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Dr Derek Hird

Director of the Confucius Institute, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies, Head of the Department for School of Global Affairs

  1. 2025
  2. Published

    An empirical study on intercultural contact and intercultural communication competence of Chinese international students in the UK: A Case Study of Lancaster University

    Lu, J., Wang, A. & Hird, D., 5/02/2025, In: Journal of International Students. 15, 2 , p. 147-167 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  3. 2024
  4. Published

    Editorial

    Hird, D. & Wang, X., 24/10/2024, In: New Perspectives on Languages. 1, p. 1-4 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineEditorial

  5. Published

    Some Admire Wisdom, Others Do Not

    Hird, D. (Translator), 9/02/2024, Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet: Ten Queer Stories. Liu, P. & Rofel, L. (eds.). Durham, NC: Duke University Press, p. 20-44 25 p. (Sinotheory).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNTranslationpeer-review

  6. Forthcoming

    Academic aspirations in Languages

    Hird, D., 2024, (Accepted/In press) The Politics of Identity in Language Teaching and Learning: Voices in Higher Education from the UK and Beyond. London: John Murray Press

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  7. Published

    Balancing Refinement and Manliness: A Beauty Formula for Men’s Social and Professional Success

    Hird, D., 2024, In: Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China. 26, 1, p. 114-143 29 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  8. 2023
  9. Published

    Critical Pedagogies for Modern Languages Education: Criticality, Decolonization, and Social Justice

    Hird, D. (Editor), 10/08/2023, London: Bloomsbury Academic. 280 p. (Bloomsbury Guidebooks for Language Teachers)

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsAnthology

  10. Published

    Third-Person Pronouns, Gender and the Han Gaze in the Chinese Modern Languages Classroom

    Hird, D., 23/05/2023, Critical Pedagogies for Modern Languages Education: Criticality, Decolonization and Social Justice. Hird, D. (ed.). 1 ed. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., p. 134-148 16 p. (Bloomsbury Guidebooks For Language Teachers ).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  11. 2021
  12. Published

    Conflicting masculinities in Ha Jin’s Waiting: Talented scholars and ruthless men of action in China’s Mao and post-Mao eras

    Su, L. & Hird, D., 31/08/2021, In: Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China. 23, 1, p. 110-136 27 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  13. 2020
  14. Published

    Jin Yi’s “Someone Else’s Story”

    Hird, D., 30/12/2020, In: Chinese Literature and Culture. 20, p. 61-69 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal article

  15. Published

    Knowing male subjects: Globally mobile Chinese professionals and the aesthetics of the Confucian sublime

    Hird, D., 1/09/2020, In: China Perspectives. 2020-3, p. 19-27 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  16. 2019
  17. Published

    Masculinities in China

    Hird, D., 11/12/2019, Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies. Liu, J. & Yamashita, J. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, p. 350-366 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  18. Published

    Sentiments like Water: Unsettling Pathologies of Homosexual and Sadomasochistic Desire

    Hird, D., 20/11/2019, Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities. Lo, V., Berry, C. & Guo, L. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, p. 66-80 15 p. (Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  19. 2018
  20. Published

    The Cosmopolitan Dream: Transnational Chinese Masculinities in a Global Age

    Hird, D. (Editor) & Song, G. (Editor), 09/2018, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. (Transnational Asian Masculinities)

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsAnthology

  21. Published

    Chinese Discourses on Happiness

    Wielander, G. (Editor) & Hird, D. (Editor), 2018, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. 244 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsAnthology

  22. Published

    Introduction: Transnational Chinese Masculinities in a Global Age

    Hird, D. & Song, G., 2018, The Cosmopolitan Dream: Transnational Chinese Masculinities in a Global Age. Hird, D. & Song, G. (eds.). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, p. 1-24 24 p. (Transnational Asian Masculinities).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  23. Published

    Smile Yourself Happy: Zheng nengliang and the Discursive Construction of Happy Subjects

    Hird, D., 2018, Chinese Discourses on Happiness. Wielander, G. & Hird, D. (eds.). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, p. 106-128 23 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  24. 2017
  25. Published

    In League with Gentlemen: Junzi Masculinity and the Chinese Nation in Cultural Nationalist Discourses

    Hird, D., 1/11/2017, In: Asia Pacific Perspectives. 15, 1

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  26. 2016
  27. Published

    Moral Masculinities: Ethical Self-fashionings of Professional Chinese Men in London

    Hird, D., 1/11/2016, In: Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China. 18, 1, p. 115-147 33 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  28. Published

    Making Class and Gender: White-collar Men in Postsocialist China

    Hird, D., 2016, Changing Chinese Masculinities: From Imperial Pillars of State to Global Real Men. Louie, K. (ed.). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, p. 137-156 20 p. (Transnational Asian Masculinities).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  29. 2014
  30. Published

    Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China

    Song, G. & Hird, D., 2014, Brill. (Women and Gender in China Studies; vol. 6)

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  31. Published

    Men, Domestic Violence and the Law: Constructions of Masculinities in Popular, Activist and Academic discourses

    Hird, D., 2014, Zou xiang xingfu 走向幸福: Disijie Zhongguo xing yanjiu guoji yantaohui lunwenji (xiaji) 第四届中国性研究国际研讨会论文集 (下集). Huang, Y. & Pan, S. (eds.). Kaohsiung: Baijun wenhua chubanshe, Vol. 34. p. 85-118 34 p. (Sexuality Research in China).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  32. 2012
  33. Published

    The Paradox of Pluralisation: Masculinities, Androgyny and Male Anxiety in Contemporary China

    Hird, D., 2012, Understanding Global Sexualities: New Frontiers. Aggleton, P., Boyce, P., Moore, H. L. & Parker, R. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 49–65 17 p. (Sexuality, Culture and Health).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

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