Position:

University Lecturer in Modern Chinese; Fellow of Wadham College

Faculty / College Address:

Institute for Chinese Studies / Wadham College

Email:

margaret.hillenbrand@chinese.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

• Modern Chinese literature
• East Asian comparative literature
• Chinese-language cinema
• Modern Japanese literature
• Asian American literature and cinema

Recent Publications:

Book:

• Literature, Modernity, and the Practice of Resistance: Japanese and Taiwanese Fiction, 1960-1990, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007. 362 pp. ISBN 9004154787.

• Documenting China: A Reader in Seminal Twentieth-Century Texts (with Chloë Starr), University of Washington Press (in press, 2011).

Edited volume:

• Guest editor, Contemporary East Asia, in Theory, special issue of Postcolonial Studies 13/4 (2010).
  http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g929825695

Journal articles:

• “Communitarianism, or How to Build East Asian Theory”, Postcolonial Studies 13/4 (2010), 317-334.
• “Nostalgia, Place, and Making Peace with Modernity in East Asia”, Postcolonial Studies 13/4 (2010), 383-402.
  [Reprinted in Jeroen de Kloet and Lena Scheen (eds.), Spectacle and the City: Urbanity in Popular Culture and Art in East Asia, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, forthcoming].
• “Murakami Haruki in Greater China: Creative Responses and the Quest for Cosmopolitanism”, Journal of Asian Studies 68/3 (2009), 715-747.
• “Of Myths and Men: Better Luck Tomorrow and the Mainstreaming of Asian America Cinema”, Cinema Journal 47/4 (2008), 50-75.
• “Doppelgängers, Misogyny, and the San Francisco System: the Occupation Narratives of Ôe Kenzaburô”, Journal of Japanese Studies 33/2 (2007), 383-414.
• “The National Allegory Revisited: Writing Private and Public in Contemporary Taiwan”, positions: east asia cultures critique 14/3 (2006), 633-662.
  [Chinese version: “Guojia yuyan zaitan: dangdai Taiwan de gongzhong yu simi shuxie”, trans. Zhang Xuemei, in Qiu Zixiu (ed.), Kuawenhua de xiangxiang zhutixing: Taiwan houzhimin/nüxing yanjiu lunshu Zhong-yi jihua, Taibei: National Taiwan University Press, 2011, 171-192].
• “Trauma and the Politics of Identity: Form and Function in Narratives of the February 28th Incident”, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 17/2 (2005), 49-89.

Book chapter:

• “The Personals: Backward Glances, Knowing Looks, and the Voyeur Film” in Chris Berry (ed.), Chinese Films in Focus 2, London, British Film Institute, 2008, 175-81.

Review articles:

• Review article of Fran Martin and Larissa Heinrich (eds.), Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation, and Chinese Cultures in Hanxue yanjiu 25/1 (2007), 511-18.
• Review article of The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture resource centre publications (stable url: http://mclc.osu.edu/rc/pubs/reviews/hillenbrand.htm) (2004).

Translations:

Japanese

• “Kubi to karada” (Head and Body) by Wu Yongfu, tr. M. Hillenbrand, Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series, 19: Special Issue on Taiwan Literature During the Period of Japanese Rule (2006), 39-49.

Chinese

• “Gu’er de yanjing. Wu Zhuoliu youjizhong de ziwo ningshi yu tazhe xiangxiang” (The Eyes of an Orphan: Gazing at the Self and Imagining the Other in the Travel Diaries of Wu Zhuoliu) by Jian Yiming, tr. M. Hillenbrand, Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series, 15: Special Issue on Wu Zhuoliu (2004), 199-240.