Professor Michel Hockx
DRS, PhD (Leiden)
Overview
Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia
Professor of Chinese
Centre of Chinese Studies
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
Centre for Media and Film Studies
Associate Member, Centre for Media and Film Studies
Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS)
Member
Centre for Translation Studies (CTS)
Member, Centre for Translation Studies
- Name:
- Professor Michel Hockx
- Email address:
- mh17@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4222
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 394
- Office Hours:
- Tuesdays 15:30-16:30/Wednesdays 15:30-16:30
Teaching
Programmes Convened
Courses Taught
- Chinese 103: History and Culture of China
- Chinese 402: BA Dissertation in Chinese Studies
- Modern Chinese Literature (MA)
PhD Students supervised
- Alessandro Columbu, Depicting Syria: the short stories of Zakariyya Tamir
- Bodil Margaret Knuts , 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)
- Hector James Ross Maclennan , Chinese Reportage in the Early Years of the People's Republic of China
- Kaby Wing-sze Kung, From Feminism to Post-Feminism: The Development of Feminism in Hong Ying and Li Bihua's Work
- Pamela Anne Hunt, Configurations of masculinity and realms of agency in post-89 Chinese urban fiction (working title)
- Paul Bevan , Manhua and Propaganda Wartime Illustration in China
- Serafina Aquilino, A virtual language: The use of Chinese language in electronic literature and its influence in Chinese popular culture
- Shuk Man Leung, The Discursive Formation of the Utopian Imagination in New Fiction, 1902-1911
- Weina Pan, Miscellaneous is Beautiful: Literary Journal Production in Wartime Shanghai
- Yuanyuan Ma, Between National Essence and New Knowledge – Re-evaluating Xueheng in the 1920s and 1930s
Research
Modern Chinese poetry; the sociology of modern Chinese literature; contemporary Chinese Internet CultureExpertise
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Available for
- Radio
- Press
- TV
- Briefings
- Short Term Consultancy
Regional Expertise
- East Asia
Country Expertise
- China
Languages
- Chinese Mandarin
- Dutch
- English
- German
Publications
Authored Books
Hockx, Michel (2003) Questions of Style. Literary Societies and Literary Journals in Modern China, 1911-1937. Leiden: Brill.
Hockx, Michel (1994) A Snowy Morning: Eight Chinese Poets on the Road to Modernity. CNWS (Leiden).
Edited Books
Van Crevel, Maghiel and Tan, Tian Yuan and Hockx, Michel, eds. (2009) Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music: Essays in Honor of Wilt Idema. Leiden: Brill. (Sinica Leidensia, v.92)
Denton, Kirk A. and Hockx, Michel, eds. (2008) Literary Societies of Republican China. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Guttman, Anna and Hockx, Michel and Paizis, George, eds. (2006) The Global Literary Field. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Hockx, Michel and Strauss, Julia, eds. (2005) Culture in the Contemporary PRC. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (China Quarterly Special Issues, New Series, no. 6)
Hockx, Michel and Smits, Ivo, eds. (2003) Reading East Asian Writing: The Limits of Literary Theory. London: Routledge Curzon.
Hockx, Michel, ed. (1999) The Literary Field of Twentieth-Century China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii; Richmond: Curzon Press.
Book Chapters
Hockx, Michel (2011) 'Print Culture and the New Media in Postsocialist China.' In: Jones, Sara and Nehru, Meesha, (eds.), Writing under Socialism. Nottingham: Critical, Cultural and Communications Press, pp. 29-41.
Hockx, Michel (2008) 'The Involutionary Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature.' In: Louie, Kam, (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture. Cambridge University Press, pp. 235-252.
Hockx, Michel (2007) 'Gentility in a Shanghai Literary Salon in the 1930s.' In: Berg, Daria and Starr, Chloe, (eds.), The Quest for Gentility in China: Negotiations Beyond Gender and Class. Routledge, pp. 58-72.
Hockx, Michel (2003) 'Literary Communities and the Production of Literature.' In: Mostow, J, (ed.), The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature. Columbia University Press (USA), pp. 315-323.
Hockx, Michel (2001) 'Wu Xinghua, the Poetics of New Poetry, and the Taiwanese Poetry Scene of the 1950s.' In: Neder, C and Roetz, H and Schilling, I-S, (eds.), China and her Biographical Dimensions: Commemorative Essays for Helmut Martin. Harrossowitz Verlag (Wiesbaden), pp. 313-329.
Articles
Hockx, Michel (2012) 'The Literary Field and the Field of Power: The Case of Modern China.' Paragraph, 35 (1). pp. 49-65.
Hockx, Michel (2011) 'Wangluo zhi zhu: Chen Cun yu lianxubuduan de xiandaixing (Master of the Web: Chen Cun and the Continuous Avant-Garde).' Dangdai zuojia pinglun (5). pp. 93-101.
Hockx, Michel (2005) 'To tong or Not to tong: The Problem of Communication in Modern Chinese Poetics.' Monumenta Serica. Journal of Oriental Studies, 53 (2005). pp. 261-72.
Hockx, Michel and Strauss, Julia (2005) 'Introduction.' The China Quarterly, 183 . pp. 523-531.
Hockx, Michel (2005) 'Virtual Chinese Literature: A Comparative Case Study of Online Poetry Communities.' The China Quarterly, 183 . pp. 670-691.
Hockx, Michel (2004) 'Links with the Past: Mainland China's Online Literary Communities and Their Antecedents.' Journal of Contemporary China, 13 (38). pp. 105-27.
Hockx, Michel (2002) '"Kuangnan chinü: yuedu Chen Hengzhe, Lu Xun he _Xin qingnian_ de fangshi" (Mad Men and Crazy Women: Ways of Reading Chen Hengzhe, Lu Xun and _New Youth_).' Xiandai Zhongguo (Modern China), vol. 2 . pp. 94-102.
Hockx, Michel (2000) 'Changing One's Style: Liu Bannong and Modern Chinese Prose Poetry.' Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese, 3 (no2 . pp. 83-117.
Hockx, Michel (1999) 'Is There A May Fourth Literature? A Reply to Wang Xiaoming.' Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, 11, no . pp. 40-52.
Hockx, Michel (1998) 'The Literary Association and the Literary Field of Republican China.' The China Quarterly, 153 . pp. 49-81.
Hockx, Michel (1998) 'In Defence of the Censor: Literary Autonomy and State Authority in Shanghai, 1930-1936.' Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese, 2 (1). pp. 1-30.
Hockx, Michel (1996) 'Born Poet and Born Lover: Wang Jingzhi’s Love Poetry within the May Fourth Context.' Modern Chinese Literature, 9 (2). pp. 261-295.
Translations
Hockx, Michel and Af Sandeberg, Maria and Kwan, Uganda Sze Pui and Payne, Christopher Neil and Rosenmeier, Christopher, trans. (2011) Touches of History: An Entry into 'May Fourth' China by Chen Pingyuan. Leiden: Brill.
