Jackson Yue Bin Guo

Sessional Lecturer (Fall 2024)

Campus

Fields of Study

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.

Education

PhD, University of Toronto
MA, University of Toronto
BA, University of Toronto