Prof. CUI Wendong

Wendong Cui is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His expertise centers on modern Chinese literature, with a particular emphasis on influential writers such as Liang Qichao and Lu Xun. He earned his PhD in Chinese Language and Literature from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and has served as a visiting fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute. His research articles have been published in a range of esteemed academic journals, supported by various research grants. He is also a two-time recipient of the Stephen C. Soong Translation Studies Memorial Award.

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture / Comparative and World Literature / Hong Kong Literature and Culture

Journal Articles

• “The Young Lu Xun, Literary Theories, and Literary Criticisms: On the Sources of ‘The Power of Mara Poetry’”, Literary Review 文學評論, No. 5 (2023), pp. 89-97. (in Chinese)
• “In Search of a Self-Conscious Voice: Johannes  Scherr’s Illustrierte Geschichte der Weltliteratur and Lu Xun’s ‘On the Power of Mara Poetry’, Modern Chinese Literature Studies 中國現代文學研究叢刊, No. 8 (2023), pp. 90-109. (in Chinese)
• “The Young Lu Xun and Weltliteratur: On the Sources of Anthology of Short Stories from beyond the Border,” Literary Review 文學評論, No. 6 (2020), pp. 191-200.  (in Chinese)
• “From Adoring Confucian Scholars to Worshiping Knights-Errant: On the Late Qing Intellectuals’ Reception and Transformation of the Image of Shishi Portrayed by Meiji Chinese Historical Writings,” Chinese Studies 漢學研究, Vol. 38, No. 4 (2020), pp. 217-255. (in Chinese)
• “The Appropriation of the Meiji Political Novels in Biography of the Three Makers of Italy,” Journal of the History of Ideas in East Asia 東亞觀念史集刊, Issue 13 (2017), pp. 57-88. (in Chinese)
• “Translation, Nation, and Gender: Cultural Adaptations in Short Stories Translated by the Late-Qing Woman Writer Tang Hongfu,” Bulletin of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy 中國文哲研究集刊, Issue 50 (2017), pp. 1-35. (in Chinese)

Book Chapters

• “The Young Lu Xun and Weltliteratur: The Making of Anthology of Short Stories from beyond the Border” (in English), in Xiaolu Ma and Carlos Rojas (eds.), Lu Xun and World Literature, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2025, pp. 33-48.