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張宇博士
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張宇博士

副教授

中國現當代文學、電影與文化研究;科技、媒介與文化(特別是現代交通以及電信等方面);勞動美學、工作敘事與文化政治;中國革命與社會主義文化;工匠美學;金融與文學;跨越城市/鄉村的空間轉移與現代中國

簡歷

張宇博士畢業于斯坦福大學東亞語言文化系。她的第一本英文專著《走向鄉土與現代中國文化(1915-1965)》2020年由密歇根大學出版社出版。過去幾十年間的現代中國文化研究都以都市空間為主導,這本書將鄉土空間重新納入文化研究的視域,書寫了作爲現代經驗的「走向鄉土」與啓蒙、革命以及工業化的關係,同時探討了跨越差異性地理空間的行爲如何創造了新的感知和體驗空間。

她目前正在從事兩個研究課題:1)「電話訴衷腸:中國的電信情感史(20世紀初到九零年代)」;2)「新勞模:改革開放之後中國的工作文化」

學歷

  • 美國斯坦福大學東亞語言及文化系博士

學術和專業經驗

  • 香港理工大學中國文化學系副教授  (2024. 7 –)
  • 香港理工大學中國文化學系助理教授 (2018. 11 – 2024. 6)

研究興趣

  • 中國現當代文學、電影與文化研究
  • 科技、媒介與文化(特別是現代交通以及電信等方面)
  • 勞動美學、工作敘事與文化政治
  • 中國革命與社會主義文化
  • 工匠美學
  • 金融與文學
  • 跨越城市/鄉村的空間轉移與現代中國

研究成果

2020         Going to the Countryside: The Rural in Modern Chinese Cultural Imagination1915-1965 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press)

[Reviewed by: Journal of Asian Studies [JAS], The China Quarterly, The China Journal, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture [MCLC], Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews [CLEAR], Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature, Chinese Literature and Thought Today, The English Historical Review, International Comparative Literature 《國際比較文學(中英文)》]

  • 2024    “The Cult of Craftsmanship in China: The Industrial Hand and the Artisanal Hand in the Age of High Technology,” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC), June 2024, vo. 36, No. 1: pp. 151-180.
  • 2024     “A Collective Fantasia of the Financial Age in Early 1990s China: Erotic-Speculative Sensation, Neoliberal Labor Heroine, and Presentist Worldly Wisdom,” Positions: Asia Critique, August 2024, vol. 32, Issue 3, pp. 573–600.
  • 2020      “The Discourse of ‘Patience’ and the Rural Revolutionary Narrative of Yan’an:    Rereading Ding Ling’s In the Hospital,” (“耐心”的話語与延安的鄉土革命敘事——重讀丁玲的《在醫院中》), Journal of Modern Chinese Literature (現代中文學刊), Issue 4. Reprinted in Ding Ling Studies (丁玲研究), Issue 1, 2021. http://www.dingling.org.cn/news/649.html
  • 2018      “Enchanting a World of Crafts: Handmade and Homemade Things, Affective    Labor, and Orality in The Road Home (1999),” Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2018 (on-line first, September 2016), 1-19.
  • 2017      “Socialist Builders on the Rails and Road: Industrialization, Mobility, and National Imagination in Chinese Socialist Films, 1949-1965,” Twentieth-Century China 42, No. 3, October 2017, 255–273.
  • 2013      “Visual and Theatrical Constructs of a Modern Life in the Countryside: James Yen, Xiong Foxi, and the Rural Reconstruction Movement in Ding County (1920s-1930s).” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, 25, 1 (spring): 47-95.
  • 2010      “Garden: Remembrance and Revolutionary Gesture in Ba Jin’s Family” (花园:往事追忆与革命姿态—重读巴金的《家》), Modern Chinese Literary Studies (《中国现代文学研究丛刊》). 3, 119-131 (in Chinese)
  • 2023      Review of Shakespeare and East Asia by Alexa Alice Joubin, Oxford University Press, 2021. Modern Chinese Literature and Culture.
  • 2022      Review of Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era by Jie Li. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. December. Pp. 162-167.
  • 2021      Review of Urban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visuality by Erin Y. Huang. Journal of Asian Studies. Durham: Duke University Press. 2020. 1064-1065.
  • 2019      Review of Revolutionary Waves: The Crowd in Modern China by Tie Xiao Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2017. Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature (no. 1), 2019. 208-210.
  • 2017      Review of Visions of Dystopia in China’s New Historical Novels by Jeffrey C. Kinkley. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. Chinese Literature Today 6:1, 138-139.
  • 2021       《禁忌與真相:從〈西江月〉到〈白鴿木蘭〉》(“Taboo and Truth: from Western Moon River to White Dove and Lily Magnolia,” Shanghai Review of Books. July 17. https://m.thepaper.cn/api_prom.jsp?contid=13625135&from=
    • 2018      “Postsocialism and Its Narratives: An Interview with Cai Xiang” (co-interviewed and co-translated with Calvin Hui), MCLC Resource Center Publication (on-line)  (The Chinese version 《重建开放的文学理解——蔡翔访谈录》was published by 《現代中文學刊》2019年第4期)https://u.osu.edu/mclc/online-series/zhang-hui/
  • 2022-2025        General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, H.K.S.A.R., awarded for a three-year project entitled “China at Work: Revolutionizing the Culture of Work and the Post-Mao Chinese Cultural Imaginaries”
  • 2019-2022        University’s Start-up Fund for New Recruits, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • 2016-2017        Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation Junior Scholar Grant
  • 2013-2014        Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation Doctoral Fellowship
  • 2013-2014        Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI) China Studies Dissertation Grant
  • 2012—2013     Mabelle McLeod Lewis Memorial Fund for Grants in Aid of Scholarly Work
  • 2012—2013     Stanford Humanities Center Melon Foundation Fellowship (declined)
  • 2012—2013     Stanford University Kwoks Fellowship (declined)
  • 2009—2013     Stanford University Center for East Asian Studies Summer Fellowship
  • 2007—2012     Stanford University Fellowship
  • 2005         UC Santa Barbara Kenneth Pai Fellowship
  • 2004         UC Santa Barbara Small Department Regent’s Fellowship
  • 2004         UC Santa Barbara Consortium for Literature, Theory, and Culture Scholar’s Award
  • 2004         Hong Kong Baptist University LEWI Resident Graduate Scholarship
  • 2024   “Urban Sensualities Across the Strait: Emotions, Technologies, and Politics,” The Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature (ACCL) Biennial Conference, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, June 23-25 (panel co-organizer)
    • 2023      “Sensing the Body: On Touch from Late Imperial to Contemporary China” Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference, Boston, March 16-19 (panel co-organizer)
      • 2020      “Representing Work in Contemporary China”, AAS-in-Asia 2020, Kobe, Japan, August 31- September 1, 2020 (panel withdrawn due to the Covid-19) 
        • 2015    Labor, Body, Technology: Forging Chinese Socialist Modernity at the Intersection of Human and Machine,” Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference, Chicago, March 26-29 
          • 2014    "Culturing Industry, Industrializing Everyday Life in Maoist China" Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 27-30 (panel co-organizer)
  • 2024      “How to Talk about Love Efficiently: Telephonic Sensualities, Investment and Erotics in the Republican Chinese Urban Contexts,” The Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature (ACCL) Biennial Conference, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, June 23-25
    • 2024      “Telecommunications and the Transnational World of Leftist Internationalism,” Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, March 14-17
      • 2023      “The Cult of Craftsmanship in Contemporary China,” Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference, Boston, March 16-19
      • 2021      “Educating the ‘Careless’ Socialist Child: Professionalizing Childhood in the Maoist and Early Post-Mao Years,” The Inaugural Conference of the Association for Chinese Animation Studies, Zoom Webinar, March 1-May 12
      • 2021      “The Socialist/Neoliberal Labor Hero in the Risky World of Finance: “Leung Fung-Yee Fever,” the Financialization of Everyday Life, and the Formation of Entrepreneurial Subjectivity,” Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference (on-line), March 21-26.
      • 2019     “Industrializing the Chinese Countryside in Representational and Aesthetic Forms: A Socialist Fantasia of Human Creativity,” paper presented at symposium of “Conjuring the Socialist Rural: Locality, Economy, and Imagination of Village Life in 1950s China,” The Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 16–18, 2019.
      • 2016      “Revolutionary Journeys to Yan’an: The Politics of Patience,” Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference, Seattle, March 31-April 6
      • 2015      “Socialist Builders on the Road: Industrialization, Mobility, and National Imagination in Chinese Socialist Films (1949-1965),” Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference, Chicago, March 26-29
      • 2014      “A Handmade and Homemade Industry in the Socialist Films The Young People in Our Village and its sequel,” Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 27-30

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