Tsering Samdrup Cairangsanzhou
Expressing Politeness in Old Tibetan: Investigation based on three Dunhuang Tibetan texts
- Email: 666518@soas.ac.uk
China & Inner Asia Section, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures
PhD Students
Federica Gamberini
[working title] The Idea of Beauty. Subjectivity, writing and aesthetic experience in Contemporary Chinese literature
- Email: 616281@soas.ac.uk
Zhu Liang
Occult Verse: Poetry and Divination in Early China
- Email: 657476@soas.ac.uk
Chen Ma
Negotiating with Ambiguity: The Reconstruction of Ecological Consciousness in post-2000 Chinese Science Fictions
- Email: 665174@soas.ac.uk
Fang Wan
The Construction of Feminist Utopia in Chinese Internet Literature
- Email: 656175@soas.ac.uk
Magdalena Wojcik
The Community, Voice and Contributions of the Other Tang (618–907) Women Poets in the Early Modern (16th–18th c.) Anthologies of Poetry.
- Email: 232827@soas.ac.uk
Recently Awarded PhDs
2019
- Catherine Elizabeth Ames "A Festival of Mysticism: Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Narrative Form and the Politics of Cultural Formation" (Dr S Dodd)
- Jiani Chen "Misty Flowers in a Floating World: Images of Courtesans in Ming Dynasty Nanjing" (Dr T Y Tan)
- Ka Chi Cheuk "Escape from Censorship: The Aesthetics of Reflexivity in Gao Xingjian's PreNobel Plays" (Dr R Ferrari)
- Eleanor Laura Lipsey "Music motifs in Six Dynasties texts" (Dr B Fuehrer)
2018
- Lucrezia Botti "The Allure of the Dressing Case: A Study of Yang Weizhen's (1296-1370) and Wang Cihui's (1593-1642) Xianglianti (Fragrant-Dressing-Case Style) Poetry" (Dr T Y Tan)
2017
- Serafina Aquilino "Walking into the Literary Field? The Interaction between China's official and online Literary Scene" (Prof M Hockx)
2016
- Angela Becher "The Monumental Imaginary: Postsocialist Architecture in Contemporary Chinese Art and Film" (Dr R Ferrari)
- Alastair MacDonald "Reimagining the Vernacular Story: Textual Roles, Didacticism, and Entertainment in Erpai" (Dr T Tan)
- Letizia Fusini "Dionysus on the Other Shore: Framing Gao Xingjian's Theatre of the Tragic" (Dr R Ferrari)
- Beibei Zhan "Deciphering a Tool of Imperial Rule - A Case Study of the Marriage Rituals for Imperial Princes during the Hongwu Reign (1368-1398)" (Dr B Fuehrer)
2015
- Pamela Hunt "Configurations of Masculinity and Realms of Agency in Post-1989 Chinese Fiction" (Prof M Hockx)
- How Wee Ng "Worrying about the audience: The Discourse on Television Drama Censorship in Postsocialist China" (Dr R Ferrari)
- Eddie Bertozzi "One Step Forward into Reality - Transvergent Reconfigurations of the Jishizhuyi Style in Contemporary Chinese Cinema" (Dr R Ferrari)
- Yiming Shen "Chinese Islamic Text Studies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: A Case Study of Chinese Translations of Jami's Persian Sufi Prose" (Dr B Fuehrer)
2014
- Wing Sze Kaby Kung "From Feminism to Postfeminism: A Feminist Critique of the Works of Hong Ying and Li Bihua" (Prof M Hockx)
- Yin-Chen Kang "The Formation of Taiwanese Classical Theatre, 1895-1937" (Dr T Tan)
2013
- Shuk Man Leung "The Discursive Formation of the Utopian Imagination in New Fiction 1902-1911" (Prof M Hockx)
- Paul Bevan "Manhua Artists in Shanghai 1926-1938: From Art-for-art's sake to Wartime Propaganda" (Prof M Hockx)