Profile
D.Phil.
in Oriental (Chinese) Studies, University of Oxford
M.Phil. in English, University of Hong Kong
B.A. in English and Comparative Literature, University of Hong
Kong
Ruth
Hung is now preparing a manuscript on the political and ethical
implications of writing about the self in the post-1989 era
and within the context of global capitalism. The manuscript
focuses on a collection of popular memoirs authored by Chinese
writers who have lived through the Chinese Cultural Revolution
(1966-76) and are now residing abroad. Ruth's current research
interests are intellectuals, global Maoism and third-world Marxism,
and the politics of knowledge production, circulation, and reception.
She is committed to the exploration and building of a tolerant
interactive culture, and to the understanding and practice of
a kind of historical criticism that is required to make possible
that exploration and building.
Courses
taught in 2010-11:
CSIE2002
Topics in Cross-Cultural Studies: Disciplinarity, Methodology
& Politics
Publications
"The
Politics of Literary Criticism in Modern China: The Hu Feng
Incident Revisited." Writing under Socialism, eds. Meesha
Nehru and Sara Jones. Nottingham: Critical, Cultural, and Communication
Press. Forthcoming in early 2010.
with
Q.S. Tong. "'To Be Worthy of the Suffering and Survival':
Chinese Memoirs and the Politics of Sympathy." Life Writing:
Exploring the Contemporary Meanings of Life Narrative 4, no.
1. Routledge. (April 2007): 59-80.
"Writing
the Self 'in the Language of the Other': Chinese Memoirs and
the Politics of English." Symbolism: An International Annual
of Critical Aesthetics VI (March 2007): 433-64.
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Conference
and Seminar
"The
Politics of Modern Literary Criticism in China: The Hu Feng
Incident Revisited." In Conference on Writing under Socialism
Past and Present: A Comparative Approach. Organized by the University
of Nottingham, July 11-12, 2008.
"Hu
Feng and the Politics of Modern Literary Criticism in China:
Intellectual Responsibility vs. Political Commitment."
Seminar, the Institute for Chinese Studies at the University
of Oxford, February 28, 2008.
"American
Sympathy and Chinese Memoirs." In International Symposium
on Culture, Politics, and the Humanities. Jointly organized
by the Department of English at the University of Nanjing, the
English Department at the University of Hong Kong, and the editorial
collective of boundary 2, an international journal of literature
and culture. 26-29 May 2004.
"Writing
the Self 'in the Language of the Other': Chinese Memoirs and
the Politics of English." Seminar, the Department of English
at the University of Hong Kong, 15 April 2004.
"Writing
the Self as History: Chinese Memoirs and Popular Expectations."
In 2003 Joint Meeting of the Popular Culture/American Culture
Associations. 16-19 April 2003; and Seminar, the Department
of English at the University of Hong Kong, 6 March 2003.
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