Contact
| Dept: | World Languages And Cultures |
| Email: | tongluli@iastate.edu |
| Office: | 2244 Pearson 505 Morrill Rd. Ames IA 50011-2103 |
| Phone: | 515-294-0836 |
| Website: | https://iastate.academia.edu/TongluLi |
| Vita: | https://iastate.box.com/s/1id32qsu5p92o6yv1wyf7rztbw4gjhj0 |
Bio
Originally coming from China, he received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009. He has been teaching Chinese language, literature and culture at ISU since then.Grants and Awards
- CEAH Research Scholarship, Iowa State University, 2014, 2017
- McClain Faculty Fellowship, Iowa State University, 2014
- LAS Research & Travel Grants, Iowa State University, Spring 2011, 2014, Fall 2014, 2020.
Recent / Major Publications
Book Chapters- "The May Fourth Intellectuals and Religion,” New Vocabularies of May Fourth Studies (Ideas, History, and Modern China, 33), eds. Carlos Yu-Kai Lin and Victor H. Mair, Brill. Forthcoming.
- “Modern Chinese Essays: Zhou Zuoren, Lin Yutang and Others.” The Routledge Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature, edited by Gu Ming Dong. Routledge, 2018, pp. 290–302.
- “Zhao Shuli and Sun Li’s Novels: Chronicles of New Peasantry.” The Routledge Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature, edited by Gu Ming Dong. Routledge, 2018, pp. 305–317.
- “Mo Yan’s Fiction: Human Existence Beyond Good and Evil.” The Routledge Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature, edited by Gu Ming Dong. Routledge, 2018, pp. 569–579.
Refereed Journal Articles
- “A Bibliographical Study of The Complete Works of Sun Li.” Chinese Language and Literature, Accepted.
- “The Humble Deities and the Kindhearted Human World: On Li Hao’s Novel Legendries of the Kitchen God.” Contemporary Chinese Literature Studies, vol.4(2024).
- “Building a Cultural Scaffolding for Calligraphy Learning,” University Calligraphy, 5(2021): 60–62.
- “Mo Yan’s Frog and the Competing Discourses on the Reconstruction of Cultural Memory on Birth and Birth Control.” Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Literature, 15 (2016): 189–220.
- “Exploring the Cultural Memory of the Common People: Desire, Violence, and Divinity in Mo Yan’s Sandalwood Death (2001).” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, 42.1 (2016) 25–48.
- “‘Stay Loyal to the Earth’: The Transcendental, the Teleological, and the Quotidian in Zhou Zuoren’s (1885-1967) Reflections on Modern Life.” Asia Major, 28, part 2 (2015) 109–145.
- “Trauma, Play, Memory: Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out and Mo Yan’s Strategies for Writing History as Story.” Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, 9, no. 2 (2015) 235–258.
- “The Sacred and the Cannibalistic: Zhou Zuoren’s Critique of Violence in Modern China.” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews, 36 (2014): 25–60.
- “Beyond the Nation-State Paradigm: On the Reconstruction of Cultural Subjectivity and Universalism in China.” Frontiers of Literary Theory (Wenxue Lilun Qianyan), 11 (2014): 25–53.
- “To Believe or Not to Believe: Zhou Zuoren’s Alternative Approaches to the Chinese Enlightenment.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Spring 25, no. 1 (2013): 206–26