Joan Judge 季家珍
Project Director
York University
Working groups: Modes of Knowing, Local Practices, Global Synergies/Asynergies, Digital Humanities
Joan Judge is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Professor in the Department of History at York University in Toronto. A cultural historian of print and knowledge in modern China, she is the author of The Politics of Common Reading: Vernacular Knowledge and Everyday Technics in China, 1894-1954 (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming fall 2025), Republican Lens: Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press (University of California Press, 2015), The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China (Stanford University Press, 2008), and Print and Politics: ‘Shibao’ and the Culture of Reform in Late Qing China (Stanford University Press, 1996). She is also co-editor of The Sinosphere and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Joshua Fogel (DeGruyter Oldenbourg, 2024), “Publishing for Daily Life in Early Modern East Asia,” (special issue of Lingua Franca: The History of the Book in Translation 6 [2020]), Women Warriors and National Heroes: Global Histories (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), Women and the Periodical Press in China’s Global Twentieth Century: A Space of Their Own? (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and Beyond Exemplar Tales: Women’s Biography in Chinese History (University of California Press, 2011).
Projects: The Politics of Common Reading, Common Knowers