Professor Li Meiqin
Research Interests
Foreign literature, comparative literature and literary translation
Biographical Information
Doctor Li Meiqin is a professor and PhD. Supervisor of School of Foreign Languages at Southeast University. She has got Ph. D in Foreign literature from Shandong University, and pursued her studies in University of Cambridge, University of Waterloo, Havard University, University of California(Los Angeles) and Yad Vashem(Israel) as a visiting scholar. She once taught at Qingdao Agricultural University and Zhejiang Gongshang University. Her research interests are in foreign literature, comparative literature and literary translation. She has has authored over 40 research articles, published 3 monographs, translated 3 novels and other proses, and edited 3 textbooks, covering widely foreign literature studies and translative theories and practices. Some of her articles are reprinted by Foreign Literature of “Duplicated Materials by People’s University”. She has led various research projects sponsored by National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Sciences, etc.
Selected Publications
Books and Monographs:
1. 2018. Trauma and Identity Construction in Toni Morrison’s novels. Zhejiang Gongshang University Publishing House.
2. 2008. Music in Words : on the Influence of Black Music on Toni Morrison’s Fiction. Zhejiang University Publishing House.
3. 2024. Political Writings in Classical African Works. Zhejiang Gongshang University Publishing House.
4. 2000. Modified Examination Paper for CET Four
5. 1998. A Brief Introduction to American Literature. Qingdao: Ocean University of China Press.
6. 1997. Understanding the U.S. and the U.K. Qingdao: Ocean University of China Press.
Translations:
1. Prose On the West Lake Hangzhou Publishing House. 2022
2. The History of Chinese Aesthetics Sichuan People’s Publishing Hous. 2016.
3. The Italian. Zhejiang Gongshang University Publishing House. 2016.
4. A Companion to Realism. Shanghai Jiaotong University Publishing House. 2024.
Main Articles in Referred Journals:
1. 2023. African Literature in English：A Perspective of the Genealogy of World Literature. Comparative Literature in China,1:37-53.
2. 2023. Baldwin's Literary Patricide and the Turn of African-American Literature. English and American Literary Studies, 38:70-82.
3. 2023. Approaching the Construction of Cultural Identity in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child. Contemporary Foreign Literature, 2:85-91.
4. 2022. The Potential Community in the Drastic Turn: On the Biopolitical Writing in Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather. Shandong Language Teaching.2: 80-93.
5. 2022. Cultural Memory and National Identity in Cairo Trilogy. Journal of North China University of Technology. 2: 60-68.
6. 2022. On the Spatial Political Writing in Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country. Journal of Minnan Normal University（Philosophy & Social Sciences）. 1: 1-7.
7. 2021.The Fictional Documentation of Truth in A Dry White Season. Foreign Languages and Cultures. 2:26-36.
8. 2021. On the Spatial Political Writing in Mine Boy. Shandong Language Teaching. 2:79-88.
9. 2020. On the Political，Historical and Cultural Perspectives in African Literature. Journal of North China University of Technology. 4:64-70.
10. 2020. A Study on the Foregrounding in Won-Done Song Journal of Fujian Jiangxia University 4:78-85.
11. 2018. On the Historical Writings and Political Metaphor in Butler’s Kindred. Journal of Zhejiang Gongshang University. 1:18-24.
12. 2018. On the Spatial Political Writing in Native Son. Foreign Literature. 2: 133-140.
13. 2018. On Racial Politics in Ellison’s Cultural Criticism. English and American Literary Studies. 29:330-441.
14. 2018. On Political Metaphor of the Spatial Landscapes in Gordimer’s July’s People. Foreign Language and Literature Research, 3:32-39.
15. 2015. The Mammy’s Image in Chinese and American Literary Works . US-China Foreign Language 1:68-74
16. 2015. On Cultural Communication and Foreign Translation. Journal of Zhejiang Gongshang University, 2:16-37.
17. 2015. Racial Political Thoughts Constructed in Ralph Ellison’s “Literary Jazz” Aesthetics. Foreign Literatures 2:63-69.
18. 2013. Rewriting History in Toni Morrison’s Home. Foreign Literatures 2:13-21.
19. 2011. Morrison’s Ethical Ideas Conveyed in Tar Baby. Journal of Tian Jin Foreign Languages University, 2:76-80.
20. 2009. A Probe into the Solution to Black People’s Psychological Dillema as Presented by Morrison’s Fiction. Journal of Agricultural College, 2: 87-90.
21. 2009. “War” in the Paradise：on the Two Titles of Morrison’s Novel Paradise. Foreign Literature Studies, 1:104-109.
22. 2007. Tar Baby in the “Paradise”. Foreign Literature Review, 1: 77-84.
23. 2006. White and Black Laureates Flowering in “Other” Land: Toni Morrison and Nadine Gordimer, Journal of Xi’an International Studies University, 4: 73-75.
24. 2006. The Sky-Hole Patcher and The Lady in the Chaotic World: On the Reasons of the formation of Wang Xi-feng and Scarlett Ohara’s Personality. Tian Fu New Idea, 5: 142-146.
25. 2006. African Perspective on “Commensalism” as Reflected in Song of Solomon. Guangxi Social Sciences,1: 132-134.
26. 2006. Black Cultural Heritage Among Conflicting Cultures: Dialogues Between Toni Morrison And Ralph Ellison. Journal of Qiqihar University(Ph& Soc Sci), 1: 94-96.
27. 2005. On the Importance of Cultural Context in American and British Literature Teaching , Foreign Languages Teaching and Translation, 4: 67-68．
28. 2005. Morrison’s African Complex: on the Black Culture Embedded in Song of Solomon. Journal of Chengdu College and Education, 3: 21-23.
29. 2004. Morrison’s Concept of Racial Identification and Cultural Fusion as reflected in Morrison’s Song of Solomon. Journal of Sui Hua College, 4: 89-91.
30. 2003. The Aesthetic Beauty of Satanic-Byronic Hero. Shandong Foreign Language Teaching, 4:91-92.
31. 2002. Black People’s Alienation as Reflected in Invisible Man. Guangxi Social Sciences,5：191-192.
32. 2002. Growing Pains - Huckleberry Finn and Holden Cornfield’s Escape and Exploration. Shandong Foreign Language Teaching, 5: 110-111.
33．2002. “The Collapse of the American Dream”. Education Theory Research and Practice,1: 117-118.
34. 2002.Grace under Pressure: Hemingway’s “Code hero”, Journal of Lanzhou University of Arts and Science(Social Science Edition)2：55-57.
35．2002. “A Parody of the American Dream”. Language,Culture and Education Research ,2: 58-60.
36. 2002. Harmonious Existence: Hardy’s Enlightenment. Journal of Laiyang Agricultural College,1：6-10.
37. 2001. Wuthering Heights and the “New” Gothic Novels. Language, Culture and Education Research，3：136-138.
38. 2002. Phoenix Nirvana - On the Theme of Suicide in Tony Morrison's Novels. Contemporary Education,14:45-46.
39. 2007. On the Management Mode of Ecological Universities. Lanzhou Academic Journal, 12: 203-205.
40. 2020. Musicality in Langston Hughes’ Poetry. Study on American Literature.
41. 2010. “Scapegoat” on the Altar of Mainstream Culture: on the Tragic Fate of Pecola in The Bluest Eye. Study on American Literature.
42. 2024. On Romanticist Poetics Reflected in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace. Journal of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies,4.
