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Xuezhao Li

xuezhao Li

Xuezhao Li

Ph.D. Student

li.11365@osu.edu

398 Hagerty Hall
1775 College Road
Columbus OH 43210

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Areas of Expertise

  • Chinese Literature

Education

  • MA. Comparative Literature. Beijing Normal University

Xuezhao Li is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. She is working on a dissertation on the translation and writing of adventure fiction in modern China (1898-1919) and its interaction with China’s transformation from a colonialist empire to a semi-colony. It is an interdisciplinary project that uses Digital Humanities tools in literary studies and engages with translation studies, postcolonial studies, and transcultural studies.

Xuezhao is interested in modern Chinese genre fiction and popular culture, literary translation in late Qing and early Republican China, as well as the transcultural history of Chinese drama. She has presented papers at the ICLA (International Comparative Literature Association) Congress (University of Macau), received translation training from the Bristol Translates Summer School, and attended workshops in Translation Studies (The Ohio State University, the University of Warwick, Renmin University of China) and Asian culture (Fudan University).

Xuezhao is also a practitioner of literary and academic translation. Her translation of modern Chinese writer Wang Zengqi’s (汪曾祺 1920-1997) short story “Butter Pancakes” (黃油烙餅) has been published by the MCLC (Modern Chinese Literature and Culture) Resource Center. Translations of three short stories by late Qing writer Wang Tao (王韜 1828-1897) are forthcoming from Renditions (fall 2023) as well as a translation of an academic paper into Chinese from Lingnan xuebao (嶺南學報) (fall 2023). She has a module on Chen Kaige’s (陳凱歌 1952-) film adaptation (Sacrifice) of the traditional Chinese drama Zhaoshi gu’er (趙氏孤兒The Orphan of Zhao) to the CTC (Chinese Theater Collaborative/華語戲聚, forthcoming).

In addition to being a GTA in the Chinese language program and guest-teaching for the T&I program, Xuezhao has served as a student member of the DEALL Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee (2021-23). She is also currently working as a Graduate Editorial Associate in the Translation and Interpreting (T&I) Program at the Center of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (CLLC), where she has co-edited the T&I newsletter WordWise since 2022.