Geng Song, BA(BFSU), PhD (Hong Kong)

Senior Lecturer, School of Culture, History & Language

Biographical statement

Geng Song is Head of the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies in CHL. He is also convenor of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Minor program. Dr Song taught at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore before he joined ANU in 2006. He was Visiting Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong during 2009-2010.

Research interests

Gender studies, esp. Chinese masculinities
Chinese media
Chinese nationalism
Chinese popular culture
Translation studies

Courses taught

Chinese-English Interpreting
China Now: Ideology, Media and Culture
China through Film and Television
Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Literature and Film
Reading Chinese Popular Culture
Chinese 7 and 8

Key publications

With Derek Hird. Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming (first author).
“Chinese Masculinities Revisited: Male Images in Contemporary Television Drama Serials.” Modern China 36(2010): 404-34.
With Tracy K. Lee. “Consumption, Class Formation, and Sexuality: Reading Men’s Lifestyle Magazines in China.” The China Journal 64(2010): 159-77 (first author).
“Jiegou aiqing huayu: chongdu Liaozhai zhiyi” (Deconstructing the Discourse of Love: Re-reading Strange Tales from Liaozhai. Zhongguo wenhua yanjiu (Chinese Culture Research) 63(2009): 57-65.
Editor, Quanqiuhua yu Zhongguoxing: Dangdai wenhua de houzhimin jiedu (Globalisation and “Chineseness”: Postcolonial Readings on Contemporary Culture). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006.
Editor, Chongdu chuantong: Kuawenhua yuedu xinshiye (Re-reading Tradition: New Perspectives in Cross-cultural Reading). Beijing: Waiyu jiaoxue yu yanjiu chubanshe, 2005.
The Fragile Scholar: Power and Masculinity in Chinese Culture. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004.
Editor, “Masculinities in Chinese Culture,” Special issue of Tamkang Review, 35.1 (2004).
“Toward a Postcolonial Reading of Chinese Masculinities.” Tamkang Review 35.1(2004): 1-27.

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