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學術盲審 Academic Peer Review Services (voluntary)

Cultural Critique (SSCI and A&HCI), Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (SSCI and A&HCI), Continuum (SSCI and A&HCI)，Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (SSCI and A&HCI), International Feminist Journal of Politics (SSCI), Men and Masculinities (SSCI), College Literature (A&HCI), Literature Compass (A&HCI), Comparative Critical Studies (A&HCI), Utopian Studies (A&HCI), ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (A&HCI), Kritika Kultura (A&HCI), Chinese Literature and Thought Today (A&HCI), Adaptation (A&HCI), English Language Notes (A&HCI), Critical Arts (A&HCI), Life Writing (A&HCI), International Research in Children’s Literature (A&HCI), CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (A&HCI), Global Media and China (ESCI), The Wenshan Review (ESCI and THCI), South China Quarterly: Journal of University of Macau (南國學術-澳門大學學報) (CSSCI), Humanities-Basel (ESCI and Scopus), Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context (상황) (KCI), African Identities (Scopus), Journal of Chinese Film Studies (Scopus), East Asian Journal of Popular Culture (Scopus), Oxford Research in English, Comparative Literature & World Literature, and Journal of Transcultural Communication, Literature and Modern China. (problematic journals marked in red)

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*Peer reviewed book proposals and manuscripts for: Springer (Asian Studies)

編輯 Editorial Work (paid)
Flair Donglai SHI

Commissioning Editor (from 2025) 

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Associate Editor (from 2026)

Flair Donglai SHI

Founding and Managing Editor (from 2023)


博士學位評審 PhD Examination (paid)​​

2024

  • Binjun Grobbelaar, Border Crossing, Collecting, Gravitating: Small Narratives of Three “Ordinary” Collectors in the Chinese Diaspora in South Africa Since the Late 1980s, Rhodes University (South Africa) (external)

  • Di-Kai Chao 趙帝凱, Exploring Sinophone Liminality: The Ghost Narrative of Contemporary Fiction in Chinese and its New Perspective, The University of Canterbury (New Zealand) (external)

2023

  • Chen Huafei 陈华菲, Comparative Studies on Literature and Dance: An Interdisciplinary Approach, School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (internal)

  • Feng Lihui 冯丽蕙, A Study of Franco Moretti’s Strategy of Distant Reading, School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (internal)

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*Flair regularly examines MA theses across the different humanities departments at SJTU. Invited by the China Academic Degrees and Graduate Education Development Center (教育部学位与研究生教育发展中心), he also has served as an external expert examiner for Chinese and English MA theses from Sun Yat-sen University (中山大学), Nankai University (南开大学), Southeast University (东南大学), Capital Normal University (首都师范大学), Southwest Jiaotong University (西南交通大学), etc.

基金项目 Grants and Funds (recent)

  • (2026-2029) Chinese Academic Translation Project 中华学术外译项目 (25WZWB008，¥300,000), National Social Science Fund of China 国家社会科学基金 (working with Peking University Press and Brill in translating Dai Jinhua’s monograph The Boat Wading Across the 1980s: Women’s Literature and Culture in China’s Reform Era 《涉渡之舟：新时期中国女性写作与女性文化》into English; team members include Margaret Hillenbrand, Rebecca Karl, Tani Barlow, and Hui “Faye” Xiao)

  • (2023-2024) Collaborative Teaching Fund (¥90,000), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, with Prof. Cai Wenjing and Prof. Chang Chih-yun, for hosting Prof. Matthew Reynolds’s short course on translation and world literature, April/2024. 

  • (2023-2024) SJTU-Warwick Collaborative Seed Fund (￡10,000), SJTU and Warwick University, for the project “British Chinese Writers and the Practice of World Literature” with Dr. Jane Qian Liu (Warwick)

  • (2023-2024) British Council and UK-China Humanities Alliance Visiting Scholars Award (￡2,500), University of Exeter, for the project “Race and China-Africa Relations on Screen” with Dr. Xiaoning Lu (SOAS)

  • (2022-2025) Overseas Talent Scheme for Leading Scholars in the Humanities 上海市白玉兰人才计划文科领军人才 (confidential amount), Shanghai Municipal Government 

  • (2022-2025) Research Initiation Support (¥300,000), Shanghai Jiao Tong University

其他社會文化工作 Miscellaneous Other

  • (2022-now) Founding Member of China-Africa Shanghai International Network (CASIN) 上海中非关系研究网络, and Principal Manager for the biennial Global China-Africa Writing Competition 全球中非写作大赛, sponsored by the CA/AC Network (2022-2024), Ford Foundation (2022-2024) and Fudan University (2023-2025).

  • (2025-now) Regular Member, The Chinese Association of Studies of Foreign Literature British Literature Branch (中国外国文学学会英国文学研究分会会员).

  • (2025-now) Board Member, Shanghai Foreign Literature Association (上海市外国文学学会理事).

  • (2025-2026) Organiser of Guided Academic Tours for the Afro-Asian Themed Exhibition “The Great Camouflage 伟大的掩饰”, The Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (上海外滩美术馆).

  • (2024) International Jury Member for the “Sheng Sheng Best Paper Award” hosted by Heidelberg University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

  • (2024) Academic Jury Member for the “Emerging Curators Project 青策计划” Competition held by Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum 上海当代艺术博物馆.

  • (2023) Chinese-English Translation Work for China Oriental Performing Arts Group Co., translating stage scripts for the poetic dance drama A Touch of Green 《只此青绿》. 

  • (2021-2022) Academic Editor and Consultant for Chinese Literature at YLYK 友邻优课, Chinese podcast company

  • (2018-2019) Panel Director for Oxford China Forum 牛津中国论坛 (guests invited: Jin Xing 金星, Xu Bing 徐冰, Yan Geling 严歌苓, Feng Tang 冯唐, Li Ang 李昂, Nicky Harman, Sheng Keyi 盛可以, Anna Gustafsson Chen, etc.)

  • (2018) Interpreting for Mo Yan 莫言 and facilitating his academic activities during his visits and activities at the English Faculty and Oxford Prospects and Global Development Centre.

  • (2017-2018) Vice-President for Academic Events, Oxford Chinese Studies Society.

  • (2017) Chinese calligraphy workshops for the Ashmolean Museum and the BBC.

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