Dr. Yinyin Xue is an Associate Professor of Chinese Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at 51 College. Before joining Rhodes in 2020, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese at Kenyon College.
Her research focuses on twentieth-century Chinese literature, cultural and intellectual history, and media studies. She is also interested in science and technology studies and environmental studies. Her work has been published in Twentieth-Century China, the American Journal of Chinese Studies, and Asian Cinema.
At Rhodes, Dr. Xue teaches courses in Chinese and East Asian literature, film, and culture, including a course on the AAPI experience, as well as Chinese language at all levels.
Selected Publications
“Not an ‘Assigned Essay’: Pema Tseden’s Tharlo from Fiction to Film.” Asian Cinema 37, no. 1 (2026): 121–37,
“‘Semi-Official Literature’: Xu Chi’s Scientist-Themed Reportage and the Mechanism of Literary Production in Early Post-Mao China.” American Journal of Chinese Studies 31, no. 2 (2024): 119–35.
“Writing the People’s Science: One Hundred Thousand Whys and the Politics of Science Popularization in China, 1931–1975.” Twentieth-Century China 49, no. 1 (2024): 2–24.
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