David Der-Wei Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 518948 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Der-Wei Wang |
| GIVEN NAMES | David Der-Wei |
| FAMILY NAME | Wang |
| SIGNATURE | WANG D D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction
Ecologising Taiwan means to think ecologically about, from, as well as by way of Taiwan. On the one hand, we ecologise Taiwan by viewing it through an ecological perspective; on the other hand, we also want to treat Taiwan itself as an agent that drives our thinking, no longer merely an object of our anthropocentric and anthropocenic gaze. Taiwan, as an island that encompasses a particularly wide range of biotopes, redefines insularity in its con…
Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China
Foreign devils, chinese sorcerers, and the politics of literary anachronism
Introduction. Worlding Literary China
A New Literary History of Modern China
Chinese Literary Thought in Modern Times
Theory has both enriched contemporary Chinese literary studies and generated discontent. Rather than uncritically embracing or rejecting theory, this chapter probes the discourse of Chinese literary thought in Chinese modernity as an engagement with Chinese traditions as well as modern Western theoretical practice. Contrary to the perception that the May Fourth era was a period of total antitraditionalism, intellectuals at the time appear to have…
Chinese Literary Thought in Modern Times
Modern Chinese literature is always already in the transculturation of non-Chinese concepts and discourses. My quibble with the current state of the field, however, has to do with the way we respond to the consequences of the transcultural traffic. While we assume a position of (moralist, political, or intellectual) sincerity, we tend to stop short of grappling with the “authenticity and viability” of our own theoretical frameworks regarding the …
The Literary Mind and the Carving of Modernities
The Lyrical in Epic Time
In this book, David Der-wei Wang uses the lyrical to rethink the dynamics of Chinese modernity. Although the form may seem unusual for representing China's social and political crises in the mid-twentieth century, Wang contends that national cataclysm and mass movements intensified Chinese lyricism in extraordinary ways. Wang calls attention to the form's vigor and variety at an unlikely juncture in Chinese history and the precarious consequences…
Fei Mu, Mei Lanfang, and the Polemics of Screening China
Chinese literature from 1841 to 1937
This chapter deals with the rise and development of Chinese literature from the end of the First Opium War (1840–1842) to the eve of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). During this period, China was in constant turmoil, wracked by military upheaval on the one hand – the Opium Wars, the First and Second Sino-Japanese Wars, the Taiping Rebellion, and the Boxer Rebellion – and on the other hand by cataclysmic social changes running the gamut f…
Global Chinese Literature
This path-breaking collection of critical essays introduces a diverse range of approaches to open up the field of modern Chinese literature to new cross-regional, local, and global analyses. Each of the ten essays deals with a particular conceptual problem or case study of different locations and modalities of Chinese-language, or Sinophone, production. From language to music, literature to popular culture, minority politics to internal diaspora,…
From May Fourth to June Fourth
What do the Chinese literature and film inspired by the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) have in common with the Chinese literature and film of the May Fourth movement (1918-1930)? This new book demonstrates that these two periods of the highest literary and cinematic creativity in twentieth-century China share several aims: to liberate these narrative arts from previous aesthetic orthodoxies, to draw on foreign sources for inspiration, and to fre…
Literature, Modernity, and the Practice of Resistance
Writing Taiwan
Preface / David Der-wei Wang vii Introduction / Carlos Rojas 1 Part One: The Limits of Taiwan Literature 1. Representing Taiwan: Shifting Geopolitical Frameworks / Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang 17 2. Postmodern or Postcolonial? An Inquiry into Postwar Taiwanese Literary History / Fangming Chen 26 3. the Concept of Taiwan Literature / Xiaobing Tang 51 Part Two: Cultural Politics 4. The Importance of Being Perverse: China and Taiwan, 1931-1937 / Joyce C.…
Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945
The first study of colonial Taiwan in English, this volume brings together seventeen essays by leading scholars to construct a comprehensive cultural history of Taiwan under Japanese rule. Contributors from the United States, Japan, and Taiwan explore a number of topics through a variety of theoretical, comparative, and postcolonial perspectives, painting a complex and nuanced portrait of a pivotal time in the formation of Taiwanese national iden…
Dynastic Crisis and Cultural Innovation
Gutenberg in Shanghai
The Last of the Whampoa Breed
"The Last of the Whampoa Breed tells she stories of the exiles written by their descendants, many of whom have become Taiwan's most important authors. The book is an important addition to the vastly underrepresented literature of Taiwan in translation and sheds light on the complex relationship between Taiwan and the People's Republic of China. Western readers will not at first recognize the experiences of these soldiers who were severed from a t…
Fin-de-siècle Splendor
Fin-de-Siecle Splendor
Fin-de-Siecle Splendor
Three Hungry Women
Fin-de-Siecle Splendor
Fin-de-Siècle Splendor
The reigning view of literary historians has been that the May Fourth movement of 1919 marks the division between the traditional and the modern in Chinese literature. This book argues that signs of reform and innovation can be discerned long before May Fourth, and that as China entered the arena of modern, international history in the late Qing, it was already developing its own complex matrix of incipient modernities. It demonstrates that late …
Mao Tun and Naturalism
I Myself Am A Woman
Running Wild
Fin-de-Siècle Splendor
The reigning view of literary historians has been that the May Fourth movement of 1919 marks the division between the traditional and the modern in Chinese literature. This book argues that signs of reform and innovation can be discerned long before May Fourth, and that as China entered the arena of modern, international history in the late Qing, it was already developing its own complex matrix of incipient modernities. It demonstrates that late …
Fin-de-Siecle Splendor
Three Hungry Women
Fin-de-Siecle Splendor
Fin-de-siècle Splendor
Fin-de-Siecle Splendor
The Last of the Whampoa Breed
"The Last of the Whampoa Breed tells she stories of the exiles written by their descendants, many of whom have become Taiwan's most important authors. The book is an important addition to the vastly underrepresented literature of Taiwan in translation and sheds light on the complex relationship between Taiwan and the People's Republic of China. Western readers will not at first recognize the experiences of these soldiers who were severed from a t…
Dynastic Crisis and Cultural Innovation
Gutenberg in Shanghai
Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945
The first study of colonial Taiwan in English, this volume brings together seventeen essays by leading scholars to construct a comprehensive cultural history of Taiwan under Japanese rule. Contributors from the United States, Japan, and Taiwan explore a number of topics through a variety of theoretical, comparative, and postcolonial perspectives, painting a complex and nuanced portrait of a pivotal time in the formation of Taiwanese national iden…
Writing Taiwan
Preface / David Der-wei Wang vii Introduction / Carlos Rojas 1 Part One: The Limits of Taiwan Literature 1. Representing Taiwan: Shifting Geopolitical Frameworks / Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang 17 2. Postmodern or Postcolonial? An Inquiry into Postwar Taiwanese Literary History / Fangming Chen 26 3. the Concept of Taiwan Literature / Xiaobing Tang 51 Part Two: Cultural Politics 4. The Importance of Being Perverse: China and Taiwan, 1931-1937 / Joyce C.…
Literature, Modernity, and the Practice of Resistance
From May Fourth to June Fourth
What do the Chinese literature and film inspired by the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) have in common with the Chinese literature and film of the May Fourth movement (1918-1930)? This new book demonstrates that these two periods of the highest literary and cinematic creativity in twentieth-century China share several aims: to liberate these narrative arts from previous aesthetic orthodoxies, to draw on foreign sources for inspiration, and to fre…
Chinese literature from 1841 to 1937
This chapter deals with the rise and development of Chinese literature from the end of the First Opium War (1840–1842) to the eve of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). During this period, China was in constant turmoil, wracked by military upheaval on the one hand – the Opium Wars, the First and Second Sino-Japanese Wars, the Taiping Rebellion, and the Boxer Rebellion – and on the other hand by cataclysmic social changes running the gamut f…
Global Chinese Literature
This path-breaking collection of critical essays introduces a diverse range of approaches to open up the field of modern Chinese literature to new cross-regional, local, and global analyses. Each of the ten essays deals with a particular conceptual problem or case study of different locations and modalities of Chinese-language, or Sinophone, production. From language to music, literature to popular culture, minority politics to internal diaspora,…
Fei Mu, Mei Lanfang, and the Polemics of Screening China
The Lyrical in Epic Time
In this book, David Der-wei Wang uses the lyrical to rethink the dynamics of Chinese modernity. Although the form may seem unusual for representing China's social and political crises in the mid-twentieth century, Wang contends that national cataclysm and mass movements intensified Chinese lyricism in extraordinary ways. Wang calls attention to the form's vigor and variety at an unlikely juncture in Chinese history and the precarious consequences…
Chinese Literary Thought in Modern Times
Theory has both enriched contemporary Chinese literary studies and generated discontent. Rather than uncritically embracing or rejecting theory, this chapter probes the discourse of Chinese literary thought in Chinese modernity as an engagement with Chinese traditions as well as modern Western theoretical practice. Contrary to the perception that the May Fourth era was a period of total antitraditionalism, intellectuals at the time appear to have…
Chinese Literary Thought in Modern Times
Modern Chinese literature is always already in the transculturation of non-Chinese concepts and discourses. My quibble with the current state of the field, however, has to do with the way we respond to the consequences of the transcultural traffic. While we assume a position of (moralist, political, or intellectual) sincerity, we tend to stop short of grappling with the “authenticity and viability” of our own theoretical frameworks regarding the …
The Literary Mind and the Carving of Modernities
Foreign devils, chinese sorcerers, and the politics of literary anachronism
Introduction. Worlding Literary China
History (22 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (20 works) · Art (18 works) · Literature (11 works) · Japanese History and Culture (10 works) · China (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works)