Research Fields
Modern East Asian Literature and Thought, Global History, World Literature

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

Academic Appointments

2021–Present: 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 (Forthcoming).

5. (Translator) Biography of Chen Han-sheng. Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing, 2025 (Forthcoming).

6. Constructing Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century: Redefining World Literature. Springer, 2025 (Forthcoming).

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.