Xuelei Huang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3675310 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xuelei Huang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xuelei |
| FAMILY NAME | Huang |
| SIGNATURE | HUANG X |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4967-567X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Smell of Scotland
This article introduces a special issue of the journal on ‘The Smell of Scotland’, exploring the history and heritage of smell in the context of the Scottish past and present. Evolving out of a Royal Society Edinburgh funded series of workshops on the same topic, the special issue focusses on the period from the eighteenth-century to the present. This introduction contextualises the key themes of the issue’s articles – deodorisation, identity, an…
The ‘Queer Woman’ between Shanghai and Nanyang, 1920s–1930s
This article examines the actress Yang Naimei and a movie produced by her film company entitled Qi nzi (A Queer Woman, dir.Shi Dongshan, 1928), based on the recent suicide of Yu Meiyan, a headline-making femme fatale.Premiered in Shanghai in October 1928, Yang took the film on tour in British and Dutch colonies across Nanyang (today's Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia) between 1929 and 1931.This first film company founded by a woman in China and…
Scents of China
In this vivid and highly original reading of recent Chinese history, Xuelei Huang documents the eclectic array of smells that permeated Chinese life from the High Qing through to the Mao period. Utilising interdisciplinary methodology and critically engaging with scholarship in the expanding fields of sensory and smell studies, she shows how this period of tumultuous change in China was experienced through the body and the senses. Drawing on unex…
Smell, History, and Heritage
Journal Article Smell, History, and Heritage Get access William Tullett, William Tullett Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Inger Leemans, Inger Leemans Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Hsuan Hsu, Hsuan Hsu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stephanie Weismann, Stephanie Weismann Search for other wor…
Sensing China
Deodorizing China
Smell is deeply meaningful to human beings. Often considered elusive, ephemeral, and volatile, it has long been excluded from scholarly accounts on culture and history. This article explores this 'lower' sense and the roles it played in the historical process of modernization in China. Through a close look at the efforts made by the Western colonial administration to deodorize Shanghai as well as diverse Chinese reactions, this article argues tha…
Deodorizing China
Smell is deeply meaningful to human beings. Often considered elusive, ephemeral, and volatile, it has long been excluded from scholarly accounts on culture and history. This article explores this 'lower' sense and the roles it played in the historical process of modernization in China. Through a close look at the efforts made by the Western colonial administration to deodorize Shanghai as well as diverse Chinese reactions, this article argues tha…
Smell, History, and Heritage
Journal Article Smell, History, and Heritage Get access William Tullett, William Tullett Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Inger Leemans, Inger Leemans Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Hsuan Hsu, Hsuan Hsu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stephanie Weismann, Stephanie Weismann Search for other wor…
Deodorizing China
Smell is deeply meaningful to human beings. Often considered elusive, ephemeral, and volatile, it has long been excluded from scholarly accounts on culture and history. This article explores this 'lower' sense and the roles it played in the historical process of modernization in China. Through a close look at the efforts made by the Western colonial administration to deodorize Shanghai as well as diverse Chinese reactions, this article argues tha…
Smell, History, and Heritage
Journal Article Smell, History, and Heritage Get access William Tullett, William Tullett Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Inger Leemans, Inger Leemans Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Hsuan Hsu, Hsuan Hsu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stephanie Weismann, Stephanie Weismann Search for other wor…
Sensing China
Scents of China
In this vivid and highly original reading of recent Chinese history, Xuelei Huang documents the eclectic array of smells that permeated Chinese life from the High Qing through to the Mao period. Utilising interdisciplinary methodology and critically engaging with scholarship in the expanding fields of sensory and smell studies, she shows how this period of tumultuous change in China was experienced through the body and the senses. Drawing on unex…
The ‘Queer Woman’ between Shanghai and Nanyang, 1920s–1930s
This article examines the actress Yang Naimei and a movie produced by her film company entitled Qi nzi (A Queer Woman, dir.Shi Dongshan, 1928), based on the recent suicide of Yu Meiyan, a headline-making femme fatale.Premiered in Shanghai in October 1928, Yang took the film on tour in British and Dutch colonies across Nanyang (today's Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia) between 1929 and 1931.This first film company founded by a woman in China and…
The Smell of Scotland
This article introduces a special issue of the journal on ‘The Smell of Scotland’, exploring the history and heritage of smell in the context of the Scottish past and present. Evolving out of a Royal Society Edinburgh funded series of workshops on the same topic, the special issue focusses on the period from the eighteenth-century to the present. This introduction contextualises the key themes of the issue’s articles – deodorisation, identity, an…
Art (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · China (2 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · History (2 works) · Japanese History and Culture (2 works)