Recent research of the Chair of Chinese Culture and Society.
Research by the staff of the Chair of Chinese Culture of Society focuses on topics related to modern and contemporary China, including: literature and art; cultural entrepreneurship and the creative industries; activism and the new media; Internet culture; women writing; book culture; urban culture; youth culture; intellectuals; political discourse; etc.
For more information on our research and publications please see on our blog and our Alexandria pages (Prof. Daria Berg; Dr. Federica Mirra; Dr. Giorgio Strafella).
Here we will introduce our latest publications.
Books
Forthcoming
Daria Berg & Giorgio Strafella, Everyday Life Between Spectacle and Critique in Twenty-first Century China. Co-authored monograph
2022
Daria Berg & Giorgio Strafella, eds.The Avant-Garde in Post-Socialist China, 1978-2018: The Art of Transculturality. London: Routledge, in press.
Accepted for publication.
2017
Giorgio Strafella, Intellectual Discourse in Reform Era China: The Debate on the Spirit of the Humanities in the 1990s. London & New York: Routledge, 2017.
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2016
Daria Berg & Giorgio Strafella, eds. Transforming Book Culture in China, 1600-2016. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016.
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2013
Daria Berg, Women and the Literary World in Early Modern China. London: Routledge, 2013.
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2007
Daria Berg & Chloë Starr, eds. The Quest for Gentility in China: Negotiations beyond Gender and Class. London: Routledge, 2007.
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Daria Berg, ed. Reading China: Fiction, History and the Dynamics of Discourse—Essays in Honour of Professor Glen Dudbridge. Leiden: E.J.Brill, 2007.
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2002
Daria Berg. Carnival in China: A Reading of the Xingshi yinyuan zhuan. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2002.
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2000
Daria Berg. Portraying China’s New Women Entrepreneurs: A Reading of Zhang Xin’s Fiction. Durham: Department of East Asian Studies, 2000. Short monograph.
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Daria Berg. Perceptions of Lay Healers in Late Imperial China. Durham: Department of East Asian Studies (Durham East Asian Papers 15). (2000) 39pp.
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Articles and Book Chapters
Forthcoming
Strafella, Giorgio & Daria Berg. “Body Art in China”. Positions (USA).
2021
Berg, Daria & Giorgio Strafella. “Liberalism in China”. In Handbook on Liberalism, ed. Michael Festl. 2020
2020
Daria Berg. “Alles unter dem Himmel und der Chinesische Traum”. Konfuzius-Institut Magazine: Denkschulen, Philosophien, Religionen, 04 (2020): 26-33.
2018
Strafella, Giorgio & Daria Berg. Ai Weiwei’s #Refugees: A Transcultural and Transmedia Journey. In Franceschini, Ivan & Loubere, Nicholas (ed.): Gilded Age. Canberra : ANU Press, 2018, S. 196-199.
2016
Daria Berg. “‘People Must Search within China’s Contradictions to Discover What Really Matters’: An Interview with Best-selling Author Anni Baobei.” In: Daria Berg and Giorgio Strafella, eds. Transforming Book Culture in China, 1600-2016. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016, pp. 203-209.
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Daria Berg & Rui Kunze. “Sex and the Glocalising City: Women Writers as Transcultural Travellers in Postsocialist Chinese Literature, 1997-2016.” In: Daria Berg and Giorgio Strafella, eds. Transforming Book Culture in China, 1600-2016. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016, pp. 173-200.
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Daria Berg & Rui Kunze. “A View of China’s Literary Landscape: Interview with Sheng Yun, Woman Editor of the Shanghai Review of Books.” In: Daria Berg and Giorgio Strafella, eds. Transforming Book Culture in China, 1600-2016. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016, pp. 123-130.
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Giorgio Strafella & Daria Berg. “Blogging and China’s Intellectual Life in the Twenty-First Century.” In: Daria Berg and Giorgio Strafella, eds. Transforming Book Culture in China, 1600-2016. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016, pp. 265-286.
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2015
Giorgio Strafella & Daria Berg. “The Making of an Online Celebrity: A Critical Analysis of Han Han’s Blog.” China Information 29.3 (2015): pp. 352-376. “The Eduard B. Vermeer Prize for the Best Article – Winner 2015” (http://journals.sagepub.com/page/cin/collections/china-info/prize)
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Giorgio Strafella & Daria Berg. “Twitter Bodhisattva: Ai Weiwei’s Media Politics.” Asian Studies Review 39. 1 (2015), pp. 138-157.
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Giorgio Strafella and Daria Berg. A Decade of Blogging in China. China Policy Institute: Analysis (The University of Nottingham), 31 August 2015.
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2014
Daria Berg. “Women Power in China”. HSG Focus 2014/1, pp. 1-3.
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2011
Daria Berg & Mohammed Shafiullah. "Understanding how China thinks". China Daily 29 July 2011, Chinadaily.com.cn
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Daria Berg. “A New Spectacle in China’s Mediasphere: A Cultural Reading of a Web-based Reality Show from Shanghai.” The China Quarterly 205 (2011): 133-151.
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2010
Daria Berg. “Consuming Secrets: China’s New Print Culture at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century.” In From Woodblocks to the Internet: Chinese Publishing and Print Culture in Transition, ed. Cynthia Brokaw and Christopher Reeds. Leiden: E.J. Brill (2010): 315-332.
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2009
Daria Berg. "Cultural Discourse on Xue Susu, a Courtesan In Late Ming China". International Journal of Asian Studies, 6, 2 (2009), pp. 171–200.
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2007
Daria Berg. Negotiating Gentility: The Banana Garden Poetry Club in Seventeenth-Century Jiangnan. In: Daria Berg and Chloë Starr (eds.). The Quest for Gentility in China: Negotiations beyond Gender and Class. London: Routledge. 2007. 73-93.
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Daria Berg. Amazon, Artist, and Adventurer: A Courtesan in late Imperial China. In: Ken Hammond (ed.). Human Tradition in Modern China. Lanham, Boulder, New York and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield. 2007. 15-32.
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Daria Berg. “Female Self-Fashioning in Late Imperial China: How the Gentlewoman and the Courtesan Edited Her Story and Rewrote Hi/story.” In Reading China: Fiction, History and the Dynamics of Discourse—Essays in Honour of Professor Glen Dudbridge, ed. Daria Berg. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2007, pp. 238-289.
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2006
Daria Berg. "Miss Emotion: Women, Books and Culture in Seventeenth-Century Jiangnan." In: Love Hatred and Other Passions: Questions and Themes on Emotions in Chinese Civilization, ed. Paolo Santangelo and Donatella Guida. Leiden: E.J. Brill (2006): 314-330.
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2004
Daria Berg. Der Kult um die Unsterbliche Tanyangzi: Biographie als Bestseller im China der späten Kaiserzeit. In: Jianfei Kralle and Dennis Schilling (eds.). Schreiben über Frauen in China: Ihre Literarisierung im historischen Schrifttum und ihr gesellschaftlicher Status in der Geschichte. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 2004. 285-310.
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2003
Daria Berg. What the Messenger of Souls has to Say: New Historicism and the Poetics of Chinese Culture. In: Michel Hockx and Ivo Smits (eds.). Reading East Asian Writing: The Limits of Literary Theory. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon. 2003. 171-203.
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2002
Daria Berg. Marvelling at the Wonders of the Metropolis: Perceptions of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Cities in the Tale of Marriage Destinies that will Bring Society to its Senses (Xingshi yinyuan zhuan). In: David Faure and Tao Tao Liu (eds.). Town and Country in China: Identity and Perceptions. Basingstoke: Palgrave. 2002. 17-40.
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Daria Berg. Frauen in Weltreligionen: Taoismus. In: Elisabeth Gössmann (ed.). Wörterbuch der feministischen Theologie. Second Edition. Gütersloh: Güterloher Verlagshaus. 2002. 174-176
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2001
Daria Berg. Wu Jinfa and the Melancholy Mountain Forests of China's Border Cultures: New Voices in Taiwanese Literature. In: David Faure (ed.). In Search of the Hunters and their Tribes: Studies in the History and Culture of the Taiwan Indigenous Peoples. Taipei: Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines. 2001. 202-240.
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Daria Berg. Bell Doctors in a Late Imperial Chinese Novel. In: Monumenta Serica. 49. Nettetal: Steyler-Verlag. 2001. 57-70.
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Daria Berg. Teachers in Traditional China: A View from Seventeenth-Century Fiction. In: Ming Qing yanjiu. Napoli: Dipartimento di Studi Asiatici, Istituto Universitario Orientale. 2001. 15-43.
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1999
Daria Berg. Reformer, Saint and Savior: Visions of the Great Mother in the Novel Xingshi yinyuan zhuan and its Seventeenth-Century Chinese Context. In: Nan Nü: Men, Women, and Gender in Early and Imperial China. (1999)1.2: 237-267.
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1995
Daria Berg. Die Heilkunde Chinas im Spiegel des Romans Xingshi yinyuan zhuan aus dem 17. Jahrhundert. In: ChinaMed. 6. München: Cygnus. 1995. 59-61.
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Multimedia
2020
Daria Berg. “Chinas Sozialkreditsystem.” Interview Radio Luzern. 5 November 2020.
Daria Berg. “Tatort Antike: China’s First Emperor.” ZDF Info. Episode 5. Interview and Contribution to Documentary Film. 23 November 2020.
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2014
Daria Berg. “Women Power in China.” HSG Focus 2014/1, 1-3.
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2011
Daria Berg & Mohammed Shafiullah. “Understanding how China thinks.” China Daily 29 July 2011.
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