Yucong Hao
Mellon Assistant Professor of Asian Studies
Yucong Hao received her PhD in Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of Michigan with a graduate certificate in World Performance Studies. Working at the intersection of comparative literature, media history, and performance studies, she studies the global connectivity, postcolonial engagement, and racial imagination in modern Chinese literature and media. She has written widely on Chinese literature and media, from modernist poetry to digital media, and her work has appeared in journals such as Modern Asian Studies, Global Storytelling, and International Comparative Literature. Her research has been supported by the Association of Asian Studies, Social Sciences Research Council, Liberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, among others.
Specializations
Working at the intersection of comparative literature, media history, and performance studies, I study the global connectivity, postcolonial engagement, and racial imagination in modern Chinese literature and media. I have taught and written widely on Chinese literature and media, from modernist poetry to digital media.
Representative Publications
2023
“Afro-Asian Resonances: Staging the Congo Crisis in 1960s’ Chinese Theatre,”
Modern Asian Studies, vol. 57, no. 6, pp. 1984–2001.
2022
“In Search of Alternative Soundscapes: International Modernism and Sonic
Warfare in Late 1930s’ China,” International Comparative Literature, vol. 5, no. 3,
pp. 136–155.
2020
“The Three Bodies of Xiqu: Intermediation and Remediation in China’s Xiqu
Reform” (in Chinese), co-authored with Yihui Sheng, Journal of Beijing Dance
Academy, no. 5, pp. 56–63.