• Instructor

    Faculty of Arts
    Asian Studies Program
    463 University College
    220 Dysart road
    University of Manitoba
    Winnipeg, MB R3T 2M8

    adrian.thieret@umanitoba.ca

Currently accepting graduate students - no

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Teaching

  • ASIA 2570 - History, Culture, and Society in Chinese Film
  • ASIA 2600 - Japanese Film
  • ASIA 2620 - Japanese Civilization
  • ASIA 2630 - Chinese Civilization
  • ASIA 3320 - Science Fiction in East Asia
  • ASIA 3370 - The Strange and Fantastic in East Asian Culture
  • ASIA 3910 - Language and Script in East Asia

Education

  • PhD (Chinese), Stanford University, 2016
  • BA (Asian Languages and Literatures), University of Minnesota, 2008

Selected publications

  • Everything Good Dies Here by Djuna, Kaya Press, 2024 (translator)
  • “Communist Rhapsody” by Zheng Wenguang. Open-access publication at the Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Resource Center, January 2021 (translator) https://u.osu.edu/mclc/onlineseries/communist-rhapsody/
  • “Songs of Ancient Earth” by Bao Shu. In The Reincarnated Giant: Chinese Science Fiction in the Twenty-First Century: Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the PRC, eds. Song and Huters. Columbia UP, 2018 (translator).
  • “Society and Utopia in Liu Cixin.” China Perspectives no.1 (2015)
  • “The Elegant Philosophy of the Paper Napkin” by Joh Hyun. In Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature and Culture no.7 (2014) (co-translator)

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