
Ban Wang
William Haas Professor of Chinese Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Bio
William Haas Professor in Chinese Studies, Stanford University
Departments of East Asian Languages and Comparative Literature
Yangtze River Chair Professor, Simian Institute of Advanced Study,
East China Normal University
Academic Appointments
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Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
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Professor, Comparative Literature
Administrative Appointments
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The President's Fellowship in the Humanities, University of California, Los Angeles (1990 - 1992)
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Assistant Professor, Comparative Studies, State University of New York System (SUNY), Stony Brook (1993 - 1998)
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Associate Professor, Comparative Studies, State University of New York System (SUNY), Stony Brook (1998 - 2000)
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Associate Professor, Asian Studies and Comparative Literature, Rutgers U (2000 - 2003)
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Research fellow, Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University (2001 - 2002)
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Visiting Associate Professor in Asian Studies and Comparative Literature, Harvard University (2002 - 2002)
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Professor, Asian and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University (2004 - 2007)
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Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica (2005 - 2005)
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Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University (2007 - 2007)
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Professor, Chinese and Comparative Literature, Stanford University (2007 - Present)
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The William Haas Chair Professor in Chinese Studies, Stanford University (2008 - Present)
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Visiting Professor, International Summer Inst., Seoul National University (2009 - 2009)
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The Yangtze River Chair Professor, East China Normal University (2009 - Present)
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Shinhan Distinguished Visiting Professor, Yonsei University, Korea (2018 - 2018)
Honors & Awards
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Fellowship award, National Endowment for the Humanities (2000)
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New York State Professional Development & Quality of Working Life Award, New York State Professional Development & Quality of Working Life (1999)
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New York State Professional Development & Quality of Working Life Award, New York State Professional Development & Quality of Working Life (1998)
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Junior Faculty Research Award, School of Arts and Sciences, Stony Brook (1996)
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NY State /United University Professions Term Faculty Development Award, NY State /United University Professions Term Faculty Development (1995)
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Hugh Vollrath Ross Scholarship, University of Iowa (1989-1990)
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Award by the Journal Translations (Yilin) for translation, Journal Translations (Yilin) for translation, China (1984)
Program Affiliations
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Center for East Asian Studies
Professional Education
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B. A., Beijing Foreign Studies University, China, English Literature (1982)
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M. A., Beijing Foreign Studies University, China, Comparative Literature (1985)
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Ph.D., University of Iowa, Iowa City, Comparative Literature (1990)
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Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Comparative Literature (1993)
2022-23 Courses
- Literature in 20th-Century China
CHINA 111, CHINA 211 (Aut) - Modern China Studies: State of the Field
CHINA 288 (Spr) - Politics, Aesthetics, Critical Ecology: Artworks and the Environment
CHINA 371, COMPLIT 371 (Aut) - Practicum Internship
CHINA 390 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Utopia, Dystopia, and Technology in Science Fiction: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
CHINA 171, CHINA 271 (Win) -
Independent Studies (8)
- Directed Reading in Chinese
CHINA 200 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Directed Readings in Asian Languages
EALC 200 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Graduate Directed Reading
EASTASN 300 (Win, Spr) - Independent Research
COMPLIT 194 (Spr) - Individual Reading in Chinese
CHINA 199 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Master's Thesis or Qualifying Paper
CHINA 299 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Senior Research (Capstone Essay)
CHINA 198C (Aut, Win, Spr) - Senior Research (Honors Thesis)
CHINA 198H (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Directed Reading in Chinese
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Prior Year Courses
2021-22 Courses
- Literature in 20th-Century China
CHINA 111, CHINA 211 (Aut) - Practicum Internship
CHINA 390 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Understanding China through Film
THINK 55 (Aut)
2020-21 Courses
- Critical Theory and Ecology: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
CHINA 371, COMPLIT 371 (Aut) - Literature in 20th-Century China
CHINA 111, CHINA 211 (Win) - Proseminar: Bibliographic and Research Methods in Chinese Studies
CHINA 201 (Spr) - Understanding China through Film
THINK 55 (Aut)
2019-20 Courses
- Literature in 20th-Century China
CHINA 111, CHINA 211 (Aut) - Practicum Internship
CHINA 390 (Spr) - Proseminar: Bibliographic and Research Methods in Chinese Studies
CHINA 201 (Win) - Understanding China through Film
THINK 55 (Win) - Utopia and Critical Theory: Politics, Aesthetics, and Science
CHINA 371, COMPLIT 371 (Aut)
- Literature in 20th-Century China
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Akira Kohbara, Lin Meng Walsh -
Doctoral Dissertation Co-Advisor (AC)
Elise Huerta, Maciej Kurzynski, Lingjia Xu -
Doctoral (Program)
Yafang Bao, Xiaoyi Huang
All Publications
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Old Dreams Retold Lu Xun as Mytho-ecological Writer
PRISM-THEORY AND MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
2020; 17 (2): 225-243
View details for DOI 10.1215/25783491-8690372
View details for Web of Science ID 000664100400002
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Aesthetics, Morality, and the Modern Community: Wang Guowei, Cai Yuanpei, and Lu Xun
CRITICAL INQUIRY
2020; 46 (3): 496–514
View details for DOI 10.1086/708078
View details for Web of Science ID 000526627900003
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Dignity of Labour
AFTERLIVES OF CHINESE COMMUNISM: POLITICAL CONCEPTS FROM MAO TO XI
2019: 73-+
View details for Web of Science ID 000566136000012
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Confucianism and Nature: Ecological Motifs in Kang Youwei's Great Community
TELOS
2018: 47–67
View details for DOI 10.3817/0618183047
View details for Web of Science ID 000435146000004
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Staging Chinese Revolution: Theater, Film, and the Afterlives of Propaganda (Book Review)
CHINA INFORMATION
2018; 32 (1): 165–67
View details for Web of Science ID 000429774300012
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The People in the Modern Chinese Novel: Popular Democracy and World Literature
NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION
2014; 47 (1): 43-56
View details for DOI 10.1215/00295132-2414057
View details for Web of Science ID 000337007700004
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HUMAN RIGHTS, REVOLUTIONARY LEGACY, AND POLITICS IN CHINA
3rd International Symposium on Culture and Social Transformations in Reform-Era China
BRILL. 2014: 185–213
View details for Web of Science ID 000342318700009
- Art, Politics, and Internationalism: Korean War Films in Chinese Cinema The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinema edited by Rojas, C., Chow, E. Oxford UP. 2013: 250–268
- Chinese Modern China Review International 2013
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Photographical History, Everyday Life, and Memory: Wang Anyi as a Storyteller
JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY
2012; 25 (2): 183-198
View details for DOI 10.1111/j.1467-6443.2012.01430.x
View details for Web of Science ID 000305390600002
- Geopolitics, Moral Reform, and Poetics of Internationalism: Liang Qichao’s The Future of New China Frontiers of Literary Studies 2012; 6 (1): 2-18
- Human Right, People’s Right, and Social Movements Cultural and Social Transformations: Theoretical Frameworks and Chinese Context edited by Cao, T., Zhong, X., Kebin, L. Guangxi Normal University Press. 2012
- What is Political Theater?: A Critique of Performance Studies China and New Left Visions edited by Lu, J., Wang, B. Lexington. 2012: 81–97
- From Burke and Wordsworth to the Modern Sublime in Chinese Literature Comparative Literature Studies 2012; 4: 49
- Psychoanalysis and Modern Chinese Literature The Reception and Rendition of Freud in China edited by Jiang, T., Ivanhoe, P. Routledge. 2012: 117–135
- The Banality of Trauma: Globalization, Migrant Labor, and Nostalgia in Fruit Chan’s Durian Durian Panic and Mourning edited by Agostinho, D., Antz, E., Ferreira, C. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter. 2012: 145–160
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Human Rights, Revolutionary Legacy, and Politics in China
BOUNDARY 2-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND CULTURE
2011; 38 (1): 135-163
View details for DOI 10.1215/01903659-1262572
View details for Web of Science ID 000287699900006
- Some New Motifs in Literary and Cultural Studies in the US Chinese Studies in North America edited by Haihui, Z. Beijing: Zhonghua shujue. 2010: 653–665
- Photographical History, Everyday Life, and Reminiscence of the Past: The Storyteller in Wang Anyi Social Memory and Global Communication Beijing: Chinese Social Sciences Press. 2010: 94–112
- Socialist Realism Words and Their Stories edited by Wang, B. 2010: 101–118
- Understanding the Chinese Revolution Through Words: An Introduction Words and Their Stories: Essays on the Language of the Chinese Revolution edited by Wang, B. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 2010: 1–13
- Liang Qichao Encyclopedia of Modern China edited by Pong, D. York: Charles Scribners. 2009: 467–468
- Of Humans and Nature in Documentar Chinese Ecocinema edited by Lu, S., Mi, J. Hong Kong UP. 2009: 157–169
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The 'heart of time': Moral agency in twentieth-century Chinese fiction (Book Review)
HARVARD JOURNAL OF ASIATIC STUDIES
2008; 68 (1): 256-261
View details for Web of Science ID 000256962200017
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In Search of Real-Life Images in China: realism in the age of spectacle
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY CHINA
2008; 17 (56): 497-512
View details for DOI 10.1080/10670560802000282
View details for Web of Science ID 000261932300006
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Discovering Enlightenment in Chinese history: The 'Rise of Modern Chinese Thought', by Wang Hui
BOUNDARY 2-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND CULTURE
2007; 34 (2): 217-238
View details for DOI 10.1215/01903659-2007-010
View details for Web of Science ID 000248745100010
- Kung Fu Cult Master Film Quarterly 2007
- Epic Narrative, Authenticity, and the Memory of Realism: Reflections on Jia Zhangke’s Platform Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution edited by Lee, C. K., Yang, G. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press. 2007: 193–216
- The Tree Within the Forest: The Wonderful Culture of Rivers and Lakes The Jin Yong Phenomenon: Chinese Martial Arts Fiction and Modern Chinese Literary History edited by Huss, A., Liu, J. Youngstown, New York: Cambria Press. 2007: Iv-Xiii
- History and Memory in the Shadows of Globalization (in Chinese). Nanjing, China: Nanjing University Press. 2007
- Re-enchanting the Image in Global Culture: Reification and Nostalgia in Zhu Tianwen’s Fiction Writing Taiwan edited by Wang, D., Rojas, C. 2007: 370–388
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Bringing the world home: Appropriating the West in late Qing and early republican China. (Book Review)
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
2006; 111 (4): 1151-1151
View details for Web of Science ID 000241473300031
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The clash of empires: The invention of China in modern world making. (Book Review)
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
2006; 58 (2): 177-180
View details for Web of Science ID 000239260600008
- History and Memory in the Shadows of Globalization (in Chinese) New, expanded edition of History and Memory above. 2006
- One China, Many Paths Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 2006
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Chinese aesthetics and literature: A reader (Book Review)
CHINA REVIEW-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL ON GREATER CHINA
2005; 5 (2): 201-204
View details for Web of Science ID 000232791500017
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Reimagining political community: Diaspora, nation-state, and the struggle for recognition
MODERN DRAMA
2005; 48 (2): 249-271
View details for Web of Science ID 000231293700002
- Documentary as Haunting of the Real: The Logic of Capital in Blind Shaft Asian Cinema 2005; 16 (1): 4-15
- Reclaiming Literature as Public Forum Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 2005; 31 (2): 3-14
- Feminist Utopian Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Chinese and English Fiction China Review International 2005; 12 (1)
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The Chinese postmodern: Trauma and irony in Chinese avant-garde fiction. (Book Review)
JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES
2004; 63 (3): 789-790
View details for Web of Science ID 000223737200024
- Illuminations from the Past: Trauma, Memory, and History in Modern China Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2004
- Tradition, Modernity, and Critical Historical Consciousness: Lu Xun’s Reflections on History Interpretation and Intellectual Change edited by Tu, C. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Press. 2004: 241–256
- From Traumatic Paralysis to the Force Field of Modernity: An Introduction Trauma and Cinema edited by Kaplan, A., Wang, B. Hong Kong University Press. 2004: 1–23
- To Show or Not to Show: The Use of Film in Teaching Cross-Cultural Courses Visual Media and the Humanities: A Pedagogy of Representation edited by McBride, K. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press. 2004: 277–294
- Trauma, Visuality, and History in Chinese Literature and Film Trauma and Cinema edited by Kaplan, A., Wang, B. Hong Kong University Press. 2004: 219–241
- History and Memory: A Critique of Global Modernity Kong: Oxford University Press. 2004
- Writing, Self, and Other: Chateaubriand and his Atala Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism 2004; 22 (2)
- Masculinity Besieged The Journal of Asian and African Studies 2003; 38 (1)
- History in a Mythical Key: Temporality, Memory, and Tradition in Wang Anyi’s Fiction Journal of Contemporary China 2003; 13 (37): 609-625
- Black Holes of Globalization: Critique of the New Millennium in Taiwan Cinema Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 2003; 15 (1): 90-119
- The Banality of Violence: Globalization, Hong Kong, and Remembrance of the Past Comparative Literature in Cross-Cultural Context edited by Cheng, A. Nanjing: Yiling Press. 2003: 126–140
- Revolutionary Realism and Revolutionary Romanticism The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature edited by Mostow, J. New York: Columbia UP. 2003: 470–475
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Love at last sight: Nostalgia, commodity, and temporality in Wang Anyi's 'Song of Unending Sorrow'
POSITIONS-EAST ASIA CULTURES CRITIQUE
2002; 10 (3): 669-694
View details for Web of Science ID 000179365100006
- Fantasy, Mythology, and History: Walter Benjamin's Critique of History and his Arcade Project” (“Menghuan, shenhua yu lishi: benyaming de lish guan”) Shijie (horizons) 2002: 190-200
- The Cold War, Imperial Aesthetics, and Area Studies Social Text 2002; 72 (2): 45-65
- Between Tradition and Modernity The Lyrical Lu Xun 2002; 4
- Narrative Perspective and Irony in Chinese and American Fiction New York: The Edwin Mellen Pre. 2002
- Historical Trauma in Multinational Cinemas: Thinking History with Trauma Tamkang Review 2001; 30 (4): 59-84
- The Crisis of Literature and the Market (“Wenxue weiji yu shichang”) Shanghai Literature (Shanghai wenxue) 2001; 6: 70-71
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Memory, narcissism, and sublimation: Reading Lou Andreas-Salome's 'Freud Journal'
AMERICAN IMAGO
2000; 57 (2): 215-234
View details for Web of Science ID 000090039500005
- From Historical Narrative to the World of Prose: The Essayistic Mode in Contemporary Chinese Literature The Modern Chinese Literary Essay: Defining the Chinese Self in the 20th Century edited by Bochum, M. W. Germany: Bochum UP. 2000: 173–188
- The Aesthetic of the Aura Shuxie Taiwan edited by Chou, Y., Liu, J. Taipei: Rye Field Press. 2000: 343–359
- Between Historical Memory and Mirages of the Commodity (Zai lishi jiyi yu shangpin huangxiang jian paihuai). Shijie (horizons) 2000; 1: 173-181
- Trauma and History in Chinese Film: Reading The Blue Kite against Melodrama Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 1999: 125-155
- The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature Comparative Literature 1999
- Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 1998; 20
- Memory as History: Making Sense of the Past in Contemporary Chinese Fiction American Journal of Chinese Studies 1998; 5: 301-319
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Translingual practice: Literature, national culture, and translated modernity - China, 1900-1937 - Liu,L (Book Review)
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
1997; 49 (3): 283-285
View details for Web of Science ID A1997XZ25400012
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Writing, self, and other: Chateaubriand and his 'Atala'
FRENCH FORUM
1997; 22 (2): 133-148
View details for Web of Science ID A1997WU30700001
- Bie qiu xinsheng yu yibang (Seeking new voice in foreign lands) Dushu 1997
- Censored by Confucius: Ghost Stories Asian Thought and Society 1996; 21 (62)
- Scenes for Mandarins Asian Thought and Society 1996; 21 (62)
- The Sublime Subject of History and Desublimation in Contemporary Chinese Narrative Comparative Literature 1995; 47 (4): 330-353
- Narrating against the Grain: A Structural Ambiguity in Classical Chinese Fiction Journal of Asian Culture 1994: 99–126
- The political unconscious of Wang Guowei's notion of the sublime Xueren (scholar) 1994; 2: 551-571
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INSCRIBED WILDERNESS IN CHATEAUBRIAND 'ATALA'
ROMANCE NOTES
1993; 33 (3): 279-287
View details for Web of Science ID A1993MJ02700009
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I ON THE RUN, CRISIS OF IDENTITY IN 'MRS. DALLOWAY' + WOOLF,V.
MODERN FICTION STUDIES
1992; 38 (1): 177-191
View details for Web of Science ID A1992KG10700008
- Allegory vs.Symbol: Reading Benjamin's Theory of Allegory through Hegel Prosthesis 1992; 1: 89-105
- The Real Under Scrutiny: The Cutting Edge of Chinese Fantastic Narrative Tamkang Review 1990; 21 (2): 149-165
- Aspects of Poetics Today Foreign Literatures 1988; 2
- Transparent Minds Foreign Literatures 1987; 6
- Biography: Fiction, Fact and Form Foreign Literatures 1987; 5
- A High Brow Detective Story Foreign Literatures 1986; 6
- Auerbach's Mimesis Reconsidered Foreign Literatures 1986; 1
- A Pearl on the Moonlit Lake: An Anthology of Foreign Poems Foreign Literatures 1986; 3
- Worlds from Words Book Review 1985; 7: 142-143