King-Kok Cheung

King-Kok Cheung is Professor of English and Asian American Studies at UCLA. Born and raised in Hong Kong, she received her PhD in English from UC Berkeley; she was also the UCEAP Study Center Director in Beijing (2008-2010), UCEAP Study Center Director in Shanghai (2015-2017), and Chair Professor of Renmin University of China (2018-21).

Her fields of interest include comparative literature (Chinese and American literature), comparative American ethnic literatures (African American, Native American, Chicano/o, and Asian American); Asian American literature (Chinese American, Filipino American, Japanese American, Korean American, South Asian American, Thai American, Vietnamese American); Comparative Heroic Traditions and Comparative Odysseys (Chinese, Cuban, South Asian, Vietnamese, Thai, Filipino, Palestinian, Japanese, Greek, British, and American), Renaissance British Literature (Shakespeare, Milton, Marlowe), Chinese Martial Fiction, and Literature and Medicine.  She is author of Articulate Silences: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa (Cornell UP,1993; Japanese edition, 2015; Chinese edition, 2020) and Asian American Literature without Borders (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017; Chinese edition, 2020); editor of Words Matter: Conversations with Asian American Writers (U of Hawaii Press, 2000), An Interethnic Companion to Asian American literature (Cambridge, 1996), “Seventeen Syllables” (Rutgers, 1994), Asian American literature: An Annotated Bibliography (MLA, 1988) and former co-editor of The Heath Anthology of American Literature.  Her articles have appeared in Amerasia Journal, American Literary History, Biography, Bucknell Review, Cambridge Journal of China Studies, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Chinese Literature Journal, Foreign Literature, Foreign Literature Studies, MELUS, Milton Studies, PMLA, Positions, Shakespeare Quarterly, University of Toronto Quarterly, and Transnational Literature. She has received an ACLS fellowship, a Mellon fellowship, a Fulbright lecturing and research award, and a resident fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford. She is the 2012-2013 Recipient of the UCLA Hoshide Teaching Award in Asian American Studies.


张敬珏(King-Kok Cheung)是加州大学洛杉矶分校英文系和亚裔美国文学研究教授。她生长于香港,在加州大学伯克利分校获得英语博士学位,还曾担任加州大学驻华研究中心主任(北京)(2008-2010)、加州大学驻华研究中心主任(上海)(2015-2017)和中国人民大学客座教授(2018-2021)。

她的兴趣领域包括比较文学(中美文学)、美国族裔比较文学(非裔美国人、美洲原住民、墨西哥裔美国人和亚裔美国人);亚裔美国文学(华裔美国人、菲律宾裔美国人、日裔美国人、韩裔美国人、南亚裔美国人、泰裔美国人和越南裔美国人);英雄传统和奥德赛比较研究(中国、古巴、南亚、越南、泰国、菲律宾、巴勒斯坦、日本、希腊、英国和美国)、英国文艺复兴文学(莎士比亚、弥尔顿和马洛)、中国武侠小说、文学和医学。她著有:《尽在不言中:山本久惠、汤亭亭、科加瓦》 (康奈尔大学, 1993;日译版, 2015;中译版, 2020)和《没有边界的美国亚裔文学》(帕尔格雷夫·麦克米伦, 2017;中文版, 2020);编著有《话语事关重大:亚美作家访谈录》(夏威夷大学出版社, 2000),《亚裔美国文学的跨民族同伴研究》 (剑桥大学, 1996), 《十七个音节》 (罗格斯大学, 1994), 《亚裔美国文学参考书目》 (现代语言协会, 1988),她也是《希斯美国文学》的前任联合编辑。她的文章发表于《亚美杂志》、 《美国文学史》、 《传记》、《巴克内尔大学研究》、《剑桥中国研究》、《加拿大比较文学评论》、《中国文学学报》、《外国文学》、《外国文学研究》、《美国多种族文学研究协会期刊》、《弥尔顿研究》、《现代语言学会会刊》、《立场》、《莎士比亚季刊》、《多伦多大学季刊》和《跨国文学》。她先后荣获美国学术理事会奖学金,梅隆奖,富布莱特奖学金和斯坦福大学行为科学高级研究中心研究奖学金。她也是2012-2013年加州大学洛杉矶分校亚裔美国研究杰出教学奖的获得者。