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
- Email: 232381@soas.ac.uk
China & Inner Asia Section, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures
PhD Students
Jiani Chen
Working title: Misty Flowers in a Floating World: The images of Courtesans in Ming Dynasty Nanjing
- Email: 615185@soas.ac.uk
Michael Ka Chi Cheuk
Aesthetics of Reflexivity in Gao Xingjian’s Pre-Nobel Plays
- Email: michael_cheuk@soas.ac.uk
Federica Gamberini
[working title] The Idea of Beauty. Subjectivity, writing and aesthetic experience in Contemporary Chinese literature
- Email: 616281@soas.ac.uk
Roberta Ginleiz Gattodoro
The Transmission of the Puṇyavanta- Jātaka, A Sanskrit Buddhist text handed down into Chinese, Tocharian and Tibetan.
- Email: 540865@soas.ac.uk
Connor Judge
Foreign Policy Discourses in Early Imperial China: a Case Study of Han-Xiongnu Relations
- Email: 551085@soas.ac.uk
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)
- Email: 315557@soas.ac.uk
Davide Latini
Reconstruction and Symbolic Analysis of the Ancient Chinese Myths [Working Title]
- Email: 633468@soas.ac.uk
Zhu Liang
Occult Verse: Poetry and Divination in Early China
- Email: 657476@soas.ac.uk
Eleanor Lipsey
Musical Instruments in Literature of Six Dynasties China
- Email: 604815@soas.ac.uk
Liu Yangruxin
Working title: The Transmission and Reception of the Shiji 史記 in the Song Dynasty (960-1279)
- Email: yl23@soas.ac.uk
Chen Ma
Negotiating with Ambiguity: The Reconstruction of Ecological Consciousness in post-2000 Chinese Science Fictions
- Email: 665174@soas.ac.uk
Hector James Ross Maclennan
Chinese Reportage in the Early Years of the People's Republic of China
- Email: 216376@soas.ac.uk
Ke Meng
Working title: Soliloquy in Late Imperial Chinese Chuanqi Drama
- Email: 567502@soas.ac.uk
Ms Chloe Cheug-Wing Ng
Women in Chaos: Female Images in Song Dynasty and national Instability in the Twelfth Century
- Email: 655811@soas.ac.uk
Yuanyuan Su
Storytelling and Transmission of Manchu Bannermen Tales (Zidishu) in Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)
- Email: 642534@soas.ac.uk
Cheuk Yee Wai
The Craft of Affairs: Women and Sexual Liaisons in Late Imperial Chinese Erotic Fictions
- Email: 657982@soas.ac.uk
Fang Wan
The Construction of Feminist Utopia in Chinese Internet Literature
- Email: 656175@soas.ac.uk
Yang Weng
Animals and Music in early China [working title]
- Email: 665175@soas.ac.uk
Magdalena Wojcik
Trespassers of the Gender Boundaries - Collective Voice of the Tang Dynasty Women Poets
- Email: 232827@soas.ac.uk
Recently Awarded PhDs
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)