Hui (Faye) Xiao


Hui (Faye) Ziao head shot
  • Professor
  • Department Chair
  • EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES & CULTURES

Contact Info

Office Phone:
Wescoe Hall, room #2105

Biography

Hui Faye Xiao is Associate Professor of modem Chinese literature and culture at the University of Kansas. She has published a book Family Revolution: Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture (University of Washington Press, 2014), and articles in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC), Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Journal of Contemporary China, Chinese Films in Focus II,  Gender and Modernity in Global Youth Cultures, and Transforming Book Culture in China, 1600–2016. Currently she is working on a new book project about youth culture in contemporary China.

Education

Ph.D. in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009

Research

Research interests:

  • Modern and contemporary Chinese literature
  • Chinese cinema
  • Youth culture
  • Gender studies