Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University

Senior Lecturer, China Centre Convenor, Gender, Sexuality and Culture Program Email: Geng.Song@anu.edu.au Phone: + 61 2 6125 3143 Fax: +61 2 6125 0745 Room: E3.13 Baldessin Precinct Building

Dr Song Geng [BA Beijing Foreign Studies; PhD HK] received his PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Hong Kong in 2000 and was assistant professor of Chinese at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore during 2001-2006.

Dr Song is currently the convenor of the cross-University graduate program on gender, sexuality and culture. He runs courses on gender and sexuality in Chinese culture, classical and modern Chinese literature and popular culture in China.

His research interests focus on three interrelated areas of concerns: a) Re-readings of the canon of romantic love in pre-modern Chinese literature (esp. the late imperial period) from a theoretically informed and comparative perspective, with the aim of deconstructing the discourse of love as a modern appropriation; b) Research on contemporary Chinese masculinities, esp. the representation of manhood in popular culture, as a hybrid discourse in a globalizing China; c) Cultural studies in China in the context of nationalism and globalization.

Selected Publications

The Fragile Scholar: Power and Masculinity in Chinese Culture Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004
Re-Reading Tradition: New Perspectives in Cross-cultural Reading (editor) Beijing: Wanyu jiaoxue yu yanjiu chubanshe, 2005
Body Politics (co-author) Shanghai: Sanlian shudian, 2005
Globalization and Chineseness: Postcolonial Reading of Contemporary Culture (editor) Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006