About ICS

Visiting Scheme: Young Scholars Visiting Scheme
Visiting Period: October 4 – December 24, 2021
Position: Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China
Research Interest: Modern Chinese History

Publications :

“Records of Enemies and Puppets: Qingcha Diwei Dang’an Xiaozu Dang’an in Modern Chinese History,” Twentieth Century-China, 45:3 (October, 2020), 369-377. 

“Staging China’s “Age of Extremes”: Divergent Radicalizations among Chinese Youth in Europe, 1922–1924,” Twentieth-Century China, 44:1(January, 2019), 33-52.

‘Young China’ in Europe: Life and politics of May Fourth youth in Europe, 1919-1923,” Historical Research, 91:252 (May, 2018), 353-374.

“Partyfing Sichuan: The Chinese Youth Party in Sichuan 1926-1937,” Frontiers of History in China, 8:2(2013), 223–258.

Visiting Scheme: Young Scholars Visiting Scheme 2021
Visiting Period: September 1 – December 31, 2021
Position: Assistant Professor, Kent State University, USA
Research Interest: Artisanal experience in late imperial China, materiality of calligraphy, cross-cultural interaction between China, Korea, and Japan

Publications : 

“From Epigraphy to Inscribing Objects: Recarving Ancient Relics into Inkstones,” Orientations, vol. 51, no. 6 (2020), 64-71.

“Lan Ying 藍瑛 (1585-1664 or later), Rock (寶晉齋石)”;“Fang Hengxian 方亨咸 (act. c. 1647-1678), Painting and Calligraphy (書畫冊) (after 1659)”;and“Jiang Shijie 姜實節 (1647-1709), Landscape (山水扇面) (1701).” In The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century China, edited by Peter C. Sturman and Susan S.

Tai, 188-89, 218-21, 264-65. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2012.

Visiting Scheme: Young Scholars Visiting Scheme 2021
Visiting Period: July 12 – December 31, 2021
Position: Associate Professor, College of William and Mary, USA
Research Interest: Modern Chinese humanities (film, media, and literature), cultural studies, and critical theory, with particular emphases on western Marxism, gender and sexuality studies, and postcolonial and transnational studies

Publications : 

The Art of Useless: Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. Website: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-art-of-useless/9780231192491

“The Geopolitical Aesthetics: The Migrant Workers, Performance, and Globalization in Jia Zhangke's Film The World (2004).” Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature. 18.1 (2021): 170-187.

“Socks and Revolution: The Politics of Consumption in Sentinels under the Neon Lights (1964).”The Cold War and Asian Cinemas, co-edited by Poshek Fu and Man-Fung Yip. New York: Routledge, 2020.158-173.

“Decaffeinated England: Thames Town and its Discontents.” Verge: Studies in Global Asias. 2.1 (2016): 76-83.

“Dirty Fashion: Ma Ke’s Fashion ‘Useless,’ Jia Zhangke’s Documentary Useless, and Cognitive Mapping.” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 9. 3 (2015): 253-270.

“‘Mao’s Children are Wearing Fashion!’” The Changing Landscape of China’s Consumerism. Ed. Alison Hulme. Oxford: Chandos Publishing, 2014. 23-55.

Visiting Scheme: Young Scholars Visiting Scheme 2020
Visiting Period: September 15, 2020 – January 15, 2021
Position: Assistant Professor, Grinnell College, USA
Research Interest: Pre-modern Chinese Literature

Publications : 

“Divorcing North and South: Gender, Poetry and Politics in Early Medieval China,” The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia (JOAS) 49 (2017): 50-70.

Translated Xiaofei Tian’s chapter “From the Eastern Jin through the Early Tang (317–649),” in The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature, edited by Kang-i Sun Chang and Stephen Owen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011). Chinese translation published by Shenghuo, dushu, xinzhi sanlian shushe in 2013, 232-324.

Co-author, “The Lost Learning of an Ancient Sage: the Religious Characteristic of the Flood-like qi” (Wangsheng de yiduan juexue: lun haoran zhi qi de zongjiao shuxing “往聖”的一段“絕學”：論浩然之氣的宗教屬性), Chinese Culture Research 中國文化研究 2(2005): 48-59.

“Tracing the Dark Palace Calendar” (Xuangong lifa de zuizong 玄宮曆法的追踪), New Asia Journal 新亞論叢 3 (2003): 1-4.

“From a Talented Poetess to a Jealous Wife: The Transformation of Su Hui and the Late Tang Literary Culture” (under review by Nan nü)

Visiting Scheme : Young Scholars Visiting Scheme 2019
Visiting Period : September 16 – December 23, 2019
Position : Assistant Professor, Ca’ Foscari University, Italy
Research Interest : Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, Translation Studies

Publications

L’oeuvre narrative de Yu Dafu en italien et en français : spécificités, problèmes et stratégies de traduction [Yu Dafu’s Fiction in Italian and French: Specificities, Problems, and Translation Strategies], Lille, ANRT, 2014.

“Traduire un texte entre les langues. Retour sur l’expérience de traduction de Hong bai hei” [Translating a Text Between Languages. Some Remarks on the Translation of Hong bai hei], TRANS 22, 2017.

“A City That Never Existed: Xiao Bai’s Literary Remaking of 1931 Shanghai”, Journal of Architecture and Urbanism 41, 2017: 92-100.

“Qiu Xiaolong’s 'Death of a Red Heroine' in Chinese Translation. A Macro-Polysystemic Analysis”, Annali di Ca’ Foscari, Serie Orientale 51, 2015: 95-108.

“Stratégies humoristiques et stratégies de traduction dans Shenme shi laji, shenme shi ai de Zhu Wen” [Humour and Translation Strategies in Zhu Wen’s Shenme shi laji, shenme shi ai], Impression d'Extrême-Orient 3, 2013.

“La traduction et la lettre, ou le ryokan du lointain : vers une pratique de la différence dans la traduction des langues orientales” [Translation and the Letter, or the Ryokan in the Distance: Towards a Practice of Difference in the Translation of East Asian Languages], Impressions d'Extrême-Orient 2, 2011.

Visiting Scheme: Young Scholars Visiting Scheme 2019
Visiting Period: May 21 – August 20, 2019
Position: Research Associate, Doshisha University, Japan
Research Interest: Japanese Modern Literature, Late Qing Literature

Publications :

《摩登哥児（モダンガール）としての中國人女子留學生――崔萬秋〈新路〉を読む 》（作為摩登哥兒的中國留日女學生 讀――崔萬秋〈新路〉），《野草》（日本中國文芸研究會會刊）第97號，2016年2月。

《賈寶玉、日本へ行く――南武野蛮〈新石頭記〉を読む 》（賈寶玉的日本之行――讀南武野蛮〈新石頭記〉），《饕餮》（中國人文學會會刊）第24 號，2016年9月。

《余計者としての〈留學生〉――張資平〈一班冗員的生活〉を中心に》（多餘的「留學生」 ――以張資平〈一班冗員的生活〉為中心，《現代中國》（日本中國現代學會會刊第 90 號，2016年9月。（收錄神奈川大學中國人留學史研究會論文集•《中國人留學生と「國家」・「近代」・「愛國」》（中國留學生與「國家」・「近代」・「愛國」），東方書店，2019年3月）

《〈親和〉と留學生――太宰治〈惜別〉を中心に》（〈親和〉與留學生――以太宰治〈惜別〉為中心）《同志社文學》（同志社大學国文學會會刊）第82號，2015年3月。

《〈アジアの子〉試論――時代に迫られた留學生たち》（試論〈亞洲之子〉――為時代所迫的留學生們）《同志社国學》 （同志社大學国文學會會刊）第79號，2013年12月。

《〈寅次郎的故事〉深受日本民眾歡迎的原因淺析》《華南日本研究第3輯》，2010年7月。

Visiting Scheme : Young Scholars Visiting Scheme 2019
Visiting Period : May 7 – August 15, 2019
Position : Assistant Professor, Valparaiso University, USA
Research Interest : Chinese Language, Literature and Culture

Publications :

Yuedu Tao Yuanming 閱讀陶淵明. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju 中華書局, 2016. 291 pp. ISBN: 9787101120219. Chinese Translation of Reading Tao Yuanming: Shifting Paradigms of Historical Reception (427 - 1900), by Wendy Swartz. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008.

Zhonggu wenxue zhong de shi yu shi 中古文學中的詩與史(The Interaction of Poetry and History in Medieval Chinese Literature). Shanghai: Fudan 復旦University Press, completed and accepted, forthcoming 2019.

Lore and Verse: Poems on History in Early Medieval China. Albany: State University of New York, in progress.

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Chinese Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Visiting period: April 17 – July 14, 2023

Professor Huang earned her PhD from the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Her research interests include sensory history, early cinema, and print culture of late Qing and Republican China. She is the author of Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell (forthcoming, July 2023), Shanghai Filmmaking: Crossing Borders, Connecting to the Globe, 1922-1938 (2014), co-editor of Sensing China: Modern Transformations of Sensory Culture (2022). During the visiting period in ICS, Prof. Huang conducts research on her new project on the atmosphere in modern Chinese lifeworld (Lebenswelt).

Professor and Chair, East Asian Studies, University of Alberta
Visiting period: April 14 – July 14, 2023

Professor Christopher Lupke (Ph. D. Cornell University) is a Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. A scholar of modern and contemporary Chinese literature and cinema, his books include The Sinophone Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien: Culture, Style, Voice, and Motion and a translation of Ye Shitao’s monumental work, A History of Taiwan Literature which one the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for the translation of a scholarly book from the Modern Language Association. Professor Lupke’s current research project is a book-length study of the Confucian notion of “filiality” in contemporary Chinese and Sinophone fiction. Professor Lupke is conducting a research project entitled, The Grammar of Filiality: Ritual and Reproduction in Modern Chinese Fiction and Film, during his visit to the Institute of Chinese Studies.