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von Kowallis JE, 2016, 'Xin Shiji yilai Lu Xun zai Yingyu Shijie de Yingxiang yu Chuanbo (Lu Xun’s influence and dissemination in the English-speaking world in the present century)', Guxiang 故乡, pp. 31 - 33

Von Kowallis JE, 2015, 'Collisions of the Past with the Present: Translation, Texts and History', Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, 9, pp. 582 - 616, http://dx.doi.org/10.3868/s010-004-015-0033-1

Von Kowallis JE, 2015, 'Guowai Hanxue de Weiji: yu Aodaliya Hanxuejia Kou Zhiming de duihua (Challenges Facing the Advancement of Chinese Studies Overseas: an interview with Australian Sinologist Jon Eugene von Kowallis)', Guoji Hanxue / International Sinology, 5, pp. 11 - 16

Von Kowallis JE, 2015, 'Henan zazhi: Lu Xun zaoqi wenyan lunwen de lishi, sixiang beijing, yiji Zhou shi xiongdi xinmu zhong wenxue de shiming (The journal Henan: its history, intellectual background, and the Zhou brothers' idea of the 'mission' of literature)', Xiandai Zhongwen Xuekan (Journal of Modern Chinese Literature), 38, pp. 56 - 65

Von Kowallis JE, 2015, ''Modern Archaics': A New Look at the Poets of the 'Old Schools' and their Successors', Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, pp. 1 - 20, http://u.osu.edu/mclc/book-reviews/kowallis2

Von Kowallis JE, 2015, 'Lu Xun zaoqi wenyan lunwen li suo tansuo de xin wenhua (The 'New Culture' formulated in Lu Xun's early classical-style essays)', Lu Xun Yanjiu Yuekan (Lu Xun Research Monthly), 400, pp. 4 - 10

Von Kowallis JE, 2015, 'C.T. Hsia in the Memory of a Columbia College Undergraduate Student', Chinese Literature Today, 4

Von Kowallis JE, 2015, 'The Chinese Prose Poem: a Study of Lu Xun's Wild Grass (Yecao)', Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews, 36, pp. 219 - 224

von Kowallis JE, 2014, 'Literary Remains: Death, Trauma, and Lu Xun's Refusal to Mourn', JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, 73, pp. 581 - 587, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000342234800004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

von Kowallis JE, 2014, 'Lu Xun's Revolution: Writing in a Time of Violence', JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, 73, pp. 581 - 587, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000342234800003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

von Kowallis JE, 2014, 'Memory, Violence, Queues: Lu Xun Interprets China', JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, 73, pp. 581 - 587, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000342234800002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Von Kowallis JE, 2014, 'C. T. Hsia in the Memory of a Columbia College Undergraduate Student', Chinese Literature Today, 4, http://www.ou.edu/clt/04-01/jon-eugene-von-kowallis.html

von Kowallis JE, 2014, 'Lu Xun on Our Minds: The Post-Socialist Reappraisal; Chou, Memory, Violence, Queues: Lu Xun Interprets China; Davies, Lu Xun's Revolution: Writing in a Time of Violence; Cheng, Literary Remains: Death, Trauma, and Lu Xun's Refusal to Mourn', The Journal of Asian Studies, 73, pp. 581 - 587, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021911814000515

Von Kowallis JE, 2014, 'The Lu Xun of Western Sinologists? Pierre Ryckmans, Simon Leys, Rene Leys, and the 'Aestheticization' of Lu Xun', Studia Orientalia Slovaca, 13, pp. 279 - 297

Von Kowallis JE, 2013, 'Late-Qing Living Texts: Zhang Taiyan and Lu Xun', Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, 7

Von Kowallis JE, 2013, '“Yinwei Lu Xun de shu hai shi hao mai”: Guanyu Lu Xun xiaoshuo de Yingwen fanyi (“Because Lu Xun’s Works Still Sell Well”)', Lu Xun yanjiu Yuekan, 370, pp. 38 - 50, http://www.airitilibrary.com/

Von Kowallis JE, 2013, 'Lu Xun’s Early Essays and Present-Day China', Studia Orientalia Slovaca II, 12, pp. 1301 - 1313, https://fphil.uniba.sk/fileadmin/fif/katedry_pracoviska/kvas/SOS_12_1/Kowallis.pdf

Von Kowallis JE, 2013, 'Translating Lu Xun’s Mara: determining the ‘source’ text, the ‘spirit’ versus ‘letter’ dilemma and other philosophical conundrums', Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, 7, pp. 422 - 440, http://dx.doi.org/10.3868/s010-002-013-0024-3

Von Kowallis JE, 2012, 'Gen Lu Xun Paihuai zai Aozhou: Dangdai Aozhou Geju ‘Xin Gui’ ji Aozhou meiti de fanying (A Walkabout with Lu Xun in Australia: the Modern Australian Opera ‘Fresh Ghosts’ and the Australian Media’s Reaction)', Lu Xun yanjiu Yuekan, 364, pp. 28 - 36

Von Kowallis JE, 2012, 'Lu Xun's classical-style poetry and the 1911 revolution', Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, 6, pp. 317 - 336, http://dx.doi.org/10.3868/s010-001-012-0019-7

Von Kowallis JE, 2012, 'Lu Xun’s Classical-style Poetry and the 1911 Revolution', Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, 6, pp. 112 - 130

Von Kowallis JE, 2012, 'On Translating Lu Xun’s Fiction', Studia Orientalia Slovaca II, 2, pp. 193 - 213

von Kowallis JE, 2010, 'Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange Alexander C. Y. Huang New York: Columbia University Press, 2009xi + 350 pp. $26.50; £18.50 ISBN 978-0-231-14849-8', The China Quarterly, 201, pp. 225 - 227, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741010000196

Von Kowallis JE, 2010, 'The Enigma of Su Xuelin and Lu Xun', Literature & Philosophy, 16, pp. 493 - 527

Von Kowallis JE, 2008, 'Translation and Originality: Reexamining Lu Xun as a Translator', Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia, 40, pp. 320 - 333

Von Kowallis JE, 2007, 'National Allegory for the 21st Century: The Jameson - Ahmad Debate from the Perspective of Taiwan Literature', Journal of Southwest University for Nationalities, 28, pp. 112 - 119

Von Kowallis JE, 2007, 'National Allegory for the Twenty-first Century: revisiting the Jameson/Ahmad debate from the perspective of Taiwanese literature', Xinan Minzu Daxue Xuebao (Zhexue Shehui Kexue Ban)(The Journal of Southwest Nationalities University), 28, pp. 112 - 119

Von Kowallis JE, 2006, 'In Commemoration of American Lu Xun Specialist, William Lyell', Lu Xun Yanjiu Yuekan [Lu Xun Research Monthly], 7, pp. 88 - 90

Von Kowallis JE, 2006, 'Pavillion in the Diaspora: Framing Diaspora Productions of the Kun Opera Mudanting', Journal of School of Chinese Language and Culture, 4, pp. 52 - 58

Von Kowallis JE, 2006, 'Pure words for literature by using classical Chinese in early essay of Lu Xun', Lu Xun Yanjiu Yuekan [Lu Xun Research Monthly], Summer, pp. 215 - 226

Von Kowallis JE, 2005, 'Lu Xun: The chinese `Gentle` Nietzsche', China Quarterly, pp. 197 - 199

von Kowallis JE, 2004, 'Letters between two: Correspondence between Lu Xun and Xu Guangping.', JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, 63, pp. 158 - 160, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000220529200027&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Von Kowallis JE, 2004, 'Love-letters and privacy in modern China: The intimate lives of Lu Xunand Xu Guangping', Journal of Asian Studies, 63, pp. 158 - 160, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000220529200026&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a

von Kowallis JE, 2004, 'Love-Letters and Privacy in Modern China: The Intimate Lives of Lu Xun and Xu Guangping. By Bonne S. McDougall. Oxford and New York: University Press, 2002. xii, 305 pp. $120.00 (cloth). - Letters between Two: Correspondence between Lu Xun and Xu Guangping. Translated By Bonnie S. McDougall. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2000. 462 pp. RMB 60.00.', The Journal of Asian Studies, 63, pp. 158 - 160, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021911804000282

Von Kowallis JE, 2004, 'Lu Xun jiu shi zhu shi he ying lue su [Lu Xun`s Classical Style Poetry: on Chinese Commentaries and English Translations]', Lu Xun Yanjiu Yuekan [Lu Xun Research Monthly], 4, pp. 72 - 82

Von Kowallis JE, 2003, 'Classical Chinese at Overseas Universities', Xungen [Root Exploration], 6, pp. 48 - 53

Von Kowallis JE, 2003, 'Haiwai daxue li de gu Hanyu [Classical Chinese in Overseas Universities]', Xungen [Root Exploration], 6, pp. 48 - 53

von Kowallis JE, 2002, 'LU XUN AND GOGOL', THE SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET REVIEW, 28, pp. 101 - 112, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18763324-028-01-09

Von Kowallis JE, 2002, 'Lu Xun `Shi` yu `Yi` [Exegeis versus Tansaltion in the Study of Lu Xun]', Lu Xun Yanjiu Yuekan [Lu Xun Research Monthly], 237, pp. 37 - 48

Von Kowallis JE, 2002, 'Lu Xun yu Guogeli [Lu Xun and Gogol]', Lu Xun Yanjiu Yuekan [Lu Xun Research Monthly], 243, pp. 29 - 36

Von Kowallis JE, 2002, 'Lu Xun yu Jinhua [Lu Xun and the Theory of Evolution]', Lu Xun Yanjiu Yuekan [Lu Xun Research Monthly], 1, pp. 54 - 55

Von Kowallis JE, 2002, 'Pavilion in the Diaspora: Framing Diasporic Productions of the Kun Pera Mundanting', Chinese Studies Association of Australia Newsletter, 1, pp. 2 - 6

Von Kowallis JE, 2001, 'The curious story of Sai Jinhua: An historical and philological inquiry into the origins and proliferation of a legend from the period of the Boxer uprising', Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia, 32-33, pp. 185 - 193

Von Kowallis JE, 1999, 'Da liuwang yu Zhongguo wenhua [Chinese culture and the diaspora]', Dong Hua Shi Bao 22/7/99

Von Kowallis JE, 1999, 'Festivals for Lu Xun: the `Lesser Tradition` and National Identity Construction', Chinoperl Papers, 20-22, pp. 139 - 158

Von Kowallis JE, 1999, 'Gang-Tai hou xiandai dianying [Postmodern films from Hong Kong and Taiwan]', Dong Hua Shi Bao

von Kowallis JE; Schmidt JD, 1998, 'Within the Human Realm: The Poetry of Huang Zunxian, 1848-1905', Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 58, pp. 273 - 273, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2652655

Von Kowallis JE, 1997, 'On the Diaspora and the Globalization of Chinese Literature and Cinema', Chinese Cultures in the Diaspora: Emerging Global Perspectives on the Centre and the Periphery, pp. 169 - 186

Conference Presentations

Von Kowallis JE, 2013, 'Issues in Translating Lu Xun’s Poetry', presented at International Conference on Lu Xun, Devkota Lu Hsun Writers Academy, Kathmandu, Nepal, 07 December 2013 - 07 December 2013

Von Kowallis JE, 2013, 'Interpreting Lu Xun: Collisions of the Past with the Present', presented at annual conference of the China Studies Centre, University of Sydney, 29 November 2013 - 29 November 2013


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