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Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia

PhD Students

Serafina Aquilino
Serafina Aquilino

A virtual language: The use of Chinese language in electronic literature and its influence in Chinese popular culture

Angela Becher
Angela Becher

China’s urban monumentality in contemporary fiction, cinema and art


Eddie Bertozzi
Eddie Bertozzi

One Step Forward Into Reality: Redefining the Realist Style in Contemporary Chinese Cinema

Paul Bevan
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Manhua and Propaganda Wartime Illustration in China


Letizia Fusini
Letizia Fusini

Concepts of tragedy in Gao Xingjian post-exile plays

Pamela Anne Hunt
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Configurations of masculinity and realms of agency in post-89 Chinese urban fiction (working title)


Yin-Chen Kang
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The Formation of Taiwanese Classical Theatre: 1900-1930

Bodil Margaret Knuts
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Flight or Fight: the Nation is Lost. The influence of a vagrant life on the notion of "home” in the prose of Xiao Hong (1911-1942) and Xiao Jun (1907-1988)


Kaby Wing-sze Kung
Kaby Kung

From Feminism to Post-Feminism: The Development of Feminism in Hong Ying and Li Bihua's Work

Shuk Man Leung
Shuk Man Leung

The Discursive Formation of the Utopian Imagination in New Fiction, 1902-1911


Xushuang Liu
Xushang Liu

Martial arts novel in Qing dynasty

Man Yee Lum
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Drama Criticism of the Eighteenth Century


Yuanyuan Ma
Yuanyuan Ma

Between National Essence and New Knowledge – Re-evaluating Xueheng in the 1920s and 1930s


Hector James Ross Maclennan
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Chinese Reportage in the Early Years of the People's Republic of China

How Wee Ng
How Wee Ng

To Shave and not Behead--Censorship Practices in Contemporary Chinese Television Drama and Film


Weina Pan
Weina Pan

Miscellaneous is Beautiful: Literary Journal Production in Wartime Shanghai

Yiming Shen
Yiming Shen

Chinese Islamic text studies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: A case study of Chinese translations of Jāmī’s Persian Sufi prose


Tsz Wing Wu
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Humorous Writings of the Late Ming Scholar-official Wang Siren (1572-1646)

Beibei Zhan
Beibei Zhan

Wedding Ritual in Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 AD): Prescriptions, Practices and the Discourse (tentative title)