Dian Li

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Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Li, D. (2022). 中国现代文学的共情美学” (The Aesthetics of Empathy in Modern Chinese Literature). Taiwan Hua Mu Lan Cultural Publishing House.

Chapters

• Li, D. (2019). The Classical Echo in Chinese Poetic Modernism. In Chinese Poetic Modernisms. Brill.

Journals/Publications

• Li, D. (2023). Nostalgia and Lyricism: A New Reading of Alai’s Work. 江汉学术 (Jianghan Scholarships), 45(4), 10.
• Li, D. (2021). Writing and Displaying Herbs in China. Comparative Literature and World Literature, 5(2), 1-24.
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  I reported last year this article will be collected in a book to be published by a British publisher. I was invited to be published by this journal first before the book comes out.
• Li, D. (2021). “Instrumental Rationality, Scholarly Value and Academic Assessment in Digital Humanities” (数字人文的工具理性、学术价值与研究成果的评估). Journal of Yanshan University: Philosophy and Social Science Edition (燕山大学学报:哲学社会科学版), 22(2), 19-25.
• Li, D. (2020). Universality, heterogeneity, and worlding: meanings of comparison in Chinese comparative literature. Neohelicon, 18.
• Li, D. (2019). Alai and Nostalgic Lyricism (阿来的怀旧抒情）. 阿来研究 （Alai Research), 10.
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  This is a Chinese translation of my English paper "Alai and Nostalgic Lyricism.”
• Li, D. (2019). Alai and Nostalgic Lyricism. Comparative Literature and World Literature, 3 & 4(2 & 1), 1-9.
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  “Alai and Nostalgic Lyricism,” Comparative Literature and World Literature, Vol. 3 & 4, No. 2 & 1, 2018-2019, Beijing, China & Tucson, USA, pp. 1-9.
• Li, D. (2019). “The Debate of Theory Vs. Method in Digital Huminites” (数字人文的理论与方法之争). Journal of Zhejing Normal University: Social Sciences, 44(6), 1-6.
• Li, D. (2017). World Literature and Translation/Reading As an Exchange of Alterity. Cultural Studies and Poetics (中外文化与文论), 18.
• Li, D. (2018). World Literature and Translation/Reading As an Exchange of Alterity. Cultural Studies and Poetics, Vol. 38, 1-12.
• Li, D. (2019). Yu Xiuhua: A Life Lived in Poetry. World Literature Today, 26-29.
• Li, D. (2017). "The Selfie of the Other: The Chinese Dream in Film and Tourism". Asian Cinema, 25.
• Li, D. (2017). “Language and Poetic-ness” (语言与诗意). Poetry Exploration: Theory (诗探索：理论卷), 20.
• Li, D. (2017). “The Digital Turn for Humanities in the Era of Post-Theory” (人文学科在“后理论“时代的数字转向). Shanghai Social Sciences Weekly (上海社会科学报), 6.
• Li, D. (2017). “Yu Xiuhua: Traveling Through the Mud of Life by Poetry”. Chinese Policy Institute, an online journal, 5.
• Li, D. (2017). “文本性的盛宴：美国汉学现当代文学研究的亮点和拐点” (A Feast of Textuality: Innovations and Pivots in Literary Studies of Contemporary American Sinology). Journal of Hunan University (湖南大学学报), 12.
• Li, D. (2017). “面对数字人文这个幽灵” (Facing the Specter of Digital Humanities). Journal of Yan Shan University (philosophy and social science edition) (燕山大学学报:哲学社会科学版）, 5.
• Li, D. (2016). “The Nora Who Stays: ‘Soap’ and Lu Xun’s Views on Family Sexual Politics” (不走的娜拉：《肥皂》与鲁迅的家庭性别政治观),. Cultural Studies and Poetics (中外文化与文论) ， Chengdu, China., 10.
• Li, D. (2015). “The Absent Mother and the Homecoming Journey for the Chinese Poet Ai Qing” (母亲“缺席” 与艾青的回乡之旅). Studies on Modern Chinese Literature (中国现代文学研究丛刊) ， Beijing, China., No. 6, 2015, 12.
• LI, D. (2010).

  In the Remains of Theory: Ethical Criticism in Contemporary Literary Studies

  . Comparative Literature: East & West, 12(1), 111-121. doi:10.1080/25723618.2010.12015377

Presentations

• Li, D. (2023, Fall). Resistance and Redemption: Spirituality in Xuemo's Fiction. the annual meeting of the Western Conference of Association of Asian Studies. West Yellowstone, Montana: Western Conference of Association of Asian Studies.
• Li, D. (2023, Spring).  Alai and the Location of Ethnicity in Contemporary China. All-Mediterranean Chinese Studies Conference. Malta: the University of Malta.
• Li, D. (2023, Summer).

  Digital Humanities in the Age of AI

  . Invited Talk. Ningbo, China: Ningbo University.
• Li, D. (2023, Winter). Landscape in the Poem: On the Aesthetics of Postmodern Nature Poetry  . the Symposium “Mutual Leaning of World Heritage and Co-Existence of Mountain Civilizations”. Online: Sichuan University and Chongqing Wulong Tourism Research Institute, China.
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  This was a remote presentation.
• Li, D. (2021, March/Spring). Considering Analogy in Comparative Literary Studies: Theory and Practice. Invited Presentation by Sichuan UniversitySichuan University, China.
• Li, D. (2020, December/ Winter). Re-read ‘New Year’s Sacrifice’: Theory, After Theory, Postcritique and Textual Meaning. Lecture Series. Zoom: Sichuan University, China.
• Li, D. (2019, June 2019). Sinology and Theory. Invited Presentation at Suzhou University, China. Suzhou, China: Suzhou University.
• Li, D. (2019, October 2019). Alai’s Nostalgic Lyricism: The Construction of the Chinese Tibetan Identity and the Resistance to Longing. Annual Conference of WCAAS. the College of Mexico, Mexico City: Western Conference of Association of Asian Studies.
• Li, D. (2019, October 2019). Readings of Translations of Contemporary Chinese Authors. Annual Conference of RMMLA. El Paso, TX: RMMLA.
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  Annual Conference of RMMLA held at the University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX
• Li, D. (2019, September 2019). Longing Through the Moon. The Moon Festival Concert. Tucson, Arizona: The Confucian Institute.
• Li, D. (2019, Summer 2019). World Literature and Translation/Reading As an Exchange of Alterity. The XXIInd Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA). Macau, China.
• Li, D. (2018, June Summer). Studies of Chinese Literature in America: Personal Impression (美国现代中国文学研究：个人印象). Invited Talk. Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, China, June 24, 2018.: Sichuan Normal University.
• Li, D. (2018, June/Summer). The Promise and Limit of Digital Humanities (数字人文的承若与局限). Sichuan Foreign Languages University, Chongqing, China. Chongqing, China: Sichuan Foreign Languages University, Chongqing, China.
• Li, D. (2018, June/Summer). Theory and Practice in Digital Humanities (数字人文的理论与实践). Capitol Normal University, Beijing. Beijing, China: Capitol Normal University, Beijing.
• Li, D. (2018, Novermber 14-18). Symbolic Ethnicity and Alai's Nostalgic Lyricism. International Symposium on Alai's Works. Beijing, China: Chinese Writers Association and Beijing Normal University.
• Li, D. (2018, October 4-6). Bei Dao's Place: The Interior Journey of a Poet. The 2018 Annual Conference of Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Cheyenne, Wyoming: University of Wyoming.
• Li, D. (2017, June/Summer). “The Digital Turn for Humanities in the Era of Post-Theory” (人文学科在“后理论“时代的数字转向). Beijing Normal University. Beijing: Bejing Nomal University.
• Li, D. (2017, May/Spring). “What is Cultural Translation?” (什么是文化翻译). Capital Normal University. Beijing: Capital Normal University.
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  I first presented the paper at Capital Normal University on May 25, 2017 and repeated it at Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, on June 1, 2017. So I gave myself 1.5 point.
• Li, D. (2016, January). “Poetry as Event: Xu Xiuhua and Contemporary Chinese Poetic Culture”. Mondern Language Association Annual Convention, Austin, TX, Jan. 7-10, 2016.. Austin, TX: Mondern Language Association.
• Li, D. (2016, July Summer). “World Literature and Translation/Reading As an Exchange of Alterity”. The 7th Sino-American Comparative Literature Forum. Chengdu, China: Chinese Comparative Literature Association & Sichuan University.
• Li, D. (2016, July Summer). “世界文学的读法：他者的轨迹” (The Way of Reading World Literature: Traces of the Other). The Seminar for Advanced Comparative Literary Studies. Chengdu, China: Sichuan University, China.
• Li, D. (2016, June Summer). 4. “文本性的盛宴：当代美国汉学（文学）” (A Feast of Textuality: Contemporary American Sinology [Literary Studies] in Brief). Invited Talk. Bejing Normal Univresity, Beijing, China.
• Li, D. (2016, June Summer). “当代美国汉学（文学）研究之我见” (My Views on Contemporary American Sinology (Literary Studies). Invited Talk. Capitol Normal University, Beijing, June 17, 2016: Capitol Normal University, Beijing.
• Li, D. (2015, October/Fall). “Poetry as Event: Xu Xiuhua and Contemporary Chinese Poetic Culture”. 55th Annual Meeting of the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah.

Reviews

• Li, D. (2023. Review Article of Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora by Jennifer Wong(p. 5).
• Li, D. (2023. Review Article: Xuemo's Journey into Spritualism in the Novel Into the Desert(p. 7).
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  Biling publication. 
• Li, D. (2015. “Review Article of Modern Poetry in China: A Visual-Verbal Dynamic by Paul Manfredi” (Cambria Press, 2014).

Others

• Li, D. (2016, Feburary). Bei Dao. Berkshire Publishing Group.
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  “Bei Dao,” an entry article for Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography, vol. 4 (Berkshire Publishing Group, 2016)
• Li, D. (2015, March/Spring). “The Tamed Words from English” (被驯化的外来语). The Language and Script Weekly (语言文字报), No. 8, Vol. 874.
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  An Essay on Translation and Cultural Studies