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Leting Zheng is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Oregon, affiliated with the School of Global Studies and Languages. Her research intersects modern Chinese literature and history, transnational children’s studies, and affect theory.
- Education: M.A. in Asian Languages and Cultures from University of Colorado Boulder, B.A. in Chinese Languages and Literature from Sun Yat-sen University.
Research Interests: Explore cultural and political constructions of childhood in modern China, focusing on media and visual culture (films, magazines, comics), gender studies, and colonial discourse. Her work examines how affective frameworks like happiness evolved from bourgeois-commercial fantasies to socialist-propaganda tools.
Publications highlight debates around children’s labor and happiness in cinematic and literary contexts, with a forthcoming article analyzing spatiality in children’s magazines. Her research has been supported by Oregon Humanities Center fellowships.
- Scientific Awards: Oregon Humanities Center Graduate Research Support Fellowship, Oregon Humanities Center Dissertation Fellowship, Top prize at Asian Studies Research Event, Asian Studies Awards at University of Oregon.
Teaching: Instructed courses on Chinese language, literature, film, and cultural studies at University of Oregon and University of Colorado Boulder. Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams in film narrative and new cinema history research.
