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

Xiaolu MA
馬筱璐

PhD in Comparative Literature
Harvard University, 2017

Assistant 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 32 2024 5 2023 0 2022 6 2021 5 2020 2 2019 9 2018 5

2024 5

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

The Journal of Asian Studies, v. 83, (1), February 2024, p. 41-61
Ma, Xiaolu
Article

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

PMLA, v. 139, (2), March 2024, p. 267-282
Ma, Xiaolu
Article

Relayed Revolutionary Sentiment: Chinese Appropriation of Russian Nihilism in Popular Literature

Comparative Literature Studies, v. 61, (3), August 2024, 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, 2024, p. 144-153
馬筱璐
Article

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

Ma, Xiaolu
Book

2022 6

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

International Comparative Literature, v. 5, (3), 2022, 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 / edited by Zong-qi Cai and Stephen Roddy. The Netherlands : Brill, 2022, p. 87-113, Ch. 4
Ma, Xiaolu
Book chapter

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

The Routledge Companion to Yan Lianke / edited by Riccardo Moratto and Howard Yuen Fung Choy. London : Routledge, 2022, p. 16-27, Ch. 2
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 / Edited by Li Guo, Patricia Sieber, Peter Kornicki. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2022, p. 293-316, Ch. 9
Ma, Xiaolu
Book chapter

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

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, March 2022
Ma, Xiaolu
Book review

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

Ma, Xiaolu
Conference paper

2021 5

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

Ma, Xiaolu
Conference paper

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

Ma, Xiaolu
Conference paper

Lu Xun’s Translation of Ivan Vazov via German Sources

Ma, Xiaolu
Conference paper

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

Ma, Xiaolu
Conference paper

2020 2

"The Orient" vsersus Dongfang: The Reconceptualization of the East in Modern China

Prism, v. 17, (2), October 2020, p. 430-456
Ma, Xiaolu
Article

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

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), May 2019, 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 / Edited by Yifeng Sun and Chris Song. Routledge, 2019, Ch. 6. Series: Routledge Studies in Chinese Translation
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 / 王德威、宋明煒編. 台灣 : 聯經出版公司, 2019
馬筱璐
Book chapter

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

Ma, Xiaolu
Conference paper

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

Ma, Xiaolu
Conference paper

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

Ma, Xiaolu
Conference paper

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

Ma, Xiaolu
Conference paper

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

馬筱璐
Conference paper

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

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, 2017, p. 51-56
馬筱璐
Article

2016 1

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

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), Fall 2015, 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), 2014, p. 331-346
Ma, Xiaolu
Article

2012 1

俄罗斯“东方文学”研究概述

外国文学研究, 2012
Ma, Xiaolu
Article

Article 4

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

The Journal of Asian Studies, v. 83, (1), February 2024, p. 41-61
Ma, Xiaolu

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

PMLA, v. 139, (2), March 2024, p. 267-282
Ma, Xiaolu

Relayed Revolutionary Sentiment: Chinese Appropriation of Russian Nihilism in Popular Literature

Comparative Literature Studies, v. 61, (3), August 2024, 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, 2024, p. 144-153
馬筱璐

Book 1

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

Ma, Xiaolu

Article 1

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

International Comparative Literature, v. 5, (3), 2022, 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 / edited by Zong-qi Cai and Stephen Roddy. The Netherlands : Brill, 2022, p. 87-113, Ch. 4
Ma, Xiaolu

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

The Routledge Companion to Yan Lianke / edited by Riccardo Moratto and Howard Yuen Fung Choy. London : Routledge, 2022, p. 16-27, Ch. 2
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 / Edited by Li Guo, Patricia Sieber, Peter Kornicki. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2022, p. 293-316, Ch. 9
Ma, Xiaolu

Book review 1

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

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, March 2022
Ma, Xiaolu

Conference paper 1

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

Ma, Xiaolu

Conference paper 5

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

Ma, Xiaolu

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

Ma, Xiaolu

Lu Xun’s Translation of Ivan Vazov via German Sources

Ma, Xiaolu

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

Ma, Xiaolu

Article 1

"The Orient" vsersus Dongfang: The Reconceptualization of the East in Modern China

Prism, v. 17, (2), October 2020, 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

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), May 2019, 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 / Edited by Yifeng Sun and Chris Song. Routledge, 2019, Ch. 6. Series: Routledge Studies in Chinese Translation
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 / 王德威、宋明煒編. 台灣 : 聯經出版公司, 2019
馬筱璐

Conference paper 6

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

Ma, Xiaolu

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

Ma, Xiaolu

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

Ma, Xiaolu

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

Ma, Xiaolu

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

馬筱璐

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

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, 2017, p. 51-56
馬筱璐

Conference paper 1

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

Ma, Xiaolu

Article 1

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

Literature and Medicine, v. 33, (2), Fall 2015, 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), 2014, p. 331-346
Ma, Xiaolu

Article 1

俄罗斯“东方文学”研究概述

外国文学研究, 2012
Ma, Xiaolu

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, 2017, p. 51-56
馬筱璐
Article

2016 1

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

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), Fall 2015, 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), 2014, p. 331-346
Ma, Xiaolu
Article

2012 1

俄罗斯“东方文学”研究概述

外国文学研究, 2012
Ma, Xiaolu
Article

No Publications

Teaching Assignment

2024-25 Fall 3 2023-24 Summer 0 2023-24 Spring 1 2023-24 Winter 0 2023-24 Fall 3 2022-23 Summer 0

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

HUMA2400

Approaches to Humanities in China Studies

HMMA5001	Fundamentals of Chinese Culture
HUMA4250	Masterpieces of Modern Literature
HUMA6001Z	Selected Topics in Russian Literature and Literary Theory

No Teaching Assignments

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2021 to December 2024 (As of 21 November 2024)

Current RPGs

Master of Philosophy

ZHOU, Jingxuan (co-supervision)
Humanities

Projects

From January 2022 to December 2024

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

2024 5

2022 6

2021 5

2020 2

2019 9

2017 1

2016 1

2015 1

2014 1

2012 1

Article 4

Book 1

Article 1

Book chapter 3

Book review 1

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 1

2017 1

2016 1

2015 1

2014 1

2012 1

Teaching Assignment

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2021 to December 2024 (As of 21 November 2024)

Current RPGs

Projects

From January 2022 to December 2024

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