Peijie Mao
Associate Professor of Chinese
Email: maopj@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Education
Ph.D. in Chinese, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University
M.A. in Chinese, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University
M.A. in Modern Chinese Literature, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University
B.A. in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Peking University
Prior Employment
Prior to joining ShanghaiTech University, she taught Chinese language and literature at University of San Francisco, Defense Language Institute, and University of North Georgia.
Profile
Research interests
Modern Chinese literature
Popular culture and media studies
Cultural history and cultural studies
Gender and family studies
Courses taught
Romantic Narratives in Modern China
Readings in Modern Chinese Literature
Literature of China in the Twentieth Century
Shanghai: Literature and the City
Selected publications
“‘Free Divorce?’ Love, Marriage, and Divorce in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Women’s Press.” In Conjugal Relationships in Chinese Culture: Sino-Western Discourses and Aesthetics on Marriage, edited by Chi Sum Garfield Lau and Kelly Kar Yue Chan, Springer, 2023
Popular Magazines and Fiction in Shanghai, 1914–1925: Modernity, the Cultural Imaginary, and the Middle Society. Lexington Books, 2021
“Cultural Imaginary of the ‘Middle Society’ in Early Republican Shanghai.” Modern China, Volume 44 (6), 2018
“Loving Nation and Subjugated Nation: Popular Narratives of the Nation in Early-Twentieth-Century Shanghai.” East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 4 (2), 2018
Selected conference presentations
“Tragic Romances: Building a Community of Love in Early Twentieth-century China,” AAS-in-Asia Conference, Daegu, Korea, June 2023
“Traveling Businessmen in Early 20th-Century Chinese Fiction,” Association of Chinese & Comparative Literature Biannual Conference, June 2022
“Subsurface Colony’ and ‘Garden City:’ Urban Imaginaries in early 20th Chinese Fantasies,” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, June 2022
“Representing ‘National Humiliation’ in Early 20th Century Chinese Print Media,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, 2021
“Domestic Space and Aesthetic: Representations of the Intimate Sphere in Early 20th-Century China.” American Association for Chinese Studies Annual Conference, 2020
“Creating a Middle-class Domestic Space: The Home Companion and Domestic Fiction in Early 20th-Century China.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Annual Convention, 2019