Kaixuan (Kai) Yao

she/they

Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

425 Folwell Hall

9 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Collegiate Affiliation

Kai is writing her dissertation on the first queer feminist history of Chinese cinema. She suffers from chronic archive fever and revels in the radical ambiguity of affect theory. Originally trained in comparative literature, she is also working on a side project that traces the development of Czech sinology.

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Educational Background

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Educational Background

Master of Arts (Research): Comparative Literary Studies, Utrecht University, 2018-2020
Bachelor of Arts: Integrated Humanities, New York University Shanghai, 2014-2018

Publications

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Publications

Yao, Kaixuan (Kai). "The Crimson Palm (1964)" Chinese Theater Collaborative .
Yao, Kaixuan (Kai). "Event Review: 100 Years of China's All-Female Yue Opera." CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature 43.2 (2025-01-03): 217-224.
Yao, Kaixuan (Kai). "Entanglement in Time: Nostalgic Affect as Cine-Choreography in The White Crow (2018) and Suspiria (2018)." The International Journal of Screendance 13 (2022-09-09): 110-132.
Yao, Kaixuan (Kai). "Schizo-Historicising With the Body: Representation of Dance in Recent Cold War Nostalgia Films." The Odyssey of Communism: Visual Narratives, Memory and Culture (2021-05-26): 164-182.

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