Dr. CD Alison Bailey

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Assistant Professor

Department of Asian Studies

Dr. CD Alison Bailey is an assistant professor in pre-modern Chinese literature in the Department of Asian Studies, UBC.  She received a BA (School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), University of London), MA (University of British Columbia) and a PhD (University of Toronto), all in Chinese literature (modern and pre-modern).  After graduating from SOAS she lived and worked in Beijing for nearly four years. She has researched, taught, translated and published on Chinese literature, language, culture, film, art and legal history.  Alison has been based at UBC’s Department of Asian Studies and the Institute of Asian Research since 1995, but taught at SOAS and Cornell prior to coming to UBC. She served as acting Director (2003-2004) and then Director of the Centre of Chinese Research (CCR) at UBC (2004-2011) and Director of China Links: Professional Seminars at UBC (2010-2012) – a training program in Canada and China promoting engagement with North American business, government and NGO representatives.

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  • North American Chapter of the History of Emotions (NACHE 2024)

    June 7-8, 2024

  • Nearly 100 international and Canadian participants convened in a total of 20 panels (three concurrent panels plus two keynotes) over two days (June 7-8, 2024) for the first conference of the North American Chapter on the History of Emotion (NACHE) Biennial Conference to be held in Canada. The conference hosted sessions by those at the forefront of emotions studies while fostering a wealth of opportunities for early career scholars and those new to the field.

Publications

  • “Poetic Justice: Revenge Tales in Liaozhai.” Book chapter in, Approaches to Teaching Strange Tales from Liaozhai. Edited by Rania Huntington and Roland Altenburger. Modern Languages Press, 2025.
    2025
  • ”Feeling, the State, and the Problem of Filial Revenge.” Book chapter, with accompanying annotated translations: “Clarifying the Righteousness of Revenge” and “Main Policy Recommendations on Filial Revenge”, in, Chinese Statecraft: Political Theory and Administrative Practice in Ming China. Edited by Timothy Brook and Lianbin Dai, Cambridge University Press. 2025:131-147.
  • “Interstitial Memories: The Forensic Life of Wang Mingde.” Book chapter, in, Kirk A. Denton, ed. Crossing Between Tradition and Modernity: Essays in commemoration of Milena Doleželová- Velingerová (1932–2012). Prague: Karolinum Press, 2016. 100-116.
    2016
  • “The Severed Head Speaks: Death, Revenge, Moral Heroism, and Martyrdom in 16th- and 17th-century China.” Book chapter, in, Carolyn Strange et al, eds, Honour, Violence, and Emotions in History. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2014: 23-44.
    2014