Publications
by
Professor Daria Berg, DPhil Oxford
BOOKS,
ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS,
MEDIA,
REVIEWS
Research Interests
Cultural studies, literature, media, popular culture, print culture, Internet literature, cyberculture and gender in contemporary China.
Literature (vernacular fiction, classical poetry, women’s writings), cultural history, popular culture and the publishing industry in traditional China.
Research profile on Alexandria
Research profile on Academia.edu
Calligraphy: Xue Susu,
“The Red Brush [literature written by women] has brillant luminosity”
tong guan you wei 彤管有煒
Books
Forthcoming
The Man who Invented China. Single-authored book.
Everyday Life Between Spectacle and Critique in Twenty-first Century China. Co-authored monograph, Daria Berg & Giorgio Strafella.
2021
The Avant-Garde in Post-Socialist China, 1978-2018: The Art of Transculturality. Eds. Daria Berg & Giorgio Strafella. London: Routledge, in press. Accepted for publication.
2016
Transforming Book Culture in China, 1600-2016. Eds. Daria Berg & Giorgio Strafella. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016. 292 pp.
2013
Women and the Literary World in Early Modern China, 1580-1700. London: Routledge, 2013. 300 pp.
WINNER OF ICAS (International Convention of Asia Scholars) Specialist Publication Accolade BOOK PRIZE 2015.
2007
The Quest for Gentility in China: Negotiations beyond Gender and Class. Eds. Daria Berg & Chloë Starr. London: Routledge, 2007. 304 pp.
Reading China: Fiction, History and the Dynamics of Discourse—Essays in Honour of Professor Glen Dudbridge. Ed. Daria Berg. (Oxford University Chinese Studies Series 7.) Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2007.
2002
Carnival in China: A Reading of the Xingshi yinyuan zhuan. (Oxford University Chinese Studies Series 1). Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2002. 421 pp.
2000
Perceptions of Lay Healers in Late Imperial China. Durham: Department of East Asian Studies, 2000. Short monograph. 39pp.
Portraying China’s New Women Entrepreneurs: A Reading of Zhang Xin’s Fiction. Durham: Department of East Asian Studies, 2000. Short monograph. 28pp.
Articles &
Book Chapters
Forthcoming
With Strafella, Giorgio. “Body Art in China”. Positions (USA). Accepted for publication.
With Giorgio Strafella. “Liberalism in China”. In Handbook on Liberalism, ed. Michael Festl.
2020
“Alles unter dem Himmel und der Chinesische Traum”. KI Magazine: Denkschulen, Philosophien, Religionen, 04 (2020): 26-33.
2018
With Giorgio Strafella. Ai Weiwei’s #Refugees: A Transcultural and Transmedia Journey. In Franceschini, Ivan & Loubere, Nicholas (ed.): Gilded Age. Canberra : ANU Press, 2018, S. 196-199.
2016
“‘People Must Search within China’s Contradictions to Discover What Really Matters’: An Interview with Best-selling Author Anni Baobei.” In Transforming Book Culture in China, 1600-2016. Eds. Daria Berg and Giorgio Strafella. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016, pp. 203-209.
With Giorgio Strafella. “Transforming Book Culture in China, 1600-2016: Introduction.” In Transforming Book Culture in China, 1600-2016. Eds. Daria Berg and Giorgio Strafella. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016, 265-286.
With Rui Kunze. “Sex and the Glocalising City: Women Writers as Transcultural Travellers in Postsocialist Chinese Literature, 1997-2016.” In Transforming Book Culture in China, 1600-2016. Eds. Daria Berg and Giorgio Strafella. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016, pp. 173-200.
With Rui Kunze. “A View of China’s Literary Landscape: Interview with Sheng Yun, Woman Editor of the Shanghai Review of Books.” In Transforming Book Culture in China, 1600-2016. Eds. Daria Berg and Giorgio Strafella. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016, pp. 123-130.
With Giorgio Strafella. “Blogging and China’s Intellectual Life in the Twenty-First Century.” In Transforming Book Culture in China, 1600-2016. Eds. Daria Berg and Giorgio Strafella. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016, 265-286.
2015
With Giorgio Strafella. “The Making of an Online Celebrity: A Critical Analysis of Han Han’s Blog.” China Information 29.3 (2015): 352-376.
WINNER OF CHINA INFORMATION BEST ARTICLE PRIZE 2015.
With Giorgio Strafella. “Twitter Bodhisattva: Ai Weiwei’s Media Politics.” Asian Studies Review 39. 1 (2015).
2013
“Courtesan Editor: Sexual Politics in Early Modern China.” T’oung Pao 99-1-3 (2013): 173-211.
2011
“A New Spectacle in China’s Mediasphere: A Cultural Reading of a Web-based Reality Show from Shanghai.” The China Quarterly 205 (2011): 133-151.
2010
“Consuming Secrets: China’s New Print Culture at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century.” In From Woodblocks to the Internet: Chinese Publishing and Print Culture in Transition, ed. Cynthia Brokaw and Christopher Reeds. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2010, pp. 315-332.
2009
“Publishing Industry.” In Encyclopedia of Modern China, ed. David Pong, et al. Detroit, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2009, pp. 220-225.
“Cultural Discourse on Xue Susu, a Courtesan in late Ming China.” International Journal of Asian Studies 6. 2 (2009): 171-200.
2008
“Amazon, Artist, and Adventurer: A Courtesan in late Imperial China.” In The Human Tradition in Modern China, ed. Ken J. Hammond and Kristin Stapleton. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008, pp. 15-32.
2007
“Negotiating Gentility: The Banana Garden Poetry Club in Seventeenth-Century Jiangnan.” In The Quest for Gentility in China: Negotiations beyond Gender and Class, ed. Daria Berg and Chloë Starr. London: Routledge, 2007, pp. 73-93.
“Female Self-Fashioning in Late Imperial China: How the Gentlewoman and the Courtesan Edited Her Story and Rewrote Hi/story.” In Reading China: Fiction, History and the Dynamics of Discourse—Essays in Honour of Professor Glen Dudbridge, ed. Daria Berg. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2007, pp. 238-289.
2006
“Miss Emotion: Women, Books and Culture in Seventeenth-Century Jiangnan.” In Love, Hatred and other Passions: Questions and Themes on Emotions in Chinese Civilization, ed. Paolo Santangelo and Donatella Guida. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2006, pp. 314-330.
2004
“Der Kult um die Unsterbliche Tanyangzi: Biographie als Bestseller im China der späten Kaiserzeit.” In Schreiben über Frauen in China: Ihre Literarisierung im historischen Schrifttum und ihr gesellschaftlicher Status in der Geschichte, ed. Jianfei Kralle and Dennis Schilling. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2004, pp. 285-310.
2003
“What the Messenger of Souls has to Say: New Historicism and the Poetics of Chinese Culture.” In Reading East Asian Writing: The Limits of Literary Theory, ed. Michel Hockx and Ivo Smits. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003, pp. 171-203.
2002
“Marvelling at the Wonders of the Metropolis: Perceptions of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Cities in the Tale of Marriage Destinies that will Bring Society to its Senses (Xingshi yinyuan zhuan).” In Town and Country in China: Identity and Perceptions, ed. David Faure and Tao Tao Liu. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002, pp. 17-40.
“Frauen in Weltreligionen: Taoismus.” In Wörterbuch der feministischen Theologie, ed. Elisabeth Gössmann et al. Second edition. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2002, pp. 174-176.
2001
“Wu Jinfa and the Melancholy Mountain Forests of China’s Border Cultures: New Voices in Taiwanese Literature.” In In Search of the Hunters and their Tribes: Studies in the History and Culture of the Taiwan Indigenous Peoples, ed. David Faure. Taipei: Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines, 2001, pp. 202-240.
“Bell Doctors in a Late Imperial Chinese Novel.” Monumenta Serica 49 (2001): 57-70.
“Teachers in Traditional China: A View from Seventeenth-Century Fiction.” Ming Qing yanjiu (2001): 15-43.
“Traditional Chinese Vernacular Novels: Some Lesser-Known Works.” In The Columbia History of Chinese Literature, ed. Victor Mair. Columbia: Columbia University Press, 2001, pp. 659-674.
1999
“Reformer, Saint, and Savior: Visions of the Great Mother in the Novel Xingshi yinyuan zhuan and its Seventeenth-Century Chinese Context.” Nan Nü: Men, Women, and Gender in Early and Imperial China 1.2 (1999): 237-267.
1995
“Die Heilkunde Chinas im Spiegel des Romans Xingshi yinyuan zhuan aus dem 17. Jahrhundert.” ChinaMed 6 (1995): 59-61.
Media (Selected)
2020
“Tatort Antike: China’s First Emperor.” ZDF Info. Episode 5. Interview and Contribution to Documentary Film. 23 November 2020.
“Chinas Sozialkreditsystem.” Interview Radio Luzern. 5 November 2020.
2016
With Giorgio Strafella. “Roots and Prospects of Xi’s Cultural Policy.” China Policy Institute: Analysis (The University of Nottingham), 23 December. Available at: https://cpianalysis.org/2016/12/23/roots-and-prospects-of-xis-cultural-policy/ (08.03.2017)
With Giorgio Strafella. “A Decade of Blogging in China.” China Policy Institute: Analysis (The University of Nottingham), 31 August. https://cpianalysis.org/2015/08/31/a-decade-of-blogging-in-china/ (08.03.2017)
2014
“Women Power in China.” HSG Focus 2014/1, 1-3. http://hsgfocus.ch
2011
With Mohammed Shafiullah. “Understanding how China thinks.” China Daily 29 July 2011. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2011-07/29/content_13013576.htm
Reviews (Selected)
2011
“Paola Zamperini: Lost Bodies, Leiden: Brill, 2010.” Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China 13 (2011): 361-64.
“Wilt L. Idema and Beata Grant: The Red Brush: Writing Women of Imperial China, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2004.” T’oung Pao 97 (2011): 208-13.
2005
“Rania Huntington: Alien Kind: Foxes and Late Imperial Chinese Narrative, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 65.2 (2005): 466-73.
1999
“P’u Sung-ling, The Bonds Of Matrimony / Hsing-shih Yin-yüan Chuan (Vol. One), A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Novel, translated by Eve Alison Nyren, Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1995.” T’oung Pao 85 (1999): 201-5.
1998
“Keith McMahon, Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists: Sexuality and Male-Female Relations in Eighteenth-Century China, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 61.1 (1998): 180-81.
“Dorothy Ko, Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994.” T’oung Pao 84 (1998): 192-6.