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Portrait of Leting Zheng

Leting Zheng

Ph.D. candidate
East Asian Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
letingz@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Modern Chinese literature and history, transnational children’s studies, media and visual culture (magazines, films, and comics), affect theory, gender studies, colonial studies
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Biography

Cantonese Native

Mandarin Native

Classical Chinese Professional Working Proficiency

English Professional Working Proficiency

Japanese Professional Working Proficiency (Japanese Language Proficiency Test N2 level certified)

Korean Limited Working Proficiency

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Education

M.A. Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Colorado Boulder

B.A. Chinese Languages and Literature, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

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Publications

Peer-reviewed articles:

Zheng, L. (2025) “The Visibility and Visuality of Children in Modern China: Cuteness, Play, and Outer Spatiality in Children’s Magazines,” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 50.1, https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/978114 (https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2025.a978114)

Zheng, L. (2025) “‘Documenting’ Happiness of Labor for The Great Leap Forward: Children’s Film and the Making of Modern Socialist Childhood,” Journal of Chinese Cinemas, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17508061.2025.2524291 (https://doi.org/10.1080/17508061.2025.2524291)

[You can read the Accepted Manuscript of my articles on my Academia.edu page. For the official published version, please visit the DOI link or email me directly for a PDF copy.]

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Teaching

University of Oregon

CHN 101 First Year Chinese 

CHN 201 Second Year Chinese 

CHN 302 Third Year Chinese

 

CHN 150 Introduction to Chinese Narratives

CHN 151 Introduction to Chinese Film

CHN 152 Introduction to Pop Culture 

CHN 305 History of Chinese Literature (Beginnings to The Third Century CE) 

CHN 306 History of Chinese Literature (Third to Eighteenth Centuries) 

CHN 307 History of Chinese Literature (Late Qing to The Twentieth Century)

ASIA 350 What is Asia? 

 

University of Colorado Boulder 

CHN 1020 Beginning Chinese 

CHN 2110 Intermediate Chinese 

CHN 3110 Advanced Chinese 

 

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