Yixun Zhang, Hughes Hall

Degree: PhD
Course: English
Supervisor: Dr Sarah Meer
Dissertation Title:

From Fashion to Fiction: Melville and American Periodical Representation of China, 1842–1856


Biographical Information

Doctor of Philosophy, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge

Mst. in English and American Studies (Distinction), Faculty of English, University of Oxford

Bachelor of Arts, Department of English Language and Literature, Peking University

Research Interests

Nineteenth-century American literature; popular print culture; China-U.S. relations

Selected Publications

Zhang, Yixun, 'Melville and the Chinese Junk: China-US Relations in 1840s American Popular Culture', Journal of American Studies (forthcoming)

Zhang, Yixun, 'Terraqueous Intimacy', The Cambridge Quarterly, 51.4 (2022), pp. 367–79, https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfac015