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Professor Jun Qian

Professor Qian Jun (Qian Suoqiao) Chair of Chinese Studies

  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 8100
  • Address: School of Modern Languages
    Old Library Building
    Newcastle University
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU
    UK
Background

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

 

Chair of Chinese Studies, School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University

 

QUALIFICATIONS

 

Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1996

M.A. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1992

B.A. English, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, 1985

 

BACKGROUND

 

Professor (Chair) of Chinese Studies, School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University, UK, 2013-present

Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, 2000-2013

Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, USA, Feb.-Dec. 2009

Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Hamilton College, USA, 1999-2000

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA, 1997-1999

Lecturer, Department of Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley, USA, 1996-1997

Lecturer, Department of History, Santa Clara University, USA, Jan.-June 1997

Graduate Student Instructor, Departments of Comparative Literature/Ethnic Studies/ East Asian Languages, UC Berkeley, USA, 1990-1996

Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Nanjing Normal University, China, Jan.-June 1994

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Foreign Languages, Shenzhen University, China, 1985-1990

 

Languages

 

Chinese, English, French

 

Research

RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

           I am interested in a broad range of areas in Chinese studies, particularly on cross-cultural studies between China and the West, Chinese modernity studies, modern Chinese literature and culture, Chinese-English translation, global Chinese diaspora studies, Chinese-American studies, cultural theory.

 

CURRENT RESEARCH

           I am currently engaged in the Gu Hongming (Ku Hung-ming) study, working on Gu Hongming: Victorian Culture and Chinese Civilization and Collected Works of Gu Hongming.

 



Teaching

Teaching Experience

 

           I have almost four decades of university-level teaching experience on a variety of topics and subjects in several higher education institutions around the world.

 

Current Course Module

 

CHN1005 Introduction to Chinese Culture; SML2018 Cultural Exchanges: East and West

 

Postgraduate Student Supervision


 I have supervised several PhD students in Hong Kong and in UK.

 

I welcome inquiries from prospective students interested in pursuing PhD study in Chinese studies, particularly from comparative and cross-cultural approaches.

Publications