Doctoral Candidate Dalu Zhong
Contact Information
Dalu Zhong
Karl Jaspers Centre
Voßstraße 2, Building 4400
Room 400.01.10
69115 Heidelberg
Germany
+49 (0) 6221 54 4097
dalu.zhong@hcts.uni-heidelberg.de
Current Research
My dissertation focuses on the ideological and transcultural competition in the Sino–Southwestern Asian borderlands during World War II. My broader research interests include comparative literature and cultural anthropology.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Heidelberg University, Germany
Ph.D. in Transcultural Studies Oct 2023 – Present
Continuing Education in Digital Humanities Oct 2025 – Present
Beijing Normal University, China
M.A. in Chinese Modern Literature Sep 2020 – June 2023
Ghent University, Belgium
Exchange, East Asian Studies Sep 2022 – Feb 2023
Awards and Honours
- Global Indo-Pacific Mobility Fellowship, Max Weber Foundation, 2026
- HeiDOCS Travel Grant, issued by Graduate Academy, Heidelberg University, 2026
- Excellent Graduate, Beijing Normal University, 2023
- National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of China, 2022 & 2019
- Jingdong Scholarship for Overseas Exchange, 2022
Selected Publications
“Mysterious but Modern Tibet,” The Culture Shock (Die Kulturschock), June 2024, 28–42.
“Dusk Birds,” Beijing Literature, May 2023, 204–205.
“Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, Ding Ling and ‘Country Girls Went to City’,” Chinese Book Review Monthly, June 2022, 118–122.
“The Dialectical Relationship between Non-fiction Writing and History, and Transcending It,” Yalu River, September 2021, 87–92.
Conference Presentations & Workshops
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2026 Biennial Conference, Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature (Organized Panel), Mediating the Chinese Borderlands: Multiple Cultural Practices and the Production of “Southern Knowledge.” Singapore, July 2026, forthcoming.
Presentation, Contesting Wartime Borderlands: Literary Narratives and Multi-Layered Imaginaries of the Dai People in 1940s Mangshi.
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2026 Annual Conference, Association for Asian Studies (Co-Organized Panel), “Echoes of War: Literary Imaginings from the Sinophone Borderlands.” Vancouver, March 2026.
Presentation, Imagining a Lost Tradition: Transcultural Encounters and the Naxi’s Contested Ethnicity in Wartime Sino-Tibetan Borderlands (1937–1949).
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Workshop of Worldmaking China, funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), Heidelberg, December 2025.
Organizer & Presentation, The Buddhist Battlefield: Centering Transculturation in the Sino–Burma Borderlands during World War II.
Membership
Member, Association for Asian Studies, Sep 2025 – Present