Faculty Guide

Title

Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature, Language and Culture

East Asian Studies
German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature

Expertise

Modern Chinese literature and culture in comparative frameworks; critical theory and translation studies; aesthetic modernity in the 19th and 20th centuries; intellectual history of China; comparative poetics.

Awards and Honors

2012 Poetry East West (PEW) Poetry Award (2013)

Grant of the Mellon Dissertation Seminar on Translation (2011)

Mellon Dissertation Fellowship (2011)

New York University Humanities Initiative Honorary Fellowship (2011)

Anne Gao Poetry Award (Liu Li-An shige jiang) (2007)

New York University Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship (2006)

Peking University May Fourth Scholarship (2004)

PKU Taizhao Grant (2001)

PKU Mingde Scholarship (1999)

Courses Taught

CHIN	100a	Introduction to Chinese Literature: Poetry, Romance, and Fiction
CHIN	120b	Readings in Contemporary Chinese Literature: Advanced Chinese Language II
CHIN	130b	China on Film: The Changes of Chinese Culture
CHIN	136b	Chinese Modernism in International Context
COMH	201b	Comparative Humanities Graduate Seminar

Scholarship

Wang, Pu. "The Promethean Translator and Cannibalistic Pains: Lu Xun’s ‘Hard Translation’ as a Political Allegory." Translation Studies (2013). (forthcoming)

Wang, Pu. "Law, Morality, and the Nation-State in the Trial of Zhou Zuoren: Revisiting the Case of Zhou’s Collaboration with Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War." The Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), San Diego. March 22, 2013.

Fredric Jameson; trans. by Pu Wang. "全球化时代的“现代性”政治 (The politics of modernity in the age of globalization)." 文汇报 (Wenhui Bao) Dec 17, 2012: 访谈 (Interviews) 06.

Wang, Pu. "Book Review." Rev. of Configurations of the Real in Chinese Literary and Aesthetic Modernity, by Peter Button. Frontiers of Literary Studies in China vol. 6 of 1 2012: 138-42.

Wang, Pu. "Guo Moruo and the Problem of ‘Revolutionary Romanticism." The Annual Meeting of American Comparative Literature Association, Providence, RI. April 1, 2012.

Wang, Pu. "Ren, Geren and Renmin: The Prehistory of the New Man and Guo Moruo’s Conception of the People." Frontiers of Literary Studies in China 6. 1 (2012): 78-94.

Wang, Pu. "从“奥伏赫变”到“莱茵的葡萄”：“顿挫”中的革命与修辞 (From Aufheben to Rheinwein: revolution and rhetoric in a caesura)." 现代中文学刊 (Journal of Modern Chinese Studies) 2012. 5 (2012): 25-36.

Wang, Pu. "灰色地带的意义 (The Significance of the "grey zone")." Rev. of 灰色上海，1937－1945：中国文人的隐退、反抗与合作, by Poshek Fu. 新京报 (The Beijing News) vol. 2012 September 22, 2012: Book Review Supplement.

Wang, Pu. "Enlightenment as a ‘Romantic Science?’ Cultural Politics and Guo Moruo’s Rewritings of Ancient Chinese History." Rethinking Enlightenment in Global and Historical Contexts. 2011 ed. vol. UTCP Booklet 21/ICCT Series 1 Ed. Nakajima Takahiro et al. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Philosophy Center, 2011. 45-68.

Wang, Pu. "Poetics, Politics, and Ursprung/Yuan: On Lu Xun’s Conception of Mara Poetry." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 23. 2 (2011): 34-63.