About Linshan Jiang

Linshan Jiang is Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University. She received her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies from University of California, Santa Barbara, where she also obtained a Ph.D. emphasis in Translation Studies. Her research interests are modern and contemporary literature, film, and popular culture in mainland China, Taiwan, and Japan; trauma and memory studies; gender and sexuality studies; queer studies; as well as comparative literature and translation studies. Her primary research project focuses on female writers’ war experience and memories of the Asia-Pacific War, entitled “Women Writing War Memories: Hayashi Fumiko, Nieh Hualing, and Zhang Ling.” Her second research project explores how queerness is performed in the Sinophone queer cultural productions. She has published articles about gender studies and queer studies in literature and culture as well as translations of scholarly and popular works in Chinese and English.
Linshan Jiang is Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University. She received her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies from University of California, Santa Barbara, where she also obtained a Ph.D. emphasis in Translation Studies. Her research interests are modern and contemporary literature, film, and popular culture in mainland China, Taiwan, and Japan; trauma and memory studies; gender and sexuality studies; queer studies; as well as comparative literature and translation studies. Her primary research project focuses on female writers’ war experience and memories of the Asia-Pacific War, entitled “Women Writing War Memories: Hayashi Fumiko, Nieh Hualing, and Zhang Ling.” Her second research project explores how queerness is performed in the Sinophone queer cultural productions. She has published articles about gender studies and queer studies in literature and culture as well as translations of scholarly and popular works in Chinese and English.
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NBN Episodes hosted by Linshan:

Miya Qiong Xie, "Territorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East Asia" (Harvard UP, 2023)

July 28, 2023

Territorializing Manchuria

Miya Qiong Xie
Hosted by Linshan Jiang
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Xiao Hong, Yom Sang-sop, Abe Kobo, and Zhong Lihe—these iconic literary figures from China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan all described Manchuria extensive…

Carlos Rojas on Translating Yan Lianke

October 5, 2022

Carlos Rojas on Translating Yan Lianke

Carlos Rojas
Hosted by Linshan Jiang

In this episode, Carlos Rojas shares with us his experience as a translator. He has translated several renowned authors in the Chinese-speaking world,…

James Welker, "Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)

August 25, 2022

Queer Transfigurations

James Welker
Hosted by Linshan Jiang

Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2022), edited by James Welker, brings together twenty-one scholars explo…

Ban Wang, "China in the World: Culture, Politics, and World Vision" (Duke UP, 2022)

May 3, 2022

China in the World

Ban Wang
Hosted by Linshan Jiang

Ban Wang's book China in the World: Culture, Politics, and World Vision (Duke University Press, 2022), traces the evolution of modern China from the l…

Ping Zhu and Hui Faye Xiao, "Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics" (Syracuse UP, 2021)

April 26, 2022

Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics

Ping Zhu and Hui Faye Xiao
Hosted by Linshan Jiang

Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics (Syracuse University Press, 2021), co-edited by Ping Zhu and Hui Faye Xiao, offers an examination of the ways i…

Nicole Elizabeth Barnes, "Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945" (U California Press, 2018)

April 21, 2022

Intimate Communities

Nicole Elizabeth Barnes
Hosted by Linshan Jiang

When China’s War of Resistance against Japan began in July 1937, it sparked an immediate health crisis throughout China. In the end, China not only su…

Susan Chan Egan and Pai Hsien-yung, "A Companion to the Story of the Stone: A Chapter-By-Chapter Guide" (Columbia UP, 2021)

March 21, 2022

A Companion to the Story of the Stone

Susan Chan Egan and Pai Hsien-yung
Hosted by Linshan Jiang

A Companion to The Story of the Stone: A Chapter-by-Chapter Guide (Columbia UP, 2021), co-authored by Susan Chan Egan and Pai Hsien-yung (Columbia Uni…

Joseph W. Ho, "Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2021)

February 2, 2022

Developing Mission

Joseph W. Ho
Hosted by Linshan Jiang

Joseph W. Ho’s book Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China (Cornell University Press, 2021) offers a t…