Zhange Ni is an associate professor in the Department of Religion and Culture.

Plumbing the Heart of Thorny Shrubs: Women, Religion, and Cultural Nationalism in Republican China. HDS 2105: The Cult of Literature and Its Feminist Dissenters (Spring 2011)

Zhange NI is a professor in the Religion department at Virginia Tech - see what their students are saying about them or leave a rating yourself.

Mar 15, 2023 · On April 20 at 7:00 pm, in the Reading Room of Cowles Library, Zhange Ni, Associate Professor of Religion and Literature at Virginia Tech University, will lecture on “Gender, Sexuality, and Digital Immortality: What Would Women’s Fantasy Novels from Contemporary China Contribute to Transhumanism?”

In this project, Ni studies internet-based fantasy novels in twenty-first-century China. She define fantasy as a branch of imaginative literature that reinvents magic/superstition, that is, “false,” “irrational” ideas and practices that are rooted in folk traditions around the world and stand in opposition to modern science and the ...

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Zhange Ni, an assistant professor in the Department of Religion and Culture in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, has received the university’s 2016 Diggs Teaching Scholars Award.

This article studies a new fantasy subgenre that emerged in contemporary China, xiuzhen xiaoshuo (immortality cultivation fiction), which builds imaginary worlds around the magical practice of Chinese alchemy and fuses it with science and technology.

Zhange Ni is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech. She was a research associate of the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School (2010-2011) and a research fellow at the Nantes Institute …

May 21, 2015 · In the first book to consider the study of world religion and world literature in concert, Zhange Ni proposes a new reading strategy that she calls "pagan criticism," which she applies not only to late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century literary texts that engage the global resurgence of religion but also to the very concepts of religion ...