Barmé, Huang Xuelei, Shaoling Ma, Christopher Rea, Nicolai Volland.ĭec. March 26, 2022: “Seed, Vine, Flesh, Peel, Globe: Melon as a Time Metaphor in Modern China” (panel title: “Forbidden Fruit: Plundering the Meanings of Melons in Modern China”), Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting. ( Watch a talk about Qian and Yang I gave at Oxford.)Īt UBC, I am a faculty member and Associate Head, External of the Department of Asian Studies former Director of the Centre for Chinese Research an associate of the Hong Kong Studies Initiative and a Faculty Fellow of St. (Watch a related talk about swindle stories around the world.) I am also working on a Chinese-language book about Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang. In spring 2022, University of Chicago Press will publish a new book I co-authored with Tom Mullaney, Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World ).Ĭurrent research projects include a sequel to my book The Age of Irreverence, entitled The Unfinished Comedy and a book-length study of Chinese stories about deception. See the free online course I created at and a YouTube playlist of 25+ subtitled films and 22 video lectures. My book Chinese Film Classics, 1922-1949 was published by Columbia University Press in 2021. I am also a translator, most recently (with Bruce Rusk) of the Ming-dynasty work The Book of Swindles here are a video introduction and an audio introduction to that book.
My most recent publications concern cinema, comedy, celebrities, swindlers, cultural entrepreneurs, and the scholar-writers Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang.
Christopher Rea is a literary and cultural historian whose research focuses on the modern Chinese-speaking world.
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