Biography
Lina Qu obtained her doctoral degree in Comparative Literature and Asian Studies from Rutgers University. Her research interests focus on modern Chinese women’s cultural practices from print to social media and various genres of food media in East Asian popular cultures. She has published articles on social eating livestream, food influencers, food documentary, Chinese internet literature, cinematic soft power, and Eileen Chang. She is working on her first book manuscript, tentatively titled ” The Art of Female Hunger: A Literary and Cultural Genealogy of Starving Women Writers in Modern China.” She teaches Chinese language classes and literature and culture classes about China and East Asia.
Works
EDITED SPECIAL ISSUES
- “Storytelling and Counter-storytelling in China’s Convergence Culture: Introduction,” coauthored with Tzelan Sang. China Information 37.3 (2023): 317–320. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0920203X231202689. “
- East Asian Serial Dramas in the Era of Global Streaming Services: Special Issue Editors’ Introduction,” coauthored with Tze-lan Sang and Ying Zhu. Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images 3.1 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3998/gs.4292.
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS
- “Popular Media Representations of Farming: How Labor is Reimagined by China’s Lying-flat Generation.” Radical History Review (forthcoming in 2026)
- “The Specter of Indiana Jones: How Kung Fu Yoga Became a Soft Power Debacle for OBOR.” In Envisioning Global China through “One Belt One Road”: Infrastructure, Representation, and Imagination, edited by Fan Yang, Michigan State University Press. (forthcoming in 2026)
- “Retrotopian Fantasy on the Chinese Web: Women-Oriented Period Fiction of the 1960s.” Chinese Literature and Thought Today, 55.3–4 (2025): 114–127, DOI: 10.1080/27683524.2024.2422794.
- “‘Telling China Stories Well’ through Internet Celebrities: Rethinking China’s Soft Power and Public Diplomacy,” co-authored with Jian Xu. In Asian Celebrity and Digital Media: The Transformation of Asian Celebrity Culture in the Digital Age, edited by Jian Xu and Glen Donnar, Hong Kong University Press, 2025, pp. 54–69.
- “The Digital Banal and Sublime Justice in Chinese Internet Literature.” In Serial Killers and Serial Spectators: Cultures, Narratives, Representations, edited by Elana Gomel and Anhiti Patnaik, Brill, 2024, pp. 166–181.
- “Food Media in China’s Convergence Culture: A Bite of China and Digital Poaching.” China Information 37.3 (2023): 321–341. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0920203X231166238.
- “Governing Social Eating (chibo) Influencers: Policies, Approach, and Politics of Influencer Governance in China,” co-authored with Jian Xu and Dino Ge Zhang. Policy & Internet (2022): 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.318.
- “Waste on the Tip of the Tongue: Social Eating Livestreams (chibo) in the Age of Chinese Affluence.” Asiascape: Digital Asia 8.1/2 (2021): 43–79.
- “Writing, Rewriting, and Miswriting: Eileen Chang’s Late Style Against the Grain.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 21.6 (2019): https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.3305.
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