Research Interests:
Political philosophy in pre-modern China

Dissertation Title:
Knowing Nature: A Study of Freedom and Authority in Dialogue with Pre-Modern China
(An abstract is available here.)

Degrees Held:
M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, UIUC
B.A., Magna cum Laude, Philosophy and Honors in the Humanities (double major; minor: Chinese), City University of New York (CUNY) at Queens College

Presentations and Talks:
"What does Buddhism have to do with pragmatism?" paper presented at the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, The International Society for Buddhist Philosophy in the area of Buddhist Philosophy of Language, Washington D.C., December 27-30, 2006. (An abstract is available here.)

"Chan Buddhism: The Unconventional Education of the Metaphysician," paper presented at Metaphysics 2006 Third World Conference, Rome, July 6-9, 2006. (An abstract is available here.)

Lecture on classical Chinese language and presentation of Chinese calligraphy, for Comparative Literature 189 (Non-Western Masterpieces), UIUC, October 15, 2005.

"Oracular Writing and the Birth of Classical Political Rationalism in China," EALC Conference Room, FLB, UIUC, September 15, 2005.

"On the Study Methods of Our Times," lecture given at the Lucy Ellis Lounge, FLB, UIUC, May 20, 2003.

Nick BROWN
M.A., 1st Year

Research Interests:
Chinese literature, borderlands, Sino-Korean relations

Degree held:
B.A. Modern Chinese Studies, University of Leeds, UK

Lawrence CHANG
Ph.D., 4th Year

Research Interests:
Chinese cultural history of the Ming-Qing period, with a focus on authoritarianism and state-societal relations

Presentation:

"Indirect Autocracy: Ruling Strategies of the Qianlong Emperor," paper to be presented at the 56th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 19-21 October 2007.

Degrees Held:
M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
B.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, New York University

Degree Held:
BA, English, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan

Research Interests:
Modern Chinese and Taiwanese literature, Sino-Japanese relations, translation

Research Interests:
Taoist literature during the Six Dynasties

Degrees Held:
M.A., East Asian Studies, Stanford University
B.A., Law, National Taiwan University

Research Interests:
Chinese Literature, premodern Chinese poetic theories

Dissertation Title (Tentative):
Poetry in Publishing Boom: Gu Tang Shigui and Annotated Poetry Anthology in the Seventeenth Century

Degrees Held:
M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, UIUC
M.A., Peking University, Beijing
B.A., Peking University, Beijing

Presentations:
"On Wang Fuzhi's Poetics," paper presented at the 54th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Michigan State University, Lansing, Michigan, September 23-25, 2005.

"On Li Yu's Lyrics," paper presented at the 13th Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia, Columbia University, New York, February 7-8, 2004.

Research Interests:
Premodern Chinese literature--with a particular focus on the interaction between literary styles and the social, intellectual, and the cultural forces that motivated them

Degrees Held:
M.A., Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2005
M.A., Chinese Department, Peking University, 1998
B.A., Chinese Department, Inner Mongolia University, 1995

Research Interests:
Modern Chinese Studies (contacts between Chinese and Jews); history of travel

Degrees Held:
M.A., American Jewish History, Jewish Institute of Religion, Hebrew Union College, 2006
M.A., English Literature, Nanjing University, 2000

Yanmei HUANG
Ph.D. Candidate

Research Interests:
Chinese literature and history

Dissertation Title:
Space of Gendered Power: Gardens in Ming and Qing Novels

Degrees Held:
M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, UIUC
B.A., Sociology, Nankai University, China

Research Interests:
Modern Chinese Literature, Film Studies, Critical Theory

Degrees Held:
M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures (with Distinction), UIUC, 2006
B.A., English, Shaanxi Normal University, China, 2001

Publications and Presentations:
Publications:

"A Man Awakened from Dreams: Rereading the Modern Girl Image in A Fool's Love by Tanizaki Jun'ichiro," Graduate Journal of Asian Pacific Studies, 5(2) (2007). URL: <http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/sites/index.cfm?P=11337>.

"Architecture in Northeast Asia and Oceania," in Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture, Vol. 6: Northeast Asia and Oceania, ed., Gary Gang Xu, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 2006.

Presentations:

"In a Shadow of the Greek Tragedy: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Zhang Yimou's The Curse of the Golden Flower," paper presented at the 56th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, October 19-21, 2007

"A Man Awakened from Dreams," paper presented at The British Modernities Group 2007 Conference "Competing Modernities," at UIUC, April 26-27, 2007

"(Re)Creating Modern Chinese Music: Yang Ying, Erhu, and World Music," paper presented at the 55th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, October 20-22, 2006.

Website:
http://huangyiju.spaces.live.com/

Hyungju Hur
Ph.D. Candidate

Research Interests:
Chinese history (Late Qing), transnational intellectual history

Dissertation Title (Tentative):
Staging Race, Nation, and Gender: World Exhibitions and Transnational Publishing in Late Qing China (1851-1910)

Degrees Held:
M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, UIUC, 2003
M.A., Chinese Studies, Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul, 2000
B.A., English Language and Literature, Yonsei University, Seoul

Publications and Presentations:
Translation:
Marius B. Jansen, Hyundae ilbonul chajaso (The Making of Modern Japan), trans. Kim Wuyong, Kang Inhwang, Hur Hyungju, and Lee Jung. Ed. Moon Hyunsook, Seoul: Yeesan Publishing Co., 2006.

Other Publication:
Ethnic Identity of Overseas Chinese in Korea, M.A. dissertation, Yonsei University, 2000.

Presentation:
"Ethnic Identity of Overseas Chinese in Korea," paper presented at the Annual Conference of the International Society for the Studies of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO), Yonsei University, Seoul, June 13, 2000.

Yunyoung HUR
M.A., 2nd year

Research Interests:
Chinese philosophy, thoughts, and history--especially, Neo-Confucianism and contemporary New Confucianism

Degrees Held:
M.A., Philosophy, Sogang University, Seoul, 2004
B.A., Philosophy, Sogang University, Seoul, 2002
B.A., Religious Studies, Sogang University, Seoul, 2002

Publications and Presentations:
Publications:
Nicholas Bunnin, "Pyeonjipja Seomun" (Introduction), trans. Hur Yunyoung, in Hyundae Jungguk Cheolhak (Contemporary Chinese Philosophy), eds. Chung-ying Cheng and Nicholas Bunnin, Seoul: Seokwangsa Publishing Co., 2005.

Jiyuan Yu, "Ungsipryeokui Deokui Hyeongisanghak" (Xiong Shili's Metaphysics of Virtue), trans. Hur Yunyoung, in Cheng and Bunnin, 2005.

Lauren Pfister, "Punguranui Sinrihakgwa Jungguk Cheolhaksa" (Feong Youlan's New Principle Learning and His Histories of Chinese Philosophy), trans. Hur Yunyoung, in Cheng and Bunnin, 2005.

Chenyang Li, "Bang Dongmi:Saengmyeong, Saengsaeng geurigo Pogwaljeok Johwaui Cheolhak" (Fang Dongmei: Philosophy of Life, Creativity, and Inclusiveness), trans. Hur Yunyoung, in Cheng and Bunnin, 2005.

Refeng Tang, "Moujjongsanui Jiuijikgak" (Mou Zongsan on Intellectual Intuition), trans. Hur Yunyoung in Cheng and Bunnin, 2005.

Chung-ying Cheng, "20segi Junggukcheolhakui Bonchehaeseokhakjeok ihae: Jeongcheseonggwa Jeonmang" (An Onto-Hermeneutic Interpretation of Twentieth-Century Chinese Philosophy: Identity and Vision), trans. Hur Yunyoung, in Cheng and Bunnin, 2005.

Yunyoung Hur, Ungsipryeokui maeum: Jeontongyuhakgwa gwahakui mannam (Xiong Shili's "Mind": A Meeting of Traditional Confucianism and Science), M.A. thesis, Sogang University, 2003.

Presentation:
Jeran Kim, Junggi Gang, Gapyeon Hwang (presenters) and Yunyoung Hur (discussant), "Jungguk hyeondae yangmyeonghak" (Contemporary Chinese Yang-Ming Studies), panel at the Spring Symposium of Academics (Korean Society of Yang-Ming Studies), Seoul, May 28, 2005.

Website:
http://www.cyworld.com/shopen74

Tao JIN
Ph.D. Candidate

Research Interests:
Huayan Buddhism, Fazang (643-712), Tathagatagarbha thought, Buddhist commentarial literature and exegesis of East Asia

Dissertation Title:
The Exegetical Tradition of the Awakening of Faith in Mahayana: Fazang (643-712) and His Predecessors

Degrees Held:
M.A., English (Literature), University of Memphis, 1999
M.A., English (Translation), Tianjin Foreign Languages Institute, China, 1994
B.A., English, Tianjin Normal University, China, 1991

Publications and Presentations:

Translations:
Cai Zong-qi, "Evolving Practice of Guan and Liu Xie's Theory of Literary Interpretation," trans. Tao Jin, in Wenxin diaolong yanjiu (Studies on Wenxin diaolong). Taipei: Literature, History and Philosophy Press, forthcoming 2008.

Cai Zong-qi, "Wen and the Construction of a Critical System in Wenxin Diaolong," trans Tao Jin, in Wenxin diaolong yanjiu (Studies on Wenxin diaolong). Chinese Humanitas. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Baptist University Press, forthcoming 2008.

Cai Zong-qi, "On the Genesis and Transformation of Mencius' Reconstructive Theory of Literary Interpretation," trans. Tao Jin, Zhongshan daxue xuebao (Journal of Zhongshan University), 6 (2007).

Cai Zong-qi, "Multiple Vistas of Ming and Changing Visions of Life in the Works of Tao Qian," trans. Tao Jin, in Studies on Medieval Chinese Literature, ed. Institute of Classical Chinese Literature (Fudan University). Shanghai: Shanghai Classics Press, 2007.

Cao Zong-qi, "A Case Study of Chinese Hermeneutics: Three Interpretive Approaches in the Study of Confucius' Four Terms about the Book of Poetry," trans. Tao Jin, Jiuzhou Xuelin (Scholarly Forum on China) 2.3 (2004): 26-41.

Presentations:

"Hermeneutics in the Reconstruction of Scriptural Basis in Early
Qixinlun Commentaries," paper to be presented at the XVth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia June 23-28, 2008

"Primary Sources and the Interpretation of Scripture in Early Qixinlun Commentaries," paper presented at the Midwest Regional Conference of American Academy of Religion, River Forest, Illinois, March 30-31, 2007

"The Textual Organization of Qixinlun in Its Early Commentaries: An Instance of Buddhist Scholasticism," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Washington, D.C., November 18-21, 2006.

"With or Against the Flow of Samsara: The Evolution of Mind in Early Qixinlun Commentaries," paper presented at the Buddhist Studies Graduate Student Conference, University of the West, Los Angeles, October 13-15, 2006.

"The Formulation of Exegetical Issues and Writing of Exegesis in Early Qixinlun Commentaries: An External Tradition," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia, November 18-21, 2005.

"Li Shizheng and the Intellectual Milieu of Buddhism in the Early Tang," paper presented at the 2nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, January 8-11, 2004.

Dissertation Title:
Developmental Stages in Reading Chinese as a Second Language

Degrees Held:
M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, UIUC, 2003
M.A., Chinese Linguistics, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, 2000
B.A., Chinese Language and Literature, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, 1998

Publications and Presentations:
Publication:
Chungkuko ui OikukOhui suyong e kwanhan yonku (A Study on the Adoption of Foreign Words in Standard Chinese). M.A. thesis, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, 2000.

Translation:
Christopher D. Godwin, "Chungkuko ui oirae yongo p'yogi e kwanhayo," (The Ways of Writing Foreign Terms in Chinese) (Orig. "Writing Foreign Terms in Chinese," in Journal of Chinese Linguistics 7[2]: 246-67), Haon hakji 2 (2001): 33-62.

Presentations:
"Mental Representation of Chinese Words in Visual Word Recognition," poster presented at the Fifth International Conference of Mental Lexicon, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 11-13 October 2006.

"The Unit of the Mental Lexicon in Chinese Visual Lexical Processing," paper presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-13), Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands, 9-11 June 2005.

Sun-A Kim's CV can be found here.

Research Interests:
Voiceover narratives in modern Chinese films; monologues in classical Chinese drama

Degrees Held:
M.A. in East Asian Languages and Cultures, UIUC, 2004
B.A. in Modern Chinese Literature, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2000

Presentations and Publications:

Presentations:
"Female Body as Image of China: Female Images in Wayne Wang's The Joy Luck Club and Chinese Box," paper presented at Competing Modernities, UIUC, 27-28 April 2007

"'Who am I' in Past and Present: Memory in Peter Chan's Perhaps Love," paper presented at the 56th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, October 19-21, 2007

Translations:

Slavoj Zizek, "911 hou de kuaile" (Pleasure after 9/11), trans. Liyu Li, in Qi zeke duben (Zizek Reader), ed. Yu Haibing, Bejing: Peking University Press, forthcoming.

E. B. White, "Hai shang feng chui" (The Sea and The Wind That Blows), trans. Liyu Li in Lu Tian, 1999.

Selected Publications:

"Jian bu duan de xiang chou" (Nostalgia of Hometown), in Anthology of Tsinghua University (1911-2001), Beijing, 2001.

"Xin nian sui xiang" (On New Year's Eve), in The Carpenter Who Sculptures West Wind, ed. Shi Yan, Beijing, 2001.

"Dong tian" (The Winter), The Carpenter Who Sculptures West Wind ed. Shi Yan, Beijing, 2001

"Let's Go to a Pub," Beijing Youth Daily, April 2000.

"San ge mi mi lou le lia" (Three Secrets), Chinese Television Newspaper, August 1999.

"Zhu Ziqing he ta de er nv men" (Zhu Ziqing and His Children), Chinese Reading Newspaper, November 1998.

Liyu Li's CV can be found here.

Research Interests:
Modern Chinese literature and culture, translation studies, critical theory

Dissertation Topic (Tentative):
Beyond Belief: Zhou Zuoren and His Cultural Practice

Degrees Held:
M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, UIUC, 2005
M.A., Chinese, Beijing Normal University, 1995

Selected Publications:
Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
"New Humanism as a Counter-Narrative in Modern Chinese Critical Thinking," Modern Language Quarterly. Special issue on Modern Chinese Literature, forthcoming, early 2008.

"Zhou Zuoren: Zhongguo xiandai jiegou piping de xianqu" (Zhou Zuoren: The forerunner of deconstructive criticism in China), Wenxue lilun qianyan (Frontiers of literary theory) 3 (2006): 274-316.

"The Final Confession of Mistress Wang," Graduate Journal of Asian Pacific Studies, 3(2) (2005): 13-26. URL:
< http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/sites/index.cfm?P=9060>.

"Shuo 'le'" ("Le" in Teaching and Learning), in Dui wai hanyu jiaoxue lunwenji (Collected theses on teaching Chinese for foreign students), 198-205, Beijing: Beijing yuyan wenhua daxue chubanshe (Beijing Language and Culture Press), 1996.

"Kangju xinyang, taoru lixing: Dui Zhou Zuoren zongjiao yishi zhi yicemian de miaoshu" (A description of Zhou Zuoren's thoughts on religion and society), Lu Xun yanjie yuekan (Journal of study on Lu Xun) 163 (1995): 40-45.

Books:
Li Tonglu, Liu Jianwu, Xie Yanbing et al. Lidai gaoseng zhuan (Biographies of famous Buddhists), ed. Li Shan, Guo Changbao, 3-158, Shandong: Shandong renmin chubanshe (The People's Press of Shandong), 1994.

Li Tonglu, ed. Shangshi Jie (Selected Essays of Xiao Hong), Beijing: Beijing Guangbo Xueyuan Chubanshe (Beijing Broadcast Institute Press), 1994.

Translations:
Slavoj Zizek, "Tamen kongzhi yylake, danshi tamen kongzhi ziji ma?" (Introduction: They control Iraq, but do they control themselves?), trans. Li Tonglu, in Qi zeke duben (Zizek reader), ed. Yu Haibing, Bejing: Peking University Press, 2007.

Slavoj Zizek, "Melancholy and the Act" [Youyu He Xingwei], trans. Li Tonglu, in Qi zeke duben (Zizek reader), ed. Yu Haibing, Bejing: Peking University Press, 2007.

Slavoj Zizek, "Yishixingtai de youling" (The Specter of Ideology), in Qi zeke duben (Zizek reader), ed. Yu Haibing, Bejing: Peking University Press, forthcoming.

A more complete list of Tonglu Li's publications and presentations can be found on his CV.

Xuezhen LIN
M.A., 3rd Year

Research Interests:
Classical Chinese literature, travel writing and borderlands

Degrees Held:
M.A., Xiamen University, China, 2002
B.A., Xiamen University, China, 1999

Publication:
A Discussion of Liaozhai Dramas in Qing Dynasty, M.A., thesis, Xiamen University, China, 2002.

Research Interests:
Premodern Chinese Literature, Six Dynasties poetry

Degrees Held:
M.A., English Language and Literature, Nankai University, China

Research Interests:
Chinese Linguistics, language measurement and testing, Second Language Acquisition

Degrees Held:
B.A., English, University of Electronic Science and Technology, China
M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures (Chinese Pedagogy), UIUC

Research Interests:
The representation of the female body and sexuality in modern Chinese literature and film

Degrees Held:
M.Phil. Chinese Language and Literature, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004
B.A., Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University, Beijing, 2001

Presentations and Publications
Presentations:

"Little Red Flowers: A little Rebel's Encounter with the Cannibalistic Symbolic Order," paper presented at the 56th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, October 19-21, 2007

"Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles: Substantiating East Asian Cinema and Reflecting on Contemporary Material Society," paper presented at the 55th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, October 20-22, 2006.

Translations:
Slavoj Zizek, "Beiyue, Zuowei Shangdi de Zuoshou" (Chapter 4: NATO as the Left Hand of God), trans. Yanjie Wang, in Qi zeke duben (Zizek reader), ed. Gary Gang Xu, Wang Ning, and Yu Haibing, Bejing: Peking University Press, forthcoming.

Slavoj Zizek, and Christopher Hanlon, "Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek", trans. Yanjie Wang, Cultural Studies (October 2005). URL: <www.culstudies.com/rendanews/displaynews.asp?id=6858 >

Hui XIAO
Ph.D. Candidate;IPRH (Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities ) Fellow

Research Interests:
Modern Chinese Literature, late-Qing Fiction, Film Studies, Gender Studies

Dissertation Title:
Representing Divorce, Engendering Interiority: Narratives of Gender, Class and Family in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Culture

Degrees Held:
M.A. East Asian Languages and Cultures (with distinction), UIUC, 2003
M.A. English Language and Literature, Nankai University, China, 2000
B.A. English Language and Literature, Nankai University, China, 2000

Selected Publications:

Book:
Co-author of Abridged Chinese Reader Series. Volumes 1 (2007), 2 (2008) and 4 (forthcoming). Boston: Cheng & Tsui Company.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles: Redeeming the Father by Way of Japan? (forthcoming). Chinese Films in Focus (2nd edition), ed. by Chris Berry, London: British Film Institute Publishing.

How Did Xiaoshuo Become Novel: From Late Qing Heteroglossia to May Fourth
Monoglossia. The Proceedings of the Biennial Conference of the
Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature. ed. by Zhang Hongsheng, Nanjing, June 23 to 26, 2005.

A Comparative Study of the Gender Politics in The Eternal Motion and Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles. (2007). Cultural Studies Serial. No. 7.

Cross-Cultural Nostalgia and Visual Consumption: On the Literary Adaptation and Japanese Reception of Huo Jianqi's 2003 Film Nuan. (2007). From Camera Lens to Critical Lens: A Collection of Best Essays on Film Adaptation, ed. by Rebecca Housel, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press. 142-159.

Chu T'ien-wen's Material Taipei. (2007). Liangyou. No. 2. 74-76.

Narrating a Happy China through a Crying Game: A Case Study of Post-Mao Reality Shows. (July 2006). China Media Research. 2:3. 59-67.

Chinese Pop Culture Icons in an Age of Globalization. (2006). in Globalization and Chineseness: Postcolonial Readings of Contemporary Culture. ed. by Geng Song, Hong Kong University Press. 213-232.

Chinese Melodrama, Japanese Nostalgia. (2005). Asian Cinema, 16:2. 63-84.

L2 Acquisition of Chinese Syntactic Structures. (2004). The Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Chinese Language Pedagogy. Kunming, July 2-4, 2004. 173-76.

Book/Film Reviews:

The Vagina Monologues: Stories from China . (Forthcoming) Asian Educational Media Service Newsletter

The Fragile Scholar: Power and Masculinity in Chinese Culture. By Song Geng. (2007:7). Journal of East Asian Studies. 503-506.

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles. (Spring 2007). Education about Asia. Vol. 12, No. 1. 56-57.

The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China by Tze-Lan D. Sang (University of Chicago Press, 2003), Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context 14, URL: http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/issue14_contents.htm

A more complete list of Hui Xiao's publications and presentations can be found on her CV.

Website:
http://www.frchina.net/person.php?id=256

Research Interests:
Modern Chinese literature, cinema studies