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Portrait of Zhenzhen Lu

Zhenzhen Lu

Granted tenured and promoted to associate professor of Chinese.

Lu’s work focuses on the practices of reading, writing, publishing, and performance in the 16th to 19th centuries. Her book, The Vernacular World of Pu Songling: Popular Literature and Manuscript Culture in Late Imperial China (Brill, 2025), examines a diverse body of local writings in the manuscripts of village scholars from Shandong in northern China. 

Before coming to Bates, Lu was a researcher at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures at the University of Hamburg in Germany, a visiting scholar at New York University, and a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, where she received her Ph.D. At Bates, Lu teaches a wide range of courses in Chinese language, literature, and culture.

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    Touched by a tale of friendship: An early nineteenth-century Zidishu manuscript

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    “Baiben Zhang: Shijiu shiji Beijing chaoshufang yanjiu" 百本張：十九世紀北京抄書坊研究

  • Baiben Zhang (Hundred Volumes Zhang): A Scribal Publisher in Nineteenth-century Beijing

    Baiben Zhang (Hundred Volumes Zhang): A Scribal Publisher in Nineteenth-century Beijing

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