Zhaoshen Wang

Zhaoshen Wang serves as a Lecturer in the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison starting Fall 2025, following a visiting lecturer position at Duke Kunshan University. His academic profile centers on East Asian historical scholarship with transnational methodological approaches.

His educational qualifications include:

• LL.B. from Wuhan University (2014)
• LL.M. from National Taiwan University (2017), thesis: "The Establishment and Development of the System of Constitutional Interpretation in China, 1906-1949"
• Ph.D. in History from University of Wisconsin-Madison (defended May 2025), dissertation: "Dating Ming Nostalgia: Commemorating Chongzhen in East Asia"

Wang's research investigates historical memory construction through ritual practices, inscriptions, and oral histories, examining Ming dynasty nostalgia's four-century influence on East Asian elite thought and popular culture. His work bridges Confucian intellectual traditions with grassroots cultural practices since 1368, incorporating fieldwork methodologies to reconstruct social mentalities. Current expansions include 20th-century East Asian Confucianism, Chinese secret societies, folk religion, and diaspora memory communities across Southeast Asia and North America.

No scientific awards or fellowships were documented in the source materials.

Teaching experience spans multiple courses: as instructor for History 103 (Introduction to East Asian History: China) at UW-Madison and Pre-modern Chinese History at Duke Kunshan; as teaching assistant for History 201 (Shanghai: Life and Crime), History 108 (Introduction to Buddhism), History 203 (Introduction to World History), History 255 (East Asian Civilization), and History 104 (Introduction to Japanese History). No formal student advising or research grants were specified.

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