David Der-wei Wang is Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature and Director of CCK Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinological Studies. His specialties are Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, Late Qing fiction and drama, and Comparative Literary Theory. Wang received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and he has taught at National Taiwan University and Columbia University.

PUBLICATIONS

Wang's English books include Fictional Realism in 20th Century China: Mao Dun, Lao She, Shen Congwen (1992), Fin-de-si�cle Splendor: Repressed Mondernities of Late Qing Fiction, 1849-1911 (1997), The Monster That Is History: Violence, History, and Fictional Writing in 20th Century China (2004); and his Chinese books include From Liu E to Wang Zhenhe: Modern Chinese Realist Fiction (1986), Heteroglossia: Chinese Fiction of the 30's and the 80's (1988); Reading Contemporary Chinese Fiction (1991); Narrating China (1993); The Making of the Modern; the Making of A Literature (1997); Methods of Imagining China (1998); After Heteroglossia: Reviews of Contemporary Chinese Fiction (2001); Into the Millennium: 20 Contemporary Chinese Fiction Writers (2002); The Monster That Is History (2005).

Wang is the Chinese translator of Michel Foucault's The Archeology of Knowledge (1993). He has also edited or co-edited more than ten other books in English or Chinese, including From May Fourth to June Fourth: Fiction and Film in 20th Century China (1993), Running Wild: New Chinese Writers (1994), and Chinese Literature in the Second Half of A Modern Century (2000). He is the editor of Chinese Literature from Taiwan: A Translation Series and the Weatherhead Translation Series on Asia: Literature, (Columbia UP). His recent projects include Late Ming and Late Qing: Dynastic Decline and Cultural Innovation (2006), Representing Taiwan (2006), and Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule (2007). Wang is currently working on a book concerning Chinese Artists and Intellectuals in the mid-20th Century Crisis.

GENERAL EXAMINATION FIELDS

Modern Chinese Literature

The modern Chinese literature field includes literary works, genres, and authors from the late Qing to the present. Candidates are expected to have broad knowledge of the historical, intellectual, and cultural issues of the modern period, as well as a good command of the theoretical and methodological issues involved in the study of this field. The exam could be tailored to include a special emphasis on colonial and modern Taiwanese literature, or Asian American and diasporic literatures.

Primary Research Language

Fluency in modern Chinese, ability to read classical. Candidates who choose to focus on Taiwanese literature as part of their field need to also demonstrate a high level of reading proficiency in Japanese.

SPRING COURSES

Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 39. The Appropriation of Folklore in Modern and Contemporary China
Chinese Literature 248. Modern Chinese Literature: Theory and Practice