Lei Jin, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Chinese

I am trained in Chinese literature, especially Chinese classical poems, narratives, and pedagogy. As a scholar of comparative literature, I am conversant in nineteenth-century American Gothic writings and Chinese classical tales, particularly supernatural stories. Most of my research has been spent writing in two areas: classical Chinese supernatural stories and Chinese cinema. I’m also interested in Chinese tea culture and history.

 

Education

Ph. D., Comparative Literature, Purdue University

M. A., Comparative Literature, Purdue University

 

Courses Taught

Chinese language at all levels

Traditional Chinese Literature in Translation

Tradition and Culture in Chinese Cinema

China to a Tea

First Year Experience

 

Selected Publications

Poems by Wang Wei, Du Fu, and Zhang Ruoxu, in River Poems. edited by Henry Hughes (Toronto: Penguin Random House Canada, 2022)

Zhongguo gudai yuzhongguan he zhengzhiwenhua 中国古代宇宙观和政治文化, Cosmology and Political Culture in Early China by Aihe Wang (Shanghai: Shanghai Chinese Classics Publishing House, reprint, 2021)

“Erotic Enclaves and Contested Gardens in Pu Songling’s Chuanqi Tales,” “Wang Jia & Shiyiji,” in Early Medieval Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide. Edited by Albert Dien, Cynthia Chennault, Allan Berkowitz, and Keith Knapp. (Berkeley: The Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 2015) ASIANetwork Exchange, Val. 22.1, (2014): 23-37.

“Sound, Image, Rhetorical Strategy, and Traumatic Memory in Ai Xiaoming’s Our Children,” Asian Cinema, Vol. 24.2 (2013): 209-222.

“Poe’s Landscape: Dreams, Nightmares, and Enclosed Gardens,” Forum for World Literature Studies, Vol.5.1 (2013): 36-51.

“The Legend of Jiang Taigong,” in Fishing Stories, edited by Henry Hughes (New York: Everyman’s Library Pocket Classics, 2013)

Zhongguo gudai yuzhongguan he zhengzhiwenhua 中国古代宇宙观和政治文化, Cosmology and Political Culture in Early China by Aihe Wang (Shanghai: Shanghai Chinese Classics Publishing House, 2011).

 

Honors and Awards

Dean’s Recognition for Excellence Award, School of Languages, Cultures, and World Affairs, College of Charleston, 2014

Excel Award for Outstanding Faculty of the Year, School of Languages, Cultures, and World Affairs, College of Charleston, 2011.