Michel Hockx

Michel Hockx (born 1964) is a Dutch sinologist currently serving as a professor of Chinese Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the Director of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. Hockx previously was as a Professor of Chinese at SOAS University of London and as Founding Director of the SOAS China Institute.

Early life and education
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 latest book, Internet Literature in China, was listed by Choice magazine as one of the “Top 25 Outstanding Academic Titles of 2015.” His ongoing research focuses on the effects of moral censorship on the preservation and digitization of modern Chinese cultural products.

In December 2016, Hockx's first book A Snowy Morning was made freely available to download under an Open Access licence.