Yimin Xu
PhD Candidate
Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Humanities & Languages
Email: yimin.xu1@unsw.edu.au
Supervisors: Yi Zheng, Ping Wong, Louise Edwards
Prior Study
- University of New South Wales Ph.D. Student in Chinese Science Fiction/Gender Studies 2019 – Present
- University of Leeds Master of Research in East Asian Studies 2017 – 2018
- Beijing Normal University Master of Translation and Interpretation 2015 – 2017
Working Experience
August 2023 – Present
- Teaching Assistant of GENS4015: Brave New World: Science Fiction, Science Fact, and the Future at School of Physics, UNSW
July 2023 – Present
- Reviewer of European Journal of Education (SCI Q1)
July 2023 – Present
- Education Professional of Culture and Communication (CUCO) and FNDN Management 2023 STD A UNSW College
- Research area
- Research outputs
- Chinese science fiction
- Science fiction literature
- Gender studies
Publications
- Xu, Yimin and Pan, Guangyi, 2023, What the sci-fi blockbuster Wandering Earth II can teach us about China’s global and local aspirations, The Conversation.
- Xu, Yimin, Review New Gods: Yang Jian, 2023, SFRA Review.
- Xu, Yimin, Review of Defekt, 2023, SFRA Review.
- Xu, Yimin, Journey to the West: A Taste of Chinese Science Fiction, 2023, Aurealis, 165, pp.52-59.
- Xu, Yimin, Mother, Desire and Oppression: Reading Chinese Modernisation in Han Song’s Tuomu, 2023, Literature and Modern China (Best Postgraduate Essay by Chinese Studies Association of Australia).
Awards
- Best PhD Presentation Award, Australasian Association for Communist and Post-Communist Studies (AACaPS).
- Best Postgraduate Essay Award of Chinese Studies Association of Australia (CSAA) Conference.