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CHEN Xiangjing is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Institute for World Literatures and Cultures and the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Tsinghua University. She received her BA and MA in modern Chinese Literature from Peking University, and PhD in East Asian Literature from Cornell University in August 2017. Her research interests include Chinese socialist literature and culture, modernity of East Asia, Marxist theory on uneven development, and translation theory. She has several publications and translations, including an interview with Naoki Sakai titled “Asia’s Way of Resistance: Cultural Politics and Knowledge Production of Asia” (2016) and a book review on Politics of Art: The Creation Society and the Practice of Theoretical Struggle in Revolutionary China (2016). Her translations include Public Passions: The Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the Rise of Popular Sympathy in Republican China (2011), “Revolution and negotiation (1911- 1913): The Awakening of Asia at the Beginning of China’s Twentieth Century” (2016), “The Allusive Mode of Production: Text, Commentary, and Illustration in the Tianzhangge Edition of Xixiangji” (2017).
XIE Jun is a Postdoctoral research fellow in the Institute for World Literatures and Cultures and the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University. He is also listed as a research fellow in the International Center for Critical Theory at Peking University. His research interests include critical theory, modern and contemporary Chinese literature, law and post-Mao social development. He received his PhD from New York University in February of 2017. His recent publications include “The Strategy of Xu Chi: Revisiting Aesthetics and the Problem of Modernity in the Early 1980s” (2017), “‘An Inscription on Wandering’ and The Cultural Politics of the Early 1930s” (2017), “The Machiavellian, the Philistine, the Romantic: Rereading Human, Ah, Human!”(2016), “Revisiting the Great Divide: The Human in Post-socialism” (with Jennifer Dorothy Lee, 2016), “The Multitude in Wilderness: Wang Anyi’s Anonymous and its Real” (2016), “‘Qiaoyun is Carrying a Load’: A Defective/Utopian Figure in the Early 1980s”(2016).
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