The UVA East Asia Center is pleased to host Hsiao-Wen Cheng, associate professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania, for her talk "Writing a History of Sexuality for Premodern China: Some Methodological Reflections," Friday, February 25, at 3:00 p.m. A cultural and intellectual historian of Middle Period China (10th-13th centuries), with special interest in gender, sexuality, medicine, and religion, Cheng is the author of Divine, Demonic, and Disordered: Women without Men in Song Dynasty China (University of Washington Press, 2021). She is currently working on an edited volume on the cross-cultural exchange of medicines across Asia, and another book-project on notions of norm and normalcy in premodern China.

To register for this online talk, please visit https://bit.ly/ChengUVA