Faculty Profiles - JIN Huan | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Huan JIN
金環

PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Harvard University, 2017

Associate Professor
Division of Humanities

(852) 2358 5943
hmhjin@ust.hk
Room 3357
Personal Web

ORCID

0000-0002-3349-7725

Scopus ID

57203866131

Research Interest Publications Projects Teaching Assignment RPG Supervision

Research Interest

Chinese cultural history
Chinese literary history
Media, visual and verbal culture
Narrative and drama

Publications

All Years 35 2026 0 2025 4 2024 9 2023 0 2022 1 2021 3 2020 18

2025 4

Gender Dynamics in Late Imperial Letter-Writing Manuals

Paper presented at 2025 Gender Studies Workshop — The Beauty and the Book: Women, Knowledge, Literature, and Book Culture in Late Imperial China and Beyond
JIN, Huan
Conference paper

Measuring Distances: Letter-Writing Manuals from the Fourteenth Century to the Sixteenth Century

Paper presented at Reading between the Lines: Literature and Book Culture in Early Modern and Modern China=「字裏行間：早期現代與現代中國之文學及書籍文化」研討會
JIN, Huan
Conference paper

Modularized Interpersonal Letters: A Study of The Brocade Sack of Letters

Paper presented at Association for Asian Studies 2025 Annual Conference
JIN, Huan
Conference paper

Printing to Proselytize: A Comparison of Three Early Missionary Magazines in Chinese

Paper presented at Involution and Revolution: Information in Nineteenth Century China
JIN, Huan
Conference paper

2024 9

Bulletin of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy Academia Sinica

Bulletin of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy Academia Sinica
JIN, Huan
Article

Possibilities at the Formative Stage of the Vernacular Chinese Novel: A Study of San Sui pingyao zhuan (Three Sui Quelling the Demon’s Revolt)

Journal of the American Oriental Society, v. 144, (1), p. 107-126
Huan, Jin
Article

The Making of Barbarians: Chinese Literature and Multilingual Asia [Book review]

Bulletin of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy
JIN, Huan
Article

The Collapse of Heaven: The Taiping Civil War (1851–1864) and Chinese Literature and Culture (1850–1880)

Jin, Huan
Book

《花月痕》中的虛構與現實

Paper presented at 京港學者古代文學研討會——中國古典文學中的物與義
金環, Huan
Conference paper

《花月痕》之詩與時

Paper presented at 風雅傳承：第三屆民初以來舊體文學國際學術研討會
金, 環
Conference paper

Possibilities at the Formative Stage of the Vernacular Chinese Novel

Paper presented at Conference on Vernacular Chinese Literature
JIN, Huan
Conference paper

The Liminality of Xu Wei’s ‘Bense’ Theory

Paper presented at Theories of Ming-Qing Performance
JIN, Huan
Conference paper

从历史到经典的可能性

Paper presented at “文章奥府：中国古代文学中的经典与历史” 暨苏港澳古代文学青年学者论坛=Conference on History and Canon in Nanjing University
金, 環
Conference paper

2022 1

The Death of My Talented Sister: Family Loss in Personal Accounts during the Taiping War (1851–1864)

Paper presented at Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2022 Annual Conference
Jin, Huan
Conference paper

2021 3

多重他者：太平天國時期的身份政治

嶺南學報=Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies, v. 13, p. 43101, article number 1
金環, Huan
Article

Possibilities at the Formative Stage of Vernacular Chinese Novel: A Study of San Sui pingyao zhuan

Paper presented at The Meaning of Text(s) - Understanding Ming-Qing Literature and Culture
Jin, Huan
Conference paper

Private Writings

Paper presented at Material Mediation of Emotions and Thoughts in Early Modern China
Jin, Huan
Conference paper

2020 1

Multiple otherness: Identity politics in the taiping civil war

Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture, v. 7, (1), p. 215-231
Jin, Huan
Article

2019 4

Stitching words to suture wounds: A manuscript diary from the Taiping-Qing civil war (1851-64)

Late Imperial China, v. 40, (2), p. 141-182
Jin, Huan
Article

Admonishing the Age: Good Words Imported

Paper presented at SHARP 2019: Indigeneity, Nationhood, and Migrations of the Book
Jin, Huan
Conference paper

Bikou riji: A Manuscript of Personal Accounts from the Taiping Civil War (1851–1864)

Paper presented at 『新文化史』視野下的明清、民國文學研究─反思與前行國際學術論壇=New Cultural History and Chinese Literary Studies: Reflections and Prospect
Jin, Huan
Conference paper

Emulation, Rejuvenation, and Canonization: Mass Dissemination of Stories about the Strange

Paper presented at Understanding Media: New Perspectives on Ming–Qing Literature
Jin, Huan
Conference paper

2018 4

Authenticating the renewed heavenly vision: The taiping heavenly chronicle (Taiping tianri)

Frontiers of History in China, v. 13, (2), p. 173-192
Jin, Huan
Article

Violence and the Evolving Face of Yao in Taiping Propaganda

Journal of Religion and Violence, v. 6, p. 127-144
Jin, Huan
Article

Reinventing the Taiping: a Veteran’s Fantastic Visions

Paper presented at The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference 2018
Jin, Huan
Conference paper

The Historical Burden of Phantoms

Paper presented at Taipei Tech's 2018 Literature Conference: Literary Fantasy and Its Discontents
Jin, Huan
Conference paper

2017 3

The Second Half of June: In Search of a Chinese Utopia: The Taiping Rebellion as a Literary Event

A New Literary History of Modern China / Harvard University Press, 2017, p. 79-85
Jin, Huan
Book chapter

Authorship and the Implosion of Late Imperial Propaganda

Paper presented at The Author – Wanted, Dead or Alive: New perspectives on the concept of authorship, 1700-1900
Jin, Huan
Conference paper

Fantasy Disseminated: the Drama of Politics and Religion in the Taiping Rebellion

Paper presented at 2017 Annual Conference for American Academy of Religion (AAR)
Jin, Huan
Conference paper

2016 3

Arguing for a Renewed Heavenly Vision: The Taiping Heavenly Chronicle

Paper presented at 2016 Harvard-Yale Graduate Conference in Book History
Jin, Huan
Conference paper

Karmic Ties in a Dream: Poeticizing the Disintegration of an Empire

Paper presented at The 2016 meeting of the American Oriental Society, Western Branch
Jin, Huan
Conference paper

Malleable Qing Propaganda and the Taiping Civil War: a Study of Miracle Revelation of Imperial Instruction

Paper presented at 第三屆中國文化研究青年學者論壇 Young Scholars’ Forum in Chinese Studies 2016
Jin, Huan
Conference paper

2015 2

Authorizing the Taiping Wars

Paper presented at 2015 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference
Jin, Huan
Conference paper

Constructing an Ironic Epic in the Ruins of History: A Case Study of Chapter 48 in Hua yue hen

Paper presented at Forming and Redefining Belles-Lettres Graduate Student Conference
Jin, Huan
Conference paper

2014 1

Authorizing the Taiping War

Paper presented at 2014 New England Association for Asian Studies Conference
Jin, Huan
Conference paper

Conference paper 4

Gender Dynamics in Late Imperial Letter-Writing Manuals

Paper presented at 2025 Gender Studies Workshop — The Beauty and the Book: Women, Knowledge, Literature, and Book Culture in Late Imperial China and Beyond
JIN, Huan

Measuring Distances: Letter-Writing Manuals from the Fourteenth Century to the Sixteenth Century

Paper presented at Reading between the Lines: Literature and Book Culture in Early Modern and Modern China=「字裏行間：早期現代與現代中國之文學及書籍文化」研討會
JIN, Huan

Modularized Interpersonal Letters: A Study of The Brocade Sack of Letters

Paper presented at Association for Asian Studies 2025 Annual Conference
JIN, Huan

Printing to Proselytize: A Comparison of Three Early Missionary Magazines in Chinese

Paper presented at Involution and Revolution: Information in Nineteenth Century China
JIN, Huan

Article 3

Bulletin of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy Academia Sinica

Bulletin of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy Academia Sinica
JIN, Huan

Possibilities at the Formative Stage of the Vernacular Chinese Novel: A Study of San Sui pingyao zhuan (Three Sui Quelling the Demon’s Revolt)

Journal of the American Oriental Society, v. 144, (1), p. 107-126
Huan, Jin

The Making of Barbarians: Chinese Literature and Multilingual Asia [Book review]

Bulletin of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy
JIN, Huan

Book 1

The Collapse of Heaven: The Taiping Civil War (1851–1864) and Chinese Literature and Culture (1850–1880)

Jin, Huan

Conference paper 5

《花月痕》中的虛構與現實

Paper presented at 京港學者古代文學研討會——中國古典文學中的物與義
金環, Huan

《花月痕》之詩與時

Paper presented at 風雅傳承：第三屆民初以來舊體文學國際學術研討會
金, 環

Possibilities at the Formative Stage of the Vernacular Chinese Novel

Paper presented at Conference on Vernacular Chinese Literature
JIN, Huan

The Liminality of Xu Wei’s ‘Bense’ Theory

Paper presented at Theories of Ming-Qing Performance
JIN, Huan

从历史到经典的可能性

Paper presented at “文章奥府：中国古代文学中的经典与历史” 暨苏港澳古代文学青年学者论坛=Conference on History and Canon in Nanjing University
金, 環

Conference paper 1

The Death of My Talented Sister: Family Loss in Personal Accounts during the Taiping War (1851–1864)

Paper presented at Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2022 Annual Conference
Jin, Huan

Article 1

多重他者：太平天國時期的身份政治

嶺南學報=Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies, v. 13, p. 43101, article number 1
金環, Huan

Conference paper 2

Possibilities at the Formative Stage of Vernacular Chinese Novel: A Study of San Sui pingyao zhuan

Paper presented at The Meaning of Text(s) - Understanding Ming-Qing Literature and Culture
Jin, Huan

Private Writings

Paper presented at Material Mediation of Emotions and Thoughts in Early Modern China
Jin, Huan

Article 1

Multiple otherness: Identity politics in the taiping civil war

Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture, v. 7, (1), p. 215-231
Jin, Huan

Article 1

Stitching words to suture wounds: A manuscript diary from the Taiping-Qing civil war (1851-64)

Late Imperial China, v. 40, (2), p. 141-182
Jin, Huan

Conference paper 3

Admonishing the Age: Good Words Imported

Paper presented at SHARP 2019: Indigeneity, Nationhood, and Migrations of the Book
Jin, Huan

Bikou riji: A Manuscript of Personal Accounts from the Taiping Civil War (1851–1864)

Paper presented at 『新文化史』視野下的明清、民國文學研究─反思與前行國際學術論壇=New Cultural History and Chinese Literary Studies: Reflections and Prospect
Jin, Huan

Emulation, Rejuvenation, and Canonization: Mass Dissemination of Stories about the Strange

Paper presented at Understanding Media: New Perspectives on Ming–Qing Literature
Jin, Huan

Article 2

Authenticating the renewed heavenly vision: The taiping heavenly chronicle (Taiping tianri)

Frontiers of History in China, v. 13, (2), p. 173-192
Jin, Huan

Violence and the Evolving Face of Yao in Taiping Propaganda

Journal of Religion and Violence, v. 6, p. 127-144
Jin, Huan

Conference paper 2

Reinventing the Taiping: a Veteran’s Fantastic Visions

Paper presented at The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference 2018
Jin, Huan

The Historical Burden of Phantoms

Paper presented at Taipei Tech's 2018 Literature Conference: Literary Fantasy and Its Discontents
Jin, Huan

Book chapter 1

The Second Half of June: In Search of a Chinese Utopia: The Taiping Rebellion as a Literary Event

A New Literary History of Modern China / Harvard University Press, 2017, p. 79-85
Jin, Huan

Conference paper 2

Authorship and the Implosion of Late Imperial Propaganda

Paper presented at The Author – Wanted, Dead or Alive: New perspectives on the concept of authorship, 1700-1900
Jin, Huan

Fantasy Disseminated: the Drama of Politics and Religion in the Taiping Rebellion

Paper presented at 2017 Annual Conference for American Academy of Religion (AAR)
Jin, Huan

Conference paper 3

Arguing for a Renewed Heavenly Vision: The Taiping Heavenly Chronicle

Paper presented at 2016 Harvard-Yale Graduate Conference in Book History
Jin, Huan

Karmic Ties in a Dream: Poeticizing the Disintegration of an Empire

Paper presented at The 2016 meeting of the American Oriental Society, Western Branch
Jin, Huan

Malleable Qing Propaganda and the Taiping Civil War: a Study of Miracle Revelation of Imperial Instruction

Paper presented at 第三屆中國文化研究青年學者論壇 Young Scholars’ Forum in Chinese Studies 2016
Jin, Huan

Conference paper 2

Authorizing the Taiping Wars

Paper presented at 2015 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference
Jin, Huan

Constructing an Ironic Epic in the Ruins of History: A Case Study of Chapter 48 in Hua yue hen

Paper presented at Forming and Redefining Belles-Lettres Graduate Student Conference
Jin, Huan

Conference paper 1

Authorizing the Taiping War

Paper presented at 2014 New England Association for Asian Studies Conference
Jin, Huan

2020 1

Multiple otherness: Identity politics in the taiping civil war

Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture, v. 7, (1), p. 215-231
Jin, Huan
Article

2019 4

Stitching words to suture wounds: A manuscript diary from the Taiping-Qing civil war (1851-64)

Late Imperial China, v. 40, (2), p. 141-182
Jin, Huan
Article

Admonishing the Age: Good Words Imported

Paper presented at SHARP 2019: Indigeneity, Nationhood, and Migrations of the Book
Jin, Huan
Conference paper

Bikou riji: A Manuscript of Personal Accounts from the Taiping Civil War (1851–1864)

Paper presented at 『新文化史』視野下的明清、民國文學研究─反思與前行國際學術論壇=New Cultural History and Chinese Literary Studies: Reflections and Prospect
Jin, Huan
Conference paper

Emulation, Rejuvenation, and Canonization: Mass Dissemination of Stories about the Strange

Paper presented at Understanding Media: New Perspectives on Ming–Qing Literature
Jin, Huan
Conference paper

2018 4

Authenticating the renewed heavenly vision: The taiping heavenly chronicle (Taiping tianri)

Frontiers of History in China, v. 13, (2), p. 173-192
Jin, Huan
Article

Violence and the Evolving Face of Yao in Taiping Propaganda

Journal of Religion and Violence, v. 6, p. 127-144
Jin, Huan
Article

Reinventing the Taiping: a Veteran’s Fantastic Visions

Paper presented at The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference 2018
Jin, Huan
Conference paper

The Historical Burden of Phantoms

Paper presented at Taipei Tech's 2018 Literature Conference: Literary Fantasy and Its Discontents
Jin, Huan
Conference paper

2017 3

The Second Half of June: In Search of a Chinese Utopia: The Taiping Rebellion as a Literary Event

A New Literary History of Modern China / Harvard University Press, 2017, p. 79-85
Jin, Huan
Book chapter

Authorship and the Implosion of Late Imperial Propaganda

Paper presented at The Author – Wanted, Dead or Alive: New perspectives on the concept of authorship, 1700-1900
Jin, Huan
Conference paper

Fantasy Disseminated: the Drama of Politics and Religion in the Taiping Rebellion

Paper presented at 2017 Annual Conference for American Academy of Religion (AAR)
Jin, Huan
Conference paper

2016 3

Arguing for a Renewed Heavenly Vision: The Taiping Heavenly Chronicle

Paper presented at 2016 Harvard-Yale Graduate Conference in Book History
Jin, Huan
Conference paper

Karmic Ties in a Dream: Poeticizing the Disintegration of an Empire

Paper presented at The 2016 meeting of the American Oriental Society, Western Branch
Jin, Huan
Conference paper

Malleable Qing Propaganda and the Taiping Civil War: a Study of Miracle Revelation of Imperial Instruction

Paper presented at 第三屆中國文化研究青年學者論壇 Young Scholars’ Forum in Chinese Studies 2016
Jin, Huan
Conference paper

2015 2

Authorizing the Taiping Wars

Paper presented at 2015 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference
Jin, Huan
Conference paper

Constructing an Ironic Epic in the Ruins of History: A Case Study of Chapter 48 in Hua yue hen

Paper presented at Forming and Redefining Belles-Lettres Graduate Student Conference
Jin, Huan
Conference paper

2014 1

Authorizing the Taiping War

Paper presented at 2014 New England Association for Asian Studies Conference
Jin, Huan
Conference paper

No Publications

Teaching Assignment

2025-26 Winter 0 2025-26 Fall 2 2024-25 Summer 0 2024-25 Spring 0 2024-25 Winter 0 2024-25 Fall 1

HUMA2340	Between Old and New: Chinese Stories and Their Reinventions
MGCS6001A	Topics in Premodern Chinese Literature and Culture

HMMA5300

Topics in Premodern Chinese Literature and Culture

No Teaching Assignments

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2023 to December 2026 (As of 12 January 2026)

All Supervisions Current RPGs Graduated RPGs

Current RPGs

Doctor of Philosophy

WANG, Yifei (co-supervision)
Humanities

Graduated RPGs

Master of Philosophy

ZOU, Sirong
Humanities( Completed in 2023 )

Projects

From January 2024 to December 2026

All Projects 1

No Projects.
Seaborne Visions: Early Nineteenth-Century Missionary Publications in Chinese

遠海願景：十九世紀早期傳教士中文出版物 Leading

RGC - General Research Fund
Project Team (HKUST)
JIN Huan (Lead)
2023 - 2025

Research Interest

Publications

2025 4

2024 9

2022 1

2021 3

2020 1

2019 4

2018 4

2017 3

2016 3

2015 2

2014 1

Conference paper 4

Article 3

Book 1

Conference paper 5

Conference paper 1

Article 1

Conference paper 2

Article 1

Article 1

Conference paper 3

Article 2

Conference paper 2

Book chapter 1

Conference paper 2

Conference paper 3

Conference paper 2

Conference paper 1

2020 1

2019 4

2018 4

2017 3

2016 3

2015 2

2014 1

Teaching Assignment

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2023 to December 2026 (As of 12 January 2026)

Current RPGs

Graduated RPGs

Projects

From January 2024 to December 2026

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