Stanford Humanities Center
Haiyan Lee is the Walter A. Haas Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. She is the author of Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950 (Stanford, 2007), winner of the 2009 Joseph Levenson Prize from the Association for Asian Studies, The Stranger and the Chinese Moral Imagination (Stanford, 2014), and A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination(Chicago, 2023). Her research and teaching interests include modern Chinese literature and popular culture; philosophy and literature; law and literature; cognitive science and affect studies; cultural studies of gender, sexuality, race, and religion; human-animal relations and environmental humanities.
Her previous contribution to Stanford Humanities Today is "Why Chinese Spies Don’t Fall in Love".
SHC Project
A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination
A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination examines justice as a juridical, ethical, aesthetic, ecological, and cosmological concept as it emerges from a variety of verbal and visual genres ranging from traditional courtroom drama and knight-errantry tale to modern detective fiction and spy thriller, while situating it at the intersection of literary genre studies, critical legal studies, moral and political philosophy, and cognitive science.
