Education
Ph.D. Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University, 2019
M.A. Russian Literature, Shanghai International Studies University, 2012
B.A. Russian and English, Shanghai International Studies University, 2010
Visiting Researcher, Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskii Dom), Russian Academy of Sciences, 2015-2016
Interests
Russian and Chinese literature and culture of the 19th and 20th century, Russo-Chinese relations, global modernisms, socialist cultures, translation studies, memory studies, and history of science
Publications
Interviews in Yale News:
2022: Office hours with Jinyi Chu
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Fin-de-siècle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics: The Other Is the Universal (Oxford University Press, 2024)
World-Feeling: Russian Literature and Geopolitics (世界感：俄国文学与地缘政治; Beijing: SDX Sanlian Shudian, 2025)
Aesthetics of Reform: China and the Soviet Union in the 1980s (Book Manuscript)
Peer-Review Articles in English:
“Civilizational Myth and Class Politics: Lenin on China and Racial Revolution,” Comparative Literature 75, no.2 (2023), pp. 140-152
“(Trans-) National Contexts: The Russian Poetics of Chinese Avant-garde,” International Comparative Literature 5, no.1 (2022), pp. 68-83
“The Aphoristic Way: Lev Tolstoy’s Translations of the Dao De Jing,” Comparative Literature Studies 58, no.1 (2021), pp. 146-175
“Chinese Science Fiction in Contemporary Russia,” Science Fiction Research Association Review 51, no.2 (2021), pp. 72-75
“The Afterlife of Post-Apocalypse: Dmitry Glukhovsky in China,” Anindita Banerjee and Sonja Fritzsche. ed. Science Fiction Circuits of the South and East. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2018, pp. 215-238
Peer-Reviews Articles in Chinese:
“Orientalism and Avant-garde: China in Fin-de-siècle Russian Visual Arts”, Russian Literature and Art, no.4 (2023), pp. 128-138
“Conceptualism and Its Discontent: Groys and Prigov on Conceptual Art”, Chinese Journal of Art Studies, no.1 (2021), pp. 112-118
“The Fantastic in Russian Literary Criticism”, Russian Literature and Art, no.4 (2020), pp. 93-101
“Mimetic Desire in Nabokov’s Despair”, Russian Literature and Art, no.2 (2019), pp. 16-22
“The 1915 Version of Boris Pasternak’s ‘Soul’”, Russian Literature and Art, no.4 (2018), pp. 82-90
“Baudelaire in the Russian Symbolist Vision”, Russian Literature and Art, no.2 (2012), pp. 53-64
“Russian Readings of Baudelaire in the Age of Realism”, Comparative Literature in China 83, no.2 (2011), pp. 131-144
Public Essays:
“To the Winter Palace: From the Pragmatics of Empire to the Public Space for the Mass”, Shanghai Review of Books, 24 May 2023
“Modernism and Aphasia”, Dushu, no.4 (2023), pp. 51-58.
“The Dreamer or the Flaneur: The Petersburg Modernity (Dostoevsky at 200)”, Shanghai Review of Books, 11 November 2021
“The Vanishing of the Exotic”, Tianya, no.4 (2021), pp. 64-68
“A Russian Genealogy of Scientific Fantasy”, Shanghai Review of Books, 17 August 2017
Cluster Edited:
“Travelling Theory between Russia and China,” International Comparative Literature, no.1-2
“Chinese Science Fiction and the World,” Science Fiction Research Association Review, no. 2
Translations:
Dmitrii Merezhkovskii, “On Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment,” From Russian to English, in Seers of Flesh and Spirit: Russian Symbolist Writings on Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, Amherst College Press, forthcoming 2025
Joseph Frank, Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time, From English to Chinese, co-trans. Jinyi Chu, Wang Jiayu, and Li Sha. Beijing: Chinese Huaqiao Publishing House, 2019. 1150 pp.
Paolo Mancosu, Smugglers, Rebels, Pirates: Itineraries in the Publishing History of Doctor Zhivago, From English to Chinese. trans. Jinyi Chu. Guilin: Guangxi Normal University Press, 2018. 118 pp.
Oleg Sochalin, “Platok” [“The Shawl”], From Russian to Chinese, Foreign Literature and Art [Woguo wenyi], no.5 (2015), pp. 115-120
Courses
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES:
Sino-Russian Relations; Socialist ’80s; Science and Literature in Russia; The Stranger; Russo-Chinese Science Fiction; Modernism and Revolution; Masterpieces of Russian Literatures
GRADUATE COURSES:
Russian Fin-de-siècle; Memory and Memoir in Russian Culture; 18th-century Russian Literature; Russian Symbolist Poetry; Russian Romantic Poetry