Wandi Wang

Wandi Wang is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate currently working on premodern Chinese poetics, aesthetics, and literati taste. Her dissertation title is Taste and Gastropoetics in Traditional China, 11th-17th cent CE. She received her master’s degree from Stanford University and studied for one year as a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington before joining the EAL&C Department at UC Santa Barbara. Now she is working with Prof. Thomas Mazanec, Prof. Xiaorong Li, and Prof. Peter Sturman.

Wandi Wang is also a journalist and book writer specializing in biography and oral history. She has published a joint biography of the former curator of Harvard-Yenching Library, Eugene Wu, and his wife, Nadine Wu about their legendary lives and how Mr. Wu contributed to creating a field and organization for East Asian libraries. The book was published in both simplified and traditional characters by two prestigious publishing houses, the National Library of China Press in Beijing and Linking Publishing Company in Taipei. She is now completing the oral history of Shen Jin, the famous bibliographer, scholar, and the former curator of the rare book collection of Harvard-Yenching Library.