Dr Xiaohuan Zhao

Office: Arts 3S3
Tel: 479 8683
Fax: (64 3) 479 8689
Email: xiaohuan.zhao@stonebow.otago.ac.nz

Senior Lecturer

Xiaohuan was born in Anhui, China. He obtained his B.A. in English Language & Literature, and M.A. in Applied Linguistics (Linguistics & Literature), both from Central China Normal University, and his PhD from the University of Edinburgh. He had taught at Donghua University in Shanghai, and the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland before he moved to Edinburgh in the South to take up his current position at Otago.

Research Interests:

His research areas range from Chinese studies to linguistics and literature. Within the area of linguistics and literature, he is interested in cognitive poetics and literary stylistics. In the area of Chinese studies, he is most interested in traditional Chinese literature, particularly traditional Chinese fiction and drama. He is also interested in pre-Qin (220-26 BC) Chinese classics, Chinese intellectual history, and Chinese ghost culture.

Postgraduate Supervision:

Currently under the supervision with Xiaohuan as principal supervisor are three PhD students.

Xiaohuan welcomes applications from research students who wish to work in the following areas:

• Traditional Chinese literature (TCL)
• Religious and Folk Beliefs in TCL
• Linguistic Analysis of TCL Texts

Selected Publications:

Over the past decade, Xiaohuan has published more than thirty articles, and authored and co-authored/compiled four books. Here is a list of selected publications from 2004:

Books/Monographs:

- Zhao, X & Qiao, X. New Zealand: Its History, People and Culture [in Chinese], 275 pp. Shanghai: Fudan University Press, 2009. [ISBN: 978-7-309-069433]
- Zhao, X. Classical Chinese Supernatural Fiction: A Morphological History. 416 pp. Lewiston, New York, USA & Ceredigion, Wales, UK: the Edwin Mellen Press, 2005. [ISBN: 0773460977] [This book won the (US) Adele Mellen Prize for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship 2005]

Journal articles:

-Zhao, X. “Court Trials and Miscarriage of Justice in Dream of the Red Chamber,” Law & Literature, Vol. 23, Issue 1 (March 2011), pp. 129-156 [ISSN: 1535-685X/ELECTRONIC ISSN: 1541-2601].
- Zhao, X. "Towards an Integrated Cognitive Model of Literature: With Special Reference to Tang Chuanqi Fiction," AUMLA, No.114 (November 2010), pp. 57-72 [ISSN: 0001-2793].
- Zhao, X. "Literature and Literary Tradition: A Cognitive Perspective," Tamkang Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. 41 (Mar. 2010), pp. 1-24. [ISSN: 1029-8312].
- Zhao, X. "Collection, Classification and Conception of Xiaoshuo in the Taiping Guangji," Asian Cultural Studies, Vol. 35 (Mar. 2009), pp. 1-14 [ISSN: 04542150]
- Zhao, X. "Collection and Classification of Classical Chinese Fictional Narratives," AUMLA, Special Issue (December 2007), pp. 93-103 [ISSN: 0001-2793]
- Zhao, X. "Presentation and Representation of Time and Space on the Chinese Stage: With Special Reference to The Peony Pavilion," Double Dialogues, Issue 7 (Winter 2007) http://www.doubledialogues.com/current_issue.htm [ISSN: 1447-9591]
- Zhao, X. "On the Modes of Theme-Rheme Combination and Logic-semantic Relations in the Text of the Tao te ching,"Studies in Sinology, Vol. 29, Issue 2 (September 2007), pp. 79-110 [ISSN: 1021-7851]
- Zhao, X. "From Story to Script: Towards a Morphology of The Peony Pavilion - A Dream/Ghost Drama from Ming China," Acta Orientalia Vilnensia, Vol. 7, Issues 1-2 (2006) [published in November 2007], pp. 189-207 [ISSN: 1648-2662]
- Zhao, X. "Xiaoshuo as a Cataloguing Term in Traditional Chinese Bibliography," Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 5, Issue 2 (Oct. 2005), pp.157-181. [ISSN: 1598-2661]
- Zhao, X. "Structural Patterns in Advertising Chinese: a Textual Analysis from the Theme-Rheme Perspective," The New Zealand Language Teacher, Issue I (October 2005), pp. 28-34. [ISSN: 0110-1374]
- Zhao, X. "The Supernatural World in Early Chinese Classics: the Origin of Chinese Zhiguai Fiction," Sine, Issue 1 (February 2004), pp. 4-12. [ISSN: 0307-5303]

Book chapters:
- Zhao, X. "On the Birth and Growth of the Literary Genre of Tang Chuanqi Fiction" [in Chinese], in Chinese Society of Tang Literature (eds.), Studies in Tang Literature No. 13, Guilin: Guangxi Normal University Press 2010 [ISBN: 9787549500185].
- Zhao, X. "An Investigation into the Textual Patterns of the Classic of the Way and Virtue" [in Chinese], in H. Zhang & N. Qian Na (eds.), Chinese Literature: Conversations between Tradition and Modernity, pp. 109-121. Shanghai: Shanghai Ancient Chinese Literature Press, December 2007 [ISBN: 978-7-5325-4821-7].
- Zhao X. "Lexical Cohesion and Conjunction: A Textual Study of the Tao te ching from the Hallidayean Perspective," in D. Wang (ed.), Functional Linguistics and Translation Studies, pp. 46-66. Guangzhou: Sun Yat-sen University Press, December 2006. [ISBN: 7306028057]