Dr Alice Xiang

Chinese-Turkish literary relations in the first half of the twentieth century, situating them within the networks of solidarity and cosmopolitan practices that formed across new and emerging nations during this period. More broadly, her work is driven by questions such as: What special affordances does literature offer for the expression of new cultural identities and political relations? In what ways can understudied transnational literary networks help re-frame the history of the twentieth century? Literature and diplomacy, Solidarity and world literature, Translation and world/comparative literature, Inter-Asian connections and comparisons, International modernism

'What is the Tao?' in “Beyond the Imitation Game: Collaborative benchmark for measuring and extrapolating the capabilities of language models” [co-authored], Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2023. “Poetry and the Production of Solidarity: Nazım Hikmet in Beijing, ‘Asiafrica’, and World Literature,” forthcoming in Comparative Literature, 2025. “Creative diplomacy in Constantinople: Virginia Woolf and Kang Youwei,” forthcoming in Diplomatica: A Journal of Diplomacy and Society, 2024.