Yang Zhao

Yang’s research focuses on Ming-Qing Chinese literature. Her dissertation topic is women’s painting-poetry (tihua shi 題畫詩) in late imperial China.

Academic History

• M.A. in Comparative Literature, University of Georgia
• B.A. in English with Minor in Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Nebraska at Kearney
• Xi’an University of Science and Technology

Advisors

• Prof. Xiaorong Li
• Prof. Peter Sturman
• Prof. Thomas Mazanec

Teaching Experience

• Winter 2020. Chinese 101A: Introduction to Classical Chinese (Teaching Associate)
• Spring 2019. Chinese 143: Urban Legends (Teaching Associate)
• Fall 2015–Winter 2019. Chinese 1-2-3: Elementary Modern Chinese. Professor Chen-Chuan Hsu, Professor Daoxiong Guan
• Spring 2018. Chinese/Comparative Literature 31: Chinese Love Stories. Professor Xiaorong Li

Conference Papers

• “A Lost History: Women’s Painting-Poetry (tihua shi 題畫詩) of Late Imperial China” Paper presented at the 21^st University of Colorado Boulder Asian Studies Graduate Association (CUBASGA) Conference, CU Boulder, February 2020
• “Engendering the Plum Blossom: Li Yin’s (1611-1685) Ink Plum in the Flowers of the Four Seasons (1694)” Paper presented at the Stanford-Berkeley Graduate Student Conference on Premodern Chinese Humanities, UC Berkeley, April 2019
• “Dramas in the Dream of the Red Chamber” Paper presented at the Southeast Conference/Association of Asian Studies, Greenville, SC, January 2012