Jing Hu
PhD candidate
- Name
- J. Hu
- Telephone
- 071 5272727
- j.hu@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0009-0002-1130-0888
Jing Hu is a PhD candidate in intercultural philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy at Leiden University and a Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining Penn, she served as a Senior Lecturer in Humanities at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. Prior to that, she taught Chinese at Smith College in the United States. Jing Hu also held the roles of Program Director and Language Director at Middlebury Interactive Languages (MIL) in Beijing and served as an advisor for Oral History Projects under the Chinese Overseas Flagship Program of the American Councils for International Education. With diverse research interests, she has delivered numerous presentations and authored, translated, and edited many publications in the fields of Chinese literature, philosophy, and the Teaching Chinese as a Second Language.
Fields of interest
- Intercultural Philosophy
- Chinese Philosophy
- Philosophy and Language
Research
Jing’s research interests are broad, encompassing Chinese philosophy, literature, philosophy and language. Her current work examines the influence of classical Chinese thought on Hu Shih's reform agenda for modern language and literature.
Grants and awards
2025-2026: Penn Global Seminars Grant, University of Pennsylvania
2024, 2023, 2019: SAS Language Teaching Innovation Grant, University of Pennsylvania
2017: Teaching Innovation Grant, Yale-NUS College
Curriculum vitae
M.A., Chinese, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
M.A., Historical Comparative Linguistics of Sino-Tibetan Languages, Peking University, China.
PhD candidate
- Faculty of Humanities
- Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte
Contact
- Mair V. & Hu J. (2024), A Century of Chinese Writing Reform. In: Liwei Jiao (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Language and Culture . Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge. 27-41.
- Hu J. (2024), “An Offering to Zhao of Huzhou,” by Li Qingzhao李清照, in Victor Mair and Zhenjun Zhang, eds., Eternal Nostalgia: Gems of Ancient Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. [other].
- Hu J. (2024), “Like the Sands of the Silk-Washing Brook,” by Nalan Xingde 纳兰性德, in Victor Mair and Zhenjun Zhang, eds., Eternal Nostalgia: Gems of Ancient Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament. Bloomsbury Publishing. [other].
- Hu J. (2024), My Wife Has Been Dead for Ten Years…,” by Xu Wei 徐渭, in Victor Mair and Zhenjun Zhang, eds., Eternal Nostalgia: Gems of Ancient Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament. Bloomsbury Publishing (London). [other].
- Hu J. (2024), “Weeping for My Wife,” by Wen Tianxiang 文天祥, in Victor Mair and Zhenjun Zhang, eds., Eternal Nostalgia: Gems of Ancient Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. [other].
- Hu J. (2023), Zhu Ziqing’s Figure: Retreating and Advancing. In: Ding F. & Hu J. (Eds.), Appreciating Modern Chinese Literature Classics. Nanjing: Nanjing University Press. 341-349.
- Eds. Fangfang Ding Jing Hu (Ed.) (2023), Appreciating Classics of Modern Chinese Literature. Nanjing: Nanjing University Press.
- Hu J. (2022), Love in Three Eras: The Transformation of Chinese Female Consciousness and Marital Culture in Film. In: Gang Liu G. & Wang H. (Eds.), Tradition and Transition: Teaching Chinese Culture Overseas. Beijing : Beijing University Press. 113-124.
- Hu J. (2022), Pearl Shirt 珍衫. In: Mair V. & Zhang V. (Eds.), Ming Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader: The Tang Song chuanqi ji of Lu Xun. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. 159-172.
- Hu J. (2020), Framing In the Mood for Love. In: Ding F., Hu X. & Hu J. (Eds.), Appreciating Contemporary Chinese Film Classics. Nanjing: Jiangsu Renmin Chubanshe. 196-200.
- Bryan Van Norden & Jing Hu (2020), History, Culture, and Love in Zhang Yimou’s Hero. In: Fangfang Ding Xiaoyan Hu Jing Hu (Ed.), Appreciating Contemporary Chinese Film Classics. Nanjing: Jiangsu Renmin Chubanshe.
- Eds. Fangfang Ding Xiaoyan Hu Jing Hu (Ed.) (2020), Appreciating Contemporary Chinese Film Classics. Nanjing: Jiangsu Renmin Chubanshe.
- Hu J. (2020), The Tale of Lady Feng of Lujiang 庐江冯媪传. In: Mair V. & Zhang Z. (Eds.), Anthology of Tang and Song Tales: The Tang Song chuanqi ji of Lu Xun . Singapore: World Scientific. 194-198.
- Hu J. (2020), The Tale of Li Zhangwu 李章武传. In: Mair V. & Zhang Z. (Eds.), Anthology of Tang and Song Tales: the Tang Song chuanqi ji of Lu Xun . Singapore: World Scientific.
- Hu J. (2017), Balancing Authenticity and Immediate Intelligibility: Compensation in the Stage Script of The West Wing . In: Bixia C. (Ed.), Tradition and Modernization. Beijing: Culture and Art Publishing House. 71-81.
- Hu J. (2017), Teaching Chinese through Film or Teaching Film in Chinese, Journal of Chinese Teaching and Research in the U.S. : 19-26.