Sabrina Yunzhu Tao

Conference Presentations

· “‘Flying Swallows’ On and Off Stage: Socialist Zaji in Cold War Hong Kong and Beyond,” in 2023 Hawai‘i International Conference on Chinese Studies (HICCS), Center for Chinese Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa (January 4-6, 2023).

· “Sounding Socialist China Abroad: The Politics of Folk Songs with ‘National Style’ in Cold War Hong Kong and Southeast Asia (1950s-70s),” in The University of Hong Kong (HKU) Department of Comparative Literature Graduate Workshop “Thinking China and Circulation” (October 20-22, 2022; virtual).

· “Chineseness as Self-Exhibition: Regional Landscape and Folklore in PRC-Hong Kong Coproduced Documentaries in the Cold War Era (1950s-70s).” Panel speech in Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference, Honolulu, USA (March 2022; virtual).

· Graduate Student Roundtable Presentation. “Building a Utopian Space: Amoy-dialect Cinema and Diaspora Experience in Post-war Hong Kong (Late 1950s-60s).” UCLA-NTNU Taiwan Studies Initiative Conference on Sinophone Studies (April 2019). The paper was also accepted by "Chinese Cinema in Global Context--Past and Present" Conference, University of Idaho (April 14-15, 2019). 

· “Listening to China: The Art-Tune Records Company, Commercialism and Propaganda in Cold War East Asia (1950-70s).” Panel speech in Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference, Denver, USA (March 2019). 

Fellowships, Honors and Awards

      · Graduate Teaching Fellowship, EALL, University of Oregon (2018 - present)

· CAPS Professional Grant Award, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies (CAPS), University of Oregon (Spring 2019, Fall 2021, Fall 2022)

· Graduate Student Travel Stipends, Association for Asian Studies (March 2019)

· Conference Travel Grant, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon (2019)

· University Minority Recruitment Program fellowship, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon (2019, 2022)

· Outstanding Bachelor's Degree Thesis of Beijing Language and Culture University (2013)

· Second Prize (2011) and Third Prize (2012) Student Scholarship in Beijing Language and Culture University

Translations

· Ben-Ami Scharfstein: Amoral Politics: The Persistent Truth of Machiavellism, Chinese translation. Nanjing University Press. March  2022. 

· Helen Sword: Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write, Chinese translation. Beijing: People’s Daily Press. November 2018.

Creative writing

· Short story: “Xin Jie” (“New Territories”), published in Renmin Wenxue (People’s Literature), April 2018. The story was also selected into Yanceng: 2018 Youth Literature, published by Renmin Literature Press, April 2019.