Qian Cui
Qian Cui
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Office 51-6006
Unterer Graben 21
9000 St Gallen
Modern and contemporary Chinese literature and art
European-Chinese comparative literature
Modern Chinese aesthetic theory
Hong Kong literature and art
| 2018 – 2022 | PhD in Chinese Studies, University of Zurich University Research Priority Program(URPP) Asia and Europe Project: Coming of Age in Interconnected Worlds: Subjectivity, Intersubjectivity, and Temporality in Modern Chinese Literature |
| 2013 – 2017 | MA in World Literature, University of Bern Thesis title: From Enlightenment to National Salvation: Influence of Kantianism and Marxism on Modern Chinese Aesthetics |
| 2005 – 2007 | MA in Chinese Literature, Lingnan University, Hong Kong |
| 2001 – 2004 | BBA, Lingnan University, Hong Kong |
| Aug 2018 – | Lecturer in Chinese Language, Culture & Literature Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies University of Zurich |
| Aug 2008 – Sep 2013 | Lecturer in Chinese Language, Chinese Culture & Literature Hong Kong Community College The Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| Sep 2007 – Aug 2008 | Assistant Lecturer in Chinese Language, Chinese Culture & Literature The Community College at Lingnan University |
| Sep 2005 – Sep 2007 | Assistant Instructor in Business Administration and Chinese Language Lingnan Institute of Further Education, Lingnan University |
2021 Grant for Self-organized Lecture Series 22-23 “Other Epistemologies: Remapping the Literary Field in the Sinosphere” from the PhF Graduate School, University of Zurich
2020 GRC-Grant (UZH) for the Workshop “Wired China: Digital Media and Online Culture”
2020 Grant for the Self-organized Workshop “Wired China: Digital Media and Online Culture” from University Research Priority Program(URPP) Asia and Europe, University of Zurich
Mar 2018 – Feb 2022 SNF Doc.CH in the humanities and social sciences (HSS)
Jul 2016 – Dec 2016 Grant by the Dr. Joséphine de Karman foundation for talented students of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Bern
Sep 2003 Full Scholarship from Hong Kong Jockey Club, Lingnan University
Jan 2003 Dean’s List Award of Lingnan University
Sep 2002 Full Scholarship from Hong Kong Jockey Club, Lingnan University
Jan 2002 Dean’s List Award of Lingnan University
Sep 2001 Full Scholarship from Hong Kong Jockey Club, Lingnan University
04.10.2018: “Bildung, Utopia, and Multi-temporality in Ge Fei’s Peach Blossom Beauty”. International Workshop: Residual Futures: Rethinking Utopianism in Modern China, Zurich and Castasegna, 03.–06.10.2018.
10.11.2018: “Coming of Age at the Margin of the Revolutionary History: Bildung of the Heart in Landscapes Moving into Dreams”. International PhD Workshop: Chinese History after 1949, Vienna, 09.–10.11.2018.
06.05.2019: “Time and Bildung in The Story of the Stone”. Bi-annual research day for doctoral students: Asia & Europe, Zurich, 06.05.2019.
18.07.2019: “Temporal Utopia at the Margin of History: Multi-temporality in Ge Fei’s Peach Blossom Beauty (Renmian Taohua????)”. ICAS 11 (Eleventh International Convention of Asia Scholars), Leiden, 15.–19.07.2019.
26.01.2020: “Temporal Utopia at the Margin of History: Multi-temporality in Ge Fei’s Peach Blossom Beauty”. UZH-GEAS Joint Dissertation Workshop (Interdisciplinary PhD Program Asia and Europe, jointly organized by the University of Zurich and GEAS), Freie Universität Berlin, 26.–27. 01.2020.
27.11.2020: “Reimagining Tianxia in the Digital Fictional Space”. International workshop “Wired China: Digital Media and Online Culture”, Online, 27.-28.11.2020.
23.04.2021: “Speaking Objects and Sentient Worlds: Reading Leung Ping-kwan’s Thing-poems in the Global-Local Context”. 2020 Annual Meeting of the Swiss Association of Comparative Literature “Literary Glocalization”, Online, 19.-20.11.2020 & 23.04.2021.
01.06.2021: “Speaking Objects and Sentient Worlds: Reading Leung Ping-kwan’s Thing-poems in the Global-Local Context”. 9. Schweizerische Nachwuchstagung der Asien- und Orientwissenschaften, Online, 31.05.-01.06.2021.