Yue Wu

Yue Wu (吴岳) is a PhD candidate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Chinese). Her research interests are early medieval Chinese literature, history and religions, with a focus on literati communities towards the end of the Northern dynasties. She is currently working on her dissertation, which examines attempts of cultural reconstructions by displaced literati and elites, as well as the formation of new cultural communities from the late sixth to early seventh century China, especially the Northern Qi 北齊 (550–577) dynasty. This project will investigate ways in which displaced people sought new “places” for themselves at the dawn of the era of reunification by the Sui and Tang dynasties by examining a variety of textual sources. The goal of her dissertation is to probe the various groups’ sense of displacement that, after many false starts, resulted in a better social construction.