Han Li joined the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at 星空无限传媒 in 2008. She received a B.A. in Chinese Literature from Nanjing University and a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures from the University of California Irvine. Her dissertation, entitled 鈥淣ews, Public Opinions and History: Fiction on Current Events in Seventeenth-Century China,鈥 attempts to explore the cultural conditions surrounding the production, circulation, and consumption of this special genre of 鈥渇iction on current events鈥 in the historical contexts as well as the complex roles these works played in the larger intellectual, social, and political realms of seventeenth-century China. Her research interests include material cultural history of late imperial China and contemporary Chinese cinema and media.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Articles
"Teaching Asian Urbanization through Cinema." Co-author, Shaolu Yu. Forthcoming in Teaching Film from the People's Republic of China, edited by Zhuoyi Wang, Emily Wilcox, and Hongmei Yu. MLA series Options for Teaching. Modern Languages Association.
"Reclaiming the Periphery in the Age of Social Media: Power and Narrative of Rural China in My People, My Homeland (2020) and Coffee or Tea? (2020)." Co-author, Weiwei Lu, Global Media and China. 7(4), 2022: 422-440.
鈥淔rom Dis-enchantment to Re-enchantment: Rural Microcelebrities, Short Video and the Spectacle-ization of Rural Lifescape on Chinese Social Media.鈥 International Journal of Communication 14, 2020: 3769鈥3787.
鈥淔rom Red to 鈥楶ink鈥: Propaganda Rap, New Media, and China鈥檚 Soft Power Pursuit.鈥 American Journal of Chinese Studies 25.2, October 2018: 101-17.
鈥淎nother World Lies Beyond: Three Chinese Gardens in the US.鈥 Education About Asian: Demographics, Social Policy, and Asia (Part I), 22(3), Winter 2017: 13-18.
鈥淓xperiencing China through a 鈥榃ide-Angle Lens鈥: Observation, Participation, Reflection.鈥 Co-author, Stephen Ceccoli and Gao Jiayong. Education About Asian: Demographics, Social Policy, and Asia (Part I), 22(3), Winter 2017: 64-66.
鈥淩e-packaging a Cultural Revolution Model Opera: Politics and Commerce in Tsui Hark鈥檚 The Taking of Tiger Mountain.鈥 Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, Vol.5, November 2017: 180-193.
鈥淎lternative Locality: Geopolitics and Cultural Identity in Ann Hui鈥檚 A Simple Life.鈥 Asian Cinema 26 (1), April 2015: 23-41.
鈥淔rom the Astor Court to Liu Fang Yuan: Exhibiting 鈥楥hinese-ness鈥 in America.鈥 Journal of Curatorial Studies 4 (2), June 2015: 284-307.
鈥溾楾ransplanting鈥 Yin Yu Tang to America: Preservation, Value and Cultural Heritage.鈥 Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review 25.2, Spring 2014: 39-50.
鈥淗istory, Fiction and Public Opinion: Writings on Mao Wenlong in the Early Seventeenth Century.鈥 Journal of the American Oriental Society 134.1, Spring 2014: 69-88.
鈥淭riangulating Filial Piety, Ethnicity, and Nation in Late-Qing China: The Lilac Affair in Zeng Pu鈥檚 Niehai hua.鈥 Asia Major 26.2, November 2013: 90-120.
鈥淭o Sell a National Trauma: Aftershock and the Transformation of Chinese Film Industry.鈥 Virginia Review of Asian Studies, Fall 2013:126-142.
鈥淭eaching Material Culture and Chinese Gardens at American Colleges.鈥 ASIANetwork Exchange 20.1, Fall 2012: 36-46.
鈥淣ews, History and 鈥楩iction on Current Events鈥: Novels on Suppressing the Chuang Rebellion.鈥 Ming Studies 66, September 2012: 56鈥75.
鈥淒isappearing Politics and the Politics of Disappearance: Female Subjectivity, Left-Wing Films and the Representation of 1930s Shanghai in Center Stage.鈥 Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 38.1, March 2012: 197-221.
Non-Peer Reviewed Essays
鈥,鈥 Sixth Tone, May 09, 2018,
鈥湶,鈥 Sixth Tone, June 28, 2018,
鈥湶踱,鈥 Sixth Tone, Sept. 25, 2018,
Webinar at The USC U.S.-China Institute
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Other than publishing in academic journals, Han Li also gave a number of interviews (including , ; ; ; Week in China; and etc.) on subjects related to her scholarship.