Jiazheng Wang

Contact

• workUniversity Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• Jiazheng.Wang@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Jiazheng Wang (she/her/they) is a PhD candidate in the School of Sociology at the University of Nottingham. Her PhD research investigates the sexual subjectivities of young Chinese women amidst the tensions between burgeoning women's awakening and feminist movements advocating for gender equality and the resurgence of Confucianist gendered norms. Jiazheng holds a BA in English Language (with a GPA of 3.8/4) from the Nanjing University of Science and Technology in China and a MA in Education with a Merit from University College London.

Teaching Summary

Identity in Popular Culture (2024-2025) -- Seminar Tutor

Research Summary

Research Title: Sexual Subjectivities of Young Chinese Women: Feminist Struggles

Jiazheng's research examine how young Chinese women understand themselves as sexual beings and conduct a critical and nuanced analysis of their sexual subjectivities that may draw on, negotiate, and/or disrupt gender norms entrenched in China's socio-political-cultural context. Essential concepts from Foucault's, Butler's and Deleuze and Guattari's philosophies will serve as the theoretical underpinnings for this research. This research focus in particular on how young Chinese women negotiate their sexual subjectivities and their struggles between sexual moralities and sexual desires amidst contemporary phenomenon, including burgeoning women's awakening and feminist activism via online social media, as well as the backdrop of a gendered ideology's adherence to Confucian morality.