Research Fields

Literature of China and Asia-Pacific Region, World Literature; Global History Theory

Courses Taught
Introduction to Comparative Literature, Studies in Chinese and Western Literary Movements, Theories of World Literature

Academic Appointments

2025–Present: Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Tsinghua University

2021–2025: Tenured Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Tsinghua University

2014–2021: Assistant Professor → Associate Professor, Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

2011–2014: Research Fellow, Department of History, Freie Universität Berlin

Selected Awards

2022: First Prize, Tsinghua University 10th Young Faculty Teaching Competition (Humanities Division)

2021: 10th Tang Tao Youth Literature Research Award

2017: Second Prize, 8th Sun Pinghua Japanese Studies Academic Award

Publications

Monographs & Edited Volumes

1. Representing Empire: Japanese Colonial Literature in Taiwan and Manchuria. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2014 (Reprinted 2016).

2. (Co-editor) Selected Readings in Modern Japanese Literary Criticism. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 2024.

3. Chinese Literature in Japan. Nanjing: Jiangsu Education Press, 2025.

4. Chinese Literature in the World: 1918–1958. Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2025.

5. (Translator) Biography of Chen Han-sheng. Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing, 2026.

6. Constructing Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century: Redefining World Literature.Palgrave Macmillan, 2026.

Selected Articles

1. “The Discourse of the People: Ding Ling and Her International Return.” Modern Chinese Literature Studies, No. 2 (2025).

2. “Back to the Future, Back to the World: Ding Ling and Her Literature at the Historical Juncture of the Early 1980s.” Journal of Chinese Literature and Thought Today 55, no. 3–4 (2025).

3. “Chen Han-sheng, the Institute of Pacific Relations, and Changing Ideas about the Chinese Rural Economy.” The Journal of American-East Asian Relations 31 (2024): 7–35.

4. “Unforgettable and Unidealized: Wild Grass and Lu Xun’s Dreams of Transition.” Literary Review, No. 5 (2024).

5. “The Cold War and Its Resistance: History, Reality, and China in Hotta Yoshie’s Time.” Foreign Literature Review, No. 4 (2024).

6. “Margins, Mediations, and Creations.” Literature & Art Studies, No. 10 (2024).

7. “The Politics of Vision: Hemingway Between the Two World Wars.” Theory and Criticism of Literature and Art, No. 6 (2024).

8. “Images of Shelley Across Three Waves of Globalization.” Journal of Translation Studies, No. 1 (2024).

9. “Knowing the World and Educating the Self: Reportage in Chinese Left-Wing Culture in 1936.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 35, no. 2 (2024).

10. “Nationalism in Chen Han-sheng’s Early World History Research.” World History Review, Spring Issue (2022).

11. “Making Literature Be Literature: ‘Genbunron’ and Mori Ōgai’s Vision of National Language.” Foreign Literature Review, no. 3 (2022).

12. “The Political Logic of Culture: Bing Xin's Literary Activities in Japan.” Literary Review, no. 5 (2021).

13. “The ‘Smedley Dilemma’: A Comparative Reading of Two American Biographies.” Open Times, no. 5 (2021).

14. “The Käthe Kollwitz Portfolio: Radical Art and the Reconfiguration of Revolutionary Consciousness.” Modern Chinese Literature Studies, no. 4 (2021).

15. “Utopianism Unrealised: Ōuchi Takao's Literary Translation in Manchukuo.” In The ‘Manchukuo Perspective’: Transnational Approaches to Literature and Collaboration, edited by Annika A. Culver and Norman Smith. Hong Kong University Press, 2019.

16. “A Shared Subject in Sino-Japanese History: Nakano Shigeharu‘s Non-Othering Discourse on Lu Xun.” Literary Review, no. 2 (2019).

17. “Meteors in the Political Sky.” Dushu (2019).

18. “Continuity and Rupture: The Problem of 'Anti-Colonialism' in China's National Independence Movement.” Open Times, no. 1 (2018).

19. “The Politics of ‘Chinese Themes’: My Motherland as a Subject for Japanese Literature in Sino-Japanese Leftist Exchanges.” Literary Review, no. 6 (2017).

20. “World Literature in Lu Xun’s German-Language Book Collection.” Literature & Art Studies, no. 5 (2017).

21. “Between ‘Material Base’ and Democratic Life: Night and the Path of New Democratic Revolution.” Modern Chinese Literature Studies, no. 5 (2017).

22. “Discovering and Representing 'the Japanese': Mori Ōgai's Novel Hanako.” Foreign Literature Review, no. 3 (2016).

23. “Nationalism in Esperanto Literature: Lu Xun’s Post-WWI Translations of Eroshenko.” Literature & Art Studies, no. 9 (2016).

24. “Hidden Forces in the Anti-Fascist War: Ding Ling's When I Was in Xia Village and Its Translations.” Literary Review, no. 5 (2015).

25. “From Little John to Medicinal Plants: Lu Xun’s Anti-Imperialist Botany in Translation.” Lu Xun Research Monthly, no. 6 (2015).

26. “From ‘Southern Barbarian’ to ‘Southern Imagination’: Exoticism and Global Connections in Modern Japanese Literature.” Foreign Literature Review, no. 3 (2014). Reprinted in Renmin University Copy Press, no. 11 (2014).

27. “When Mo Yan's Works Became ‘World Literature’: A Preliminary Study of the ‘Mo Yan Phenomenon’ in English and German Contexts.” Shandong Social Sciences, no. 3 (2014).

28. “Constraint Novelty: Literature and ‘National Concordance’ in Manchukuo.” The Journal of Northeast Asian History 10, no. 3 (2014).

29. “Translation and the Transformation of Literary Narrative Modes: Lu Xun’s Literal Translation as a Case Study.” Lu Xun Research Monthly, no. 11 (2012).

Selected Translations

“Letters from Nakano Shigeharu to Xiao Jun.” Lu Xun Research Monthly, No. 10 (2018).

“Enlightenment in Global History: A Historiographical Critique.” Regions: Studies in Asian Humanities, No. 3 (2014).

“Rescuing Ding Ling: A Case Study in Transnational Literary History.” Shandong Social Sciences, No. 12 (2014).

Selected Research Projects

1. DFG Project (Germany): Actors of Cultural Globalization, 1890–1940. Subproject: Translating Asia: Japanese Imperial Perceptions of China, 1895–1936 (2011–2014).

2. A Century of Chinese Literature’s Global Dissemination: Japanese-Language Materials.

3. Translation Movements in Asian, African, and Latin American Literature During the Cold War (1949–1966): Japanese Materials.