• Associate Professor in Chinese and Asian Studies, UNSW Sydney

Pan Wang is Associate Professor of Chinese and Asian Studies at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of Love and Marriage in Globalizing China (Routledge, 2015) and Love and Romance in China: From Comrades and Partners to AI Lovers (Bloomsbury, 2025). She is currently Guest Editor of the Social Sciences special issue “Intimate Relationships in Diverse Social and Cultural Contexts” (2024).

Her recent publications include “Parental Marriage-Matchmaking Practices: Marketisation, Internationalisation, and Digitalisation” (Routledge, 2025), “Love during the Cultural Revolution: Evidence from a Couple’s Private Letters, 1968–1977” (The History of the Family, 2022), and “Going Solo: An Analysis of China’s ‘Single Economy’ through the Date-Renting Industry” (Asian Studies Review, 2021).

Pan Wang serves on the editorial board of Asian Studies Review and is Book Review Editor for its China portfolio.

Experience

  • 2018–present
    Associate professor, UNSW

Education

  • 2013 
    University of Technology Sydney, PhD in International studies
  • 2007 
    Cardiff University, Wales, U.K., Master in International Journalism

Publications

  • 2025
    Love and Romance in China: From Comrades and Partners to AI Lovers (1950s – 2020s), Bloomsbury Academic
  • 2015
    Love and Marriage in Globalizing China, Routledge

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