Associate Professor
Ning Wang (B.A., M.A., Peking University; Ph.D., UBC) is an East Asia historian with focus on China. The courses he teaches at Brock include East Asian history surveys, Chinese social/cultural history, women and gender in China, intellectuals and revolutions, and China under communist rule. He also teaches a graduate course on Chinese communist revolutions.
His research interests include twentieth-century China and Chinese cultural history, especially Chinese intellectuals, foreign-trained returnees, political purging and banishment.
His publications focus on exiles at borderlands, the relations between communist state and foreign educated Chinese, etc.
The book he recently published is Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness: Political Exile and Re-education in Mao’s China (UBC Press/Cornell University Press, 2017).
