Asian Studies Seminar Series: Heather Inwood

In brief

Date - 29 October 2025

Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square

Speaker - Professor Heather Inwood (University of Cambridge)

Title - Worlds Without End? Chinese Web Novels, Global Fans, and Sprouts of Meaning

About the speaker

Heather Inwood is Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Trinity Hall. She is the author of 'Verse Going Viral: China’s New Media Scenes' (University of Washington Press, 2014) and is currently completing a book on Chinese internet fiction, entitled 'Netfic: China’s Other Worlds'.

She previously held positions at The Ohio State University and the University of Manchester and received her PhD from SOAS, the University of London, in 2008.

How to attend

This event is free to attend and open to all. No registration is required, simply turn up on the day.

Are you interested in studying with us?

We are the only university in Scotland to offer full undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in both Chinese and Japanese, as well as postgraduate programmes in Korean Studies and East Asian Studies.

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Asian Studies