Faculty Associate
wsywong[at]yorku.ca
Professor
Department of Design, York University
Research Keywords:
Chinese comic art history; Chinese graphic design history; Hong Kong Studies
Research Region(s):
East Asia, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Research Diaspora(s):
Asian Diaspora, Hakka Diaspora, Hong Kong Diaspora
Wendy Siuyi Wong is a Full Professor in the Department of Design at York University, Toronto, Canada. An internationally recognized expert in Chinese comic art and the history of graphic design, her book Hong Kong Comics: A History of Manhua (2002, Princeton Architectural Press) has cemented her reputation as an authority in these fields.
Her co-edited work, Transnationalism in East and Southeast Asian Comics Art (2022), with John A. Lent and Benjamin Wai-ming Ng, examines transnationalism and comics art across six East Asian and seven Southeast Asian countries. Dr. Wong’s latest monograph, The Disappearance of Hong Kong in Comics, Advertising and Graphic Design (2018, Palgrave Macmillan), uses Hong Kong as a lens to explore how comics, advertising, and graphic design contribute to understanding contemporary transnational visual cultures.
A leading voice in Chinese graphic design history, Dr. Wong has contributed to The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design (2012) and The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design (2016). She was a regional editor for Greater China for the Encyclopedia of East Asian Design (2020) and served on the Journal of Design History Editorial Board (2012–2017). She recently concluded her term as Associate Editor of Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (2022).
Her current research focuses on Transnational and Identity Studies, emphasizing self-decolonization and decolonization strategies in research-creation. Dr. Wong explores transnational Asian art and diasporic Asian identities through storytelling, creative practices, digital technology, and generative AI, seeking to unravel their complexities and interconnections across historical and contemporary contexts.