Monograph:
Underground Springs: “V Narod” and Cultural Remaking in the 1920s China, Beijing: SDX Joing Publishing Company, 2024 (in SDX & Harvard-Yenching Academic Library)《地泉涌动：“到民间去”与1920年代中国的文化再造》，北京：生活·读书·新知三联书店，2024年（收入三联·哈佛燕京学术丛书）
Journal articles:
1. “Literature and Culture in Movement—An Tentative Approach to Rethink Modern Chinese Literature” (运动的文学与文化), Literary Debates《文艺争鸣》no. 2 (2025): 107-111
2. “Culturalizing the literature and socializing the culture”, Masterpieces Review《名作欣赏》, no. 6 (2024): 98-100
3. “Variations of ‘folk’ in the rise and fall of People’s Literature and Arts: Revisiting the birth of Ethnic Minority Literature and its relation with Folk Literature” (人民文艺变迁中的“民间”变奏：兼论少数民族文学的诞生及其与民间文学关系的变化), Journal of Chinese Nation Studies《中华民族共同体研究》, no. 2 (2024): 92-109
4. “Who is ‘minren’?”(“民人”是谁？), Dushu《读书》, no. 5 (2024): 92-99
5. “Minjian / Folk: The Modern Evolution of a Category and Its Historical Conditions” (“民间”：一个范畴的现代演变及其历史条件), Open Times 《开放时代》，No. 6 (2023): 54-71
6. “How the Art of People is Possible?—Revisiting Lu Xun and Folk Literature”（民众的文艺如何可能？——鲁迅与民间文学关系重探）, Modern Chinese Literature Studies《中国现代文学研究丛刊》, No. 3 (2023): 73-101
7. “Premises of envisaging ethnicity and nation: Yang Chengzhi’s Yunnan survey and Nationalism in the 1920-30s China”（ 设想“民族”的前提——杨成志云南调查与20世纪二三十年代中国的民族主义）, Open Times《开放时代》, No. 3 (2022): 54-67
8. “’The Short 20th Century’ and Reapproaching the Problem of Culture”（ “短二十世纪”与重建文化问题的方法论）, Theory and Criticism of Literature and Art《文艺理论与批评》, No. 2 (2022): 17-22
9. “Typology of Voice: A Madman’s Dairy and Lu Xun’s Thinking on Language” (“声”的类型学：《狂人日记》与鲁迅的语言观), Modern Chinese Literature Studies《中国现代文学研究丛刊》, No. 10 (2021): 165-175 (Fully reprinted in )
10. “Ethnicity and Region in Shen Congwen’s Writing on West Hunan in the Late 1930s” (沈从文三十年代中后期湘西叙述中的民族与区域), Literary Review《文学评论》, No. 2 (2021): 165-175
11. “The Countryside as a Problem: Centered on Li Dazhao’s ‘Youth and the Countryside’”, Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, 2019, 13 (1): 72-96
12. “The Centenary of May Fourth Studies: How to Break through the Polemic Framework of the 1980s” (“五四”研究百年：突破1980年代的问题意识框架如何可能), Dongfang Journal《东方学刊》, Spring (2019): 91-98
13. “Culture, Movement, and Form of the ‘Folk’: Popular Literary Magazine around the ‘May Thirtieth’ Event” (文化、运动与“民间”的形式——以五卅前后的《民众文艺周刊》为中心), Literary Review《文学评论》, No. 3 (2017): 70-79
14. “’V Narod’ and Remaking Literature: Zhou Zuoren’s Chinese Translation of Ishikawa Takuboku’s ‘After Discussions without a Result’” (“到民间去”与文学再造：周作人汉译石川啄木《无结果的议论之后》前后), Modern Chinese Literature Studies《中国现代文学研究丛刊》, No. 4 (2017): 35-51
15. “A Reassessment of Relations between Gu Jiegang’s Historical Research and Folklore Studies” (顾颉刚的古史与民俗学研究关系再探讨), Journal of Tsinghua University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)《清华大学学报（哲学与社会科学版）》, No. 1 (2016): 95-106 (Summarized version reprinted on Social Science Digest社会科学文摘, No. 3 (2016): 95-96)
16. “How the ‘Society’ Get ‘Mobilized’? —a Side Investigation of Cultural Politics in ‘May Fourth’ China” (“社会”如何“运动”？——对“五四”时期文化政治一个侧面的考察), Theory and Criticism of Literature and Art《文艺理论与批评》, No. 6 (2015): 47-52
17. “Revolution and thereafter: A Brief Review of Contemporary China Studies in North America” (革命及其后：美国当代中国学研究管窥), China Book Review《中国图书评论》, No. 9 (2014): 38-45
18. “Among ‘Classical’, ‘Vernacular’, ‘Refined’ and ‘Popular’—the Modern Chinese Linguistic Reform and Journal New Youth” (“文”“白”“雅”“俗”之间——以《新青年》为中心的辨析), Journal of Hunan Administration Institute《湖南行政学院院报》, No. 4 (2013): 105-112
19. “‘Sound’ and ‘Script’ in Chinese National Language” (国语中的‘言’与‘文’), Journal of Capital Normal University (Social Sciences Edition)《首都师范大学学报（社会科学版）》, No. 6 (2010): 124-129
20. “Phonetics, National Language and Nationalism: a Reflection Started from The Debate around the Unification of National Language in Late May Fourth Times” (语音、国语与民族主义：从五四时期的国语统一论争谈起), Literary Review《文学评论》, No. 4 (2009): 136-142
21. “Moral and True Knowledge: an Analysis of Zhang Taiyan’s Logic in Religious Thinking” (道德与真知：章太炎的宗教思想逻辑)，Qiu Suo《求索》, No. 3 (2009): 108-109
Book Chapter:
YUAN Xianxin , “Lenin’s Death in China”, in Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn & Patrick Anderson eds., LENIN: The Heritage We (Don’t ) Renounce, Daraja Press, 2024, pp.320-322.
Newspaper:
YUAN Xianxin, “Tang Tao: A Life of Poetry and History” (唐弢：亦诗亦史的人生), Wenyi Bao文艺报, 18th August, 2023
Translations:
1. “Acculturation or Tolerance? The Inter-faith Relation in Mughal North India” (涵化还是宽容？莫卧儿时期北印度的信仰关系), by Muzaffar Alam & Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Remapping Vol. 7《区域 第7辑》, Wang Hui and Wang Zhongchen eds., Beijing: Social Science Academic Press, 2019, pp. 25-69.
2. “The Nation and Nation-State and its Imperial Framwork in European History” (欧洲历史中的民族与民族国家及其帝国框架), by Jože Vogric, Remapping Vol. 7《区域 第7辑》, Wang Hui and Wang Zhongchen eds., Beijing: Social Science Academic Press, 2019, pp. 16-26.
3. “Cosmopolitans Elsewhere: Reflections on the Indian Ocean World and Surat, 1500-1750” (别处的世界主义者：关于印度海洋世界与苏拉特的思考（1500-1750）), by Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Remapping Vol. 5《区域 第5辑》, Wang Hui and Wang Zhongchen eds., Beijing: Social Science Academic Press, 2016, pp. 29-76.
4. “From the Beginning”(从起点开始), by Alex Monro, Remapping Vol. 4《区域 第4辑》, Wang Hui, Cui Zhiyuan and Wang Zhongchen eds., Beijing: Social Science Academic Press, 2016.
5. “Chinese Society and Her Future”(中国社会及其未来), by Samir Amin, Alexander Bugarin, Wang Hui and Wen Tiejun, South Review《南风窗》, No. 1 (2016) (co-work with Lin Yan).
6. “The Communist Hypothesis and 21st Century”（共产主义假设与二十一世纪）, by Slavoj Žižek, Alessandro Russo, Zhang Yongle and Wang Hui, Remapping: An Asian Studies Series (Volume 2: Rethinking 20th Century)《区域：亚洲研究论丛（第2辑，重新思考二十世纪）》, Wang Hui and Wang Zhongchen eds., Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 2012, pp. 1-44
Conference and talks: (selected)
1. “Literature and Culture in movement—an approach of rethinking the history of modern Chinese literature” (运动的文学与文化——重思中国现当代文学史的一种路径), challenges and future of modern Chinese literature study: the fifth symposium of emerging scholars, Modern Chinese Literature Association, Beijing, July 15-16th, 2024
2. “Cocoon: An alternative of rural writing” (《茧》：乡村书写的另一种可能), Modern literature in trans-cultural context: the third session of Beijing-Hong Kong young scholars conference in humanities, the City University of Hong Kong, June 10-11th, 2023.
3. ““Minjian / Folk: The Modern Evolution of a Category and Its Historical Conditions” (“民间”：一个范畴的现代演变及其历史条件), conference “Conceptual history of Chinese Revolution”, Nanjing University, Nanjing, April 28-29th, 2023
4. “Revisiting the ‘Lu Xun conundrum’ in folk literature studies” (重访民间文学的“鲁迅难题”), talk, the First Normal College of Hunan, Changsha, August 3rd, 2022.
5. “Nation and region in Shen Congwen’s writing on Western Hunan” (沈从文湘西叙述中的民族与区域), workshop, “cultural movement and the politics of space”, Tsinghua University, Beijing, October 17-18th, 2020.
6. “Unit of the people: land property, petty people and global capitalism” (人民的单位：地权、细民与全球资本主义), workshop, “‘Discourse of Civilization and Chinese thinking in the 20th century”, Shanghai University, Shanghai, October 16th, 2019
7. “Paradoxes of nation: the folks, the problem of border and ideological competition at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s” (民族的悖论：民间、边疆问题与二三十年代之交的意识形态竞争), young scholars forum, “literature, revolution and Chinese experience”, Xinan University, Chongqing, June 22-23rd, 2019.
8. “Typology of Voice: Diary of a Madman and Lu Xun’s Thinking over Language”, international conference commemorating centenary of Lu Xun’s A Madman’s Dairy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 5th October, 2018 (in English)
9. “Ethnicity, Nation and Class: Ideological Competition and Cultural politics in the 1920s China”, paper forum, summer school on Global Studies and Critical Theory, held by the University of Bologna, Duke University and the University of Virginia, Bologna, Italy, July 4th, 2016 (in English)
10. “‘V Narod’ and Cultural Politics in Mid-1920s China: Centered on Journal Chinese Youth”(“到民间去”与1920年代中期的文化政治——以《中国青年》为中心), international conference, “Political Subject vs. Politics of Subjectivity: Social Critical Theory Forum”, National Chiao Tung University台湾交通大学, Hsinchu新竹, Taiwan, 21st November, 2015
11. “‘Common people’, Culture and Politics in ‘May Fourth’ China”(“民众”与五四时期的文化与政治), conference, “Retracing Currents: New Culture Movement and 20th Century China”(重返激流：新文化运动与百年中国), organized by Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Capital Normal University, Xiangshan Hotel香山饭店, Beijing, 18th October, 2015
12. “Post-revolution and Nation-states: Contemporary Paradigmatic Shift in Modern Chinese History Studies in North America”(后革命与民族国家：试论当代北美中国近代史研究范式的转变), international conference, “The 2nd Young Scholars’ conference on China Studies: New Directions for China Studies”, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, 16th December, 2014
13. “The Countryside as A Problem: Centered on Li Dazhao’s ‘Youth and the Countryside’”, international conference, “Putting East Asian Modernity in Question: A Joint Forum by Postgraduate Students of Tsinghua University and the University of Tokyo”, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 14th September, 2014 (in English)
14. “Unifying or Transcending: Linguistic Nationalism in Modern Chinese Context (1910-1925)”, speech, The University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, 16th March, 2012 (in English)
1. Convenor of serial conferences on “the 20th century China”. “Historical consciousness and 20th century” in 2023, “Literary history and reform history in the 1980s China” in 2022, “Culture and revolution of the short 20th century” in 2021, and “Culture movement and the politics of space” in 2020.
2. Chief organizer of serial joint forums of Graduate Students from China, Japan and Korea, since 2016.
3. Interpreter, lecture, “The Road of Theory: A Geographical and Chronological Inquiry”, by Doctor Lindsay Waters, chief editor of humanities at Harvard University Press, Tsinghua University, 24th October, 2016
4. Interpreter, lecture, “Nation and Nation-States in European History and Their Imperial Framework”, by Professor Joze Vogrinc from Ljubljana University, Tsinghua University, 26th September, 2016
5. Commentator, book workshop for Jiang Tao, “Pagoda in Apartment: Literature and Youths in 1920s China”, Peking University, Beijing, 5th March, 2016
6. Assistant organizer, international conference, “20th Century Socialism: Ideas and Practices in Soviet Union and China”, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 4th-6th September, 2015
7. Panelist, “language and modern China”, young scholar workshop, “Modern Chinese Humanities: Topics and Methodologies”, Harvard University, 22nd March, 2012 (in English)
8. Interpreter, lecture, “Cognitive, Capitalism, Bees Economics and Financial Crisis: From an economic of exchange to an economy of contribution”, by professor Yann-Moulier Boutang from l’université de technologie de Compiène, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 7th June, 2010
9. Interpreter, international workshop, “Conversation between Chinese and Indian writers”, participants including Ashis Nandy, Lydia Liu, and etc., Xiangshan Hotel, Beijing, 22nd-23rd May, 2010
10. Assistant organizer, international conference, “2009 Biennial Conference of American Association of Chinese Comparative Literature(ACCL)”, Beijing, June 2009
11. Assistant organizer, international conference, “Culture and Politics in 20th Century China: May Fourth as a Site for Rethinking”, Beijing, October 2008
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