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米歐敏教授Olivia-MILBURN

Prof. Olivia MILBURN 米歐敏教授

Chinese Language and Literature Programme

Professor

BA (Oxon), MA (Cantab), PhD (Lond)

852-39171954

852-28581334

Rm 822, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

Court culture in imperial China, Historical representation of minority groups (disabled, ethnic minorities etc.), History and culture of Jiangsu and Zhejiang

Date Title

2025

“Visual Disabilities in Early China.” In Mario Lorente Muñoz (ed.), Visual Disability in the Ancient World. El Puntal: Editum, Ediciones de la Universidad de Murcia, 2025, pp. 60-81.

2025

“The Yue Maiden: An Independent Heroine and Her History in China.” In Julian Ward, Garfield Lam, and Kelly Chan (eds.), The Myriad Faces of Heroes and Heroines: Folkloric Tradition and Modern Contemporaries. Singapore: Springer Nature, 2025, pp. 3-15.

2025

“Records of Brain Damage in Early and Medieval China.” In Avital Rom (ed.), Disability and Impairment in Early China: Other Bodies. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2025, pp. 191-213.

2023

“The Masculine Bee: Gendering Insects in Chinese Imperial-Era Literature,” in David A. Bello and Daniel Burton-Rose (eds.), Insect Histories of East Asia. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2023, pp. 21-40.

2023

“Brain Injury and Intellectual Disabilities in Early and Medieval China: Two Case Studies.” In Christian Laes, Irina Mezler (eds.), ‘Madness’ in the Ancient World: Innate or Acquired? From Theoretical Concepts to Daily Life. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023, pp. 157-187.

2023

“The Ice of Memory and the Fires of Forgetfulness: Traumatic Recollections in the Wu Yue chunqiu,” in Albert Galvany (ed.), The Craft of Oblivion: Aspects of Forgetting and Memory in Ancient China. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2023, pp. 97-115.