Research Articles
“Tearing Through the Screen: Diegetic Credits, Dialogic Media, and Fictional Reality in Kon Satoshi’s Paprika.” Japan Forum, 36.3. 2024, pp. 257-283. https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2024.2332173. Recipient of the 2024 Ian Nish Prize, awarded by the British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS).
“Impossible to Return: Abe Kōbō, Repatriation, and Postwar Japan.” The Journal of Japanese Studies, 48.2. 2022, pp. 327-353. https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2022.0039.
Co-authored with Yiran Xu. “Language Play as Resistance: Navigating Digital Censorship During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Language & Communication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.008.
"The Ghostly Postwar: Memory and Temporality in Takahata Isao’s Grave of the Fireflies.” Mechademia, 18.2. Forthcoming in summer 2026.
Liang, Jiajun. “Indicators of Gender Identity in Contemporary Japanese Fictions.” Wittenberg University East Asian Studies Journal, 39. 2014, pp. 152-165. Recipient of the 2014 Mikiso Hane Prize, awarded by the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs.
Translations
Ching, Leo. “Ouran tiji de Wushe shijian: Lun Jindao Youzi de Taiguo yeman de” [Musha Incident, Incidentally: Tsushima Yūko’s Exceedingly Barbaric]. Translated by Jiajun Liang. In Wushe shijian: Taiwan lishi he wenhua duben [Musha Incident: A Reader in Taiwan History and Culture]. Taipei: Rye Field, October 2020.
Sezaki, Keiji. “Media and Short Stories” [Media to tanpen shōsetsu]. Translated by Jiajun Liang. In Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.