Hui Faye Xiao is a Professor of modern Chinese literature and culture at the University of Kansas. She has published two monographs Youth Economy, Crisis, and Reinvention in Twenty-First Century China (2020) and Family Revolution: Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture (2014) and co-edited a volume Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics (2021). She has also been interviewed regularly by international media to discuss issues on gender, class, globalization, and Chinese culture. Currently she is working on a third monograph tentatively titled The Hen Cackles in the Morning: Gendered Soundscape and Female Leadership in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture.

Recent and Selected Publications

Refereed Single-Authored Monographs:

 Youth Economy, Crisis and Reinvention in Twenty-First Century China: Morning Sun in the Tiny Times. London and New York: Routledge, 2020.

 Family Revolution: Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2014.

Edited Volume and Special Sections:

Hui Faye Xiao, ed., Special section on Chinese Women Workers’ Literature, Chinese Literature Today, vol. 10, no. 2 (Winter 2021): 46-129.

Ping Zhu and Hui Faye Xiao, eds., Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics . Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2021.

Hui Faye Xiao and Ping Zhu eds., Special section on Chinese Migrant Workers’ Literature, World Literature Today, Spring 2021: 28–39.

Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters (2021):

“‘Why Am I Still Imprisoned in Your Eyes?’: Re-Visioning ‘Leftover Women’ and Female Gaze in Send Me to the Clouds.” Asian Cinema, vol. 32, no. 2 (Winter 2021): 169-186.

“Caring for the Small: Gendered Resistance and Solidarity through Chinese Domestic Workers’ Writings.” Chinese Literature Today, vol. 10, no. 2 (Winter 2021): 46-57.

“‘I Am Fan Yusu’: Baomu Writing and Grassroots Feminism against the Postsocialist Patriarchy.” in Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics: 1995-2018, edited by Ping Zhu and Hui Faye Xiao. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2021. 243-270.

“Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics: An Introduction.” Co-authored with Ping Zhu, in Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics: 1995-2018, edited by Ping Zhu and Hui Faye Xiao. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2021. 1-34.

“The Sound of Silence: Chinese Domestic Workers’ Literary Writings.” World Literature Today, Spring 2021: 38–39.

Current Project

The Hen Cackles in the Morning: Gendered Soundscape and Female Leadership in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (in progress)