Joan Judge

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, Toronto. A cultural historian of print and knowledge in modern China, her single-authored publications include 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). At the MPIWG she is a member of the “Common Knowledge and Its Sources in the Sinosphere, 14th–20th Centuries” Working Group in Department AAK. Related to the "Common Knowledge" project and during her time at the MPIWG, she is also launching an international collaborative research project on “Vernacular Medicine and Modes of Knowing in China: Historical and Global Contexts.”