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About Huijun Mai
Huijun Mai is an Assistant Professor in Medieval Chinese Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She teaches and writes on Classical Chinese literature, poetry and literary culture. Her research looks at the intersections of literature and the history of food and horticulture, seeking to give novel accounts of literary cultures across times and social groups by considering non-canonical sources. She is completing a book on the interwoven history of tasting and reading in medieval China.Huijun Mai is an Assistant Professor in Medieval Chinese Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
NBN Episodes hosted by Huijun:
September 25, 2026
Playing with Plays: Drama and Early Modern Chinese Media Ecologies
How was drama experienced in early modern China? It was not tied to a single medium such as the page or the stage, but operated in a media ecology—an …
July 13, 2024
The Collapse of Heaven
The Collapse of Heaven: The Taiping Civil War and Chinese Literature and Culture, 1850-1880 (Harvard University Asia Center, 2024, 2024) investigates …
December 23, 2023
The Inscription of Things
Why would an inkstone have a poem inscribed on it? Early modern Chinese writers did not limit themselves to working with brushes and ink, and their te…
November 3, 2023
The Price of Collapse
In 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the …