Faculty Associate
xueqingx[at]yorku.ca
Associate Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics, ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ
Research Keywords:
Chinese-Canadian literature; Chinese women fiction
Research Region(s):
China, East Asia
Research Diaspora(s):
Chinese Diaspora
Xu Xueqing holds a BA and MA in Chinese literature from Fudan University in Shanghai, and a PhD in Chinese Literature from the University of Toronto (2000). She is Associate Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ with her research interest in Chinese-Canadian literature and Chinese women fiction. Among her publications are Life of Confucius (1990) and several articles on Chinese-Canadian literature during the past few years. She contributed ca. 500 entries to an encyclopaedia of modern Chinese literature and a chapter to a book on Chinese literary societies during the Republican Era (2008). She also edited an anthology of prose by Chinese-Canadian writers in 2005.
Her current research project is Daily Narratives of the Chinese Diaspora in Canada: The Chinese Times (1910–1992, Vancouver), funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Representative publications:
- . Co-edited with Jennifer Jianghai Mei. New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, Ltd. 2020.
- . Co-edited with Jennifer Jianghai Mei. The Edwin Mellen Press, Ltd. New York: 2020.