Wang Ning
Biographic Data
| ID | 3675400 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wang Ning |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wang |
| FAMILY NAME | Ning |
| SIGNATURE | NING W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tsinghua University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1484-9983 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Chinese Consumption Code from a Cultural Perspective
In the current context, where the roles of investment and exports in promoting economic growth are suffering a relative decline, the impact of household consumption on economic growth is increasingly striking. However, Chinese residents’ average propensity to consume and their consumption rate have long been low. Their consumption behavior differs from that of Western consumers in many respects, necessitating theoretical explanations for these di…
Heterogeneous metal sources for mintage in the early Han empire, second century BCE: Archaeometallurgical study of the Banliang coins from the Guanghuacun cemetery, Chengdu, Southwest China
Cartographie de la postmodernité chinoise
Pour Wang Ning, l’existence en Chine d’une forme de postmodernisme ne fait pas de doute malgré le défaut de certaines conditions de la postmodernité. Dans ce texte, Wang regarde comment l’extension global du postmoderne, étudiée depuis ses pratiques critiques et créatives, a généré un phénomène hétéroclite. Il cartographie ici pour nous les similarités et les différences entre le « postmodernisme » chinois et sa contrepartie occidentale
Introduction: Confronting the Covid-19 Epidemic and Control: Reports and Reflections from China
Early in 2020, while we were preparing for the Chinese lunar calendar’s New Year’s Day and Spring Festival on 25 January, the Covid-19 first appeared in Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei Province and one of China’s biggest cities. The virus quickly spread through the entire country, causing thousands of people to lose their lives and many more to be hospitalized or quarantined. As a natural disaster suddenly appearing in the present world, the vir…
From Shanghai Modern to Shanghai Postmodern: A Cosmopolitan View of China's Modernization
To discuss the issue of cosmopolitanism in the Chinese context is, as in the Western context, no longer new to China's humanities intellectuals, for this issue once did attract Chinese intellectuals in the 1920s when nationalism dominated Chinese academia and intellectual circles. Furthermore, it indeed had some parallel elements in ancient Chinese philosophy. It is therefore quite natural that cosmopolitanism was not so attractive when China, ac…
Gender Studies in the Post-Theoretical Era: A Chinese Perspective
After the decline of literary and cultural theory in the West, it has witnessed the coming of a post-theoretic era in which there is no such thing as a dominant theory as it used to be. The same is true of China where theory, especially that from the West, was extremely popular among Chinese literary and cultural theorists. But contrary to the situation in the West, some Western theories are still attractive to Chinese literary and cultural theor…
Postmodern China
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Chinese Literature as World Literature
Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée - Volume 43, Issue 3, Septembre 2016
Globalization, Humanities and Social Sciences: An Introduction and a Commentary
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Introduction: Toward a Substantial Chinese–Western Theoretical Dialogue
Ours could be called a post-theoretical era. In describing the decline of literary and cultural theory in the West, Terry Eagleton points out: The pioneering works of Jacques Lacan, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault are several decades behind us. So are the path-breaking early writings of Raymond Williams, Luce Irigary, Pierre Bourdieu, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Jürgen Habermas, Fredric…
Highlighting the Humanistic Spirit in the Age of Globalization: Humanities Education in China
The essay first describes the Chinese intellectual condition in the age of globalization and the necessity of liberal arts or humanities education, and then deals with the function of humanities education in China’s institutions of higher learning with Tsinghua University as the particular case. Since current Chinese universities are divided into three types: (1) research universities; (2) teaching-research universities; and (3) teaching-oriented…
Globalisation as glocalisation in China: A new perspective
In the current Chinese and international cultural and theoretical context globalisation has been one of the most heatedly debated topics of the past decade. This raises these questions: why should we Chinese humanities scholars deal with this topic with such enthusiasm? Has China really benefited from globalisation in its modernity project? How is globalisation realised in the Chinese context? How has it affected China’s humanities and culture? T…
On World Literatures, Comparative Literature, and (Comparative) Cultural Studies
In his article "On World Literatures, Comparative Literature, and (Comparative) Cultural Studies" Ning Wang argues that cultural studies is characterized by being opposed to (elite) literary studies not only because it points to popular or non-elite literature, but also because it challenges the discipline of comparative literature. On the other hand, (comparative) cultural studies complements literary studies in that it contributes a great deal …
Reading Theory Now: An ABC of Good Reading with J. Hillis Miller
Reading Theory Now: An ABC of Good Reading with J. Hillis Miller is a unique book. The author has grasped the essentials of J. Hillis Miller's theoretical doctrine, critical thinking, and reading strategy. As Miller says in his preface, “Éamonn Dunne has understood my writings extremely well, almost too well for comfort. This wonderfully witty, subtle, and perceptive little book is the best introduction I know to my work” (3). I do not think that…
(Re)Considering Chinese American Literature: Toward Rewriting Literary History in a Global Age
Chinese American literature as a sub-stream of both Chinese and American literature, has long been neglected in either Chinese literary history or American literary history as the writers have uncertain identity or multi-identities. But it is such uncertain identity or identities that enable them to become significant for scholars of cross-cultural studies. Their literary practice is significant to literary scholars in general, especially to thos…
Chinese Literary and Cultural Trends in a Postrevolutionary Era
In the wake of its reform and opening to the outside world during the past three decades, China has indeed entered a postrevolutionary or postsocialist era in which economic construction is highlighted to such an extreme that class struggle and large-scale mass movements are never called for in any public media. Stability and economic flourishing are desires of ordinary people, including some elite humanities intellectuals who have certainly bene…
Global English(es) and Global Chinese(s): Toward rewriting a new literary history in Chinese
In the process of the globalization in culture, English has become more and more powerful and hegemonic along with the obscurity of the boundary of nation-states. The blurring of the national ident
An “iconological turn” in literary and cultural studies and the reconstruction of visual culture
In the present era, there has appeared a shift in literature and culture: from traditional verbal writing to the newly emergent picture or image writing. As a result, a visual culture has come into being severely challenging the traditional verbal culture. Writing with words is challenged by writing with pictures or images, so is the criticism and studies of today's literature and culture. Confronted with such a challenge and irresistible trend, …
Ralph Cohen, New Literary History , and Literary Studies in China
n the history of literary studies, as well as in the humanities more generally, there are two sorts of people who influence and push forward the development of literary studies in a particular cultural context: one by means of insightful theoretical thinking, the other by means of organizational ability. I should mention in particular two eminent American literary scholars who have influenced not only my own career as a Chinese scholar of literat…
Rethinking Modern Chinese Literature in a Global Context
Introduction: From linguistic semiotics to cultural semiotics: Semiotic and narrative studies in China
Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation, and Chinese Cultures
Book Review| January 01 2008 Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation, and Chinese Cultures Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation, and Chinese CulturesMartin, Fran; Heinrich, Larissa Wang Ning Wang Ning Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2008) 45 (1): 120–122. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659640 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Wang…
Translatology, Criticism, and Culture
The author argues that it is high time to relocate translatology, notably concerning literary and cultural translation, in the contemporary academic landscape in all cultures, including those of emerging nations, in the present era of globalization. It is submitted that, as a discipline related to social sciences and the humanities, translatology can be studied descriptively at two levels, namely as (a) contrastive linguistics, (b) and comparativ…
The Ends of Theory: The Beijing Symposium on Critical Inquiry
Globalizing Chinese literature: Toward a rewriting of contemporary Chinese literary culture
In the age of globalization, intellectuals, writers, critics and literary and cultural studies scholars cannot but take pains to conceive or picture the future orientation of elite literature since elite literature is being challenged by popular literature and culture, and literary studies by Cultural Studies. The present essay tries to describe a new orientation of Chinese literature studies, or more specifically, to observe modern Chinese liter…
Towards a structural model of the tourist experience: An illustration from food experiences in tourism
Cultural Studies in China: Towards Closing the Gap Between Elite Culture and Popular Culture
This essay deals with cultural studies, including elite culture and its products (literature and the performing arts), as well as studies of film and TV and other expressions of popular culture in the mainland of China. It lays particular emphasis on the currently prevailing concept of Cultural Studies introduced from the West at the beginning of the 1990s. The author addresses the following issues: how Cultural Studies was introduced into the Ch…
Heterogeneous metal sources for mintage in the early Han empire, second century BCE: Archaeometallurgical study of the Banliang coins from the Guanghuacun cemetery, Chengdu, Southwest China
Global English(es) and Global Chinese(s): Toward rewriting a new literary history in Chinese
In the process of the globalization in culture, English has become more and more powerful and hegemonic along with the obscurity of the boundary of nation-states. The blurring of the national ident
Globalisation as glocalisation in China: A new perspective
In the current Chinese and international cultural and theoretical context globalisation has been one of the most heatedly debated topics of the past decade. This raises these questions: why should we Chinese humanities scholars deal with this topic with such enthusiasm? Has China really benefited from globalisation in its modernity project? How is globalisation realised in the Chinese context? How has it affected China’s humanities and culture? T…
Translation as cultural ‘(de)colonisation’
The present article discusses translation as a ‘colonising’ as well as a ‘decolonising’ strategy in the dynamics of cultural representation and interpretation. Most translation, in particular the literary kind, is a matter of culture. China is taken as the key example, since translation has played an important role informing China's modern culture and in reconstructing the literary and critical discourse of modern Chinese literature. Some conserv…
On World Literatures, Comparative Literature, and (Comparative) Cultural Studies
In his article "On World Literatures, Comparative Literature, and (Comparative) Cultural Studies" Ning Wang argues that cultural studies is characterized by being opposed to (elite) literary studies not only because it points to popular or non-elite literature, but also because it challenges the discipline of comparative literature. On the other hand, (comparative) cultural studies complements literary studies in that it contributes a great deal …
Chinese Literary and Cultural Trends in a Postrevolutionary Era
In the wake of its reform and opening to the outside world during the past three decades, China has indeed entered a postrevolutionary or postsocialist era in which economic construction is highlighted to such an extreme that class struggle and large-scale mass movements are never called for in any public media. Stability and economic flourishing are desires of ordinary people, including some elite humanities intellectuals who have certainly bene…
The Ends of Theory: The Beijing Symposium on Critical Inquiry
From psychoanalysis to socnizoanalysis: Reflections on current Chinese literary cultures
Analysis of Chinese literature of the New Period is characterised by a change (in the late 1980s) from a centralised pyschoanalytic orientation to a decentralised schizoanalytric orientation. In this way it is worth re‐discovering, in the context of a changing contemporary China more and more open to outside influences, the value and significance of Deleuze and his critical theory in a Chinese literature context
The Mapping of Chinese Postmodernity
The Reception of Freudianism in Modern Chinese Literature: Part I (1920-1949)
Introduction: Confronting the Covid-19 Epidemic and Control: Reports and Reflections from China
Early in 2020, while we were preparing for the Chinese lunar calendar’s New Year’s Day and Spring Festival on 25 January, the Covid-19 first appeared in Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei Province and one of China’s biggest cities. The virus quickly spread through the entire country, causing thousands of people to lose their lives and many more to be hospitalized or quarantined. As a natural disaster suddenly appearing in the present world, the vir…
Highlighting the Humanistic Spirit in the Age of Globalization: Humanities Education in China
The essay first describes the Chinese intellectual condition in the age of globalization and the necessity of liberal arts or humanities education, and then deals with the function of humanities education in China’s institutions of higher learning with Tsinghua University as the particular case. Since current Chinese universities are divided into three types: (1) research universities; (2) teaching-research universities; and (3) teaching-oriented…
Translation studies: Interdisciplinary approaches
Postmodernity, Post-coloniality and Globalisation: A Chinese Perspective
On the basis of my reconsideration of postmodernity from a Chinese perspective, I offer, in this paper, my own definition of global postmodernity in regard to its reception and reaction in China, especially in the case of contemporary popular and consumer culture. For me, the prevalence of consumer culture has raised a severe challenge against high culture in current China, which is marked by various postmodern symptoms and which deserves scholar…
Toward a translation study in the context of Chinese‐western comparative culture studies
The article first of all presents a critical survey of the state of the art of contemporary Chinese translation studies by questioning Yan Fu's famous principle regarding literary translation. It then offers a new paradigm in regard to translation from English into Chinese and vice versa, namely that, to an author, there is no such thing as absolute equivalence in the context of Chinese‐English or English‐Chinese translation for the simple reason…
The Reception of Freudianism in Modern Chinese Literature: Part I (1920-1949)
The Reception of Freudianism in Modern Chinese Literature: Part II (1949-Present)
Confronting Western Influence: Rethinking Chinese Literature of the New Period
Wang Ning, Confronting Western Influence: Rethinking Chinese Literature of the New Period, New Literary History, Vol. 24, No. 4, Papers from the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change (Autumn, 1993), pp. 905-926
Toward a translation study in the context of Chinese‐western comparative culture studies
The article first of all presents a critical survey of the state of the art of contemporary Chinese translation studies by questioning Yan Fu's famous principle regarding literary translation. It then offers a new paradigm in regard to translation from English into Chinese and vice versa, namely that, to an author, there is no such thing as absolute equivalence in the context of Chinese‐English or English‐Chinese translation for the simple reason…
Introductory remarks
From psychoanalysis to socnizoanalysis: Reflections on current Chinese literary cultures
Analysis of Chinese literature of the New Period is characterised by a change (in the late 1980s) from a centralised pyschoanalytic orientation to a decentralised schizoanalytric orientation. In this way it is worth re‐discovering, in the context of a changing contemporary China more and more open to outside influences, the value and significance of Deleuze and his critical theory in a Chinese literature context
The Mapping of Chinese Postmodernity
The Mapping of Chinese Postmodernity
Whether there is such a thing as postmodernism has been, and continues to be, controversial. In this essay, I argue that postmodernity as a cultural phenomenon in the contemporary era exists not only in the West but in the East as well-as evidenced by recent debates on the question of postmodernity and the postmodern fad in China and in other Asian and Third World societies. For the past thirty years, the debate about postmodernity has been of ac…
Postmodernism and China
Postmodernity, Post-coloniality and Globalisation: A Chinese Perspective
On the basis of my reconsideration of postmodernity from a Chinese perspective, I offer, in this paper, my own definition of global postmodernity in regard to its reception and reaction in China, especially in the case of contemporary popular and consumer culture. For me, the prevalence of consumer culture has raised a severe challenge against high culture in current China, which is marked by various postmodern symptoms and which deserves scholar…
Feminist Theory and Contemporary Chinese Female Literature
Translation as cultural ‘(de)colonisation’
The present article discusses translation as a ‘colonising’ as well as a ‘decolonising’ strategy in the dynamics of cultural representation and interpretation. Most translation, in particular the literary kind, is a matter of culture. China is taken as the key example, since translation has played an important role informing China's modern culture and in reconstructing the literary and critical discourse of modern Chinese literature. Some conserv…
Translation studies: Interdisciplinary approaches
Cultural Studies in China: Towards Closing the Gap Between Elite Culture and Popular Culture
This essay deals with cultural studies, including elite culture and its products (literature and the performing arts), as well as studies of film and TV and other expressions of popular culture in the mainland of China. It lays particular emphasis on the currently prevailing concept of Cultural Studies introduced from the West at the beginning of the 1990s. The author addresses the following issues: how Cultural Studies was introduced into the Ch…
Globalizing Chinese literature: Toward a rewriting of contemporary Chinese literary culture
In the age of globalization, intellectuals, writers, critics and literary and cultural studies scholars cannot but take pains to conceive or picture the future orientation of elite literature since elite literature is being challenged by popular literature and culture, and literary studies by Cultural Studies. The present essay tries to describe a new orientation of Chinese literature studies, or more specifically, to observe modern Chinese liter…
Towards a structural model of the tourist experience: An illustration from food experiences in tourism
The Ends of Theory: The Beijing Symposium on Critical Inquiry
Translatology, Criticism, and Culture
The author argues that it is high time to relocate translatology, notably concerning literary and cultural translation, in the contemporary academic landscape in all cultures, including those of emerging nations, in the present era of globalization. It is submitted that, as a discipline related to social sciences and the humanities, translatology can be studied descriptively at two levels, namely as (a) contrastive linguistics, (b) and comparativ…
Rethinking Modern Chinese Literature in a Global Context
Introduction: From linguistic semiotics to cultural semiotics: Semiotic and narrative studies in China
Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation, and Chinese Cultures
Book Review| January 01 2008 Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation, and Chinese Cultures Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation, and Chinese CulturesMartin, Fran; Heinrich, Larissa Wang Ning Wang Ning Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2008) 45 (1): 120–122. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659640 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Wang…
An “iconological turn” in literary and cultural studies and the reconstruction of visual culture
In the present era, there has appeared a shift in literature and culture: from traditional verbal writing to the newly emergent picture or image writing. As a result, a visual culture has come into being severely challenging the traditional verbal culture. Writing with words is challenged by writing with pictures or images, so is the criticism and studies of today's literature and culture. Confronted with such a challenge and irresistible trend, …
Ralph Cohen, New Literary History , and Literary Studies in China
n the history of literary studies, as well as in the humanities more generally, there are two sorts of people who influence and push forward the development of literary studies in a particular cultural context: one by means of insightful theoretical thinking, the other by means of organizational ability. I should mention in particular two eminent American literary scholars who have influenced not only my own career as a Chinese scholar of literat…
Global English(es) and Global Chinese(s): Toward rewriting a new literary history in Chinese
In the process of the globalization in culture, English has become more and more powerful and hegemonic along with the obscurity of the boundary of nation-states. The blurring of the national ident
(Re)Considering Chinese American Literature: Toward Rewriting Literary History in a Global Age
Chinese American literature as a sub-stream of both Chinese and American literature, has long been neglected in either Chinese literary history or American literary history as the writers have uncertain identity or multi-identities. But it is such uncertain identity or identities that enable them to become significant for scholars of cross-cultural studies. Their literary practice is significant to literary scholars in general, especially to thos…
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