunity to see everyone in person at MLA this year, I...

June 5, 2020

Book Excerpt! Staging Personhood: Costuming in Early Qing Drama, by Guojun Wang (introduction)

“A refreshing book that will encourage readers and researchers to pay closer attention to the modes and codes of theatrical costuming in association with issues of ethnicity, gender, and individual identities, embedded in the specific context of early Qing China.”...

June 3, 2020

Clothes Make the Person. Clothes Make the Nation
By Guojun Wang

“A marvelous piece of scholarship, Staging Personhood presents an exhaustive study of the function of clothing on stage and off. While speaking to issues of sexuality, gender, masculinity, and status in real society, the book goes beyond the existing literature...

March 19, 2020

Join Christine Dunbar on a Tour of Our #AAS2020 Virtual Exhibit Booth!

Hi! Welcome to the Columbia University Press booth! I’m Christine Dunbar, and I acquire books in the Asian humanities and all of our literature in translation. I recognize your name; is it possible I asked you to peer review something...

March 10, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Newsmakers, Poetry Unbound and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Newsmakers Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Journalism Francesco Marconi Will the use of artificial intelligence, algorithms, and smart machines be the end of journalism as we know it—or its savior?...