Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Cultural and Intellectual
- East Asia
- Economy, Technology and Society
- Food
- Gender, Sex, and Sexualities
- State, Politics, and Law
Areas of Interest
Late Imperial China; Global Foodways; Chinese Legal History; Cultural History; History of Drinking; Classical Chinese Literature; Pre-Qin Confucianism
Biography
Jackson Yue Bin Guo is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of History, University of Toronto. He completed his PhD at the University of Toronto. He specializes in late imperial Chinese history, and he is broadly interested in food history, food studies, legal history, and cultural history. His doctoral dissertation delves into a fascinating exploration of the transformation of China's alcohol industry, spanning from the Ming dynasty to the early Republican period. Drawing upon an extensive array of classical Chinese documents and archives, his research examines the multifaceted perspectives on alcohol consumption in the context of early modern China. The comprehensive analysis sheds light on the intricate dynamics and power relations surrounding alcohol in Chinese culture and society.