Jia, Yan (2023) ‘“Eastern Literature” as Happenstance? Re-reading Indian Literature in 1980s Chinese Magazines’, Journal of World Literature 8(2): 21-234. 

Yan Jia is Assistant Professor of Hindi and Indian literature at Peking University. He holds a PhD in Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies from SOAS, University of London. He specializes in the fields of modern Hindi literature, China-India literary relations, and the religious culture of India. His research papers have appeared in various peer-reviewed journals, such as Journal of World Literature (twice), World Literature Studies and History Compass, as well as in several edited volumes published by noted academic presses. His article “Trans-Asian Popular Aesthetics: The reception of Hindi popular fiction in 1980s China” was awarded runner-up position for the 2021 Martha Cheung Award. 

Available open access until December 2024 at: https://brill.com/view/journals/jwl/8/2/article-p213_3.xml (DOI: 10.1163/24056480-00802003)