Faculty

Xudong Zhang is Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Studies at NYU. He is the founding director of the International Center for Critical Theory (ICCT), which co-organizes the Winter Institute series with University of Tokyo, Australian National University, and University of Bonn, Germany. He has published widely on critical theory and transcultural comparisons of Chinese and European modernities.

Ph.D. 1995, Literature, Duke
B.A. 1986, Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University

Xudong Zhang’s research interests include critical theory; modernism and modernity; theories of representation, narrative, and interpretation; political philosophy; aesthetics; and twentieth century Chinese literature and culture. Of his ongoing concerns are literary criticism and theory as poetics, socio-ontology, and historiography in one; identity and identity-formation in politico-philosophical and cultural-civilizational contexts; a theory of comparison and comparability; and methodological reconsiderations of area studies. Publishing in both English- and Chinese-speaking worlds, he is currently at work on manuscripts on Hegel’s aesthetics; Lu Xun; and the second volume of/sequel to his 2005/06 book, Cultural Politics in the Age of Globalization.

Zhang is a recipient of the New Institute Fellowship, Hamburg, 2022-23. He is a member of the Berggruen Network; and of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences at Peking University. He is also the founding Director of the International Center for Critical Theory(ICCT) at NYU.

Department of Social & Cultural Analysis

Cultural Politics and the Chinese Way, 2nd Edition

Shanghai: Shanghai Renmin Press, 2021
Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization, 3rd Edition

Historical Reflections on Western Discourses of the Universal

Shanghai: Shanghai Renmin Press, 2021
The Order of the Imaginary, 2nd Edition

Critical Theory and Modern Chinese Literature

Shanghai: Shanghai Renmin Press, 2020
Toward A Critical Literary History: Modernity and Formal Self-Consciousness

Shanghai: Shanghai Renmin Press, 2020
Tradition and Formal Innovation--Essays from the Inaugural Himalayas Cultural Forum, edited with and introduction by Xudong Zhang

Shanghai: Century Publications Group, Shanghai People's Press, 2015. ISBN 978-7-208-13140-8/G1728. 148pp.
Literature and Its Times: Essays, Symposia, and Interviews on Republic of Wine and Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out

co-authored by Xudong Zhang and Mo Yan (我们时代的写作——对话《酒国》《生死疲劳》

Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780192990265
ICCT series 1: Rethinking Enlightenment in Global and Historical Contexts

co-ed: NAKAJIMA Takahiro , ZHANG Xudong, & JIANG Hui

Tokyo: The University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy, 2011. ISSN: 1882-742X
Duihua qimeng shidai 对话启蒙时代 (A Discourse on The Age of Enlightenment)

Xudong Zhang & Wang Anyi

Beijing: Sanlian shudian, 2008. ISBN 978-7-108-02952-2
Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century

Duke University Press, 2008.
Qidi 启迪 (Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin)

edited by Hannah Arendt, translated by Xuodong Zhang and Ban Wang, with an introduction by Xudong Zhang

Paperback edition issued by OUP (Hong Kong) in 1998. Reprint. Simplified (mainland Chinese) edition: Beijing: Sanlian shudian, 2008. ISBN 978-7-108-02
Letters from New York

Shanghai: Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House, 2006.
Quanqiuhua shidai de wenhua rentong (Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization)

Beijing: Peking University Press, 2005. 2nd edition, 2006 (ISBN：7301081499)
Whither China: Intellectual Politics of Contemporary China

edited and introduced by Xudong Zhang

Duke University Press, 2002. (ISBN 0822326485)
Postmodernism and China

co-edited with Arif Dirlik

Duke University Press, 2000. (ISBN 0822325446)
Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant-garde Fiction, and New Chinese Cinema

Duke University Press, 1997. (ISBN: 0822318466)
Pi Ping De Zong Ji

Beijing: San Lian Shu Dian, 2003. (ISBN: 7108018624)
Huan Xiang De Zhi Xu

Oxford University Press, 1997. (ISBN: 019586008X)
The Cultural Logic of the Late Capitalism (Wan Qi Zi Ben Zhu Yi De Wen Hua Luo Ji)

Fredric Jameson, edited by Xudong Zhang

Oxford University Press, 1996. (ISBN: 0195864824)
Charles Baudelaire

Walter Benjamin, trans. by Xudong Zhang

San Lian Shu Dian, 1989. (ISBN: 7108001535)