Jing Wang is a scholar in late imperial and modern Chinese literature and culture. She received her B.A. from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University (1986). Her research explores modern and contemporary Chinese literature, film, and television, classic vernacular novels in late imperial China, and Chinese and western women writers. Her teaching interests include studying the classic Chinese vernacular novel The Dream of the Red Chamber, themes of the country and the city in modern Chinese literature and film, and contemporary Chinese women writers.
Jing Wang most recently was an Assistant Research Scholar in the Department of East Asian Studies at New York University from 2006-2020. She instructed and lectured Chinese in the East Asian Studies Program at New York University from 1999-2006. In 2020, Jing Wang received the New Oriental New Oriental Institute/Foundation of Education and Culture Multi-Year Grants (2020-2023) for Film/Television Adaptation of Wang Anyi’s novel Heavenly Scent; and for a new annotated edition of Dream of the Red Chamber. In 1999, she received the Shanghai Literature Special Monthly Column Award for Translation.