Wang Jinping
Faculty & Department
Joint Appointments
Deputy Head, History, Arts & Social Sciences
Head, History, Arts and Social Sciences
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, United States
Bachelor of Arts, Peking University, China
Bio
Jinping Wang is an Associate Professor of History at the National University of Singapore. She is a social-cultural historian of pre-modern China, and holds a PhD. from Yale University (2011). Before joining NUS in 2013, Prof Wang was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include Chinese history, Chinese religions, regional studies, epigraphic studies, and the Mongol-Yuan and Ming Empires.
Her first monograph, In the Wake of the Mongols: The Making of a New Social Order in North China, 1200-1600 (Harvard University Asia Center in 2018), recounts a riveting story of how northern Chinese men and women interacted with their alien Mongol conquerors to create a drastically new social order. It depicts a north China where Mongol patrons, Daoist priests, Buddhist monks, and sometimes even single women—not Confucian gentry—exercised power and shaped events, a portrait that upends the conventional view of imperial Chinese society.
Prof Wang is currently working on three new projects, “Family and the Way: An Intellectual and Cultural history of Quanzhen Daoism in Yuan-Ming China,” “Steles as a Form of Media in Middle-Period North China,” and “Empire on the Ground: Ming-Mongol Relations in the Northern Frontiers of Datong.”
Contact Information
Recent Publications:
Books:
- In the Wake of the Mongols: The Making of a New Social Order in North China, 1200-1600, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center and Harvard University Press, November 2018.
- 王锦萍著，陆骐、刘云军译，《蒙古征服之后：13-17世纪华北地方社会秩序的变迁》，上海：上海古籍出版社，2023年.
Journal Articles
- “The 1265 Dual Steles: Narrating, Visualizing, and Gendering a Quanzhen Daoist Lineage on Stone,” Journal of Asian Studies, 84.1 (2025).
- “North China Over the Last Thousand Years of Chinese History” (Introduction to Special Issue on North China), Journal of Chinese History2 (2024).
- “Reburials of Eminent Masters: The Construction of Quanzhen Daoist Lineages in North China under Mongol Rule,” Journal of Chinese History, 8.2 (2024).
- “Textual, Material, Visual: Exploring an Epigraphic Approach to the History of Imperial China,” Journal of Chinese History, 7.1 (2023): 73-99.
- “Regional and Local Approaches to the Frontiers in North China in the Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries,” Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 51 (2022): 1-14.
- “Land and People: The Sixteen Prefectures of Yan and Yun during the Liao-Song-Jin Transition,” Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 51(2022): 73-124.
- “Cultivation, Salvation, and Obligation: Quanzhen Daoist Thoughts on Family Abandonment,” History of Religions2 (2022): 115-155.
- “Daoists, the Imperial Cult of Sage-Kings, and Mongol Rule,” T’oung Pao: International Journal of Chinese Studies 106, Issue 3-4 (2020): 309-357.
My research interests include history of imperial China, Chinese religions, regional social history, epigraphic studies, media, and the Mongol-Yuan and Ming Empires.
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