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Wenting Ji

Assistant Professor of Chinese Language at Duke Kunshan University
DKU Faculty
Office hours Wednesday 8:00-10:00 pm Beijing Time & by appointment  

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Shameful or/and Thankful to the Delectable: Emotional Ambivalence in Zhang Dai's (1598-ca. 1684) Writing on Food and Memories in his Tao’an mengyi (Dream Memory of Tao’an) - AAS-in-Asia · 2025 International Meeting or Conference Kathmandu, Nepal
The Scented Stage: Li Yu’s 李漁 (1611–1680) Design of the Fragrant and the Foul in Chuanqi Plays Lianxiangban 憐香伴 (The Fragrant Companion) and Naihetian 奈何天 (You Cannot Do Anything about Fate) - Chinese Oral and Performing Literature (CHINOPERL) Annual Conference · 2025 International Meeting or Conference Columbus. Ohio, USA
Who Is Singing?: Rereading the Descriptions of Female Body in Wang Shifu’s The Story of the Western Wing - Chinese Oral and Performing Literature (CHINOPERL) Annual Conference · 2024 International Meeting or Conference Columbus, Ohio, USA
Personal Smell and National Antique: Mao Xiang’s (1611-1693) Writings on Incense and Incense Burner - AAS · 2023 International Meeting or Conference Boston, Massachusetts, USA (online)
Her Feet Hurt: Rediscovering Female Body and Pain in Zaishengyuan (Destiny of Rebirth) - AAS-in-Asia · August 2020 International Meeting or Conference Kobe, Japan (online)
Smelling the Words: Redefining the Boundary of Senses in the Poetics ‘Scent-Viewing’ by Qian Qianyi (1582–1664) and the Story ‘The Official in Charge of Literature’ by Pu Songling (1640–1751) - 69th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs · 2020 International Meeting or Conference Online