John C.Y. Wang

Edward Clark Crossett Professor of Humanistic Studies

jcywang@stanford.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education:
Ph.D. (Cornell University, 1968)
M.A. (University of Minnesota, 1962);
B.A. (National Taiwan University, 1957);

Courses Taught:
Chinese language courses at all levels; Chinese Fiction and Drama in Translation; Chinese Myths, Legends, and Folktales (in translation); The Chinese Hero (Freshman Seminar); Traditional Chinese Fiction: The Short Story; Traditional Chinese Fiction: The Novel; Traditional Chinese Drama; Proseminar; Seminar in Chinese Literary Criticism; Seminar on the Zuozhuan

Selected Publications:

Books

• From Zuozhuan to Shiji: The Art of Early Chinese Narrative (forthcoming).
• Classical Chinese Primer (with F.S. Hsueh, Jiang Shaoyu and Sue-mei Wu). Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2007 (2 vols.)
• Jin Shengtan: His Life and Literary Criticism (Shanghai: Shanghai Classics Publishing House, 2004, in both Chinese and English)
• Studies in Early Chinese Narrative (Shanghai: Shanghai Classics Publishing House, 2003, in Chinese)
• Essays on Early Chinese Narrative (Taipei: Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, l999 and 2001, in Chinese)
• Chinese Literary Criticism of the Ch'ing Period (1644-1911) (Editor and Contributor) (Hong Kong: The University of Hong Kong Press, 1993)
• "Chin Sheng-t'an on How to Read the Shui-hu chuan" (a translation), How to Read the Chinese Novel, ed. David Rolston (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990), pp. 124-145
• Essays on the Zuozhuan and the Traditional Chinese Novel (Beijing: Peking University Press, 1989, in Chinese and Chinese translations)

Articles:

• "The Use of Western Learning in Chinese Studies: A Rereading of James J.Y. Liu's Art of Chinese Poetry," Newsletter of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philsophy (Academia Sinica), 18:4 (in Chinese)
• "Comments on the Shiji in the Shiji pinglin--The Biography of General Li Guang as Example," Studies in Chinese Literature (Fudan University), No. 10 (Dec., 2007) 44-52 (in Chinese)
• "Studies on Jin Shengtan: A Critical Review," Ming-Qing Studies: Examinations of Current Progress and Reflections on Methodology, ed. Lee Cheuk Yin. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Educational Books Co., 2006, 114-134 (in Chinese)
• "'Redundancy' as an Artistic Device in The Dream of the Red Chamber," Journal of Oriental Studies, 38:1&2 (May, 2005), 1-15.
• Translation of the episode of "Wu Sung Fights the Tiger" (with Chin Sheng-t'an's comments) from the novel Shui-hu chuan for The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Literature, ed. Victor Mair. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995, 997-1007.
• "Lu Xun as a Scholar of Traditional Chinese Literature,"; Lu Xun and His Legacy, ed. Leo Ou-fan Lee (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985), pp. 90-103.

Professional Activities:
Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Oriental Studies (The University of Hong Kong), 2003- ;
Member of Editorial Board, Studies in Confucianism and East Asian Civilization Series, National Taiwan University, 2001- ;
Member of Advisory Committee, Center for Comparative Literary Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 2000- ;
Member of Advisory Committee, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, 1993- ;
Member of Panel on Humanities, University Grants Committee, Hong Kong, 1996;
Board Director, Association for Asian Studies, 1978-1981;
Chair of China and Inner Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies, 1979-1981;
Chair of Comparative Literature 9: Oriental-Western Literary Relations, Modern Language Association of America