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Xuelei Huang, Dr.
Associate Member
Position
- (01.04.2009-31.08.2009)
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Curriculum vitae
Education and Research Experience
2009 - 2011: Post-doctoral research at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei
2005 - 2009: PhD programme in Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University
Dissertation: "Commercializing Ideologies: Intellectuals and Cultural Production at the Mingxing (Star) Motion Picture Company, 1922-1938"
2003 - 2005: Lecturer at the Department of Journalism, Jianqiao College, Shanghai
2000 - 2003: MA programme in Art Studies, Peking University, Beijing
1996 - 2000: BA programme in Media Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai
Selected Scholarships and Awards
Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, 2013—2015
Research Project: The Cesspool and the Rose Garden: The Social Life of Smell in Modern China, 1840s—1940s
Residential Fellowship, IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna, 2013
Residential Fellowship, Nantes Institute for Advanced Studies, 2012—2013
Gerda Henkel Research Fellowship, 2011—2012
Ruprecht Karls Prize, Heidelberg University, 2011
Post-doctoral Fellowship, Academia Sinica, 2009 - 2011
Completion Scholarship (Abschlussstipendium), Graduate Academy of Heidelberg University, 2008 - 2009
Travel Grant, Graduate Academy of Heidelberg University, 2008
Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Prize, Jianqiao College, 2004
Selected publications
Refereed Journal Articles and Edited Volume Chapters
“Through the Looking Glass of Spatiality: Spatial Practice, Contact Relation and the Isis Theater in Shanghai, 1917-1937”, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (A&HCI), vol. 23, no. 2 (Fall 2011): 1-33.
“Shadow Magic and the Early History of Film Exhibition in China” (with Zhiwei Xiao), in Lim, Song Hwee and Julian Ward, eds. The Chinese Cinema Book, London: British Film Institute, 2011, pp. 45-55.
“Zhongguo diyi? Nanfu nanqi yu ta de jingdian hua” (China’s First Film? The Canonization of The Difficult Couple), Dianying xinshang xuekan (Film Appreciation Academic Section, Taiwan Humanities Citation Index), vol. 27, no. 2 (Spring 2009): 161-175; reprinted in Huang Ailing, ed., Zhongguo dianying suyuan (Chinese Cinema: Tracing the Origins), Hong Kong: Hong Kong Film Archives, 2011, pp. 10-31.
Selected Talks, Lectures, and Conference Presentations
“The Banality of the Sublime: Consuming Soviet Movies in Pre-Socialist China”, Conference “Trends on the Move: Transcultural Dimensions of Popular Flows”, Heidelberg University, Oct. 2011
“Ideologies of the Leg: Women’s Legs and Changing Prototypes of the Ideal Woman on/off China’s Silver Screen (1920s-1970s)”, Annual Conference of the Heidelberg Cluster of Excellence “Frontiers of Knowledge: Health, Environment and the History of Science,” Oct. 2011
“A Factory of Chinese Dreams: The Mingxing Motion Picture Company and the Early Chinese Film Industry, 1922-1938”, Conference “Traditional Chinese Business Culture and its Modern Fate”, Academia Sinica and Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea, Jul. 2011
Invited Lecture “Views and Viewpoints: China through the Camera Lens, 1960s-1990s”, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan, Jun. 2011
AAS Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Mar. 2011, as invited discussant at the panel “Chinese Silent-era Filmmaking: Interdisciplinary Approaches” (organized by Prof. Paul Pickowicz)
Invited Lecture “The Sound of Silence: Looking at History through Chinese Silent Films”, National Donghwa University, Taiwan, Sept. 2010
“Imag(in)ing the Isms: Towards a Sociological Look at the Mingxing (Star) Motion Picture Company, 1922-1938”, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Aug. 2010.
“China’s First Film? The Canonization of The Difficult Couple”, Conference “Re-examining Early Chinese Cinema,” Hong Kong University and Hong Kong Film Archive, Dec. 2009
“A Theater on the Border: ‘Spatial Practices’ of Transculturality of the Isis Theater, 1917-1937”, Symposium “Spaces of Asian Cinemas,” University of California, Davis, Nov. 2009
“Jade Pear Spirit: From Page to Screen”, Conference “Eighth International Conference for Junior Scholars of Chinese Studies: Print and Culture in Modern China,” Taipei, Mar. 2009
“Good Women? Bad Women? Women’s Images in Butterfly, Left-wing and Right-wing Films”, Workshop “The Common People and the Artist in the 1930s,” Heidelberg University, Dec. 2008
“From East Lynne to Konggu lan”, Workshop “Rethinking Trends,” Heidelberg University, Nov. 2008
“China’s First Film? The Canonization of The Difficult Couple”, Conference “Locality, Translocality, and De-Locality: Cultural, Aesthetic, and Political Dynamics of Chinese-Language Cinema”, Shanghai University, Jul. 2008
Publications in progress
“From East Lynne to Konggu lan: Transcultural Tour, Trans-medial Translation”, Transcultural Studies (E-journal of the Heidelberg Cluster of Excellence, peer-reviewed, under revision), pp 27.
“Yu li hun: Cong zhiye dao yinmu” (Jade Pear Spirit: From Page to Screen), in Cheng Wenhuei, ed. Jin xiandai baokan yu wenhua (Print and culture in modern China). Taipei: Yunchen (accepted, forthcoming, pp 20).
“The Banality of the Sublime: Consuming Soviet Movies in Pre-Socialist China” (submitted), pp 32.
Book manuscript Shanghai Filmmaking: An Anthropology of Cultural Production in Republican China, 1922-1938 (under revision), pp 300.
