David Der-wei Wang
{{Short description|Chinese literary historian (b.1954)}}
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University of Wisconsin-Madison (MA, PhD)
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David Der-wei Wang ({{zh|c=王德威}}; born November 6, 1954) is a Taiwanese-American literary historian, critic, and the Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University. He has written extensively on post-late Qing Chinese fiction, comparative literary theory, colonial and modern Taiwanese literature, diasporic literature, Chinese Malay literature, Sinophone literature, and Chinese intellectuals and artists in the 20th century.{{cite web |title=David Wang |url=https://ealc.fas.harvard.edu/people/david-wang |website=ealc.fas.harvard.edu |access-date=16 December 2021 |language=en}} His notions such as "repressed modernities", "post-loyalism", and "modern lyrical tradition" are instrumental and widely discussed in the field of Chinese literary studies.
Life and career
David Der-wei Wang was born in Taipei. He graduated from Cheng Kung Senior High School and took his B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literature from National Taiwan University and his M.A. (1978) and Ph.D. (1982) in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Wang taught at National Taiwan University (1982–1986), Harvard University (1986–1990), and Columbia University (1990–2004). He served as the head of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University (designated in 1997), when he taught there as the Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies. In 2000, he succeeded Irene Bloom as chair of the University Committee on Asia and the Middle East.{{citation|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/pr/00/01/wang.html|periodical=Columbia University News|publisher=Columbia University|last=Dunlap-Smith|first=Aimery|date=2000-01-26|accessdate=2008-02-18|title=David Der-Wei Wang Will Head Core Program In Asian Studies}} In 2004, he rejoined Harvard University and was named Edward C. Henderson Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures. Wang received the Changjiang Scholar Award in the People's Republic of China in 2008. He was the 2013–14 Humanitas Visiting Professor of Chinese Studies at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at Cambridge University, where he gave 3 public lectures on the "Chineseness" of Chinese literature. He is one of the chapter contributors of The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature.
In addition, Wang has been the editor of "Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan" series published by Columbia University Press which include works by writers such as Huang Chun-ming, Yang Mu, and Chu Tʽien-wen.{{cite web |title=Modern Chinese Literature From Taiwan |url=http://cup.columbia.edu/series/modern-chinese-literature-from-taiwan |website=Columbia University Press |access-date=16 December 2021}}
Wang was elected as an Academician of Academia Sinica (2004) and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2020). Aside from his scholarship, Wang has written numerous book reviews in Chinese since 1980s and is recognised as an active and accomplished literary critic in Taiwan. He received the National Award for Arts in Taiwan for a volume of critical writings on Chinese fiction in 1993.{{cite web |last1=Academia Sinica Newsletter |title=Academician David Der-Wei Wang Elected as Member of American Academy Arts & Sciences |url=https://newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en/academician-david-der-wei-wang-elected-as-member-of-american-academy-arts-sciences/ |publisher=Academia Sinica |access-date=16 December 2021}} He also translated Michel Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge into Chinese.{{cite book |last1=Foucault |first1=Michel |title=Zhi shi de kao jue |date=1993 |publisher=Rye-Field Publishing |location=Taipei |isbn=9789577081193}}
Selected works
- {{cite book |last1=Wang |first1=David Der-wei |title=Fictional realism in twentieth-century China: Mao Dun, Lao She, Shen Congwen |date=1992 |publisher=Columbia University Press |location=New York |isbn=0231076568}}
- {{cite book |last1=Wang |first1=David Der-wei |title=Fin-de-Siècle Splendor: Repressed modernities of late Qing fiction, 1849–1911 |date=1997 |publisher=Stanford University Press |location=Stanford, Ca |isbn=9780804728454}}. 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.{{citation|title=Fin-de-siecle Splendor: Repressed Modernities of Late Qing Fiction, 1849–1911. (Review)|journal=The Journal of the American Oriental Society|last1=Williams|first1=Philip F.|date=April 1999|volume=119|issue=2|pages=371–372|doi=10.2307/606157|jstor=606157|last2=Wang|first2=David Der-wei}}
- {{cite book |last1=Wang |first1=David Der-wei |title=The monster that is history: history, violence, and fictional writing in twentieth-century China |date=2004 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |isbn=9780520238732}}. 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.{{citation|url=http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/110.5/br_31.html|journal=The American Historical Review|volume=110|issue=5|title=Book Review: Asia: David Der-wei Wang. The Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China|date=December 2005|last=Vlastos|first=Steven|pages=1505|doi=10.1086/ahr.110.5.1504}}{{citation|title=Book Reviews – China – The Monster That is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China|last=Lu|first=Tonglin|journal=The Journal of Asian Studies|year=2005|publisher=Cambridge University Press|pages=461–463|volume=64|doi=10.1017/S0021911805001063|s2cid=163948178 }}
- {{citation|last=Wang|first=Der-wei|script-title=zh:如此繁華：王德威自選集 |trans-title=Urban Splendor: Selected Writings of Wang Der-wei|location=Hong Kong|publisher=Cosmos Books|year=2005|isbn=9882111408|language=zh-hk}}. A collection of essays discussing the history of modern literary creation in three cities: Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Taipei.{{citation|url=http://paper.wenweipo.com/2005/04/15/OT0504150003.htm|location=Hong Kong|periodical=Wen Wei Po|language=zh-hk |script-title=zh:書介：《如此繁華》|date=2005-04-15|accessdate=2008-02-18}}
- {{cite book |last1=Wang |first1=Der-wei |script-title=zh:後遺民寫作 |trans-title= Post-loyalist Writing |date=2007 |publisher=Rye Field Publishing |location=Taipei |isbn=9789861732992}}
- {{cite book |last1=Wang |first1=Der-wei |script-title=zh:王德威精選集 |trans-title= Selected essays of David Der-wei Wang |date=2007 |publisher=Chiu Ko |location=Taipei |isbn=9789574443864}}
- {{cite book |title=Writing Taiwan : a new literary history |date=2007 |publisher=Duke University Press |location=Durham |isbn=9780822338673}}(co-edited with Carlos Rojas)
- {{citation|title=Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule, 1895–1945: history, culture, memory|publisher=Columbia University Press|location=New York|year=2006|isbn=9780231137980}} (co-edited with Ping-hui Liao)
- {{cite book |last1=Wang |first1=David Der-wei |title=The lyrical in epic time : modern Chinese intellectuals and artists through the 1949 crisis |date=2015 |publisher=Columbia University Press |location=New York |isbn=9780231170468}}
- {{cite book |editor-last1=Wang|editor-first1=David Der-wei|title=A new literary history of modern China |date=2017 |location=Cambridge, MA |isbn=9780674967915}}
References
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External links
- [http://140.109.24.171/modern/literators/wang.doc List of recent publications]{{Dead link|date=January 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (hosted by the Academia Sinica)
- [https://ealc.fas.harvard.edu/people/david-wang David Wang | East Asian Languages and Civilizations] (Harvard University)
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