Curriculum Vitae

Jing Wang

Foreign Languages & Literatures Phone: 617-***-****

14N-303 Fax: 617-***-**** (Office)

MIT Email: abo2r6@r.postjobfree.com

Cambridge, MA 02139

CITIZENSHIP USA

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1985.

M.A. Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, 1975

B.A. Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University, 1972.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2011-2013Director, Institute of Civic Communication, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou,

China

.

2009-2012Visiting Professor, Institute of Knowledge Management, the Chinese University

of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

2005-2008Head, Foreign Languages and Literatures (FL&L

), MIT

2001-presentS. C. Fang Professor of Chinese Language and Culture, Professor of Chinese

Cultural Studies, FL&L, MIT;

Affiliated Faculty with Comparative Media Studies, MIT

2000-2001Director, Center for East Asian Cultural and Institutional Studies,

Duke University

2000-2001 Professor of Chinese Literature and Cultural Studies, AALL

1999-2001 Chair, Department of Asian and African Languages and Literature (AALL), Duke

University

of Chinese Language and Literature, AALL, Duke,

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Affiliated faculty in the Ph.D in Literature Program, Duke

1985-92Assistant Professor

in Chinese Language and Literature, Center for

International Studies (

in Chinese Language and Literature, Chinese Dept.,

Middlebury

College

OTHER ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2009- Director, MIT New Media Action Lab

2002-2008 Founder and Chair, MIT International Committee of Critical Policy Studies of

China

OTHER NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2012- New Media Advisor, Research and Development Foundation, State Council of the

People s Republic of China

2010- Advisory Board, Wikimedia Foundation

2010 &2011 Judge, Intel sponsored Nonprofit Technology Contest

2010- Advisor, Volunteers Alliance of Henan Province, China

2006- Chair, International Advisory Board, Creative Commons China Mainland

2008- 2009Visiting Researcher, Ogilvy One/Interactive, Beijing, China

2008-2010Consultant, Hakuhodo, Japan

May-August, 2004Visiting Researcher and Consultant, Strategic Planning Department,

Ogilvy Beijing, China

June - August, 2002Visiting Researcher, Strategic Planning Department, Ogilvy Beijing,

China

HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2003-04 Chiang-Ching Kuo Foundation Senior Scholars Fellowship

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2001 Bass Chair, Susan B. King Professor of Chinese Literature in Trinity College of

Arts and Sciences, Duke University

1998-99 Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities

1994 Joseph Levenson Prize for the Best Book on Pre-Modern China published in

1992. Awarded by the Association of Asian Studies.

1992-93 Fellowship, National Humanities Center

1986 Duke Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award

1977-1980 University Fellowship, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

GRANTS

International Grants

2011-2012 CreditEase Company, a one-year grant on NGO2.0 map

2009-2012 Ford Foundation in Beijing, a three-year grant on Chinese NGOs in the Web 2.0

Environment

2009 Ford Foundation in Beijing, a conference grant on Social Media and Nonprofits

Organization in China

2005 Ford Foundation in Beijing, an international conference grant on The Third

Space: The Debate on the Private and Public Divide in Chinese Policies

1991 The Pacific Cultural Foundation, a publication grant for The Story of Stone

National Grants

2002-2003 A research project grant on Policy Culture of China, awarded (with Anthony

Saich) by Asia Center of Harvard university

1997-2001 A research project grant on Modern and Contemporary Chinese Popular Culture,

awarded by the Henry Luce Foundation.

1997 A conference grant from Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for the

International Conference "Mapping the `Popular' in Post-Socialist China" held at

Duke, May 8-10, 1998.

1991-92 NEH Travel to Collections for the project of "Cultural Critique and the Rise of

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Modernism in Contemporary China"

1989 A conference grant from Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a

symposium on Marxism and China's Reforms.

1986-87 NEH Travel to Collections for the Project on Chinese Theories of Socialist

Alienation

l986 A conference grant from Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for a

conference on "Marxism and the Chinese Experience" co-organized with Arif

Dirlik, held at Duke.

EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Chinese University of Hong Kong Press (in Chinese)

2005-present Advisory Board, Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, Geography

Department, National Taiwan University, Taipei

2005-present Editorial Board, Book Series on Media, Culture, and Social Change in Asia,

Routledge Curzon

2005-present Editorial Advisory Board, Global Media and Communication, Sage Publications.

2003-present Advisory Board, Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies,

Sydney,

Australia

2000-2009 Advisory Board for the Cultural Studies Series at the Hong Kong University

Press.

2000-present Editorial Collective, Critiques/Cultural Studies Book Series (in Chinese),

Ju-liu Publishing Co., Taipei, Taiwan.

1998-present Advisory Board, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Journal: Movements. Routledge

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National

2003-present Editorial Board, Advertising & Society Review

2000-2004 Consultant Editor, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture, Routledge.

1993-present Editorial Collective of positions: east asia cultures critique, Duke

University Press

1995-2001 Editorial Advisory Board, Duke University Press

ADVISORY BOARD OF CENTERS/FOUNDATIONS

2010-present Member, Advisory Board, Wikimedia Foundation

2007-present Chair, International Advisory Board, Creative Commons China Mainland

2009-2010 Research Association of Asian Consumer Lifestyles, Hakuhodo, Tokyo, Japan

2008-present The Media Industries Research Centre, the University of Leeds, United

Kingdom

2007-2008 The Cultural and Media Industries Research Centre (CuMIRC), the University of

Leeds, United Kingdom

2007-present International Advisory Board, the Centre for Research on Social and Cultural

Change in China, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

2003-2006 International Advisory Board, Cultural Research and Development Programme

(CRD), the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Lingnan.University, Hong

Kong

2002-2006 Senior Member of the Advisory Council, the Project for Critical Asian Studies,

a

Rockefeller Foundation funded grant in the humanities for 2002-06

REFEREE FOR JOURNALS, PRESSES, AND FOUNDATIONS

Government Research Grant Council administered by Hong Kong University Grants

Committee

Foundations Scholarly Communication with the PRC

The Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation Junior and Senior Fellowship

Centers National Humanities Center

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Presses Duke University Press, Minnesota University Press, Columbia University Press,

Rowman & Littlefield

Journals Positions, Journal of International Cultural Studies, Chinese Journal of

Communication, Global Media and Communication, The Journal of Asian Studies,

Modern China, Traces, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies:Movements, Journal of

Consumer Research, Modern Chinese Literature, China aktuell - Journal of

Current Chinese Affairs, The China Journal

E-Journals Advertising and Society Review

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS

2011 Co-PI (with Zhang Ning at Sun Yat-sen University, China), NGO2.0 Project.2009-2011 Co-PI (with Rongting Zhou at the University of Science & Technology, China),

Chinese NGOs in the Web 2.0 Environment

2005-2008 Co-PI (with Sun Lijun and Henry Jenkins), The Beijing Film Academy: Digital

Animation, MIT/Beijing Film Academy

2004-2007 Member, Convergence Culture Consortium, Comparative Media Studies

MIT

2002-2008 Chair and Founder, The MIT International Committee on Critical Policy Studies

of

China, Center for International Studies

2002-2004 Co-Principal Investigator (with Anthony Saich at the Kennedy School of

Government Studies, Harvard), Research Program of Policy Culture in

Contemporary China, Asia Center, Harvard University

2000-2003 Inter-Asia Cultural Nexus in collaboration with National Taiwan Tsing-hua

University and the Inter-Asian Consortium of national universities

2001 Co-Director, Research Lab of Global Media and Culture, Comparative Media

Studies, MIT.

1999-2001 Founder and Co-director, Locating the Pacific, Oceans Connect Program, funded

by Henry Ford Foundation

1998-2001Principal Investigator, Institutional Enchancement for Chinese Studies at Duke

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University, funded by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation1997-2001 Principal Investigator, Modern and Contemporary Chinese Popular Culture, a

collaborative project between Asian/Pacific Studies Institute at Duke University

and the Institute of Comparative Literature and Cultures at Beijing University,

funded by Henry Luce Foundation.

1997-2000 Member of the Steering Committee, The Consortium for Contemporary

Chinese Studies based at Rice University, funded by the Ford Motor Company

and Coopers & Lybrand.

1996-1998 Acting Project Director, Triangle East Asia Studies Project: Deepening Area

and Language Studies in An Internationalizing Region, Duke University, funded

by U.S. Department of Education

1994-1998 Founder and organizer of A Research Cluster of Contemporary East Asian

Popular/Media Culture, funded by Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, Duke

University

ORGANIZING CONFERENCES AND COLLOQUIUMSJuly 10, 2012, Co-organizer, Post-Disaster Relief, Community Rebuilding & CSR:

Partnerships

for Sustainable Development, CSR-NGO Partnership Forum, with BSR, Chengdu, PRC.

July 6-8, 2012, Co-organizer, Web 2.0 workshop, with 512 Relief, Chengdu, PRC

December 21 &22, 2011, Organizer, Foundation 2.0 Workshop, Beijing, PRC

July 8-10, 2011, Co-organizer, Web 2.0 workshop, with An Dian Cultural Association,

Guangxi

Province, PRC

July 15-18, 2010, Co-organizer, Web 2.0 workshop, with the University of Science and

Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui Province, PRC.

June 17-20, 2010,Co-organizer, Web 2.0 workshop, with the Research Center of Women s

Studies in Shaanxi, Xi an, Shaanxi Province, PRC.

January 7-11, 2010, Co-organizer, Web 2.0 Workshop, with NGO Communication Net,

Kunming, PRC.

July 6-9, 2009. Co-organizer, Web 2.0 Workshop, with the Institute of Citizen and Social

Development, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, PRC.

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December 17-18, 2007. Co-organizer, International conference Information Technology and

Social Responsibilities, with Joseph Chan and Jack Qiu at the Chinese University of Hong

Kong.

July 29-31, 2005. Co-organizer. International workshop The Notion of the `Commons : The

`Public and `Private Divide in the Reform Policies of the PRC, with Wen Tiejun at

People s

University in Beijing, in Beijing, PRC.

November 15-17, 2003. Co-organizer. International workshop on A Matter of Choice:

Critical

Policy Studies of China, with Anthony Saich at Harvard University, at MIT and Harvard.

March 28, 2003. Co-organizer and Chair. Asia as Method: Dialogues in Culture and

Places. A

roundtable. The 2003 Convention of Association for Asian Studies. New York.

May 10-12, 2002. Organizing Committee. International conference on Media in Transition

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Comparative Media Studies, MIT.

June 18-20, 2001. Co-organizer, an international conference on Locating China: Space,

Place,

and Popular Culture, co-sponsored by Duke University and the USW-UTS based Research

Center of Provincial China, Australia. Held at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, PRC.

December 13-16, 1999. Co-organizer (with Peking University and the Chinese Academy of the

Social Sciences), International conference "Media and Local Cultural Production" Beijing,

PRC.

May 8-10, 1998. Organizer, International conference "Mapping the `Popular' in Post-

Socialist

China," Duke University.

March 1996. Organizer, "Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Gender Issues in China and Japan,"

Triangle

East Asian Colloquium, Duke University.

April 1995. Organizer, "Popular Religions in East Asia," Triangle East Asian Colloquium,

Duke

University.

November 11, 1989. Organizer, A Symposium on Marxism and China's Reforms: Ideological

Controversies and Contradictions, Duke University.

October 30-November 1, 1986. Co-organizer (with Arif Dirlik in History), Symposium on

Marxism and the Chinese Experience: from Mao Zedong to Deng Xiaoping, Duke University.

ASSESSORSHIP

2008 Member on the Visiting Committee to assess the Department of East Asian

Languages and Civilizations of Harvard University

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2004 Expert Assessor, the Australian Research Council, Australia

2001 External Examiner, Department of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts, The

University of Hong Kong.

1987 External Assessor, Chinese Program, Tulane University

PUBLICATION

1. Books

Brand New China: Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard

University Press, 2008. Paperback edition, 2010.

Arabic edition, Brand New China. Beirut: Arab Scientific Publishers. 2009.

Japanese edition, Iwanami: Tokyo, Japan, 2011.

High Culture Fever: Politics, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Deng's China. Berkeley:

University of

California Press, 1996.

The Story of Stone: Intertextuality, Ancient Chinese Stone Lore, and the Stone Symbolism

of

"Dream of the Red Chamber," "Water Margin," and Journey to the West." In book series

Contemporary Interventions (ed. Fredric Jameson and Stanley Fish). Durham and London:

Duke University Press, 1992. [Second printing, 2000]

2. Edited

Locating China: Space, Place, and Popular Culture. In the series of China in Transition

(ed.

David S. G. Goodman), London and New York: Routledge, 2005. Paperback edition, 2006

With Tani Barlow, Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and the Cultural Politics in the

Work

of Dai Jinhua. New York & London: Verso. 2002.

Chinese Popular Culture and the State, a special issue for positions: east asia cultures

critique, 9:1

(spring 2001).

[Nominated for the 2001 MLA Council of Editors of Learned Journals Award for the categ

ory of

the Best Special Issue]

China's Avant-Garde Fiction: An Anthology. Durham and London: Duke University Press,

1998.

[Second Printing, 2004].

3. Work in Progress

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Visualizing Cultures: Issues, Debates, and Beyond. Co-edited with Winnie Wong. A

special

issue for positions: east asia cultures critique.

4. Articles and Chapters in Books and Journals

Beyond the Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai Expo Brand New China, Japanese edition.

Iwanami: Tokyo, Japan.

Zhongguo qingnian yinyue yingxiao de wenhuaxue jiexi (A Cultural Analysis of Musi c

Marketing for Chinese Youth: Ethnographical Perspectives, International Journalism

(Guojin

INVITED TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS

July 6, 2012, How to Make Social Media Strategy, Web 2.0 Workshop, Chengdu, PRC.

May 21-22, 2012, NGO2.0, Social Media, and the Scale Question, paper presented at the

10th

Chinese Internet Research Conference: Social Media, Digital Entertainment, Governance &

Social Movements, the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, University of

Southern California (USC).

May 9, 2012, Social Media and the NGO sector in China, China Urban Development Lecture

Series, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, MIT.

December 2011, Foundation 2.0: Frames and Case Studies, Foundation 2.0 Workshop,

Beijing,

China.

December 2011, NGO2.0 and Corporate Social Responsibility, The Business of a Better

World,

Beijing, PRC.

October 2011, Keynote speech, Prosumers as Trendsetters: Change Agents and the Social

Web, Trends on the Move conference, University of Heidelberg, Germany

July 16 2011, Keynote speech, Civic Media and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University,

Guangzhou, China

.

July 8-10 2011, Introduction to Social Media, Listen 2.0 and NGO Communication

Strategy,

An Dian Cultural Association, Guangxi, China.

February 2011, NGO 2.0 and Social Media Action Research, Program for

Asian/Pacific/American Studies, New York University

October 2010, NGO2.0: When Social Action Meets Social Media,

" Comparative Media Studies

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Colloquium, MIT.

July 2010, Web 2.0 Thinking and NGO2.0 Case Studies, Listen 2.0, Web 2.0 Workshop,

Hefei, PRC

June 2010, Web 2.0 Thinking and NGO2.0 Case Studies, Web 2.0 Workshop, Shaanxi

Province, PRC

May 2010, Keynote speech on Business 2.0 and NGO 2.0, School of Communication and

Design, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, PRC

April 15, 2010, NGO2.0: An Experiment with Social Media in China, Distinguished Lecture

Series in China Studies, University of Texas at Austin

March 25, 2010, NGO 2.0: An Experiment with Social Media, the Annual Conventions at the

Association of Asian Studies, Philadelphia

March 12, 2010, NGO2.0 China: A Social Practice and Experiment, The 2010 Philip

Lincoln Lecture in Chinese Studies, University of Michigan.

February 26, 2010, Transnationalism and When It Does Not Work, The Chao China Studies

Center, Rice University.

January 7 & 9, 2010, Web 2.0 Strategic Thinking and Web 2.0 Case Studies, Listening

2.0,

Web 2.0 Workshop, Kunming, China.

October 14, 2009, NGO 2.0: A Social Experiment, Provincial China Workshop, University

of

Technology Sydney and Anhui University, Hefei, China.

October 8, 2009, NGO 2.0: A Social Experiment, China-US Institute, University of

Southern

California.

July 6, 2009, Introduction of the NGO 2.0 Project, Web 2.0 Workshop, Sun Yat-sen

University,

Guangzhou, China.

May 20, 2009, Chinese Advertising in the Web 2.0 Era: Challenges and Opportunities,

Asia

Trends 2009 Conference, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

May 8, 2009. New Media Research in the Web 2.0 Environment, Institute of Cultural

Studies,

Shanghai University, China.

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June 2, 2008. Creative Culture & Creative Commons: Web 2.0 in China, the Institute for

Asian

Studies, Portland State University

April 21, 2008. Creativity and Digital Culture, Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, Duke

University.

December 17-18, 2007. Creative Commons for the Socially Marginalized? Model Building for

a

Developing Country. for the international conference on IT and Social Responsibility.

Chinese

University of Hong Kong.

July 5-6, 2007. Keynote Address, Countdown to the Olympics, for China Media Centre

Conference, New Media and Creativity, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane,

Australia.

April 11, 2006. Cell Phone Branding and Youth Culture in China, Harvard Business

School,

Harvard University.

March 29, 2006. Knowledge Commons and Creative Commons: Expectations and Blocking

Stones, at the Launch of Creative Commons China, People s University, Beijing, China.

March 24, 2006. Hello Moto: Cell Phone Branding and Music Marketing in China, Chinese

University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

March 22, 2006. Marketing ABCs in China. Hakuhodo (a transnational Japanese advertising

agency), Tokyo, Japan.

November 17, 2005. Cell Phone Branding and Music Marketing. CMS Communication Forum,

MIT.

December 12-13, 2002. `Creative Industries, WTO, and the Knowledge Economy in the

Chinese Context. A symposium on The New Economy, Creativity and Consumption,

Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.

September 28, 2002. The Local/Global Nexus. Comparative Media Studies Colloquium on

Globalization in conjunction with the Cambridge-MIT Institute Workshop.

May 28, 2002. Chinese Advertising: A Case of Global/Local Paradox. Center of Cultural

Studies, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

April 26, 2002. Advertising in Contemporary China: A Cultural Industry in Transition.

Fairbank Center, Harvard University.

May 21-22, 2001. The State, Brand Names, and Media. A paper given at the conference

Media Studies and Political Economy. China Times Center for Media and Social Studies,

University of Minnesota.

June 21-25, 2000. Leisure Culture and Brand Name Culture: The Question of the State in

Popular Cultural Studies, a presentation given at the Third International Crossroads

Conference

in Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham, England.

May 12, 2000. Leisure Culture and the State Question, a talk given at Department of

Foreign

Languages and Literatures, MIT.

April 14, 2000. On the keyword `Culture in post-Deng China, a lecture given at the

Department of History, Rice University.

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March 20-21, 2000. Leisure Culture and Brandname Culture: The Question of the State in

Popular Cultural Studies, a presentation given at the Institute for International

Studies,

University of Technology and Science, Sydney.

March 13, 2000. Popular Discourses on the Keyword `Culture in post-Deng China, a

lecture

given at Center for Chinese Studies, University of California at Berkeley.

February 10, 2000. Leisure Culture and the State Question, a lecture given at the

Department of

Literature, University of California, San Diego.

December 13, 1999. State Policies and Leisure Culture, a presentation given at the Luce

international conference Media and Local Cultural Production, sponsored by Peking

Uiversity,

Duke University, and the Chinese Academy of the Social Sciences, Beijing, PRC.

May 27, 1999. "On the Theories and Methodologies of Popular Cultural Studies," a lecture

given

at the Institute of Comparative Literature and Comparative Culture," Peking University.

May 15-17, 1999. Discussant for the Workshop on The Public Space and Public-Private

Issues

in Asia, Beijing Forum on Public Philosophy for Future Generations, Chinese Academy of

the

Social Sciences, Beijing.

May 10, 1999. "Policy Studies and Cultural Studies," Center of Cultural Studies, Hong

Kong

University of Science and Technology.

April 30, 1999. "The State Question in Popular Cultural Studies," a talk given at the

University of

Chicago.

May 8, 1998. "Public Culture and Popular Culture: Urban China at the Turn of the New

Century,"

a talk given at the international conference "Mapping the `Popular' in Post-Socialist

China," Duke

University.

February 20-21, 1998. "`Leisure' and `Culture': The New Ruling Technologies of the Post-

Socialist Chinese State," a talk given at the conference on "Popular Culture in the Age

of Mass

Media in Korea and Neighboring Countries." University of Texas at Austin.

January 8, 1998. "Cultural Trends of Post-1989 China," a talk given at Jackson School,

University

of Washington, Seattle.

November 15-16, 1997. Roundtable panelist for "Trans-China Project," an international

workshop, Rice University.

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April 25-26, 1997. "Institutional Culture and Intellectual Agendas: `China Studies' at

Duke?" a

talk given at the international conference of "Rethinking Chinese Studies and Ethnic

Studies,"

Rice University.

April 8, 1995. "Contemporary Chinese Popular Culture: Issues of Consumption and New Cult

ural

Authorities," presented at the 1995 AAS Roundtable China Contested: Issues and

Perspectives in

Recent Scholarship, Annual Meeting of the AAS, Washington.

March 3, 1995. Respondent to the panel on "Locating East and West, Orient and Occident"

in the

workshop of "Rethinking the Globe: Post 1989," Duke University.

March 19, 1994. "The Rituals of Naming and Unnaming: The Controversy over `Pseudo-

Modernism" in Post-Mao China," a workshop on "Translation, Transportation, and

Transplantation," University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

June 30, 1993. "Methodologies of Comparative Studies," a seminar given at the Xinjiang

Academy of Sciences at Urumqi in China.

July 5, 1993. "Sinology and Comparative Literature in America," a talk given at the

Chinese

Department of Sichuan University in China.

July 8, 1993. "Postcolonial Discourse and Its (Ir)relevance to China Studies," a talk

given at the

Chinese Department of Shanghai Huadong Normal University in China.

January 24-26, 1993. "Romancing the Subject," for a conference on The Subject of China,

University of California, Santa Cruz.

January, 1993, Romancing the Subject, Conference on The Subject of China, University of

California, Santa Cruz.

January 8, 1993. "The Problematics of Subjectivity in Contemporary Chinese Literature," a

talk

given at the University of Chicago.

April 24 & 25, 1992. "The Pseudo-proposition of `Chinese Postmodernism," for the panel

"Reworking the Colonial Paradigm"; "Culture, Literature, Colonialism, Ritual: Questioning

the

Categories of China Studies," at the symposium of "Intervention: Orientalism in the

Context of

East Asia," UC Berkeley.

April 4, 1992. "What is Literature? The Sinologist and Comparatist Approach," for the

panel

"Culture, Literature, Colonialism, Ritual: Questioning the Categories of China Studies,"

the

annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Washington D.C.

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October 28, 1989. "The Rise of Modern Consciousness and the Literature of Alienation in

Modern China" one of the three faculty talks sponsored by Parent's Weekend Program at

Duke

University.

December 30, 1986. "Irony as a Form of Consciousness in Contemporary Chinese Literature,"

presented for the panel of "The Modes of Production in Thinking" at the 1986 Annual

Meeting of

American Historical Association, Chicago.

October 30-November 1, 1986. Discussant, Symposium on Marxism and the Chinese Experience:

From Mao Zedong to Deng Xiaoping, Duke University.

October 11, 1986. Discussant at the Triangle East Asia Colloquium seminar on "Women in

Fiction in 20th Century East Asia," National Humanities Center.

July 7-9, 1986. "The Growth of Children's Literature in Taiwan," International Symposium

on

Taiwan Studies, University of Chicago.

March 19-22, 1986. "The Poetics of Chinese Narrative: A Case of the Changing Literary

Reception across Cultural Borders," the Ninth Triennial Meeting of the American

Comparative

Literature Association, University of Michigan.

February 27, 1986. "Children's Verse and Playground Culture in Taiwan." The Asia Socie ty

as

part of a series on "Stages of Life/Growing up in Asia".

February 13-15, 1986. "Andrew Plaks' Interpretive Model: Another Case of Formalism?",

annual meeting of the Southern Comparative Literature Association.

October 19, 1985. "Taiwan Children's Poetry as a Cultural and Literary Phenomenon",

annual

meeting of New England Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Wellesley

College.

March 29, 1982. "The Aesthetics of Taiwan Hsiang-t'u Literature," Chinese Department,

Middlebury College.

December 1982. Discussant at the Seminar Workshop on "Critical Approaches to Modern

Chinese Short Stories", East-West Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu.

June 1979. Panel speaker of "Alternatives--in Taiwan and Mainland", workshop on

Contemporary Chinese Literature and the Performing Arts, Harvard University.

October 1977. Panel speaker of "Imaginative Literature and the Socially Concerned Writers

in

Mainland China and Taiwan", at the New England Conference of the Association for Asian

Studies, Amherst College.

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SERVICE IN THE PROFESSION

2011 Member, China and Inner Asia Council, Asian Studies Association.

Fall 2001 - Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Diversity and Tolerance, Modern Language

Association of America

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

NTEN Nonprofit Technology Network

Modern Languages Association

Association for Asian Studies

MAJOR COMMITTEES AT THE INSTITUTE

2012 Member, Tenure Review Committee for Heather Hendershot, CMS

2012 Member, AWOT Review Committee for T.Y. Tayler, CMS

2011 Member, CMS Search Committee for Senior Professor

2011-12 Member, SHASS Education Advisory Committee (SHEAC)

2011-12 CMS Graduate Admissions Committee

2010 MIT China Innovation Fund Selection Board

2009-2011 Mellon Post-doc Selection Committee, SHASS

2007-2010 China Strategy Working Group, International Advisory Committee (IAC)

2007-2008 SHASS representative on the MIT Council on Educational Technology

2006 Search Committee on the Deanship of the School of the Humanities, Arts and the

Social Sciences

2005-2008 MIT Faculty Council

2005-2008 SHASS School Council

2002 Egerton Committee

MAJOR COMMITTEES AT FOREIGN LANGUAGES & LITERATURES

2012 Chair, Chair, Promotion Committee of Ian Condry

2012 Member, Search Committee of Chinese Senior Lecturer

2011 Chair, Review Committee of Jane Dunphy

2011 Member, Review Committee of Bruno Perreau

2010 Chair, Review Committee of Tong Chen

2010 Member, Review Committee of Minmin Liang

2008-09 Member, Tenure Review Committee (Christine Henseler)

2009 Member, Review Committee of Dagmar Jaeger

2008 Chair, Tenure Review Committee (Ian Condry)

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2008 Search Committee for an Open Rank Position in Spanish and Latin American

Literature and Cultural Studies (ex officio)

2007 Chair, Search Committee for Senior Lecturer in Chinese

2006-2008 Advisor, Minor in Chinese

2005 Chair, Promotion Review Committee (Ian Condry)

2004 Chair, Tenure Review Committee (Emma Teng)

2003 Chair, Review Committee (Yoshimi Nagaya)

2001 Chair, Search Committee for Assistant Professor in Japanese Popular Culture

2001-present Senior Council, Foreign Languages and Literatures

2001-2003, 2006-2008 Steering Committee, Comparative Media Studies

PHD DISSERTATION

Winne Wong, 2007, Painting the Reproducibly Original Art Product in South China,

History,

Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art, MIT

Yiman Wang, 2000, Reformulating Film Remake and National Cinema: Moving the Image

Between Hollywood, Shanghai and Hong Kong from 1920s, Literature Program, Duke

University

Feng Liu, 1996, English Department, Duke University

MASTER S THESIS DIRECTED

Liwen Jin, 2008. Targeting Digital Youth in Web 2.0 China: Interactive Digital

Advertising in

China s Online Social Network Comparative Media Studies

Rena He Huang, 2006. Journey to the East: The (Re)Make of Chinese Animation Animation,

Comparative Media Studies

Stephanie Davenport, 2003. Experiments in Corporate Collaboration: The Case of Ars

Electronica FutureLab, Comparative Media Studies

Qi Wang, 2002. Negotiating Realists: The Sixth Generation of Chinese Filmmakers,

Comparative Media Studies

Li Li, 1988, Ph.D in Literature Program, Duke University

UROPs DIRECTED

Helen Tang, Critical Policy Studies of China, 2006-2007.

Wang Shuo, Civic Media 2.0 in China, 2011-2012.

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