Chinese Department
Yu Xiayun

Teaching-research Office: Department of Chinese Language and Literature Native Place: Zhejiang Province

Final Graduation School: Soochow University

Graduation Major:Comparative Literature and World Literature

Teacher's Remarks: Reading is not to challenge or refute, to believe and take it for granted, or to find words and talk, but to weigh and consider. (Bacon)

Email: yuhsiayun@home.swjtu.edu.cn

Mailing Address: Graduate School of Southwest Jiaotong University, Western Park, Chengdu High-tech Zone, Sichuan Province


Teacher Profile

1. 2001 - 2005, School of Art and Communication, Southwest Jiaotong University, bachelor;

2. 2005 - 2008, School of Art and Communication, Southwest Jiaotong University, master;

3. 2009 - 2012, School of Literature, Soochow University, doctor;

4. 2012 - 2014, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Fudan University, postdoctor;

5. 2015 - 2016, Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Kangwon National University, visiting scholar.


♣ Research Fields

1. Overseas Studies of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature (paying special attention to the writing of overseas Chinese literary history in recent years);

2. Literature and Cultural Studies in Late Qing Dynasty;

3. Audiovisual Experience and Emotional Politics in the 20th Century;

4. Science Fiction Literature and Post-human.


♣ Enrollment Major

Enrollment Type

School

Major Code

Major Name

Major Type

Major Direction

Doctor

Humanities

050100

Chinese Language and Literature

Academic

03.Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature

Doctor

Humanities

050100

Chinese Language and Literature

Academic

05.Comparative Literature and World Literature

Master

Humanities

050100

Chinese Language and Literature

Academic

05.Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature

Master

Humanities

050100

Chinese Language and Literature

Academic

07.Comparative Literature and World Literature

Note: the major of master's enrollment is filled out by the supervisor in person. Some teachers may not set it, but it does not mean that master's degree is not enrolled.


♣ Admission Requirements

Serious and honest students, especially students with language expertise are welcome.


♣ Teaching Experience

1. 2012 - 2014, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Fudan University;

2. 2014 - present, School of Humanities, Southwest Jiaotong University.


♣ Teaching Achievements

1. Third Prize of the Seventh Young Teachers Lecture Competition of Southwest Jiaotong University.


♣ Major scientific research projects undertaken in recent years

1. A project of the National Social Science Fund of China, Study on the History, Form and Cross-cultural Politics of Chinese Literature History Writing in English World; 2. A research project of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, A Study of Modern Chinese Literature in English World as a "Method"


♣ Thesis Results

1. Yu Xiayun, Glamorous Surface and Blank Subject: Superficial Modernism from "Shanghai Modern" to "The Romance in Screen", Modern Chinese Culture and Literature, 2019

2. Yu Xiayun, Socialist Economics and Divergence-On Yan Lianke's Enjoying the Life, Review of Contemporary Writers, 2019

3. Yu Xiayun, Wan Xia's Essence: Cultural Arcade and Cross-border Counterfeit Irony, Journal of School of Chinese Language and Culture Nanjing Normal University, 2018

4. Yu Xiayun, "Deciphered" as an Anti-literary Narrative: Understanding Mai Jia's Classicism in "Generation", Chinese Modern Literature Research Series, 2018

5. Yu Xiayun, An Inlaid Harp Solving People's Difficulty: Nomadic Poetics, Repeated Narration and Lyricism of Things in the Sound of Wind, Contemporary Writers Review, 2018

6. Yu Xiayun, Planning the World: Topological Space of "Description of Global Wonderful Scenery", Literary Review, 2017

7. Yu Xiayun, A Re-visit to "Dark Consciousness"-"De-moralization" Interpretation of "The Gate of Darkness" and "History and Monster", Modern Chinese Culture and Literature, 2017

8. Yu Xiayun, Re-examining the Consciousness of Politics and Religion in All Men Are Brothers, The Research on Ming &Qing Dynasties Novels, 2015

9. Yu Xiayun, Understanding Aesthetics in Revolutionary Tradition, Southern Cultural Forum, 2015

10. Yu Xiayun, The Politics of Technology: Reflections on Overseas Modern Chinese Visual Cultural Studies, Theoretical Studies In Literature and Art, 2015

11. Yu Xiayun, Re-examining "Semi-colonial" Context of Modern Chinese Literature: Focusing on the Study of Shu-mei Shih, Comparative Literature in China, 2014


♣ Published Monographs

1. In 2017: monograph, A Summary of the Study of Modern Chinese Literature in the English-speaking World

2. In 2014: monograph, The Controversy between Elegance and Popularity: An Investigation of the Field Struggle between the New Literature and the Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies School (1896-1949)