Jing Wang

Assistant Research Scholar

Jing Wang is an Assistant Research Scholar specializing mondern and contemporary Chinese literature and film.  Currently she teaches CAS Freshman Honors Seminar and Post Advanced Reading in Chinese courses. She graduated with a degree in Chinese Language in Literature from Beijing University in 1986. Before her position as Research Scholar she worked as a Chinese Language Lecturer at NYU from 1999-2005.

Areas of Research/Interest

Modern and contemporary Chinese literature and film
Chinese classics
Chinese and western women writers
Representation of the City in Chinese Cinema

Publications

  • My Lost City, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, translated into Chinese
    Shucheng,Guangzhou, March 2005
  • 反對快樂﹐ 支持悲傷 (Against Happiness), an essay
    published in Reading, November 2004, Beijing
  • Chinese translation of The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (by Carson McCullers)
    Shanghai Literature & Art Press 2004
  • Shanghai Literature, Monthly contribution on "Contemporary Women Writers in North America"
    Jan-Dec 2000
  • Little White Sister: American Women Writers in the 1990s, edited and translated
    Beijing, 2002, The New World Press