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Chinese Literature and Culture, Women and Gender, Translation and Comparative Literature

Biography

Yun Zhu received her BA and MA in English from Shanghai International Studies University and her PhD in Comparative Literature from University of South Carolina. Her research interests focus on Chinese literature and culture from the late Qing to the contemporary period and women’s literature and film. Her first book, Imagining Sisterhood in Modern Chinese Texts, 1890-1937 (Lexington Books, 2017), investigates sisterhood as a converging thread that weaves female subjectivities and intersubjectivities into a larger narrative of Chinese modernity.

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Selected Publications

• Imagining Sisterhood in Modern Chinese Texts, 1890-1937. Lexington Books, 2017.
• “Recollecting Ruins: Republican Nanjing and Layered Nostalgia in Bai Xianyong’s Taipei People and Ye Zhaoyan’s Nanjing 1937: A Love Story.” Frontiers of Literary Studies in China 11.2 (August 2017): 375-397.
• “Negotiating Chinese Modernity through the Translation of Tears: Two ‘Foreign’ Tragic Love Stories from Early Twentieth-Century China.” Translation and Modernization in East Asia in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Ed. Lawrence Wang-chi Wong. Hong Kong: Research Centre for Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2017. 307-340.
• “Women in All Lands and the Hierarchies of ‘Global’ Knowledge in Chinese Print Culture at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Kodex 6 (2016): Transforming Book Culture in China, 1600-2016. Eds. Daria Berg and Giorgio Strafella. 83-100. 
• “In Search of an ‘Origin’: Re-Presenting Guoxue in Chinese Cinema of the New Millennium.” East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 1.3 (September 2015): 325-340.
• “Subjectification of the Female Body in Ding Ling’s ‘In the Summer Vacation.’” Intertexts: A Journal of Comparative and Theoretical Reflection 15.1 (Spring 2011): 39-59.

Courses Taught

• Chinese 0868 /Asian Studies 0868 / Chinese Honors 0968: World Society in Literature and Film
• Chinese 1001: Chinese Elements I
• Chinese 2002: Chinese Intermediate II
• Chinese 2011 / Asian Studies 2030: Pre-Modern Chinese Literature in Translation
• Chinese 2013 / Asian Studies 2013: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature in Translation
• Chinese 2022 / Asian Studies 2022: Contemporary Chinese Urban Film and Fiction in Translation
• Chinese 3000 / Asian Studies 3030 Special Topics: History, Memory, and Nostalgia in Chinese Literature and Film
• Chinese 3000 / Asian Studies 3030 Special Topics: Love and Desire in Chinese Literature and Film
• Chinese 3000 / Asian Studies 3030 Special Topics: Science Fiction from China
• Chinese 3000 / Asian Studies 2030 Special Topics: Food and Drink in Chinese Literature and Film
• Chinese 3000 / Asian Studies 2030 Special Topics: Martial Arts in Chinese Literature and Film
• Chinese 3001: Chinese Advanced I
• Chinese 3021 / Asian Studies 3030: Modern China in Fiction and Film
• Chinese 3031 / Asian Studies / GSWS 3031: Women in Chinese Literature 
• Chinese 3900 / Asian Studies 3900 Honors Special Topics: The Fantastic World of Chinese Science Fiction
• Asian Studies 4096: Seminar in Asian Studies (Capstone)