Jiyan Qiao
University Lecturer
- Name
- Dr. J. Qiao
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2977
- j.qiao@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-2769-9977
Jiyan Qiao is an assistant professor at the Institute for Area Studies.
Fields of interest
- Intellectual history;
- middle period China;
- Song Dynasty;
- political thought;
- comparative political theory
Research
Jiyan Qiao (Ph.D. Leiden, A.M. Harvard) is an intellectual historian of middle period China, focusing on political thought in the Song Dynasty. She is writing a set of two books on Su Shi, discussing his classical commentaries and echoing-Tao Qian poems respectively, as well as how they relate to each other in Su’s oeuvre.
Grants and awards
2024: KU Leuven, “Zhengming” workshop attendance grant
2020-21: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Postdoctoral Fellowship
2019: London School of Economics, Political Theory conference attendance grant
2016: Queen Mary University of London, Intellectual History training grant
2012-14: Harvard University, Harvard-Yenching Institute Fellowship
Courses taught
BA1 Institute for Area Studies: Core Course Area Studies
BA1 Leiden University College: Social Theory in Everyday Life
BA2 International Studies: Economy – East Asia; Research Methods - Visual Analysis
BA2 Leiden University College: Qualitative Research Methods
BA3 China Studies: The Reform of Wang Anshi
BA3 International Studies: Thesis Seminar East Asian B - Past and Present
MAAS and ResMA: Advanced Readings in Classical Chinese
MAIR: Core Course Culture and Politics
MA theses supervised
ResMA: Zijian Fan, “An Alternative Neo-Confucianism – Zhang Shi Learning and the Intellectual Transitions between Northern and Southern Song China,” cum laude
MAAS: Naomi Bergshoeff, “Beyond Morality: The Joyful Way of Confucius,” cum laude
Open to supervise
Chinese thought and literature from early to middle period; ideas and social, economic and cultural practices in contemporary China
University Lecturer
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- SAS China
- Qiao J. (2024), Review of: Pease J. (2021), His stubbornship: prime minister Wang Anshi (1021-1086), reformer and poet: Brill. Central Asiatic Journal 67: 334-337.
- Qiao J. (2 September 2021), Human nature and governance: soulcraft and statecraft in eleventh century China (Dissertatie. Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University). Supervisor(s): De Weerdt H.G.D.G. & Idema W.L.
- De Weerdt H.G.D.G., Ho B., Wagner A., Qiao J. & Chu M. (2020), Is There a Faction in This List?, Journal of Chinese history 4(2): 347-389.
- Qiao J. (2020) Feature book review: a history of Chinese political thought. Review of: Youngmin K., A history of Chinese political thought. Yu'gyo Munhwa Yeon-gu = Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture 33: 181-194.
- Michael Fuller (2017), "‘倦夜’：中国古典传统中肉身诗学的反思" ["'Weary Night': A Reflection on Embodied Poetics in the Classical Chinese Tradition] (translation: Qiao J.), Zhongguo xueshu (China Scholarship) 13(2): 119-137.
- Gerard M. Koot (2010), 英国历史经济学: 1870-1926 经济史学科的兴起与新重商主义 [English Historical Economics, 1870-1926: The Rise of Economic History and Neomercantilism] (translation: Qiao J.). Beijing: China Renmin University Press.