Dr Xiaohuan Zhao
PhD (Edinburgh)
Senior Lecturer in Chinese Literature
A18 - Brennan MacCallum Building
The University of Sydney
| Telephone | +61 2 9351 3555 |
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Biographical details
Huan obtained his B.A. in English Literature, and M.A. in Applied Linguistics (Linguistics and Literature), both from Central China Normal University, and his PhD in Classical Chinese Literature from the University of Edinburgh. He had taught at Donghua University in Shanghai, and at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland and Otago in New Zealand, before he took up his current position at the University of Sydney.
He is the recipient of a CUHK Visiting Fellowship (2012), a JSPS Fellowship (2011), and NTNU International Visiting Scholarship (2006), and has been invited to give public lectures and seminar talks at Peking University, Seoul National University and the Kyoto-based Nichibunken, among many other prestigious universities and research institutes.
Research interests
His research areas range from linguistics and Literature to Chinese literature and culture. Within the area of linguistics and literature, he is interested in cognitive poetics, literary stylistics, literary translation, and classical Chinese philology and grammar. In the areas of Chinese literature and culture, he is most interested in early and medieval Chinese fiction and poetry, and pre-modern Chinese performance literature with emphasis on Yuan zaju (variety plays) and Ming chuanqi (romance drama). He is also interested in early Chinese thought, pre-modern Chinese legal and intellectual history, and Chinese folk beliefs and practices, particularly ghostlore, and their cultural and artistic manifestations.
Teaching and supervision
Teaching
- Classical Chinese Poetry
- Classical Chinese Prose
- Classical Chinese fiction
- Readings in Early Chinese Thought
- Introduction to Chinese Civilisation
- Buddhist texts
- Lu Xun and China’s Modern Literature
- Understanding Contemporary China
Supervision
Huan has more than ten years of experience of supervising postgraduate students. He welcomes application from research students who wish to work in the following areas:- Pre-modern Chinese Literature
- Religious and Folk Beliefs in Chinese Literature
- Translation of Chinese Classics and Classical Chinese Literature
Current projects
- Translation and study of Liu Xiang’s (79-8 BE)Shuoyuan(Garden of Persuasions)
- Sorcery and magic in early and medieval China
- Daoist nuns in Yuan drama
- Ghosts and spirits in Yuan zaju and Japanese Noh
Selected publications
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