Prof. Aeneas Zi Wang, Ph.D.

Aeneas Zi Wang is Professor of Sociology at the School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Nanjing University. Prior to this, he was Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the French National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilisations (INALCO) in Paris, as well as German Research Foundation-funded Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His primary research interests bridge migration, demography, education, and well-being/quality of life studies from cross-regional and transnational perspectives. He is the author of The Discursive Construction of Hierarchy in Japanese Society (De Gruyter 2020) and The Role of Language in the Wellbeing of Migrants (Routledge 2022).

In May 2026, he will be a visiting researcher at the Japan Centre, where he will be working with Prof. Dr. Gabriele Vogt.

On 7 May 2025, Aeneas Zi Wang will give a lecture at the Japan Center of the LMU: "Elective Liminality: Chinese Study Mothers and the Strategic Inhabitation of Temporariness in Southeast Asia"