Dr Meng Xia
Dr Meng Xia is a researcher of environmental humanities from Zhejiang University of Water Resources and Electricity Power. She gained her doctoral degree from the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales, investigating memory, narrative, and history in contemporary Chinese migrant fiction. She visited Heidelberg University, Germany, as a research fellow sponsored by the Worldmaking Project in 2023. She published her studies on audience reception of Lai Shengchuan’s American adaptation from a cognitive perspective as a visiting researcher at Case Western Research University, U.S., in 2015. She has published articles in AHCI peer-review journals and on the academic-driven platform theconversation.com, written book reviews, and translated novels. Her research interests include environmental heritage, cultural landscapes, Chinese contemporary cultures and literature, memory culture studies, diaspora writing, trauma and affect. She has been lecturing at universities in China and Australia.
Select publications
Monograph:
- 2025 Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction, Memories in Negotiation, Contradiction, and Translation, published by Bloomsbury Academic
Journal Articles:
- 2025 “Drone Visuals: Urban Wasteland and Apocalyptic Memory.” Space and Culture, first published online Aug. https://doi.org/10.1177/12063312251363087
- 2025 “Aesthetic camping – urban lifestyles in China.” Continuum, 39(4), 583–602. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2025.2499968
- 2022 “Transcultural Memory in Visions and Realities” Chinese Literature and Thought Today 53.3-4 (2022): 88-96.
- 2022 “BEARING WITNESS TO TRAUMATIC MEMORY: an ethical approach to ken liu’s speculative fiction “the man who ended history–a documentary”.” Angelaki, journal of the theoretical humanities 27.2 (2022): 100-113.
- 2020 “Gender Myth and Disciplined Sexuality in Geling Yan’s White Snake.” Journal of Language, Literature and Culture 67.2-3 (2020): 172-189.
- 2018 “美版《暗恋桃花源》中国元素的观众接受影响因素研究.” [“On the Reception of Chinese Elements in American Adaption of Chinese Theatre ’Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land’.” ] 戏剧文学 Drama Literature, no. 1: 51-59.
- 2017 “新移民叙事文学的民族叙事和身份认同.” [“Ethnicity Narration and Identity Construction in Chinese New-immigrant Fiction.”] 南京师范大学文学院学报 Journal of Nanjing Normal University, 86, no. 2: 126-132.
Book translation:
- 2014 终战日 (Zhong Zhan Ri), trans. from Booker Prize winner A. F. Kennedy’s novel Day, 21st Century Publication Group, Feb. 2014.
Further links
Profile on Academia: http://unsw.academia.edu/MengXia
