Shuang Wen

Shuang Wen (or 温爽 in Chinese) is a historian of Modern China and the Middle East. Prior to joining NYU Shanghai as a Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Shuang held fellowships at the National University of Singapore and New York University Abu Dhabi. As a native Chinese speaker, she received intensive Arabic-language training from the American University in Cairo, University of Damascus, and Middlebury College. Before switching her career to academia, Shuang was a broadcast journalist for Phoenix Satellite Television InfoNews Channel in Hong Kong (香港鳳凰衛視資訊台, 2003–2006), covering major news events from the Middle East. Her forthcoming first book investigates the transformative processes of Chinese-Arab entanglements in the age of global empires from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of World War II.

Select Publications

• “From Manchuria to Egypt: Soybean’s Global Migration and Transformation in the Twentieth Century,” Asian Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies 13 (June 2019): 176-194, published by Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, UK
• “Two Sides of the Story: How Historians and Journalists Can Work Together,” featured essay for Perspectives on History 53 (October 2015), published by the American Historical Association, USA
• “Muslim Activist Encounters in Meiji Japan,” in special issue on “China in the Middle East,” Middle East Report 44, No. 270 (Spring 2014), published by Middle East Research and Information Project, USA

Education

• PhD, Transregional History (modern Middle East and East Asia)
  Georgetown University, USA
• MA, Middle East Studies and Arabic
  American University in Cairo, Egypt
• BA, English Language, Literature, and Culture
  University of International Relations, China