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The Relational Self: Maternal Inheritance and Eurasian Identity in Han Suyin’s The Crippled Tree (2022)
Journal Article
Wang, Y., Cao, Q., & Nitschke, C. (2023). The Relational Self: Maternal Inheritance and Eurasian Identity in Han Suyin’s The Crippled Tree. Life Writing, 20(3), 563-581. https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2022.2151847

This work examines Han Suyin’s representation of her Eurasian identity in relation to her maternal inheritance, focusing on her autobiography The Crippled Tree, the first volume in the series China: Autobiography, History. Drawing on Paul John Eakin’... Read More about The Relational Self: Maternal Inheritance and Eurasian Identity in Han Suyin’s The Crippled Tree.

The Discourse of Xinmin: Mindset Remodelling and Nation-Building in Early Twentieth Century China (2022)
Journal Article
Cao, Q. (2022). The Discourse of Xinmin: Mindset Remodelling and Nation-Building in Early Twentieth Century China. Chinese Language and Discourse. An International and Interdisciplinary Journal, 13(1), 123-143. https://doi.org/10.1075/cld.21032.cao

Focusing on Liang Qichao’s campaign of moral character reform, this article examines the discourse of xinmin (新民) as a social engineering project of people-making as nationbuilding in the 1900s. Drawing on Koselleck’s conceptual history, it analyse... Read More about The Discourse of Xinmin: Mindset Remodelling and Nation-Building in Early Twentieth Century China.

Introduction (2022)
Book Chapter
Margolies, D., & Cao, Q. (2022). Introduction. In D. Margolies, & Q. Cao (Eds.), Utopia and Modernity in China: Contradictions in Transition (1-10). Pluto