Editorial Advisory Board
HONORARY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:
Jiang Yuqin, Shenzhen University, China
Members of the Advisory Board:
Wang Ning, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Joanna Page, University of Cambridge, UK
Caroline Bassett, University of Cambridge, UK
Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Espen Aarseth, City University of Hong Kong, China
Song Mingwei, Wellesley College, USA
Wang Ban, Stanford University, USA
Ye Shuxian, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Nie Zhenzhao, Zhejiang University/Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China
Song Binghui, Shanghai International Studies University, China
Fu Xiuyan, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China
Jiang Chengyong, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China
He Chengzhou, Nanjing University, China
Maggie Nolan, The University of Queensland, Australia
Shepherd Steiner, University of Manitoba, Canada
Richard Peña, Columbia University, USA
Yao Rui, Shenzhen University, China
Members of the Editorial Office:
Chen Beibei, East China Normal University, China
Yu Xuying, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, China
Chai Jie, Shenzhen University, China
Ou Yulong, Shenzhen University, China
Jiang Na, Shenzhen University, China
Cheng Jujin, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Zhang Sirui, Shenzhen University, China
Xu Xiaoxue, Shenzhen University, China
Huang Xiaolan, Shenzhen University, China
Hu Shihan, Shenzhen University, China
Editor-in-Chief Introduction
Professor JIANG Yuqin
JIANG Yuqin is Professor of Comparative Literature at Shenzhen University. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Shandong University and previously earned her MA and BA degrees from Nanchang University. She has served as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge (2023–2024) and the University of Toronto (2014–2015). Professor Jiang currently holds several academic leadership positions, including Vice Dean of the Rao Zongyi Institute for Cultural Studies, Director of the Digital Humanities Research Center, and Deputy Director of the Institute of Comparative Literature and Comparative Culture at Shenzhen University. She also plays an active role in national academic organizations, serving as Director of the Chinese Comparative Literature Association and holding multiple standing and vice-presidential positions in related scholarly branches.
Her research spans digital humanities, Chinese and global science fiction, posthumanism and cyborg theory, youth culture, marine cities and culture, and cultural memory. She has authored several influential books, including Profound Changes and Fresh Explorations: Science Fiction Studies in the New Era (2025), A New Integration of Science and Humanities: Science Fiction Literature Research from the Perspective of New Liberal Arts Construction (2024), Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction Writers (2023), and Depth and Transcendence: Interdisciplinary Research on Post-Theory and Comparative Literature (2022). She is also the principal investigator of a National Social Science Fund project on the construction of cyborg narratives and twenty-first-century science fiction poetics.
Professor Jiang has published widely in leading international and Chinese journals. Her representative articles include “Ecotech, Alienation, and Science Realism in the Chinese Cyborg Novel Waste Tide” (Comparative Literature Studies,2020), “Evolutionary Emotion of AI and Subjectivity Construction in The Windup Girl” (Neohelicon,2024), “Homeland Consciousness in Chinese Maritime Island Science Fiction” (Island Studies Journal, 2025), “A New Dimension of Posthumanism: A Report on Cyborg Subjectivity and Subjectivity. Literary Theory Research,2024) ,“Three Dimensions of Cyborg Narrative in Science Fiction” (Chinese Comparative Literature,2023).and “Posthuman Theory: A New Direction for Interdisciplinary Research in Comparative Literature” (Chinese Comparative Literature,2021). She has also contributed guest editorials, interviews, and book reviews to journals such as The China Quarterly, Foreign Literature Studies, and Digital Humanities. Her scholarship has received multiple awards, including the Shenzhen Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Awards and the Shenzhen University Outstanding Contribution Award for Teaching.