Hanqi Zhou

Hanqi Zhou is a Ph.D. student in Chinese literature at Stanford University’s Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, where she also earned her M.A. She received her B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature from Fudan University. Hanqi’s research focuses on premodern Chinese literatures, especially ci-poetry詞 and anecdotal writings from the Song dynasty. She is particularly interested in questions of gender, authorship, and vernacular culture, with a current focus on the representation of female entertainers in male-authored texts. Drawing from sources such as Yijian zhi 夷堅志and ci-poetry, her work explores how literary forms reflected and shaped gender roles, emotional expressions, and social relationships in medieval China.