Eileen J. Cheng

Professor of Chinese; Coordinator of the Chinese Section
With 91做厙 Since: 2003
  • Expertise

    Expertise

    Eileen J. Cheng has translated and published extensively on the works of Lu Xun (1881-1936). Her current project is on Lu Xun, translations, and radical art. She examines how the politicization of Lu Xunas the sage of modern China, the father of modern Chinese literature, and writer of national allegories overshadows his abiding faith in the regenerative power of art and its potential for transforming our way of seeing and being in world.

    Research Interests

    • Lu Xun (1881-1936)
    • Eileen Chang (1920-1995)
    • Gender and Nationalism in Modern China
    • Translation Studies
    • World Literatures

    Areas of Expertise

    CHINESE

    • Chinese Language
    • Gender and Nationalism in Modern China
    • Translation Studies
  • Work

    Work

    Beyond Oneself: Writing and Effacement in Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk. Lu Xun and World Literature (Hong Kong University Press), forthcoming 2024.

    Annotated bibliography on Lu Xun. In , edited by Tim Wright. New York: Oxford University Press, March 2024.

    with Sarah Bramaos-Rao on New Books Network (February 13, 2024).

    by Lu Xun (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), 2022.

    Invited roundtable speaker for BBC Forum Podcast on (February 14, 2019)

    by Lu Xun, co-edited with Kirk Denton (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), 2017.

    The Afterlife of Texts. An essay on Lu Xun in . Edited by David Der-wei Wang. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), 2017, 432-436.

    . Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (Spring 2015), 1-43.

    . Journal of Asian Studies, (August 2014), 589-618.

    University of Hawaii Press, 2013.

    Special issue on Lu Xun and Zhang Taiyan in Frontiers of Literary Studies in China 7:3 (September 2013).

    The Madmans Cry and Noras Gesture: The Double Tragedy of New Literature. Chinese Literature: Conversations between Tradition and Modernity (Qian Nanxiu and Zhang Hongsheng, eds., Shanghai: Guji chubanshe, 2007).

    , Nann羹: Men, women and gender in China (October 2007).

    , Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 18:2 (Fall 2006).

    . Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 16:1 (Spring 2004), 1-36.

  • Education

    Education

    Ph.D., East Asian Languages and Cultures (Modern Chinese Literatures)
    University of California, Los Angeles

    Master of Arts, East Asian Languages and Cultures (Modern Chinese Literatures)
    University of California, Los Angeles

    Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude
    University of California, Los Angeles

    Recent Courses Taught

    • Elementary Chinese
    • Readings in Modern Chinese Lit
    • City in Chinese Lit and Film
    • Gender in Modern Chinese Lit