Research

(PDF's of some of the following works are also available on my Academia webpage.)

Books:

• (Co-edited with Sheldon Lu) Essays on Chinese Ecocinema (Zhongguo shengtai dianying lunji 中國生態電影論集)。Wuhan: Wuhan University Press, 2017.

• (Co-authored with Xin Yang) Reconfiguring Class, Gender, Ethnicity and Ethics in Chinese Internet Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 2017.

• Uneven Modernity: Literature, Film, and Intellectual Discourse in Postsocialist China. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2012. [Introduction PDF]

Reviews:

Jefferey. C. Kinkley's review in CHOICE (June 2012): 1867. [View PDF]

Luke Robinson's review in The China Quarterly 210 (June 2012): 533-5. [View PDF]

Shuyu Kong's review in Pacific Affairs 86, no. 1 (March 2013): 151-2. [View PDF]

Fengyuan Ji's review in New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 15, no. 1 (July 2013): 134-6. [View PDF]

Yiyan Wang's review in The China Journal no. 70 (July 2013): 266-8. [View PDF]

Liu Kang's review in Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, and Reviews no. 35 (2013): 259-60. [View PDF]

Huike Wen's review in Film & History 45, no. 1 (2015): 82-3. [View PDF]

Journal Articles and Book Chapters in English:

• “Ecopoetics in the Dagong Poetry in Postsocialist China: Nature, Politics, and Gender in Zheng Xiaoqiong’s Poems.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. (Refereed, forthcoming)
• “Unmaking of Nationalism: Drug Addiction and Its Literary Imagination in Bi Shumin’s Novel.” In Howard Choy ed., Discourses of Disease: Writing Illness, the Body and the Mind in Modern China. Leiden: Brill, 2016. 123-50. (Refereed)
• “Language, Migrancy, and the Literal: Ha Jin’s Translation Literature.” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 40, no. 1 (March 2014): 147-67. (Refereed)
• (Co-authored with Xin Yang) “Circulating Smallness on Weibo: The Dialectics of Microfiction.” Frontiers of Literary Studies in China 8, no.1 (March 2014): 181-202. (Refereed)
• “Toward a New Leftist Ecocriticism in Postsocialist China: Reading the ‘Poetry of Migrant Workers’ as Ecopoetry.” In Ban Wang and Jie Lu, eds., China and New Left Visions: Political and Cultural Interventions. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012, 139-57. (Xiaobing Tang's Review)
• “Popularization of Traditional Culture in Postsocialist China: A Study of the Yu Qiuyu Phenomenon.” Journal of Contemporary China 20(69) (March 2011): 343-58. (Refereed)
• “Zhang Yimou.” In Yvonne Tasker, ed., Fifty Contemporary Film Directors. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2011, 434-42.
• “Unevenness in Contemporary China: A Critical Inquiry.” Telos 151 (Summer 2010): 57-85.
• “Constructing a Neorealist Reality: Petty Urbanites, Mundaneness, and Chi Li’s Fiction.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 22, no. 1 (Spring 2010): 59-95. (Refereed)
• (Co-authored with Xin Yang) “Digitized Parody: The Politics of Egao in Contemporary China.” China Information 24, no. 1 (March 2010): 3-26. (Refereed)
• “Social Critiques and Sentimentalism: On Wang Xiaoshuai’s So Close to Paradise.” Asian Cinema 20, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2009): 182-92.
• “Commerce and the Critical Edge: Negotiating the Politics of Postsocialist Film, the Case of Feng Xiaogang.” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 3, no. 3 (2009): 193-214. (Refereed)

Journal Articles and Book Chapters in Chinese:

• “Studies of Chinese Cinemas in the English World” (Yingyu shijie Zhongguo dianying yanjiu 英語世界中國電影研究). In Translations and Studies of Modern Chinese Literature in the English World (Yingyu shije Zhongguo xiandai wenxue de yijie yu yanjiu 英語世界中國現代文學的譯介與研究), edited by Ji Jin 季進 (45,000 words, in Chinese, forthcoming).
• “Cell Phone and Changes of Our Daily Lives: From An Oral Message to Caught in the Web” (Shouji gaibian richang shenghuo: Cong Kouxin dao Sousuo 手機改變日常生活：從《口信》到《搜索》). Cultural Studies (Wenhua yanjiu 文化研究), no. 24 (2016): 81-93.
• “The Tension of Viewing Eileen Chang: An Overview of Contemporary Scholarship on Eileen Chang, with an Review of Viewing of Eileen Chang at Zero Degree” (Kan Zhang de zhangli: Dangdai Zhangxue saomiao, jianping Lingdu kan Zhang 「看張」的「張力」：當代「張學」掃描，兼評《零度看張》). Jianghan Academic (Jianghan xueshu 江漢學術) 35, no. 2 (April 2016): 13-20.
• “Ecopoetics and Beyong: Postsocialist Condition, the Poetry of Migrant Workers, and Zheng Xiaoqiong” (Shengtai shixue shijiao jiqi chaoyue: Hou shehui zhuyi qingjing, dagong shige he Zheng Xiaoqiong 生態詩學視角及其超越：後社會主義情境、打工詩歌和鄭小瓊). Journal of East Asian Humanities (Dongya renwen 東亞人文) (2015): 91-109.
• “Review of Remaking Chinese Cinema: Through the Prism of Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Hollywood by Yiman Wang” (Guangying zheshe zhong zhuti yishi de bianzhengfa: Ping Wang Yiman Zhongguo dianying chongpai: touguo Shanghai, Xianggang yu Haolaiwu de duolengjing 光影折射中主體意識的辯證法：評王亦蠻《中國電影重拍：透過上海、香港與好萊塢的多棱鏡》). Twenty-First Century (Ershiyi shiji 二十一世紀), no. 12 (2015): 113-25. (Refereed)
• “Trash, Place, and Ecocinema: The Case of Wang Jiuliang’s Eco-documentary Beijing Besieged by Trash” (Laji, weizhi yu shengtai dianying: Yi Wang Jiuliang shengtai jilupian Laji weicheng weili 垃圾、位置與生態電影：以王久良的生態紀錄片《垃圾圍城》為例). New Films (Dianying xinzuo 電影新作), no.6 (November 2015): 12-19. [View PDF]
• “Nationalism, Politics of Depoliticization, and Statism: A Response to the Debate on Chinese-Language Film and Subjectivity of Chinese Cinema” (Minzuxing, qu zhengzhihua de zhengzhi yu guojia zhuyi: dui “huayu dianying” yu “Zhongguo dianying zhutixing” zhi zheng de yige huiying 民族性、“去政治化”的政治與國家主義：對“華語電影”與“中國電影主體性”之爭的一個回應). New Films (Dianying xinzuo 電影新作), no. 5 (September 2015): 4-12.
• “Problematics of the Nation and Paradoxes of the Orient: Cultural Nationalism, Identity, Subjectivity, and Oriental Traditions in Yeats’s Poetry” (Yezhi shege: Minzu de diaogui yu dongfang de beilun--lun qi wenhua minzuzhuyi, shenfen, zhuti yu dongfang chuangtong 葉芝詩歌：民族的弔詭與東方的悖論——論其文化民族主義、身份、主體與東方傳統). Jianghan Academic (Jianghan xueshu 江漢學術「教育部名欄——現當代詩學研究」) 34, no. 3 (June 2015): 39-47.

Book Reviews:

• (Co-authored with Heather Inwood, Margaret Hillenbrand) “Review of Internet Literature in China by Michel Hockx.” Asiascape: Digital Asia 4, nos. 1-2 (2017): 159-70.
• “Review of Humour in Chinese Life and Culture: Resistance and Control in Modern Times edited by Jessica Milner Davis and Jocelyn Chey.” The China Quarterly 218 (2014): 587-9.
• “Review of Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China by Yingjin Zhang.” China Review International 20, nos. 1/2 (2013): 212-17.
• “Review of Directory of World Cinema: China edited by Gary Bettinson.” China Review International 19, no. 4 (2012): 572-5.
• “Review of TV Drama in China edited by Ying Zhu, Michael Keane, and Ruoyun Bai.” The China Journal 62 (2009): 195-7.

Encyclopedia Entries and Other Essays:

• “Feng Xiaogang (Chinese New Year Cinema).” In Jeremy Murray and Kathy Nadeau, eds., Popular Culture in Asia and Oceania. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press/ABC-CLIO, 2016. 158-62.
• “The Anxiety and Politics of Periodization” (Duandai de jiaolü yu zhengzhi 斷代的焦慮與政治). Twenty-First Century (Ershiyi shiji 二十一世紀), no. 10 (2015): 156-7. (In Chinese)
• “Chen Kaige.” In Kerry Brown, ed., Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography, Vol. 4. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2015. 55-61. (Refereed)
• “Qian Zhongshu.” In David Pong, ed., Encyclopedia of Modern China, Vol. 3. Detroit, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2009. 227-9.
• “Wang Xiaoshuai.” Kosmorama 236 (2005): 197-9.

Translations:

• Li, Fengliang. “New Horizons of Transnational Chinese-Language Film Studies: An Interview with Sheldon H. Lu.” Trans. Haomin Gong. Journal of Chinese Cinemas 4, no.3 (2010): 245-60.
• Harper, Michael. “Bouillabaisse: for Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge,” “Muse [Spencer Trask’s den at Yaddo],” “Mama: to son.” Translation into Chinese by Haomin Gong. Poetry Sky 15 (2008).
• McCarey, Leo, dir. Going My Way. Translation into Chinese by Haomin Gong and Xin Ning. Beijing: Zhongguo Zhigong chubanshe, 2003.

Creative Writings:

• “Earthquake 5.12” (地震5.12), Chinese Journal (中文詩刊) (May 2008).
• “If All These is Only a Dream” (如果這一切只是一場夢), Chinese Journal (中文詩刊) (May 2008).