Sun Liying (M.A.)

Tel.: (+49-6221) 54 76 77 Fax: (+49-6221) 54 76 39 E-Mail:  liying.sun [at] zo.uni-heidelberg.de Website: http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/people/person/persdetail/sun.html LSF: courses this semester Sprechstunden: s. aktuelle Sprechstundenliste

Research Interests

• Visual culture in Republican and Contemporary China (advertisements, calendar posters, photography, artistic education)
• Body culture in China in a global context (visual representation of naked bodies, nudism, breasts-(un)binding)
• Print culture in China and in Europe (Chinese illustrated magazines in a global context, circulation and dissemination of print materials between China and Europe/North America, journal editors' cultural practice)

On-going Research Projects

• "In the Name of Beauty and Health: Freikörperkultur (Nudism) as a Trend in China (1920s-1930s)", research project for “Rethinking Trends: Transcultural Flows in Global Public(s)".
• Research on the journal Linglong (Linloon Magazine, 1931-1937) for the project "A New Approach to the Popular Press in China: Gender and Cultural Production, 1904-1937".
• Joint research on the journal Meiyu (Eyebrow Talk, 1914-1916) with Michel Hockx, SOAS, University of London.

Awards and Scholarships

• 2010: Poster Presentation Award for the project “Rethinking Trends” (B12) at the Second Annual Conference of the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context".
• 2009-2010: Scholarship by the German Research Foundation through the project “Rethinking Trends” (B12) at the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context".
• 2009: Travel grant by the Graduate Academy, University of Heidelberg.
• 2006: DAAD Scholarship.
• 2001: Hualin Buddist Scholarship, China.
• 2000: Qiao Wei Scholarship, Nankai University, China.
• 1999: Second Prize of “The First National Young Historians Award”, among BA students from History Departments in major Chinese universities.