About
Yuqin Jiang is Professor of Comparative Literature at Shenzhen University, Vice Director of Jao Tsung-I Institute of Culture Studies, and Fellow of the Committee of the Chinese Comparative Literature Association. She is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge (2023-2024) and University of Toronto (2014-2015).
Research
Yuquin primarily focuses her research on cyborg narrative, sci-fi poetics, digital humanities and science fiction studies, postcolonial literature studies, and cultural theory studies. She has recently edited books titled The New Integration of Science and Technology with Humanities: Research on Science Fiction in the Perspective of New Liberal Arts (Nanjing University Press, 2024), Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction Writes (Nanjing University Press, 2023), and authored two books: Writing Politics: A Survey of Postcolonial Literature (Jiangxi People’s Publishing House, 2013) and Theoretical Imagination: Northrop Frye’s Cultural Criticism (China Social and Science Publishing House, 2009). Additionally, she has also published over 40 literary and theoretical essays on various subjects, including cyborg theory, cyborg narrative, postcolonial ecocriticism, science fiction studies, post-colonialism, cultural criticism, and English literature in numerous domestic and international journals.
Published papers
- Yuqin Jiang. “Evolutionary Emotion of AI and Subjectivity Construction in The Windup Girl, Neohelicon, 2024
- Yuqin Jiang. “Ecotech, Alienation, and Science Realism in the Chinese Cyborg Novel Waste Tide”, Comparative Literature Studies, 2020.57 (4):662-676
- Yuqin jiang. “AI emotion in science fiction: An introduction”, Special Issue for Neohelicon. 2022:1-8
- Yuqin Jiang, Jinling Jiang. “On Emotion as a Paradox of Human Subjectivity: Taking the Narrative in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Journal of Guangdong Foreign Language and Foreign Trade University. 2022（5）：67-81
- Yuqin Jiang, Yimin Li. “Space Transformation of Metaverse and Its Contemporary Thinking: A Review of Snow Crash”, China Book Review, 2022(4)：28-40
- Yuqin Jiang. “Theme of Mars and A Variation of Chinese Science Fiction”， Journal of Oriental Studies, 2022(1):232-246
- Yuqin Jiang. “On a Discursive Construction of Chinese Cyberpunk Culture”, Journal of Shenzhen University, 2021(5):143-151
- Yuqin Jiang, Yimin Li. “ A Guide and Influence of Science Fiction on the Chinese Youth Discourse”, Journal of Qiqihaer University, 2021(10):16-20
- Yuqin Jiang. Posthumanism: A New Way for Interdisciplinary Studies of Comparative Literature, China Comparative Literature, 2021(1)：144-157
- Yuqin Jiang. The Scale, Opportunity and Development of Postcolonial Eco-criticism from a Post-human Perspective, China Literary Criticism, 2019(1):78-85
