Michel Hockx

Hockx was born in the Netherlands. He holds a PhD in Chinese literature from Leiden University. == Academic career ==

Hockx has published widely, both in English and in Chinese, on topics related to modern Chinese poetry and literary culture, especially early 20th-century Chinese magazine literature and print culture and contemporary Internet literature. He is the author of Questions of Style: Literary Societies and Literary Journals in Modern China, 1911-1937, which focuses on how the style of Republican-era Chinese literature was shaped by the context in which it was produced. His recent book, Internet Literature in China, was listed by Choice magazine as one of the “Top 25 Outstanding Academic Titles of 2015.” His latest book, Literature and Censorship in Modern China (Routledge, 2026), challenges the stereotypical simplistic characterization of Chinese censorship by delineating compellingly the "gray zone" between "institutional censorship" and "structural censorship" in the literary field of modern China, from 1900 to present. In December 2016, Hockx's first book A Snowy Morning was made freely available to download under an Open Access licence. ==Publications==

• A Snowy Morning: Eight Chinese Poets on the Road to Modernity, 282pp. : Leiden University. Published in 1994, . • Questions of Style: Literary Societies and Literary Journals in Modern China, 1911–1937, 310pp. : Brill (Netherlands). Published in 2003, . • Internet Literature in China, 272pp. : Columbia University Press. Published in 2015, . • Literature and Censorship in Modern China (2026), Routledge. ==References==