PHD

PhD Supervisor:  Carolyn Biltoft / Bernard Keo (Second Reader)

This is going to be an intellectual history work that aims to reflect on how historians who have worked on contemporary Chinese trauma histories, such as the Great Famine, the Cultural Revolution, and the one-child policy, approached these histories. The views of New Historians and postmodernists are expected to aid in reconsidering the understanding of “fact,”“event,”“experience,”and  shedding light on the intricated relationship between the writing of history and its context. Lenses of anthropology, culture and psychoanalysis might be adopted to help probe into the underlying connotations hidden in related historians’ literal expressions and the possible particular convergence in contemporary Chinese trauma history writing.
 

Profile
 

Ziru’s research focuses on trauma history and intellectual history. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Politics, Economics and Philosophy (PPE) from Renmin University and a Master’s degree in International History and Politics from the Geneva Graduate Institute. Prior to her current research focus, she researched on Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalysis and the counter-narratives of the one-child policy.
 

Research Interests
 

• Trauma History
• Contemporary Chinese History
• Intellectual History
• Social History
• Asian History
• Gender History
• Oral History