Speakers
Ping Zhu
Professor of Literature
UC San Diego
Ping Zhu is professor of transnational Chinese/Sinophone literary, film, and media Studies at UC San Diego, and she serves as the editor-in-chief of Chinese Literature and Thought Today. She is the author of “Gender and Subjectivities in Early Twentieth-century Chinese Literature and Culture” (2015); the co-editor (with Zhuoyi Wang and Jason McGrath) of “Maoist Laughter” (2019), which won Choice’s Outstanding Academic Title in 2020; and the co-editor (with Hui Faye Xiao) of “Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics” (2021). She is currently completing a monograph titled “The Cult of Labor in Modern China.”
Yanshuo Zhang
Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures Chinese History
Pomona College
Yanshuo Zhang is assistant professor of Asian languages and literatures at Pomona College in California. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University. She is an interdisciplinary scholar of Asia whose research lies at the intersections of literature, history, visual culture and anthropology. She is the principal investigator of the singular national winner of the Inaugural Luce/American Council of Learned Societies Collaborative Grant in China Studies, titled “Resituating Humanistic Pedagogy in China Studies: Incorporating Ethnic Minority Literary and Cultural Productions into North American College Classrooms.” Zhang has widely published her articles and has served as a peer reviewer for journals in Asian Studies and cultural studies that are published globally.