Faculty Profiles - MA Xiaolu | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Xiaolu MA
馬筱璐

PhD in Comparative Literature
Harvard University, 2017

Associate Professor
Division of Humanities

(852) 2358 8921
hmxlma@ust.hk
Room 3377
Personal Web

ORCID

0000-0003-1208-198X

Scopus ID

55803246500

Research Interest Publications Projects Teaching Assignment RPG Supervision Space used

Research Interest

Literary theory and cultural criticism
Modern literature
Modern Chinese literature
Comparative Chinese and Japanese thought and culture
Russia

Publications

All Years 38 2026 0 2025 4 2024 6 2023 0 2022 6 2021 5 2020 17

2025 4

Chinese Variant: The Reconfiguration of Revolutionary Romanticism by Mo Yan and Yan Lianke

Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History, v. v.86, p. 117-143
MA, Xiaolu
Article

Lu Xun and World Literature

Ma, Xiaolu; Rojas, Carlos
Book

Introduction: Lu Xun, China, and the World

Lu Xun and World Literature / Hong Kong University Press, 2025, p. 1-16
Ma, Xiaolu
Book chapter

Penitence, Mercy, and Conversion: Lu Xun as a Topos of World Literature

Lu Xun and World Literature / Hong Kong University Press, 2025, p. 131-145
Ma, Xiaolu
Book chapter

2024 6

An Object In Between: The Past and Present of Lu Xun’s “Diary of a Madman”

Journal of Asian Studies, v. 83, (1), p. 41-61
Xiaolu, M. A.
Article

Cultural Brokerage: Japan as an Intermediary in the Journey of Russian Literature to China

PMLA, v. 139, (2), p. 267-282
Ma, Xiaolu
Article

Lu Xun’s Affirmative Biopolitics Nothingness and the Power of Self-Transcendence [Book review]

Chinese Literature: Essays Articles Reviews (CLEAR), v. v. 46, p. 285-288
Ma, Xiaolu
Article

relayed revolutionary sentiment: chinese appropriation of russian nihilism in popular literature

Comparative Literature Studies, v. 61, (3), p. 441-467
Ma, Xiaolu
Article

世界文學中的“小文學”：魯迅以德文為媒介對保加利亞小說的譯介

南方文壇=Southern Cultural Forum, v. 3, p. 144-153
馬筱璐, Xiaolu
Article

Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia via Japan (1880–1930)

Ma, Xiaolu
Book

2022 6

Eurasia without Borders: The Dream of a Leftist Literary Commons, 1919-1943 [Book review]

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
Ma, Xiaolu
Article

The Transfiguration of Russian Nihilists: Chinese Translations of Kemuyama Sentarō’s Anarchism in Modern Times

International Comparative Literature, v. 5, p. 77-99
Ma, Xiaolu
Article

A Poet-Knight-Errant Traveling North: Three Russian Poets’ Translations of Li Bai

The Western Reinvention of Chinese Literature, 1910-2010: From Ezra Pound to Maxine Hong Kingston / Brill, 2022, p. 87-113
Ma, Xiaolu
Book chapter

Building Chinese reality with language and metaphor: From socialist realism to mythorealism

The Routledge Companion to Yan Lianke / Taylor and Francis, 2022, p. 16-27
Ma, Xiaolu
Book chapter

Linguistic Transformation and Cultural Reconstruction: Translations of Gorky’s “Kain and Artem” in Japan and China

Ecologies of Translation in East and South East Asia, 1600-1900 / Amsterdam University Press, 2022, p. 293-316
Ma, Xiaolu
Book chapter

Commoner’s Literature: Zhou Zuoren’s Translation of Tolstoy’s ‘The Empty Drum

Paper presented at AAS 2022 Hybrid Annual Conference
Ma, Xiaolu
Conference paper

2021 5

A Different Version of Socialist Realism: Revolutionary Romanticism in China and its Reconfiguration by Mo Yan

Paper presented at Virtual Workshop: Transcultural Encounters Between Russia and East Asia
Ma, Xiaolu
Conference paper

Building Chinese Reality with Language and Metaphor: From Revolutionary Romanticism and Socialist Realism to Mythorealism

Paper presented at American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) 2021 Annual Meeting
Ma, Xiaolu
Conference paper

Lu Xun’s Translation of Ivan Vazov via German Sources

Paper presented at “Lu Xun and World Literature” International Workshop
Ma, Xiaolu
Conference paper

Relayed Terrorism: The Travel of an English Tale of a Russian Nihilist in East Asia

Paper presented at 2021 Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention
Ma, Xiaolu
Conference paper

Relayed Terrorism: The Travel of an English Tale of a Russian Nihilist in East Asia

Paper presented at Global Publishing and the Making of Literary Worlds: Translation, Media, and Mobility Online Early Career Conference
Ma, Xiaolu
Conference paper

2020 2

“The orient” versus Dongfang the reconceptualization of the east in modern China

Prism, v. 17, (2), p. 430-456
Ma, Xiaolu
Article

Love and Terrorism: The Relay Translation of an English Tale of a Russian Nihilist in East Asia

Paper presented at Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference 2019
Ma, Xiaolu
Conference paper

2019 9

An interstitial space: Cross-cultural negotiation and concession in early fiction translations in new youth

Twentieth-Century China, v. 44, (2), p. 223-236
Ma, Xiaolu
Article

Translation as Weapons in the War of Ideas: English, Russian and Chinese Translation of "Li Sao" in the 1950s

Translating Chinese Art and Modern Literature / Routledge, 2019,
MA, Xiaolu
Book chapter

被轉述的俄羅斯文學

五四@100：文化，思想，歷史 May Fourth@100: Culture, Thought, History / 聯經出版公司, 2019,
馬筱璐, Xiaolu
Book chapter

“The Orient" vs. Dongfang: The Reconceptualization of ‘Oriental Literature’ in Modern China

Paper presented at Western Critical Theory and Chinese Literary Scholarship International Conference
Ma, Xiaolu
Conference paper

A Poet-Knight-Errant Traveling North: Gumiljov, Akhmatova and Gitovich’s Translations of Li Bai’s Poems

Paper presented at Encountering, Imagining, and Reinventing Chinese Literature and Culture: Western Writers’ Engagement with China
Ma, Xiaolu
Conference paper

The Burden of Revolutionary Darkness: Lu Xun’s Translation of Writing by Russian ‘Fellow Travelers

Paper presented at Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference 2019
Ma, Xiaolu
Conference paper

Transcultural Negotiation and Innovation: The Concept of ‘Revolutionary Literature’ in Russia, Japan and China

Paper presented at Chinese Culture in the Global Context International Conference 2019
Ma, Xiaolu
Conference paper

Transcultural Negotiation and Innovation: The Concept of ‘Revolutionary Literature’ in Russia, Japan and China

Paper presented at “文學、革命與中國經驗” 第一屆青年學者論壇=Literature, Revolution, and Chinese Experience: The First Young Researchers’ Forum
馬筱璐, Xiaolu
Conference paper

Translingual Negotiation and Concession: Relay Translation of Turgenev’s Short Stories in New Youth

Paper presented at May Fourth @ 100: China and the World
Ma, Xiaolu
Conference paper

2017 1

俄苏-日本-中国：“革命文学”的跨文化之旅

华文文学=Literature in Chinese, v. 5, p. 51-56
馬筱璐, Xiaolu
Article

2016 1

The Transculturation of the Discourse of Sentiment: Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time in East Asia

Paper presented at In Proceedings of Writing Chinese Translation History: The Sixth Young Researchers’ Conference on Chinese Translation Studies
Ma, Xiaolu
Conference paper

2015 1

Transculturation of madness: The double origin of Lu Xun's "Diary of a Madman"

Literature and Medicine, v. 33, (2), p. 348-367
Ma, Xiaolu
Article

2014 1

The missing link: Japan as an intermediary in the transculturation of the Diary of A Madman

Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, v. 8, (2), p. 331-346
Ma, Xiaolu
Article

2012 2

Oriental literature study in Russia

Foreign Literature Studies, v. 34, (2), p. 85-92
Ma, Xiaolu
Article

俄罗斯“东方文学”研究概述

外国文学研究
Ma, Xiaolu
Article

Article 1

Chinese Variant: The Reconfiguration of Revolutionary Romanticism by Mo Yan and Yan Lianke

Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History, v. v.86, p. 117-143
MA, Xiaolu

Book 1

Lu Xun and World Literature

Ma, Xiaolu; Rojas, Carlos

Book chapter 2

Introduction: Lu Xun, China, and the World

Lu Xun and World Literature / Hong Kong University Press, 2025, p. 1-16
Ma, Xiaolu

Penitence, Mercy, and Conversion: Lu Xun as a Topos of World Literature

Lu Xun and World Literature / Hong Kong University Press, 2025, p. 131-145
Ma, Xiaolu

Article 5

An Object In Between: The Past and Present of Lu Xun’s “Diary of a Madman”

Journal of Asian Studies, v. 83, (1), p. 41-61
Xiaolu, M. A.

Cultural Brokerage: Japan as an Intermediary in the Journey of Russian Literature to China

PMLA, v. 139, (2), p. 267-282
Ma, Xiaolu

Lu Xun’s Affirmative Biopolitics Nothingness and the Power of Self-Transcendence [Book review]

Chinese Literature: Essays Articles Reviews (CLEAR), v. v. 46, p. 285-288
Ma, Xiaolu

relayed revolutionary sentiment: chinese appropriation of russian nihilism in popular literature

Comparative Literature Studies, v. 61, (3), p. 441-467
Ma, Xiaolu

世界文學中的“小文學”：魯迅以德文為媒介對保加利亞小說的譯介

南方文壇=Southern Cultural Forum, v. 3, p. 144-153
馬筱璐, Xiaolu

Book 1

Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia via Japan (1880–1930)

Ma, Xiaolu

Article 2

Eurasia without Borders: The Dream of a Leftist Literary Commons, 1919-1943 [Book review]

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
Ma, Xiaolu

The Transfiguration of Russian Nihilists: Chinese Translations of Kemuyama Sentarō’s Anarchism in Modern Times

International Comparative Literature, v. 5, p. 77-99
Ma, Xiaolu

Book chapter 3

A Poet-Knight-Errant Traveling North: Three Russian Poets’ Translations of Li Bai

The Western Reinvention of Chinese Literature, 1910-2010: From Ezra Pound to Maxine Hong Kingston / Brill, 2022, p. 87-113
Ma, Xiaolu

Building Chinese reality with language and metaphor: From socialist realism to mythorealism

The Routledge Companion to Yan Lianke / Taylor and Francis, 2022, p. 16-27
Ma, Xiaolu

Linguistic Transformation and Cultural Reconstruction: Translations of Gorky’s “Kain and Artem” in Japan and China

Ecologies of Translation in East and South East Asia, 1600-1900 / Amsterdam University Press, 2022, p. 293-316
Ma, Xiaolu

Conference paper 1

Commoner’s Literature: Zhou Zuoren’s Translation of Tolstoy’s ‘The Empty Drum

Paper presented at AAS 2022 Hybrid Annual Conference
Ma, Xiaolu

Conference paper 5

A Different Version of Socialist Realism: Revolutionary Romanticism in China and its Reconfiguration by Mo Yan

Paper presented at Virtual Workshop: Transcultural Encounters Between Russia and East Asia
Ma, Xiaolu

Building Chinese Reality with Language and Metaphor: From Revolutionary Romanticism and Socialist Realism to Mythorealism

Paper presented at American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) 2021 Annual Meeting
Ma, Xiaolu

Lu Xun’s Translation of Ivan Vazov via German Sources

Paper presented at “Lu Xun and World Literature” International Workshop
Ma, Xiaolu

Relayed Terrorism: The Travel of an English Tale of a Russian Nihilist in East Asia

Paper presented at 2021 Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention
Ma, Xiaolu

Relayed Terrorism: The Travel of an English Tale of a Russian Nihilist in East Asia

Paper presented at Global Publishing and the Making of Literary Worlds: Translation, Media, and Mobility Online Early Career Conference
Ma, Xiaolu

Article 1

“The orient” versus Dongfang the reconceptualization of the east in modern China

Prism, v. 17, (2), p. 430-456
Ma, Xiaolu

Conference paper 1

Love and Terrorism: The Relay Translation of an English Tale of a Russian Nihilist in East Asia

Paper presented at Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference 2019
Ma, Xiaolu

Article 1

An interstitial space: Cross-cultural negotiation and concession in early fiction translations in new youth

Twentieth-Century China, v. 44, (2), p. 223-236
Ma, Xiaolu

Book chapter 2

Translation as Weapons in the War of Ideas: English, Russian and Chinese Translation of "Li Sao" in the 1950s

Translating Chinese Art and Modern Literature / Routledge, 2019,
MA, Xiaolu

被轉述的俄羅斯文學

五四@100：文化，思想，歷史 May Fourth@100: Culture, Thought, History / 聯經出版公司, 2019,
馬筱璐, Xiaolu

Conference paper 6

“The Orient" vs. Dongfang: The Reconceptualization of ‘Oriental Literature’ in Modern China

Paper presented at Western Critical Theory and Chinese Literary Scholarship International Conference
Ma, Xiaolu

A Poet-Knight-Errant Traveling North: Gumiljov, Akhmatova and Gitovich’s Translations of Li Bai’s Poems

Paper presented at Encountering, Imagining, and Reinventing Chinese Literature and Culture: Western Writers’ Engagement with China
Ma, Xiaolu

The Burden of Revolutionary Darkness: Lu Xun’s Translation of Writing by Russian ‘Fellow Travelers

Paper presented at Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference 2019
Ma, Xiaolu

Transcultural Negotiation and Innovation: The Concept of ‘Revolutionary Literature’ in Russia, Japan and China

Paper presented at Chinese Culture in the Global Context International Conference 2019
Ma, Xiaolu

Transcultural Negotiation and Innovation: The Concept of ‘Revolutionary Literature’ in Russia, Japan and China

Paper presented at “文學、革命與中國經驗” 第一屆青年學者論壇=Literature, Revolution, and Chinese Experience: The First Young Researchers’ Forum
馬筱璐, Xiaolu

Translingual Negotiation and Concession: Relay Translation of Turgenev’s Short Stories in New Youth

Paper presented at May Fourth @ 100: China and the World
Ma, Xiaolu

Article 1

俄苏-日本-中国：“革命文学”的跨文化之旅

华文文学=Literature in Chinese, v. 5, p. 51-56
馬筱璐, Xiaolu

Conference paper 1

The Transculturation of the Discourse of Sentiment: Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time in East Asia

Paper presented at In Proceedings of Writing Chinese Translation History: The Sixth Young Researchers’ Conference on Chinese Translation Studies
Ma, Xiaolu

Article 1

Transculturation of madness: The double origin of Lu Xun's "Diary of a Madman"

Literature and Medicine, v. 33, (2), p. 348-367
Ma, Xiaolu

Article 1

The missing link: Japan as an intermediary in the transculturation of the Diary of A Madman

Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, v. 8, (2), p. 331-346
Ma, Xiaolu

Article 2

Oriental literature study in Russia

Foreign Literature Studies, v. 34, (2), p. 85-92
Ma, Xiaolu

俄罗斯“东方文学”研究概述

外国文学研究
Ma, Xiaolu

2020 2

“The orient” versus Dongfang the reconceptualization of the east in modern China

Prism, v. 17, (2), p. 430-456
Ma, Xiaolu
Article

Love and Terrorism: The Relay Translation of an English Tale of a Russian Nihilist in East Asia

Paper presented at Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference 2019
Ma, Xiaolu
Conference paper

2019 9

An interstitial space: Cross-cultural negotiation and concession in early fiction translations in new youth

Twentieth-Century China, v. 44, (2), p. 223-236
Ma, Xiaolu
Article

Translation as Weapons in the War of Ideas: English, Russian and Chinese Translation of "Li Sao" in the 1950s

Translating Chinese Art and Modern Literature / Routledge, 2019,
MA, Xiaolu
Book chapter

被轉述的俄羅斯文學

五四@100：文化，思想，歷史 May Fourth@100: Culture, Thought, History / 聯經出版公司, 2019,
馬筱璐, Xiaolu
Book chapter

“The Orient" vs. Dongfang: The Reconceptualization of ‘Oriental Literature’ in Modern China

Paper presented at Western Critical Theory and Chinese Literary Scholarship International Conference
Ma, Xiaolu
Conference paper

A Poet-Knight-Errant Traveling North: Gumiljov, Akhmatova and Gitovich’s Translations of Li Bai’s Poems

Paper presented at Encountering, Imagining, and Reinventing Chinese Literature and Culture: Western Writers’ Engagement with China
Ma, Xiaolu
Conference paper

The Burden of Revolutionary Darkness: Lu Xun’s Translation of Writing by Russian ‘Fellow Travelers

Paper presented at Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference 2019
Ma, Xiaolu
Conference paper

Transcultural Negotiation and Innovation: The Concept of ‘Revolutionary Literature’ in Russia, Japan and China

Paper presented at Chinese Culture in the Global Context International Conference 2019
Ma, Xiaolu
Conference paper

Transcultural Negotiation and Innovation: The Concept of ‘Revolutionary Literature’ in Russia, Japan and China

Paper presented at “文學、革命與中國經驗” 第一屆青年學者論壇=Literature, Revolution, and Chinese Experience: The First Young Researchers’ Forum
馬筱璐, Xiaolu
Conference paper

Translingual Negotiation and Concession: Relay Translation of Turgenev’s Short Stories in New Youth

Paper presented at May Fourth @ 100: China and the World
Ma, Xiaolu
Conference paper

2017 1

俄苏-日本-中国：“革命文学”的跨文化之旅

华文文学=Literature in Chinese, v. 5, p. 51-56
馬筱璐, Xiaolu
Article

2016 1

The Transculturation of the Discourse of Sentiment: Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time in East Asia

Paper presented at In Proceedings of Writing Chinese Translation History: The Sixth Young Researchers’ Conference on Chinese Translation Studies
Ma, Xiaolu
Conference paper

2015 1

Transculturation of madness: The double origin of Lu Xun's "Diary of a Madman"

Literature and Medicine, v. 33, (2), p. 348-367
Ma, Xiaolu
Article

2014 1

The missing link: Japan as an intermediary in the transculturation of the Diary of A Madman

Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, v. 8, (2), p. 331-346
Ma, Xiaolu
Article

2012 2

Oriental literature study in Russia

Foreign Literature Studies, v. 34, (2), p. 85-92
Ma, Xiaolu
Article

俄罗斯“东方文学”研究概述

外国文学研究
Ma, Xiaolu
Article

No Publications

Teaching Assignment

2025-26 Winter 0 2025-26 Fall 5 2024-25 Summer 0 2024-25 Spring 2 2024-25 Winter 0 2024-25 Fall 3

HMMA5001	Fundamentals of Chinese Culture
HUMA1231	Popular Culture of East Asia
HUMA5360	History and Theory of Comparative Literature
HUMA6100A	Independent Study
MGCS5033	Literary and Cultural Studies Humanities Seminar

HUMA1301	World Literature and Film
HUMA2400	Approaches to Humanities in China Studies

HMMA5001	Fundamentals of Chinese Culture
HUMA4250	Masterpieces of Modern Literature
HUMA5360	History and Theory of Comparative Literature

No Teaching Assignments

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2023 to December 2026 (As of 15 January 2026)

Current RPGs

Master of Philosophy

LI, Hefeifan
Humanities
ZHOU, Jingxuan (co-supervision)
Humanities

Projects

From January 2024 to December 2026

All Projects 1

No Projects.
From West to East: The Global Journey of Russian Nihilism

自西向東：俄羅斯虛無主義的世界之旅 Leading

RGC - Early Career Scheme
Project Team (HKUST)
MA Xiaolu (Lead)
2020 - 2024

Research Interest

Publications

2025 4

2024 6

2022 6

2021 5

2020 2

2019 9

2017 1

2016 1

2015 1

2014 1

2012 2

Article 1

Book 1

Book chapter 2

Article 5

Book 1

Article 2

Book chapter 3

Conference paper 1

Conference paper 5

Article 1

Conference paper 1

Article 1

Book chapter 2

Conference paper 6

Article 1

Conference paper 1

Article 1

Article 1

Article 2

2020 2

2019 9

2017 1

2016 1

2015 1

2014 1

2012 2

Teaching Assignment

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2023 to December 2026 (As of 15 January 2026)

Current RPGs

Projects

From January 2024 to December 2026

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