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Name
  
David Wang


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Born
  
6 November 1954 (age 70) (
1954-11-06
)

Institutions
  
National Taiwan UniversityHarvard UniversityUniversity of ColumbiaDepartment of East Asian Language and Civilizations, Harvard University

Alma mater
  
National Taiwan UniversityUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison

Books
  
Fin-de-siecle splendor, Fictional realism in twentieth-century China

Education
  
National Taiwan University, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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David Wang Der-wei (variously David Der-wei Wang, D. D. W. Wang, etc.) is a Taiwanese-born American scholar of Chinese literature.

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Academic career

Wang graduated from National Taiwan University in 1976 with a B.A. in foreign languages and literature, and went on to study comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, receiving his M.A. in 1978 and his Ph.D. in 1982. He is on the editorial board for the Cambria Sinophone World Series (Cambria Press), headed by Victor H. Mair.

He was named as the head of Columbia University's East Asian Languages and Cultures Department in 1997. In 2000, he succeeded Irene Bloom as chair of the University Committee on Asia and the Middle East. In September 2004, Harvard University named him Edward C. Henderson Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures.

Works

  • Wang, David Der-wei (1997), Fin-de-Siecle Splendor: Repressed Modernities of Late Qing Fiction, 1849-1911, Stanford: Stanford University Press, ISBN 0-8047-2845-3 . The first full-length English language survey of late Qing Dynasty fiction, it has been praised as a major contribution to scholarship on the fiction of the era.
  • Wang, David Der-wei (2004), The Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-23873-7 . Reflections on violence in Chinese fiction and real-world history, covering famous writers such as Lu Xun and Mao Dun as well as less-well-known ones from mainland China and Taiwan.
  • Wang, Der-wei (2005), 《如此繁華:王德威自選集》 [Urban Splendor: Selected Writings of Wang Der-wei] (in Chinese), Hong Kong: Cosmos Books, ISBN 988-211-140-8 . A collection of essays discussing the history of modern literary creation in three cities: Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Taipei.
  • Fictional Realism in Twentieth-Century China: Mao Dun, Lao She, Shen Congwen
  • References

    David Der-wei Wang Wikipedia


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