Wen Shuang

Wen Shuang
Wen Shuang

Clinical Assistant Professor of History, NYU Shanghai

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Clinical Assistant Professor of History, NYU Shanghai
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Dr. Shuang Wen (温爽) is a historian of modern China and the Middle East. Prior to joining NYUSH, Shuang held fellowships at the National University of Singapore and New York University Abu Dhabi. As a native Chinese speaker, she received immersive Arabic-language training from the American University in Cairo, where she also obtained an MA in Middle East studies, University of Damascus, and Middlebury College. Shuang earned her PhD in Transregional History (modern Middle East and East Asia) from Georgetown University in Washington DC. Shuang specializes in the multilayered interactions and exchanges between China and the Middle East, which comprises agricultural, diplomatic, intellectual, medicinal, and religious affairs. At CGHE, she is continuing her research on histories of breast cancer in China and the Middle East.

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"Overcoming Fractures of Cross-Cultural Understanding: Modern Chinese Knowledge Production on the Arab World," Global Perspectives (May 2024), Issue 1. https://doi.org/10.1525/gp.2024.117326

Culinary Connection: Experiential Learning on Middle Eastern Food History within NYU Shanghai Community,” The Creative Classroom (May 2024), Issue 4.

“A Short History of Modern Arab Knowledge Production on China,” Islam, Revival, and Reform: Redefining Tradition for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Natana J. DeLong-Bas, University of Syracuse Press, 2022, Chapter 9.

From Manchuria to Egypt: Soybean’s Global Migration and Transformation in the Twentieth Century,” Asian Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies 13 (June 2019): 176–94. https://doi.org/10.1080/25765949.2019.1605566

Muslim Activist Encounters in Meiji Japan,” in special issue on “China in the Middle East,” Middle East Report 44, No. 270 (Spring 2014), published by Middle East Research and Information Project, USA