LI Meng

Personal Statement:

Dr Li Meng was graduated in The University of Sydney with a PhD in Gender and Cultural Studies. Her research areas include gender studies, women’s literature and popular culture. Dr Li had joined the teaching team of CIHK in 2015. She is currently subject leader of the following subjects: FH1CN02P Introducing Asian Popular Culture, FH2CN08P Popular Culture in Mainland China, FH2CM03/P Cultural History of the Eastern Part of the Silk Road, FH2CM05/P Understanding Chinese Civilization through Archaeology, CL2S02P Presenting Cultural Diversity through Service Learning.

Major publications:

Articles in the book

“Four Marginalized Women in the Ren Xiaowen’s Fiction Life is Like That”, in China from the Margin edited by Emily Williams and Loredana Cesarino, Routledge, 2024.

Co-authored book chapters with Kingfai TAM: Chapter 32: Fictions of Trauma and Reflections; Chapter 33: Fiction of Reform and Root Seeking in The Routledge Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature ed. Mingdong Gu, Routledge. (2018).

Biographies of Empresses Shulu Ping (Liao Taizu); Xiao Chuo (Liao Jingzong). Biography Dictionary of Chinese Women: Tang through Ming, 618-1644. Edited by Lily Xiao Hong Lee, and Sue Wiles. M.E.Sharpe, Inc, p.364-367, p.481-484. March, 2014.

Journal articles

Portrayals of the Chinese Être Particulières: Intellectual Women and Their Dilemmas in the Chinese Popular Context Since 2000, Journal of the British Association for Chinese Studies, Vol. 9 (1), January 2019.

林白《婦女閑聊錄》、余秀華詩歌以及範雨素自傳中的離格之美：當代女性文學中底層婦女體悟書寫之初探. 《中華女子學院學報》，vol. 6, 2017, pp.28-35.

The Melancholic Heterosexual Relationship: Intellectual Men and Women in Huang Beijia’s Novellas (1980-1990), East Asian History, Issue 14, pp.57-71 edited by Benjamin Penny and Shih-wen Sue Chen. (August, 2017). (http://www.eastasianhistory.org/41).

Estrangement: A Possible Lens in Understanding the Femininity of Post-Mao Intellectual Women, Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, High Education Press and Springer. Volume 7. Number 1:87-116 (March, 2013).

Co-edited textbook:

當代中國流行文化 Popular Culture in Contemporary China, The Hong Kong Metropolitan University Press, 2022.

Translation

Women and Societies in Tang and Song Dynasties唐宋婦女與社會, ed. Deng Xiaonan. Singapore: Palgrave and McMillian. (forthcoming) Co-PI in the 2021 Translation Project of Scholarships in China funded by National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences (China). Serial No.21WZSB025 (forthcoming 2025)

Chapters 3, 6, 8 in Revolution and Form: Mao Dun’s Early Fiction and Literary Modernity in China: 1927-1930 革命與形式：茅盾早期小説的現代性展開：1927-1930 by Chen Jianhua陳建華, Brill. (2018).

MOOC Lectures:

The Four Chinese Literary Classics for XSeries Program in Chinese Culture: Tradition, Transformation and Interaction by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (May, 2021). Available at:

https://www.edx.org/xseries/hkpolyux-chinese-culture-tradition-transformation-and-interaction