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Postdoctoral Fellow
- Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University
- Department of History
Contact information
E-mail jinyan.zengace.luse
Room 020A
Visiting address
Sölvegatan 18 B, Lund
Postal address
Box 118, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 61
I joined the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in July 2021. My research focuses on gender and sexuality, culture and politics, intellectual identity and social activism, and ethnicity, with particular emphasis on China. I received my PhD from the University of Hong Kong in 2017 (HK SAR), working as the 2017 Oak Human Rights Fellow (film and photography) at Colby College (USA), and the 2020 Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Haifa (Israel). My BA in Economics was completed at the People’s University of China, Beijing.
During my fellowship at the Centre, I focus on writing (non-Han) female authorship and feminist aesthetics of social activism in China, and expanding my expertise in ethnicity, culture, and politics.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
Books (3)
- Veg, S. (2021). 在人民之間. 聯經 Linking Publishing.
- Zeng, J. (2017). The Genesis of Citizen Intelligentsia in Digital China : Ai Xiaoming's Practices of Identity and Activism. The University of Hong Kong. Dissertation.
- Zeng, J. (2016). 中國女權──公民知識分子的誕生. Monitoring Greater China Series. City University of Hong Kong Press.
Articles (21)
- Zeng, J. (accepted/in press). Queering Community : Affect of Visuality in the Sinosphere. Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Spring 2023. Routledge.
- Zeng, J. (2022). Desiring Feminism in Chinese Documentary. Chinese Independent Cinema Observer, 142-178.
- Zeng, J. & Liu, W. T. (2022). Words Against the Wind : A Conversation with Liu Wai Tong. Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights, 6, 133-143.
- 曾, 金燕. & Xu, X. (2021). 《巴奴的救赎》的民族、性别、伦理. She&, 1, 205-224.
- Zeng, J. (2021). Chinese Feminism under (Self-) Censorship : Practice and Knowledge Production. Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights, 6, 166-169.
- Zeng, J. & Tang, D. (2021). 《夜鶯不是唯一的歌喉》,其後:對話唐丹鴻. 今天 [Today], 37-228.
- Zeng, J. & Veg, S. (2021). Revisiting Minjian : A Conversation with Sebastian Veg. Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights, 6, 177-183.
- Zeng, J. (2020). 東亞與全球抗疫:對韓炳哲數位化生命政治的誤解與補充. 思想 [Reflexion], 305-314.
- Zeng, J. (2020). Documentary Film, Gender, and Activism in China : A Conversation with Ai Xiaoming. Film Quarterly, 74, 45-50. University of California Press.
- Zeng, J. & Liu, S.-H. (2020). Epidemic Control in China : A Conversation with Liu Shao-Hua. Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights, 5, 40-53.
- Zeng, J. & Liu, W. T. (2020). 逆風說的話:對話廖偉棠. Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies, 42-132.
- Zeng, J. & Ai, X. (2019). Jiabiangou Elegy : A Conversation with Ai Xiaoming. Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights, 4, 131-141.
- Zeng, J. & Tan, J. (2019). Hooligan Sparrow : A Conversation with Wang Nanfu. Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights, 4, 126-133.
- Zeng, J. & Ying, L. (2019). Autobiography, Exile, and Gender : A Conversation with Ying Liang. Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights, 4, 129-137.
- Zeng, J. & Ai, W. (2018). Ai Weiwei on Art, Activism and Human Rights. The China Story.
- Zeng, J. & Huang, W. (2018). We the Workers : A Conversation with Huang Wenhai. Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights, 3, 67-75.
- Zeng, J. & Wang, L. (2018). Imagining the Digitalisation of Politics : A Conversation with Wang Lixiong. Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights, 3, 67-79.
- Zeng, J. (2017). Visualizing Truth-Telling in Ai Xiaoming’s Documentary Activism. Studies in Documentary Film, 11, 99-184. Taylor & Francis.
- Zeng, J. (2014). The Politics of Emotion in Grassroots Feminist Protests : A Case Study of Xiaoming Ai’s Nude Breasts Photography Protest Online. Georgetown Journal of International Affairs Online, 15, 41-52. Georgetown University * Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.
- Nesossi, E. & Zeng, J. (2013). A Conversation with Zeng Jinyan. The China Story.
- Zeng, J. (2013). 行動主義紀錄片 : 作者與觀眾. Film Auteur, 96-194.
Book chapters (3)
- Zeng, J. & Xu, X. (accepted/in press). From Women’s Space to Gendering the Public Sphere: Ai Xiaoming’s Practice of Everyday Life and Activism. Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender and Sexuality.
- Zeng, J. (accepted/in press). The Filmmaker as Feminist. In Berry, C., Yu, Q., Robinson, L. & Wu, D. (Eds.) Chinese Cinema Anthology [tentative title]. Amsterdam University Press.
- Zeng, J. (2016). 當我們談論獨立電影時我們談論什麼. 放逐的凝視——見證中國獨立紀錄片, 9-30. Tendency.
Reviews (3)
- Zeng, J. (2020). 「透視『後帝國 : 生命史、防疫史、社會政治史. Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies, 82-178.
- Zeng, J. (2017). 裸體在「正常」社會裡成為禁忌?《根本沒有別人》. Initium Media.
- Zeng, J. (2016). Book Review: Translating Feminism in China: Gender, Sexuality and Censorship by Zhongli Yu. China Information, 30, 16-115. SAGE Publications.
Articles in specialist publications and popular press (5)
- 曾, 金燕. (2022). 跨国华语自叙式民族志 : “我”的新冠感染与自愈. Thinking at the Paper.
- 卡密, (2021). 「山」組詩 : 唱給詞的歌. 聲韻詩刊 [Voice & Verse], 59-60, 18-20.
- 曾, 金燕. & Wang, V. (2021). 筆訪曾金燕 —— 一個邊緣人的香港八年:自由與恐懼共生. 虛詞·無形 [P-articles].
- 曾, 金燕. (2014). La boîte. Books, 74-79.
- 曾, 金燕. (2014). The Protesting Body in the Party-state. Transmediale Festival (Berlin).
Newspaper articles (3)
- Zeng, J. (2018). 性侵受害者經歷的五重暴力. Caixin Weekly.
- Zeng, J. (2016). 韓寒,「口炮黨」和「送飯黨」之爭. The New York Times. New York Times Company.
- Zeng, J. (2015). 香港女權運動與婦女運動簡史. Initium Media.
Miscellaneous (4)
Teaching

Postdoctoral Fellow
- Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University
- Department of History
Contact information
E-mail jinyan.zengace.luse
Room 020A
Visiting address
Sölvegatan 18 B, Lund
Postal address
Box 118, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 61