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Books
, 2018, From Crisis Poetics to Place Fiction (cong weiji shixue dao diyu xiaoshuo), Huamulan Publishing House, Taiwan: Xinbei, http://elib.infolinker.com.tw/cgi-bin2/Libo.cgi?
, 2013, Contemporary Chinese Print Media: Cultivating Middle Class Taste, Routledge, London, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415559690/
, 2011, From Burke and Wordsworth to the Modern Sublime in Chinese Literature, Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/titles/format/9781557535764
Book Chapters
, 2025, 'Two Talks and Two Moments in the CCP's Jiaohua Tradition', in Yingjie Guo (ed.), Jiaohua: Chinese Ideas and Practices of Moral Transformation, Springer, Singapore, pp. 175 - 189, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9487-4_10
, 2016, '“The Province, Other Worlds and Revolution (省城，他乡，革命)"', in Iwasa Masaaki 岩佐昌暲 ; Li Yi 李怡 (ed.), The Dancing Table: Late Qing and Early Republican Chinese Students in Japan and Modern Chinese Literature (清末民初赴日留学生与中国现代文学）, Huamulan wenhua chubanshe, Taipei, pp. 219 - 228
, 2015, 'The World of Twentieth-Century Chinese Popular Fiction: From Shanghai Express to Rivers and Lakes of Knights-Errant', in Yingjin Zhang (ed.), A Companion to Modern Chinese Literature, John Wiley & Sons, West Sussex, UK, pp. 244 - 260, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118451588.ch15
, 2014, 'Aesthetic-politics of prosperity Romancing the middle class', in CONTEMPORARY CHINESE PRINT MEDIA: CULTIVATING MIDDLE-CLASS TASTE, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 79 - +, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000326803500004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
, 2014, 'Exemplary tastes, memories of class History as cultural source', in CONTEMPORARY CHINESE PRINT MEDIA: CULTIVATING MIDDLE-CLASS TASTE, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 13 - +, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000326803500002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
, 2014, 'Global Motion and the Production of Knowledge', in Gal O; Zheng Y (ed.), Motion and Knowledge in the Changing Early Modern World: Orbits, Routes and Vessels, Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 1 - 14, http://www.springer.com/new+&+forthcoming+titles+(default)/book/978-94-007-7382-0
, 2014, 'Introduction Taste, class culture and the print media in contemporary China', in CONTEMPORARY CHINESE PRINT MEDIA: CULTIVATING MIDDLE-CLASS TASTE, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 1 - +, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000326803500001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
, 2014, 'Narrating city, placing class', in CONTEMPORARY CHINESE PRINT MEDIA: CULTIVATING MIDDLE-CLASS TASTE, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 49 - +, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000326803500003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
, 2014, 'Xu Xiake's Travel Notes: Motion, Records and Genre Change', in Gal O; Zheng YZ (ed.), Motion and Knowledge in the Changing Early Modern World: Orbits, Routes and Vessels, Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 31 - 45, http://www.springer.com/new+&+forthcoming+titles+(default)/book/978-94-007-7382-0
, 2012, 'Historical Crisis and New Poetic Spirit', in Fujita R (ed.), Issues of Far Eastern Literatures, St. Pertersburgh University Press, St. Petersburgh, pp. 251 - 272
, 2010, 'Chinese Modernisms', in Oxford Handbook of Modernisms, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199545445.013.0055
, 2010, 'Chinese Modernisms: Politics, Poetry and Cultural Dissonanc', in Brooker P; Gasiorek A; Longworth D; Thacker A (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 976 - 995, http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199545445.do#.T8K_GnktiUA
, 2009, 'À La Mode: the Provincial Cosmopolitan', in Donald SH; Kofman E (ed.), Branding Cities: Cosmopolitanism, Parochialism, and Social Change, Routledge, London, pp. 172 - 188
, 2008, 'Richer than before – the cultivation of middle-class taste: education choices in urban China', in Goodman DSG (ed.), The New Rich in China: Future Rulers, Present Lives, Routledge, London, pp. 71 - 82, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415455657/
, 2007, 'Wenrenjingshen yu houshehuizuyiqingqu: sanwen wenhua piping (Literati Spirit and Post-socialist Taste: on Contemporary Chinese Essay Culture', in Nanxiu Q; Hongshen Z (ed.), Zhongguowenxue: chuantong yu xiandai de duihua (Chinese Literature: Dialogue between Tradition and Modernity, shanghai guji zubanshe (Shanghai Classics Publishing House), Shanghai, pp. 628 - 641
, 2006, '“Zhongcan jieji pinwei de peiyang: chengshi zhongguo de yuedu, lüyou he jiaoyu xuanze (Cultivating Middleclass Taste: Urban China’s Reading, Travel and Education Choices)”', in Gong S (ed.), Kui Bu Ji (Steps of Transformation), Shanghai daxue chubanshe, Shanghai, pp. 131 - 137
, 2004, 'The Romantic Transfiguration of a Sublime Poetics', in Baillie C; Dunn E; Zheng Y (ed.), Travelling Facts: The Social Construction, Distribution, and Accumulation of Knowledge, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt, pp. 92 - 123
, 2003, 'Cultural Traditions and Contemporaneity : the Case of the New Confucianist Debate', in Lepenies W (ed.), Entangled Histories and Negotiated Universals: Centers and Peripheries in a Changing World, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt, pp. 310 - 336
, 2001, 'Cultural Tradition and Modern Confucianism', in Szegedy-Maszák M (ed.), National Heritage and National Canon, Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study, Budapest, pp. 145 - 176
, 1997, 'Narrative Images of the Historical Passion: those Other Women—On the Alterity in the New Wave of the Chinese Cinema', in Lu SH (ed.), Transnational Chinese Cinema: Identity, Nationhood and Gender, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, pp. 347 - 360
Edited Books
Gal O; Zheng Y, (ed.), 2014, Motion and Knowledge in the Changing Early Modern World: Orbits, Routes and Vessels, Springer, Dordrecht
Zheng Y; Hemelryk Donald SJ, (ed.), 2009, Post-Mao, Post-Bourdieu: Class and Taste in Contemporary China, Portal Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/portal/issue/view/61
Zheng Y, (ed.), 2004, Traveling Facts, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt
Journal articles
, 2025, 'Creative Entrepreneurs: Centenarian Memoirs and Vernacular History', Journal of Contemporary China
, 2024, 'The Bildungsroman of an Artist for New China: Fu Lei's Family Letters, 1954–1966', Boundary 2: an International Journal of Literature and Culture, 51, pp. 137 - 163, http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01903659-11083882
, 2023, 'Centenarian Memoirs and Vernacular History', Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 53, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/18681026231206408
, 2022, '巴金《激流三部曲》的空间叙事 (The Spatial Narrative of Ba Jin's Torrents)', 当代文坛, 262, pp. 141 - 150
, 2020, '1911 in Chengdu', boundary 2, 47, pp. 173 - 199, http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01903659-7999557
, 2018, 'Crisis and Creation: the Sturm und Drang Poetics of Guo Moruo', Modern Chinese Culture and Literature, 26, pp. 139 - 153
, 2017, '从《里门拾记》到《果园城记》：师陀小说原乡志系列', 现代中国文化与文学 (Modern Chinese Culture and Literature), 23, pp. 1 - 17
, 2016, 'The Prosaic and Provincial History of an Epic Revolution', Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, 63, pp. 138 - 152, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20512856.2016.1244912
, 2015, 'The Local Place and Other Worlds: Li Jieren's Provincial History of Xinhai Revolution (Difang yu Taxiang: Li Jieren de Shengcheng Geming Sh)', Studies of Republican Chinese Literature (Minguo Wenxue yu Wenhua Yanjiu) and Culture, 1, pp. 118 - 128, https://books.google.com.au/books?id=-okzCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA118&lpg=PA118&dq=%E6%B0%91%E5%9B%BD%E6%96%87%E5%AD%A6%E6%96%87%E5%8C%96%E7%A0%94%E7%A9%B6+%E9%83%91%E6%80%A1&source=bl&ots=pJgbY3ORZ2&sig=ZHfqzwh8k4DjRFwYi-Bjmnh9Olg&hl=en&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwiw4q7s6aDLAhVJmJQKHd-0D3YQ6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&q=%E6%B0%91%E5%9B%BD%E6%96%87%E5%AD%A6%E6%96%87%E5%8C%96%E7%A0%94%E7%A9%B6%20%E9%83%91%E6%80%A1&f=false
, 2015, '庸常与史诗：李劼人的小说近代史', 现代中国文化与文学, 15, pp. 285 - 293
, 2015, 'The Prosaic and the Epic: Li Jieren's Modern Chinese History in Novel Form', Xiandai zhongguo wenhua yu wenxue (Modern Chinese Culture and Literature), 15, pp. 285 - 293, http://c.wanfangdata.com.cn/Periodical-xdzgwhywx.aspx
, 2014, 'The History of Words and Transformation of Ideas in 20C China (ciyu de lishi yu sixiang de shanbian)', Studies on Modern Chinese Literature (zhongguo xiandaiwenxue yanjiu congkan, 07, pp. 197 - 201, http://www.cnki.com.cn/Journal/F-F2-XWYC-2014-07.htm
, 2012, '“Beyond Accommodation”', Intellectual History Review, 21, pp. 231 - 239
, 2012, 'Poetics of Crisis and Historical Redirection: Guo Moruo’s Modern Nirvana', Comparative Literature: East & West, 16, pp. 47 - 66
, 2011, 'New terms of accommodation: Benjamin Elman's on their own terms and early modern global networks of knowledge', Intellectual History Review, 21, pp. 231 - 239, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2011.574349
, 2011, 'Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China', JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, 70, pp. 553 - 554, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0021911811000404
, 2010, 'What Makes a Genre Blockbuster Good to Look At: Zhang Yimou's Transformative Modus Operandi in Hero', FILM INTERNATIONAL, 8, pp. 47 - 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fiin.8.1.47
, 2010, 'What Makes a Genre Blockbuster Good to Look At: Zhang Yimou's Transformative Modus Operandi in Hero', Film International, vol. 8, pp. 47 - 63
, 2009, '“Introduction: Post-Mao, Post-Bourdieu: Class and Taste in Contemporary China”', PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 6, pp. 1 - 11, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/portal
, 2009, 'A taste of class: manuals for becoming woman', Positions - East Asia Cultures Critique, 17, pp. 489 - 531, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/positions/v017/17.3.donald.html
, 2008, 'Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific', CHINESE HISTORICAL REVIEW, 15, pp. 356 - 359, http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/tcr.2008.15.2.356
, 2007, 'Cultural Tours and Spiritual Home', Portal Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 4, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/portal/issue/view/28/showToc
, 2004, '"Personalized writing" and its enthusiastic critic: Women and writing of the Chinese "post-new era"', Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature, 23, pp. 45 - 64, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20455170
, 2004, 'Personalized Writing and Chinese Feminist Criticism in the ‘Post’-New Era', Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature, 23, pp. 45 - 64