Dr. Denise Gimpel
mit WS 2003/2004 Associate Professor am Asien Instituttet der
Universität Kopenhagen
Recent and Ongoing Research Activities, Publications, Research
plans:
My research interests centre upon the literature and history of
nineteenth and twentieth-century China. To date the focus has been on
literary magazines of the 1910s, political journalism at the turn of
the century, detective fiction and the reception of foreign literature
and ideas in China since the end of the nineteenth century. New areas
of research are the comparative study of physical education for women
in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the perception of
the "other" in China and the West in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries.
Teaching: Chinese history and literature, Perceptions of foreign
cultures and their historical contexts, Classical Chinese.
Representative Research Activities:
"The Role of Literature in the Search for Cultural Identity". 18-month
project sponsored by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Taiwan
(1996-98).
October 2000 to April 2001: Chiang Ching-kuo Research Fellow at
Columbia University, New York Preparation of translations of
introductory articles to Chinese newspapers (fakanci) since the late
19th century.
Co-organisation with with Dr. Michel Hockx (SOAS, London University) of
the international workshop:"Subscribing to a New Culture: Chinese
Literary Journals of the 1910s" (June 20 - 22, 2001). The workshop was
supported by the European Association of Chinese Studies and sponsored
by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Taiwan.
A further meeting of the group is planned. It will concentrate on
personalities, attitudes and assumptions involved in the literary field
of the 1910s in China as well as links between the journal field and
other fields of intellectual activity.
Representative publications:
Books:
Lost Voices of Modernity: A Chinese Popular Fiction Magazine in
Context. University of Hawai'i Press, 2001.
Cheng: In All Sincerity. Festschrift in honour of the sixtieth
birthday of Professor Dr. Monika Übelhör edited with Melanie Hanz.
Hamburger Sinologische Reihe, forthcoming 2001.
In Preparation:
Bilingual (English-Chinese) reader with translations of the
introductory articles to Chinese newspapers (c. 1870-1915).
Volume of selected papers from the workshop "Subscribing to a New
Culture: Chinese Literary Journal of the 1910s" (Marburg, June 2001)
edited with Michel Hockx, SOAS, London University. Forthcoming.
"Sourcebook" of translations from literary journals of the 1910s
compiled together with Michel Hockx, SOAS, London University.
Forthcoming.
Articles:
"A Neglected Medium: The Literary Journal and the Case of Xiaoshuo
yuebao (The Short Story Magazine), 1910-1914," in Modern Chinese
Literature and Culture, vol. 11, No. 2 (Aug. 1999), 53-106.
"Yun Tieqiaos 'Gongren Xiaoshi' ('Geschichte des Arbeiters'):
Übersetzung und Interpretation", Nachrichten der Ostasiatischen
Gesellschaft, Hamburg, Nr. 153 (1993:1), 63-112.
Book contributions:
"Exercising Women's Bodies", contribution to the volume Re-Assessing
May Fourth edited by Chow Kai-wing, University of Illinois.
(forthcoming).
"Haben Frauen ein eigenes Leben? Literarische Darstellungsweisen in
einer populären Zeitschrift 1910-15." In Lebensentwürfe und
Lebensvollzüge chinesischer Frauen an der Schwelle zur Moderne
edited by Monika Übelhör, 2001.
"Neue Helden braucht das Land: Zur Rezeption der westlichen
Detektivgeschichte in China zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts". In
Cheng: In All Sincerity. Festschrift in honour of the sixtieth
birthday of Professor Dr. Monika Übelhör. Edited by Denise Gimpel and
Melanie Hanz, 2001.
"Beyond Butterflies: Some Observations on the Early Years of Xiaoshuo
yuebao" in The Literary Field of Twentieth Century China edited
by Michel Hockx, Curzon Press, Richmond, 1998, 40-60.
