Dr. Martin Blahota Publications

Research papers and chapters

2026

• “The Rebellious Manchu Self in the Early Work of Liu Honglin (Xiao Jun)”. Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 38/1 (accepted).
• “Between China and Japan: The Shifting Centre of Asianist Imaginations in Manchukuo, 1932–45.” In Imagining Regions: Hegemony and Emancipation in Europe and Asia, edited by Olga Lomová and Zora Hesová. New York: Routledge, 202–216 (in print).

2024

• “줴칭爵青의 「하얼빈」 속 퇴폐적인 서양의 타자” [The Decadent Western Other in Jue Qing’s “Harbin”]. In 타자와 동아시아 인식 일본 식민지 시기 만주문학 [The Other and East Asian Cognition: Manchurian Literature during the Japanese Colonial Period], edited by Li Haiying, Liu Xiaoli, and Li Fushi. Seoul: Somyeong Publishing, 268–279.

2023

• “绕过殖民地文化审查制度的方法：以爵青的小说《艺人杨崑》为例” [Bypassing Colonial Censorship: The Case of Jue Qing’s Short Story “Yiren Yangkun”]. Yanshan Tribune 燕山论丛 3, 183–195.

2022

• “Hayama Yoshiki’s ‘The Prostitute’ in Taiwanese and Manchukuo Proletarian Literature”. Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica 3/2021, 47–60.
• “Vyslanci civilizace, nebo násilní pijani? Ztvárnění ruského etnika v jazykově rozmanité literatuře imperiálně rasistického Mandžukua” [Envoys of Civilization, or Violent Drinkers? Representation of the Russian Ethnic Group in the Linguistically Diverse Literature of the Imperially Racist Manchukuo]. Nový Orient 75, 47–55.

2021

• “A Uyghur Concubine and a French Juggler Resisting Japanese Imperialism: Jue Qing’s Aesopian Language in Manchukuo’s Official Literature”. Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies 1/1: 89–127.

2020

• “Smutek v Chang’anu, nebo Xinjingu? Jue Qingova historická povídka z roku 1942” [Melancholy in Chang’an, or Xinjing? Jue Qing’s 1942 Historical Short Story]. Svět literatury 30/61: 161–175.

2019

• “Ideologically Conformist Characters, but Also the Beginnings of Individualism: Gao Xingjian’s Early Novellas ‘Stars on a Cold Night’ and ‘A Pigeon Called Red Beak’”. Studia Orientalia Slovaca 18/2: 41–67.