Personal profile
Research interests
- Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature
- Literary Criticism
- Taiwan Literature
- Modern Chinese Intellectual History
Qualifications
Appointments
Research Grants
PI, "Chinese Anthropocene Science Fiction as a Contact Zone", FDS, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, Jan 2025- June 2026.
PI, "Pseudo-Documentary and Speculative History in Science Fiction: Subversion or Witnessing of Factuality?", R&D, HKMU, Jan 2025- Dec 2025.
Co-I: “文學計算批評路徑研究”, 國家社科基金項目·一般項目，2024-2026.
Co-I: 基於史料發掘的南來文人佚作輯錄與年表編撰“, 國家社科基金項目·重大項目，2024-2026.。
Co-PI，"Chinese Mythology in the Digital Age", Sin Wai Kin Foundation, Jan 2023-Dec 2025.
PI, “Critical Reflections on Anthropocene in Chinese Science Fiction”, 12/2021 – 11/2022, Pilot Work, HKMU.
PI, “Ecological Narratives in Chinese Science Fiction: A Study on Liu Cixin” ,12/4/2021 -30/11/2021, OUHK R&D Funding.
Co-I, “Humanism and Post-humanism in post-1990s’s Chinese Science Fiction”, Research Development Fund (RDF) , Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 1 Feb 2020-1 Feb 2023.
PI, “Fevers of National Learning in 20th century China: Post-enlightenment Phenomena”，FDS, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong 1 Jan 2018-30 June 2020.
PI, “Anti-utopia and Dystopia in Contemporary Chinese ScienceFiction”,PACRD, The Open University of Hong Kong, 1 Jan-31 Dec 2018.
Award
“Jamie Bishop Memorial Award 2021" Finalist, "From Anthropocene to Chthulucene? An Interpretation of Liu Cixin’s Pan-species Communism"
Memberships
Editorial Board: Newsletter for Science Fiction Studies [科幻研究通訊]
Book Reviewer: Springer Nature
Reviewer of the Chinese Nebula Awards 2024
Reviewer of DiGRA 2024
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Spatiality and Visuality of Mythical Objects: Remaking Chinese Myths in Digital Culture
Wang, Y. & Yu, X., 1 Apr 2025, The Myriad Faces of Heroes and Heroines. p. 147-172 26 p. (Asia in Transition; vol. 28).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Crime as Historical Testimony: Narrative Suspense in Neo-Dongbei Literature
YU, X., Jan 2024, Identity, Space, and Everyday Life in Contemporary Northeast China. Springer Singapore, p. 223-245 23 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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離散書寫中的貴族視角與平民視角: 白先勇作品改編電影《最後的貴族》與《花橋榮記》比較研究
YU, X., 2024, 跨界觀眾與多維審美：白先勇戲劇影視作品研討會論文集. p. 210-226Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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新本體論、主體觀和性別觀：後人類女性主義理論新變探究
Translated title of the contribution :New Views of Subjectivity and Gender Informed by New Ontology： A Study of the Genealogy of Posthuman Feminism Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A Strategic Universalism: An Interpretation of Chinese Cultural Conservatism Through A Case Study of the Xueheng School,
YU, X., 2022, Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern and Premodern China: Global Networks, Mediation, and Intertextuality. Springer SingaporeResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Translocal Mythmaking and Futurism in Chinese Contemporary Art Practices
YU, X. (PI), Kaby KUNG Wing Sze (CoI), Penn IP Tsz Ting (CoI), Timmy CHEN Chih Ting (CoI) & WANG Yifan (CoI)
2/07/25 → 1/07/27
Project: Research
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Chinese Anthropocene Science Fiction as a Contact Zone
YU, X. (PI), KOCHHAR-LINDGREN Gray (CoI), LIU Xi (CoI) & ZHANG Feng (CoI)
1/01/25 → 31/12/26
Project: Research
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Pseudo-Documentary and Speculative History in Science Fiction: Subversion or Witnessing of Factuality?
YU, X. (PI) & LIU Xi (CoI)
1/01/25 → 31/03/26
Project: Research
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Critical Reflections on Anthropocene in Chinese Science Fiction
YU, X. (PI)
1/12/21 → 31/01/23
Project: Research
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Fevers of National Learning in 20th century China : Post-enlightenment Phenomena
YU, X. (PI)
1/01/18 → 30/06/20
Project: Research