我出生在岭南的一个江边小城，于 2008 年在香港中文大学（逸夫书院）攻读工商管理本科，期间到湾仔的一家谘询公司进行实习。在实践过程中，我逐渐意识到在商界发展并非所求。幸运的是，中大的通识教育系统让我可以探索专业以外的未知智识领域：从考古到电影研究，在一堂吕烈丹教授开设的关于文化遗产的通识课上领略到了社会人类学的魅力，并对民族志研究产生浓厚兴趣。我的学术之旅开始于中大性别研究（人类学为母学科），并于2016年获取哲学硕士学位。随后，我在剑桥大学亚洲和中东研究学院取得博士学位（2021）。在英国生活了五年后，我回到了一直滋养我成长的香港学术界，并有幸加入了中国研究中心。
我的第一本专论已在2024年4月出版, 这本书主要关注在湖南省关爱抗战老兵的志愿服务中，性别与民族主义之间的交叉。目前我在准备我的第二本专论, 通过长期的田野调查, 这本书著重分析数位技术如何改变当代中国的基层志愿服务和地方慈善机构，以及在地社群在慈善志愿活动中对二战记忆的重建。同时，我也与剑桥大学的周越教授在合著一本用界这个概念理解中国当代政体的书。除了出版,我最新的一个研究项目是关于基于二战纪念,中国缅甸泰国三地的非政府组织合作,该项目目前在田野考察阶段.
我的部分研究成果已发表在 Memory studies 和 Journal of Contemporary Religion等期刊。我也有幸被 New Media and Society， Memory Studies 和Twentieth-Century China 等期刊的编辑邀请成为审稿人。
Research Interests
- the use of digital technology in Chinese NGOs
- charity and volunteering in contemporary China
- war memories and local histories
- gender and Nationalism
- Second World War commemoration in Asia
Representative Publications
Books and Edited Volumes
| 2024 | Lin, Jacqueline Zhenru. Making National Heroes: The Exemplarist Production of Masculinities in Contemporary China. The Hong Kong University Press. (2024) |
Journal Articles & Book Chapters
| 2024 | Lin, Jacqueline Zhenru. “Performative filiality and Chinese Voluntary Associations in Transnational Commemoration of the Second World War.” Ethnic and Racial Studies. |
| 2022 | Lin, Jacqueline Zhenru. “Souls of Contention and Incommensurate Mourning: Commemorative Rituals in Contemporary China.” Journal of Contemporary Religion 37, no. 3 (2022): 401-418. |
| 2021 | Lin, Zhenru. “Remembering forgotten heroes and the idealisation of true love: Veteran memorial activism in contemporary China.” Memory Studies 14, no. 5 (2021): 1081-1105. |
Others
| 2023 | Lin, Jacqueline Zhenru. Book Review Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death. The China Journal 90(3):433-5. |
| 2022 | A University news story, based on Dr Jacqueline Zhenru Lin’s PhD thesis and her article published in the Journal of Memory Studies, has picked up a CASE award, one of the only significant international awards for Research Communications. (Link) |
| 2021 | Lin, Zhenru. “The Architecture of the Digital Space.” Feeling Digital and Reimagining Fieldwork during COVID Time Workshop, May 12th-13th, organized by The Hong Kong Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (HKIHSS), HKU Anthropology Research Network and HKU Department of Sociology. |
| 2020 | Lin, Zhenru. “Book Review: Management and Morality: an Ethnographic Exploration of Management Consultancy Seminars.” Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 28, no. 4 (2020): 1007-08. DOI: 10.1111/1469- 8676.12947. |
| 2019 | Lin, Zhenru. “Gendered Moral Codes in China.” Anthropology News website 60, no. 6 (December, 2019): e182-e186. |
Current Research Projects
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2022–24. PI. “Martyrs to Ghosts, Ghosts to Martyrs: Transnational Commemoration of the Second World War in Asia.” General Research Fund, Hong Kong Research Grants Council. |
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2022. PI. “the Social Lives of Dead Bodies: Technologies of Identifications and the Politics of Memorialization in China.” Direct Grant for Research, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
Courses Offered
| CHES1000 | Introduction to Chinese Studies |
| CHES3004/ CHES5110 | Media China |
| CHES4003 | Research Team Lab |
| CHES4500 | Thesis Research |
| CHES5110 | Selected Themes on Chinese Media |
| CHES5136 | Hong Kong and Mainland China: Interaction and Integration |
| CHES6010 | China Seminar I |
| CHES6020 | China Seminar II |