Weijing Lu

Prof. Weijing Lu is a Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego, specializing in Chinese women’s history, family dynamics, and late imperial social/cultural history. She holds a B.A./M.A. from Fudan University and a Ph.D. from UC Davis. Her research explores gender norms, marriage practices, and personal writings in pre-modern China.

• Education: B.A./M.A. Fudan University (Shanghai), Ph.D. UC Davis (2001)

Her primary research interests focus on Chinese women’s experiences, family structures, and moral discourses in late imperial China. Recent work includes Arranged Companions: Marriage and Intimacy in Qing China (2021), analyzing personal writings from the 17^th–19^th centuries. She has guest-edited special issues on China for the Journal of the History of Sexuality (2013) and co-edited collections like Gender and the Family in Late Imperial and Modern China (2021).

Her scholarship has been supported by NEH fellowships, ACLS grants, and the Institute for Advanced Study. Awards include the 2008 Berkshire Conference First Book Prize for True to Her Word.

• Grants: NEH, ACLS
• Current Projects: Marriage and intimacy in Qing China, using diaries/poetry

Teaching includes courses on East Asian history, women’s history, and cultural studies. She advises graduate students in late imperial Chinese history and mentors through UCSD’s history department.