Books

Forthcoming

Daria Berg & Giorgio Strafella, Everyday Life Between Spectacle and Critique in Twenty-first Century China. Co-authored monograph

 

2022
Daria Berg & Giorgio Strafella, eds.The Avant-Garde in Post-Socialist China, 1978-2018: The Art of Transculturality.  London: Routledge, in press.
Accepted for publication.

 

2017
Giorgio Strafella, Intellectual Discourse in Reform Era China: The Debate on the Spirit of the Humanities in the 1990s. London & New York: Routledge, 2017.
Index click here.

2016
Daria Berg & Giorgio Strafella, eds. Transforming Book Culture in China, 1600-2016. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016.
Index click here.

2013
Daria Berg, Women and the Literary World in Early Modern China. London: Routledge, 2013.
Index click here.

 

2007
Daria Berg & Chloë Starr, eds. The Quest for Gentility in China: Negotiations beyond Gender and Class. London: Routledge, 2007.
Index click here.

Daria Berg, ed. Reading China: Fiction, History and the Dynamics of Discourse—Essays in Honour of Professor Glen Dudbridge. Leiden: E.J.Brill, 2007.
Index click here.

 

2002
Daria Berg. Carnival in China: A Reading of the Xingshi yinyuan zhuan. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2002.
Index click here.

 

2000
Daria Berg. Portraying China’s New Women Entrepreneurs: A Reading of Zhang Xin’s Fiction. Durham: Department of East Asian Studies, 2000. Short monograph.
For pdf click here.

Daria Berg. Perceptions of Lay Healers in Late Imperial China. Durham: Department of East Asian Studies (Durham East Asian Papers 15). (2000) 39pp.
For pdf click here.

 

 

Articles and Book Chapters

Forthcoming
Strafella, Giorgio & Daria Berg. “Body Art in China”. Positions (USA).

2021
Berg, Daria & Giorgio Strafella. “Liberalism in China”. In Handbook on Liberalism, ed. Michael Festl. 2020

 

2020
Daria Berg. “Alles unter dem Himmel und der Chinesische Traum”. Konfuzius-Institut Magazine: Denkschulen, Philosophien, Religionen, 04 (2020): 26-33.

 

2018
Strafella, Giorgio & Daria Berg. Ai Weiwei’s #Refugees: A Transcultural and Transmedia Journey. In Franceschini, Ivan & Loubere, Nicholas (ed.): Gilded Age. Canberra : ANU Press, 2018, S. 196-199.

2016

Daria Berg. “‘People Must Search within China’s Contradictions to Discover What Really Matters’: An Interview with Best-selling Author Anni Baobei.” In: Daria Berg and Giorgio Strafella, eds. Transforming Book Culture in China, 1600-2016. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016, pp. 203-209.
See here.

 

Daria Berg & Rui Kunze. “Sex and the Glocalising City: Women Writers as Transcultural Travellers in Postsocialist Chinese Literature, 1997-2016.” In: Daria Berg and Giorgio Strafella, eds. Transforming Book Culture in China, 1600-2016. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016, pp. 173-200.
See here.

 

Daria Berg & Rui Kunze. “A View of China’s Literary Landscape: Interview with Sheng Yun, Woman Editor of the Shanghai Review of Books.” In: Daria Berg and Giorgio Strafella, eds. Transforming Book Culture in China, 1600-2016. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016, pp. 123-130.
See here.

 

Giorgio Strafella & Daria Berg. “Blogging and China’s Intellectual Life in the Twenty-First Century.” In: Daria Berg and Giorgio Strafella, eds. Transforming Book Culture in China, 1600-2016. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016, pp. 265-286.
See here.

 

2015

Giorgio Strafella & Daria Berg. “The Making of an Online Celebrity: A Critical Analysis of Han Han’s Blog.” China Information 29.3 (2015): pp. 352-376. “The Eduard B. Vermeer Prize for the Best Article – Winner 2015” (http://journals.sagepub.com/page/cin/collections/china-info/prize)
To see the article click here.

 

Giorgio Strafella & Daria Berg. “Twitter Bodhisattva: Ai Weiwei’s Media Politics.” Asian Studies Review 39. 1 (2015), pp. 138-157.
To see the article click here.

 

Giorgio Strafella and Daria Berg. A Decade of Blogging in China. China Policy Institute: Analysis (The University of Nottingham), 31 August 2015.
To see the article click here.

 

2014

Daria Berg. “Women Power in China”. HSG Focus 2014/1, pp. 1-3.
To see the article click here.

 

2011

Daria Berg & Mohammed Shafiullah. "Understanding how China thinks". China Daily 29 July 2011, Chinadaily.com.cn
To see the article click here.

 

Daria Berg. “A New Spectacle in China’s Mediasphere: A Cultural Reading of a Web-based Reality Show from Shanghai.” The China Quarterly 205 (2011): 133-151.
To see the article click here.

 

2010

Daria Berg. “Consuming Secrets: China’s New Print Culture at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century.” In From Woodblocks to the Internet: Chinese Publishing and Print Culture in Transition, ed. Cynthia Brokaw and Christopher Reeds. Leiden: E.J. Brill (2010): 315-332.
To see the article click here.

 

2009

Daria Berg. "Cultural Discourse on Xue Susu, a Courtesan In Late Ming China". International Journal of Asian Studies, 6, 2 (2009), pp. 171–200.
To see the article click here.

 

2007

Daria Berg. Negotiating Gentility: The Banana Garden Poetry Club in Seventeenth-Century Jiangnan. In: Daria Berg and Chloë Starr (eds.). The Quest for Gentility in China: Negotiations beyond Gender and Class. London: Routledge. 2007. 73-93.
To see the article click here.

 

Daria Berg. Amazon, Artist, and Adventurer: A Courtesan in late Imperial China. In: Ken Hammond (ed.). Human Tradition in Modern China. Lanham, Boulder, New York and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield. 2007. 15-32.
To see the article click here.

 

Daria Berg. “Female Self-Fashioning in Late Imperial China: How the Gentlewoman and the Courtesan Edited Her Story and Rewrote Hi/story.” In Reading China: Fiction, History and the Dynamics of Discourse—Essays in Honour of Professor Glen Dudbridge, ed. Daria Berg. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2007, pp. 238-289.
To see the article click here.

 

2006

Daria Berg. "Miss Emotion: Women, Books and Culture in Seventeenth-Century Jiangnan." In: Love Hatred and Other Passions: Questions and Themes on Emotions in Chinese Civilization, ed. Paolo Santangelo and Donatella Guida. Leiden: E.J. Brill (2006): 314-330.
To see the article click here.

 

2004

Daria Berg. Der Kult um die Unsterbliche Tanyangzi: Biographie als Bestseller im China der späten Kaiserzeit. In: Jianfei Kralle and Dennis Schilling (eds.). Schreiben über Frauen in China: Ihre Literarisierung im historischen Schrifttum und ihr gesellschaftlicher Status in der Geschichte. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 2004. 285-310.
To see the article click here.

 

2003

Daria Berg. What the Messenger of Souls has to Say: New Historicism and the Poetics of Chinese Culture. In: Michel Hockx and Ivo Smits (eds.). Reading East Asian Writing: The Limits of Literary Theory. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon. 2003. 171-203.
To see the article click here.

 

2002

Daria Berg. Marvelling at the Wonders of the Metropolis: Perceptions of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Cities in the Tale of Marriage Destinies that will Bring Society to its Senses (Xingshi yinyuan zhuan). In: David Faure and Tao Tao Liu (eds.). Town and Country in China: Identity and Perceptions. Basingstoke: Palgrave. 2002. 17-40.
To see the article click here.

 

Daria Berg. Frauen in Weltreligionen: Taoismus. In: Elisabeth Gössmann (ed.). Wörterbuch der feministischen Theologie. Second Edition. Gütersloh: Güterloher Verlagshaus. 2002. 174-176
To see the article click here.

 

2001

Daria Berg. Wu Jinfa and the Melancholy Mountain Forests of China's Border Cultures: New Voices in Taiwanese Literature. In: David Faure (ed.). In Search of the Hunters and their Tribes: Studies in the History and Culture of the Taiwan Indigenous Peoples. Taipei: Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines. 2001. 202-240.
To see the article click here.

 

Daria Berg. Bell Doctors in a Late Imperial Chinese Novel. In: Monumenta Serica. 49. Nettetal: Steyler-Verlag. 2001. 57-70.
To see the article click here.

 

Daria Berg. Teachers in Traditional China: A View from Seventeenth-Century Fiction. In: Ming Qing yanjiu. Napoli: Dipartimento di Studi Asiatici, Istituto Universitario Orientale. 2001. 15-43.
To see the article click here.

 

1999

Daria Berg. Reformer, Saint and Savior: Visions of the Great Mother in the Novel Xingshi yinyuan zhuan and its Seventeenth-Century Chinese Context. In: Nan Nü: Men, Women, and Gender in Early and Imperial China. (1999)1.2: 237-267.
To see the article click here.

 

1995

Daria Berg. Die Heilkunde Chinas im Spiegel des Romans Xingshi yinyuan zhuan aus dem 17. Jahrhundert. In: ChinaMed. 6. München: Cygnus. 1995. 59-61.
To see the article click here.

 

Multimedia

2020
Daria Berg. “Chinas Sozialkreditsystem.” Interview Radio Luzern. 5 November 2020.

Daria Berg. “Tatort Antike: China’s First Emperor.” ZDF Info. Episode 5. Interview and Contribution to Documentary Film. 23 November 2020.
Click here.

2014
Daria Berg. “Women Power in China.” HSG Focus 2014/1, 1-3.
Click here.

2011         
Daria Berg & Mohammed Shafiullah. “Understanding how China thinks.” China Daily 29 July 2011.
Click here.