Zhaokun Xin

Zhaokun Xin serves as Lecturer in Chinese Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester since 2023, previously working at the University of British Columbia. His research investigates late imperial Chinese literature through interdisciplinary frameworks including affect theory, gender studies, and medical humanities, with current focus on 'negative' emotions in Ming-Qing literary landscapes.

His educational credentials include:

• PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations (with Critical Theory Certificate), Arizona State University (2020)
• MA in Theory and Practice of Translation (Distinction), SOAS University of London (2013)
• BCom in Marketing (First-Class Honours), University of Hong Kong (2012)

Xin's scholarship bridges literary analysis with ritual theory and visual culture studies, examining emotional expression in premodern Chinese texts. His teaching methodology integrates multimedia storytelling and immersive technologies across courses on Chinese literature, film, drama, and classical language instruction.

Recent publications (2021-2024) demonstrate consistent interdisciplinary output, analyzing homoeroticism in Li Yu's fiction, Wang Jide's opera theory, and Sino-Japanese identity construction through Kokusen'ya Kassen adaptations, revealing methodological commitments to emotional and cross-cultural perspectives.

Actively supervising PhD researchers in late imperial Chinese studies, Xin contributes to the Manchester China Institute as his primary research platform while developing innovative pedagogical approaches to classical Chinese education.