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Research

 

Interests

  • Modern Chinese Literature and Film
  • Comparative Literature
  • Urban Studies
  • popular culture
  • Environmental Humanities
  • Sinophone and Diaspora Studies

Education

  • Ph.D. in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, May 2006, Columbia University. Dissertation: “Mapping Modern Beijing: A Literary and Cultural Topography, 1900s-1950s,” Advisor – David Der-wei Wang 王德威.
  • Master of Philosophy in Chinese Literature, 2002, Columbia University.
  • Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, May 1997, Peking University. Dissertation: “From Entertainment Activity to Utopian Impulse: Rereading Jin Yong’s Martial Arts Fiction,” Advisors – YUE Daiyun 乐黛云 & DAI Jinhua 戴锦华.
  • M.A. in Comparative Literature, 1994, Peking University.
  • B.S., 1991, Xi’an Jiaotong University.

Positions Held

  • 2023-present, Graduate Program Director, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers University.
  • 2022-2023, Undergraduate Program Director, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers University.
  • 2015-present, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers University. Affiliated Member in the Graduate Program in Comparative Literature.
  • 2015-2016, Acting Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers University.
  • 2015-present, Advisory Board Member, Rutgers Center for Chinese Studies.
  • 2008-2015, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers University. Affiliated Member in the Graduate Program in Comparative Literature.
  • 2006-2008, Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Purdue University. Affiliated Member in the Comparative Literature Program, Asian Studies Program, and Film Studies Program.

Publications
Books

  • Mapping Modern Beijing: Space, Emotion, Literary Topography. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017, ©2018. Xii + 306 pp. Hardcover; Oxford Scholarship Online; Kindle e-book; Nook e-book. ISBN: 9780190200671 (cloth), 9780190200688 (updf), 9780190200695 (oso).
  • China, Literature, and the United States: Images of China in American and Chinese-American Novel and Drama 中国·文学·美国：美国小说戏剧中的中国形象. Guangzhou: Huacheng Press 花城出版社 (Signature Book Series, sponsored by the National Commission of Education), 2003. 513 pp. ISBN: 9787536038486.
  • From Entertainment Activity to Utopian Impulse: Rereading Jin Yong’s Martial Arts Fiction 从娱乐行为到乌托邦冲动：金庸小说再解读. Nanjing: Jiangsu People’s Press 江苏人民出版社 (Signature Book), 1999. 252 pp. ISBN: 9787214025654.
  • From Entertainment Activity to Utopian Impulse: Rereading Jin Yong’s Martial Arts Fiction 從娛樂行為到烏托邦衝動：金庸小說再解讀. Revised and enlarged edition in traditional Chinese characters. Taipei: Rye Field Publications 麥田 (Signature Book Series of Rye Field Humanities 麥田人文), forthcoming.

Edited Books and Special Issues    

  • Northeast China Reader. Co-editor (with David Der-wei Wang), work in progress.
  • “Northeast China Studies.” Co-editor (with Xuexin Zhang) of a special issue for Journal of Modern Chinese Literature 中國現代文學 (THCI), Volume 40, 2021.
  • “Environmental Humanities, Ecocriticism, Nature Writing.” Co-editor (with Yu-lin Lee) of a special issue for Journal of Modern Chinese Literature 中國現代文學 (THCI), Volume 36, 2019.
  • Selected Works of Xu Dishang 许地山文集. Beijing: Huaxia Press 华夏出版社, 1997, 420 pp. ISBN: 7508010868. Reprinted (2nd printing), 2000, 420 pp.  ISBN: 7508021657. Reprinted (3rd printing) as Spring Peach: Representative Works of Xu Dishan 春桃：许地山代表作. Beijing: Huaxia Press 华夏出版社, 2008. 324 pp. Reprinted (4th printing), 2010, 2011. ISBN: 9787508010861.

Translated Books

  • Huyssen, Andreas. After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism 大分裂之後：現代主義，大衆文化，後現代主義. Trans. Xiaojue Wang and Weijie Song. Taipei: Rye Field Publishing Company 麥田, 2010, 416 pp. ISBN: 9861736301.
  • Wang, David Der-wei. Fin-de-siècle Splendor: Repressed Modernities of Late Qing Fiction, 1849-1911 被壓抑的現代性：晚清小説新論. (Traditional Chinese edition) Trans. Weijie Song. Taipei: Rye Field Publishing Company 麥田, 2003, 2007, 2011. 465 pp. 2003 United Daily News “The Best Book of the Year” (Literary Criticism). ISBN: 9789867691545.
  • Wang, David Der-wei. Fin-de-siècle Splendor: Repressed Modernities of Late Qing Fiction, 1849-1911 被压抑的现代性：晚清小说新论. (Simplified Chinese edition) Trans. Weijie Song. Beijing: Peking University Press 北京大学出版社, 2005, 426 pp. ISBN: 9787301084922.
  • Liu, Lydia H. Translingual Practice 跨语际实践. Trans. Weijie Song, et al.. Beijing: Sanlian shudian 三联书店, 2002, 504 pp. ISBN: 9787108016294. 2008 (2nd printing), 495 pp. ISBN: 9787108025746. 2014 (3rd printing), 413 pp. ISBN: 9787108050885.
  • Fiske, John. Understanding Popular Culture 理解大众文化. Trans. Xiaojue Wang and Weijie Song. Beijing: Central Compilation and Translation Press 中央编译出版社, 2001, 258 pp, 2006 (2nd printing),
  • Habermas, Jürgen. The Structural Transformation of Public Sphere公共领域的结构转型. Trans. Cao Weidong, Xiaojue Wang, Liu Beicheng, and Weijie Song. Shanghai: Xuelin Press学林出版社, 1999, 2000 (2nd printing), 2004 (3rd printing), 354p. ISBN: 9787806166000. 公共領域的結構轉型. Taipei: Linking Publishing Company 聯經, 2002, 2005 (3rd printing), 354 pp. ISBN: 9789570823776.246 pp. ISBN: 9787801094735.
  • Miner, Earl. Comparative Poetics 比较诗学. Trans. Yugen Wang, Weijie Song, et al. Beijing: Central Compilation and Translation Press 中央编译出版社, 1998, 2004 (2nd printing), 372 pp. ISBN: 9787801092052.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters (some works appeared in different forms and editions)

  • “(In)Visible Beijing Within and Without World Literature.” In Ato Quayson and Jini Kim Watson, eds., The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2023, 248-263.
  • “Worlding Jin Yong’s Martial Arts (Wuxia) Imagination in Three Keys: Narration, Translation, Adaptation.” In Yingjin Zhang, ed., A World History of Chinese Literature. Routledge, 2023, 253-263.
  • “Moses on the Plain: Shuang Xuetao and New Dongbei Literature” 平原上的摩西：双雪涛与新东北文学 (with Shuang Xuetao 双雪涛, Jeremy Tiang 程异, Carlos Rojas 罗鹏, Xuexin Zhang 张学昕, Eric Abrahamsen 陶建, Brian Lax, and David Der-wei Wang 王德威). Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation. Institute of Film,Television and Theatre, Peking University.
  • “Mythorealist Representations of the Country and the City.” In Riccardo Moratto and Howard Choy, eds., Routledge Companion to Yan Lianke. Routledge, 2022, 3-15.
  • “Northeast China Studies: Texts and Routes” 東北研究：文本與路徑. Modern Chinese Literature 中國現代文學, (THCI, Taiwan Humanities Citation Index). Volume 40, 2021, 19-33. [Weijie Song and Xuexin Zhang]
  • “Literature, Jianghu World, Chivalrous Trajectory” 文學•江湖•俠蹤. In A Literary Loyalist: In Honor of Professor Zaifu Liu 文學赤子：劉再復先生八秩壽慶文集. Ed. David Der-wei Wang, Jin Ji, and Jianmei Liu. Hong Kong: Sanlian Shudian 三聯書店, 2021, 533-540.
  • “Door, (Dis)Enchantment, and (Anti)Direction: Eileen Chang’s Literary and Cinematic World” 门，迷误，方（反）向感：张爱玲的文学影像世界. In Essays in Honor of Professor Yue Daiyun 乐以成之——乐黛云教授九十华诞贺寿文集. Edited by Zhang Hui and Liu Yunhua. Shanghai: Fudan University Press 复旦大学出版社, 2021, 266-276.
  • “Smokestacks, Environmental Object, and Ecological Imagination,” 文化中國學刊 2021:1, 150-157.
  • “Notes on Professor Yue Daiyun: Scholar, Writer, and Mentor” 师从乐黛云先生散记. Biographical Literature 传记文学, 2021:3, 48-58.
  • “1955, February 28: Jin Yong’s Martial Arts Topography” 金庸武俠地形圖. Harvard’s New Literary History of Modern China 哈佛新編中國現代文學史 2. Ed. David Der-wei Wang. Taipei: 麥田, 2021, 77-81.
  • “1981, October 13: Food, Diaspora, and Nostalgia” 食物，離散，懷舊. Tr. Jin Li. Harvard’s New Literary History of Modern China 哈佛新編中國現代文學史 2. Ed. David Der-wei Wang. Taipei: 麥田, 2021, 261-265.
  • “The Metamorphoses of Smokestacks,” Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology (AHCI), 2020, 17:2, 195-205.
  • “Views from Near and Afar: Lin Yutang, Princess Der Ling, Victor Segalen and Beijing Narratives” 既远且近的目光：林语堂，德龄公主，谢阁兰的北京叙事. In Beijing Tastes and Literary Traces: Collection of Materials on Beijing Literary Studies 京味浮沉与北京文学的发展:北京文学研究资料汇编, edited by Zhang Li 张莉. Beijing: People’s Literature Publishing House 人民文学出版社, 2020, 380-407.
  • “Diaspora, Dislocation, and Chivalrous Imagination: King Hu and the Mind of China” 漂遊，感憂，文俠想像：胡金銓的中國心靈. After the May Fourth Movement: C. T. Hsia, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Zaifu Liu, and Three Approaches to Modern Humanities. Ed. David Der-wei Wang, Jianmei Liu, and Jin Ji. Hong Kong: Sanlian Shudian 三聯書店, 2020, 367-378.
  • “Preliminary Notes on Environmental Humanities, Ecological Imagination, and Nature Writing” 環境人文、生態想像、自然書寫芻議. Modern Chinese Literature 中國現代文學, (THCI, Taiwan Humanities Citation Index). Volume 36, 2019, 1-5. [Weijie Song and Yu-lin Lee]
  • “Nostalgia, Loss, and Self-Mourning in Teahouse”《茶馆》，怀旧，丧失感，自我悲悼.  The Humanistic Vision of Cosmopolitanism 世界主义的人文视景. Ed. David Wang and Ji Jin. Nanjing: Jiangsu University Press 江苏大学出版社, 2019, 140-156.
  • “Jin Yong’s Method of Imagining China.” Chinese Literature Today. Volume 8, No. 2 (2019), 79-85.
  • “Teahouse: Warped Chronotope and Structure of Feeling” 《茶馆》：时空形变，情感结构. Modern Chinese Literature Studies (CSSCI), 2019:4, 89-107. Reprinted in China People’s University Information Centre for Select Journal Articles: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literary Studies 中国人民大学报刊复印中心《中国现代、当代文学研究》, 2019:7, 145-155.
  • “Ancient Capital, Vermillion Gate, and Complex Confusions: Imaging Xi’an City in Lin Yutang’s The Vermillion Gate” 古都，朱門，紛繁的困惑：林語堂《朱門》的西安想像. In Selected Critical Essays on Modern Taiwanese Writers: Lin Yutang 臺灣現當代作家研究資料彙編‧林語堂. Ed. Xu Wenwei 須文蔚. Taipei: National Museum of Taiwan Literature and Wenhsun Press, 2018, 357-370.
  • “Eileen Chang’s Door, (Dis)Enchantment, and (Anti)Direction” 張愛玲的門，迷誤，方（反）向感. The Undying Soul: Revisiting the Eileen Chang Study 千迴萬轉：張愛玲學重探. Ed. Lim Chin Chown. Taipei: Linking, 2018,173-188.
  • “Dramas of New China, 1949-1966.” Routledge Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature. Ed. Ming Dong Gu. New York: Routledge, 2018, 410-422.
  • “Warped Hometown, Emotional Topography: Teahouse, Nostalgia, Loss, Self-Mourning” 變形的故鄉，有情的測繪：《茶館》，懷舊，喪失感，自我悲悼. Journal of the History of Ideas in East Asia (THCI), 2017:12, 327-366; published in 2019 with new funding.
  • “1981, October 13: Food, Diaspora, and Nostalgia.” A New Literary History of Modern China. Ed. David Der-wei Wang. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017, 753-758.
  • “Door, (Dis)Enchantment, Eileen Chang” 门，迷悟，张爱玲. Modern Chinese Literature Studies 中国现代文学研究丛刊 (CSSCI), 2017:5, 115-123.
  • “Jin Yong, Lyrical Topography, and the Method of Imagining China” 移情山水，武俠行跡，中國形象：金庸想像中國的方法. In Literary Landscape: Global Sinophone Travel Literature. Eds. Chang Song Hing and Jimmy C. Yu. Hong Kong: Tashan wenhua, 2017, 33-38.
  • “Yan Lianke’s Mythorealist Representations of the Country and the City.” MFS: Modern Fiction Studies (AHCI) 62:4, 2016, 360-372.
  • “Writing Cities.” A Companion to Modern Chinese Literature. Ed. Yingjin Zhang. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016, 326-342.
  • “Reading, Research, and Reorientation” 閱讀體驗，學術研究，移位定位, Jin Yong and I: Global Chinese Essay Writing Competition Award Winning Essays. Hong Kong: Tashan Press, 2016, 29-33.
  • “Positions of Sinophone Representations.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (AHCI) 17.1, 2015.
  • “Sound Mythoreality and Slow Violence: Between Political Dystopia and Ecological Utopia” 有聲的神實，緩慢的暴力：在政治惡托邦與生態烏托邦之間. In Literary Canons and Civil Society 文學經典與公民社會. Ed. Ko Chia cian and Cheng Yu-yu. Taipei: Rye Field Publishing Company 麥田, 2015, 409-429.
  • “Exclusive Inclusion, Inclusive Exclusion, and Strategies of Sinophone Narrative” “包括在外”，排除在内，华语语系叙事策略. In Hong Kong: Urban Imagination and Historical Memory 香港：都市想象与文化记忆. Ed. Chen, Pingyuan, Leonard Chan and David Der-wei Wang 陈平原、陈国球、王德威. Beijing: Peking University Press 北京大学出版社, 2015, 127-141.
  • “In Memory of C. T. Hsia” 瑣憶夏公 (Weijie Song and Xiaojue Wang). In In Memory of Professor C. T. Hsia 夏志清教授紀念專輯. Ed. Philex Chao and Chia-wei Foo. Taipei: Commercial Press 商務印書館, 2014, 152-157.
  • “Sound Mythoreality and Slow Violence: Between Political Dystopia and Ecological Utopia” 有声的神实，缓慢的暴力：在政治恶托邦与生态乌托邦之间. Soochow Academic 东吴学术, Issue 5, 2014, 53-62.
  • “Alternative New Youth and Chapter-linked Romance: Zhang Henshui’s Beijing Narrative” 另类五四青年与章回体罗曼史：张恨水的北京叙事.  In Reading Texts: The May Fourth Movement and Modern Chinese Literature 解读文本：五四与中国现代文学, edited by Wang Feng et al. Beijing: Peking University Press 北京大学出版社, 2014, 261-273.
  • “The Aesthetic versus the Political: Lin Huiyin and Modern Beijing.” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR), Volume 36, 2014, 61-94.
  • “Exclusive Inclusion, Inclusive Exclusion, and Strategies of Sinophone Narrative”  “包括在外”，排除在内，华语语系叙事策略, Soochow Academic 东吴学术, 2013, No. 6, 45-52.
  • “Jin Yong.” Chinese Fiction Writers, 1950–2000. Edited by Thomas Moran and Ye (Dianna) Xu. Gale, Cengage Learning, 2013, 121-133.
  • “Emotional Topography, Food Memory, and Bittersweet Aftertaste: Liang Shiqiu and the Lingering Flavor of Home.” Journal of Oriental Studies, Volume 45, Numbers 1 & 2, 2012, 89-105.
  • “In(Ex)clusion and Jin Yong’s Chivalric Topography” 「包括在外」，排除在內，金庸俠義地形圖. Journal of Modern Chinese Literature 中國現代文學 (THCI) 2012, Vol. 22, 123-138.
  • “Reciprocal Recognition, Comparative Perspective, and Urban Observations” 互动认知，比较视野，都市观照. In In the Midst of Joy: Essays in Honor of Yue Daiyun 乐在其中——乐黛云教授八十华诞弟子贺寿文集. Edited by Chen Yuehong, Zhang Hui, and Zhang Pei. Beijing: Peking University Press 北京大学出版社, 2011, 127-139.
  • “Novel, Romance, the Minds of China, and Tears and Laughter in a Ghost House” 小説/羅曼史，中國心靈，與鬼屋啼笑. In Grand View of History of Modern Chinese Fiction: Essays in Honor of C. T. Hsia 中國現代小說的史與學：向夏志清先生致敬, edited by Wang, David Der-wei 王德威. Taipei: Linking Books 聯經, 2010, 295-312.
  • “Old Soul, New Youth, and Zhang Henshui’s Beijing Romance” 老灵魂/新青年，与张恨水的北京罗曼史. Modern Chinese Literature Studies 中国现代文学研究丛刊 (CSSCI) 2010:3, 132-142. Reprinted in China People’s University Information Centre for Select Journal Articles: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literary Studies 中国人民大学报刊复印中心《中国现代、当代文学研究》, 2010:9.
  • “The Reproduction of a Popular Hero.” In Rethinking Modern Chinese Popular Culture: Literature and Its Discontents, edited by Rojas, Carlos and Eileen Chow. London and New York: Routledge, 2009 (2011 paperback), 179-189.
  • “Ancient Capital, Vermillion Gate, and Complex Confusions: Imaging Xi’an City in Lin Yutang’s The Vermillion Gate” 古都·朱门·纷繁的困惑：林语堂《朱门》的西安想象. In Xi’an City: Urban Imagination and Historical Memory, edited by Chen, Pingyuan, David Der-wei Wang, and Chen Xuechao 陈平原、王德威、陈学超. Beijing: Peking University Press 北京大学出版社, 2009, 266-277.
  • “Cinematic Geography, Martial Arts Fantasy, and Tsui Hark’s Wong Fei-hung Series.” Asian Cinema 19:1, 2008, 123-142.
  • “Ancient Capital, Vermillion Gate, and Complex Confusions: Imaging Xi’an City in Lin Yutang’s The Vermillion Gate” 古都·朱门·纷繁的困惑：林语堂《朱门》的西安想象. Chinese Studies in Global View 国际汉学集刊 2008:2, 1-13.
  • “Nation-State, Individual Identity, and Historical Memory: Conflicts between Han and Non-Han Peoples in Jin Yong’s Novels.” In The Jin Yong Phenomenon: Chinese Martial Arts Fiction and Modern Chinese Literary History, edited by Huss, Ann and Liu Jianmei. New York: Cambria Press, 2007, 121-154.
  • “Space, Swordsmen, and Utopia: The Dualistic Imagination in Jin Yong’s Narratives.” In The Jin Yong Phenomenon: Chinese Martial Arts Fiction and Modern Chinese Literary History, edited by Huss, Ann and Liu Jianmei. New York: Cambria Press, 2007, 155-178.
  • “Transgression, Submission, and the Fantasy of Youth Subculture: The Nostalgic Symptoms of In the Heat of the Sun.” In 100 Years of Chinese Cinema: A Generational Dialogue, edited by Kong, Haili and John A. Lent. Signature Book, Norwalk, CT.: EastBridge, 2006, 171-182.
  • “Views from Near and Afar: Lin Yutang, Princess Der Ling, Victor Segalen and Beijing Narratives” 既远且近的目光：林语堂，德龄公主，谢阁兰的北京叙事. In Beijing: Urban Imagination and Cultural Memory, edited by Chen, Pingyuan and David Der-wei Wang 陈平原、王德威. Beijing: Peking University Press 北京大学出版社, 2005, 504-532.
  • “Views from Near and Afar: Lin Yutang, Princess Der Ling, Victor Segalen and Beijing Narratives” 既远且近的目光：林语堂，德龄公主，谢阁兰的北京叙事. Studies of Modern China 现代中国 2004:5, 81-102.
  • “‘Poetic Thinking’, Literary Perception, and Urban Imagination” 诗思·文学感·都市想象. Read 书城 2003:12, 36-39.
  • “The First Woman Standing on the Top of the Alter to Heaven” 站在天壇頂上的第一位女性. Unitas 聯合文學 2003:4, 67-71.
  • “Cultural Subordination, Chinatown Cowboy, and Colonial Lies: Reading Pardee Lowe, Frank Chin, and David Henry Hwang” 文化臣属·华埠牛仔·殖民谎言. In Chinese American Literary Studies 美国华裔文学研究, edited by Cheng Aimin 程爱民. Beijing: Peking University Press 北京大学出版社, 2003, 105-142.
  • “ ‘Imagined Memories,’ Generic Differences, and Jin Yong’s Fiction” 想象的记忆，文类差异，与金庸小说. In Jin Yong’s Fiction and Chinese Literature in the 20th Century 金庸小说与20世纪中国文学, edited by Wu, Xiaodong and Ji Birui 吴晓东、计璧瑞. Beijing: Peking University Press 北京大学出版社, 2002, 409-427.
  • “How to Understand Popular Culture” 如何理解大众文化. Reading 读书 2002:2, 107-114.
  • “Body Imagination in Late Qing Chivalric and Court-Case Fiction: Reading of Three Knights-errant and Five Brothers” 晚清侠义公案小说的身体想象. In The Late Ming and the Late Qing: Historical Dynamics and Cultural Innovations 晚明与晚清：历史传承与文化创新, edited by Chen, Pingyuan, David Der-wei Wang, and Wei Shang 陈平原、王德威、商伟. Wuhan: Hubei jiaoyu chubanshe 湖北教育出版社, 2002, 441-451.
  • “On the ‘Modernity’ in Cultural Studies” 文化研究的现代性问题 (Li, Tuo, Dai Jinhua, Weijie Song, and He Li). In Anthology of Critical Essays in 1990s 九十年代批评文选, edited by Chen Sihe 陈思和. Shanghai: Hanyu dacidian Press 汉语大词典出版社, 2001, 3-28.
  • “Gaze, Not-Daring Gaze and Utopian Situation in Gender Politics” 凝视·不可逼视·双剑合璧. In Reading Jin Yong’s Martial Art World 阅读金庸世界, edited by Wang Jingsan 王敬三. Shanghai: Shanghai shudian 上海书店, 2000, 72-86.
  • “Family, Empire, and ‘Nationalism’ in Jin Yong’s Martial Arts Fiction” 論金庸小說的“家國想像”. In Jin Yong’s Fiction and Chinese Literature in the 20th Century 金庸小說與二十世紀中國文學, edited by Sylvia Lin. Hong Kong: Ming He Publishing Inc. 明河社, 2000, 325-342.
  • “Gaze, Not-Daring Gaze and Utopian Situation in Gender Politics” 凝视·不可逼视·双剑合璧. Avant-Garde Critics Today 今日先锋 1999:6, 44-56.
  • “Dilemma of the Absence of ‘Fathers’, Reconstruction of the Order, and Discourse on Gender” 失父困境·秩序重構·性別話語. China Studies 中國研究 1999:5, 147-162.
  • “Local or Global: Cultural Identities in the Multicultural Contexts” 地方性的还是全球性的. In Cultural Communications and Literary Images 文化传递与文学形象, edited by Yue Dayiun 乐黛云 and Zhang Hui. Beijing: Peking University Press 北京大学出版社, 1999, 361-368.
  • “Imagination of Han and Non-Han Conflicts in Jin Yong’s Martial Arts Fiction” 金庸小説的胡漢恩仇. Today 今天 1998:4, 74-84.
  • “Belated Elegy: Chinese American Drama“ 迟到的悲歌：美国华/亚裔英文戏剧一瞥. Recent Developments in Foreign Literature 外国文学动态 1998:2, 34-36.
  • “On Utopia” 乌托邦简论. Panorama of Arts 艺术广角 1998:3, 40-45.
  • “Globalization: A Relational Keyword” 全球化简论. Transcultural Dialogue 跨文化对话 1998:2, 83-87.
  • “The ‘Hybridity’ of Identity and Cultural Amnesia” 身份认同的混杂与文化记忆缺失症. Journal of Tianjin Social Sciences 天津社会科学 1998:2, 83-87. Reprinted in China People’s University Information Centre for Select Journal Articles: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literary Studies 中国人民大学报刊复印中心《中国现代、当代文学研究》, 1998:6.
  • “Space, Swordsmen, and Utopia” 空间·人·乌托邦. Peking University Journal of Chinese Study 北大中文研究 1998:1, 226-248.
  • “Local or Global: Cultural Identities in the Multicultural Contexts.” In Cultural Dialogue and Misreading, edited by Lee, Mabel and Meng Hua. University of Sydney World Literature Series No. 1; Wild Peony Books Publishers, Sydney 1997; international distribution University of Hawaii Press, 409-414.
  • “The Narrative Tension of Jin Yong’s Martial Art Fiction” 金庸小说的叙事张力. Panorama of Arts 艺术广角 1997:5, 14-20.
  • “Cultural Criticism Confronting Challenges” 面向挑战的文化批评 (Li, Tuo, Dai Jinhua, Weijie Song, and He Li). Beijing Literature 北京文学 1997:7, 22-30, 42.
  • “The Plural Motifs of ‘Nation-State’” 民族国家的多义性话语. Popular Literary Criticism 通俗文学评论 1997:2, 115-122.
  • “Understanding Utopias” 乌托邦辨. Critical Thinking 思想文综 1997:2, 292-296.
  • “Local or Global: Cultural Identities in the Multicultural Contexts” 地方性的还是全球性的. Huacheng 花城 1997:2, 151-155.
  • “On the ‘Modernity’ in Cultural Studies” 文化研究的现代性问题 (Li, Tuo, Dai Jinhua, Weijie Song, and He Li). Zhongshan 钟山 1996:5, 173-187. Reprinted in China People’s University Information Centre for Select Journal Articles: Literary and Arts Theories 中国人民大学报刊复印中心《文艺理论》, 1997:1.
  • “Utopia of Middle-age Romance” 中年恋情的乌托邦. Free Forum on Literature 文学自由谈 1996:1, 148-150.
  • “Images Vacillating between the Two Poles” 形象在两极间摇摆. The Orient 东方 1995:3, 82-85; 1995:4, 51-53; 1995:5, 71-73.
  • “Subjection, Resistance and Irony” 臣服·激愤·婉讽. American Studies Quarterly 美国研究 1995:1, 79-105.
  • “Reading ‘Gifts’” 有赠. Reading Dai Wangshu’s Famous Works 戴望舒名作欣赏. Ed. Sun Yushi 孙玉石. Beijing: Zhongguo heping press, 1993, 200-203.

Translated Journal Articles and Book Chapters

  • Wang, David Der-wei. “End of the Line” 詩人之死 (Traditional Chinese) Trans. Weijie Song. In Monster That is History 歷史與怪獸 (Revised and expanded edition). Taipei: Rye Field Publishing Company 麥田, 2011, 345-406. United Daily News “The Best Book of the Year” (Literary Criticism).
  • Huyssen, Andreas. “Geographies of Modernism in a Globalizing World” 现代主义地理学与全球化世界 (Simplified Chinese). Trans. Weijie Song and Xiaojue Wang. Intellectuals: Reflections on Modernity 知识分子论丛·现代性反思. Nanjing: Jiangsu renmin press 江苏人民出版社, 2008, 316-335.
  • Huyssen, Andreas. “Geographies of Modernism in a Globalizing World” 現代主義地理學與全球化世界 (Traditional Chinese). Trans. Weijie Song and Xiaojue Wang. Con-Temporary Monthly 當代 (Taipei) 2007:9, 4-29.
  • Wang, David Der-wei. “End of the Line” 詩人之死 (Traditional Chinese) Trans. Weijie Song. In Monster That is History 歷史與怪獸. Taipei: Rye Field Publishing Company 麥田, 2004, 155-225.
  • Wang, David Der-wei. “End of the Line” 诗人之死 (Simplified Chinese). Trans. Weijie Song. Ten Lectures on Modern Chinese Literature 中国现代文学十讲. Shanghai: Fudan University Press 复旦大学出版社, 2003, 207-275.
  • Wang, David Der-wei. “Justice Undone 虚张的正义” (Simplified Chinese). In Ten Lectures on Modern Chinese Literature中国现代文学十讲. Shanghai: Fudan University Press 复旦大学出版社, 2003, 1-26.
  • Wang, David Der-wei. “Rereading of Quell the Bandits” 重读《荡寇志》. Trans. Weijie Song. In The Late Ming and the Late Qing: Historical Dynamics and Cultural Innovations 晚明与晚清：历史传承与文化创新, edited by Chen Pingyuan, David Der-wei Wang, and Wei Shang 陈平原、王德威、商伟. Wuhan: Hubei jiaoyu chubanshe 湖北教育出版社, 2002, 423-440.
  • Liu, Lydia H. “The Problem of Language in Transcultural Studies” 跨文化研究的语言问题 (Simplified Chinese). Trans. Weijie Song. In Politics of Translation and Language 翻译与语言的政治, edited by Xu Baoqiang and Yuan Wei 许宝强、袁伟. Beijing: Zhongyang bianyi chubanshe 中央编译出版社, 2001, 204-276.
  • Liu, Lydia H. “The Problem of Language in Transcultural Studies” 跨文化研究的語言問題 (Traditional Chinese). Trans. Weijie Song. In Politics of Translation and Language 翻譯與語言的政治, edited by Xu Baoqiang and Yuan Wei 許寶強、袁偉. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press 牛津大學出版社, 2000, 187-251.
  • Fiske, John. “American Jeans” 牛仔美国. Trans. Weijie Song. Film Art 电影艺术 2000:3, 75-81.
  • Hamm, John Christopher. “Jin Yong’s Early Fiction and Postwar Hong Kong” 金庸早期小說與五十年代香港. Jin Yong’s Fiction and Chinese Literature in the 20th Century 金庸小說與二十世紀中國文學. Ed. Sylvia Lin. Hong Kong: Ming He Publishing Inc. 明河社, 2000, 191-210. Reprinted in 金庸：從香港到世界. Ed. 鄭政恆. 香港：三聯書店, 2016, 280-302.
  • Larsen, Svend Erik. “Interplay of Images” 文化对话：形象间的相互影响. Cultural Communications and Literary Images 文化传递与文学形象. Ed. Yue Dayiun and Zhang Hui 乐黛云、张辉. Beijing: Peking University Press 北京大学出版社, 1999, 208-220.
  • Wang, David Der-wei. “Justice Undone” 虛張的正義 (Traditional Chinese). Trans. Weijie Song. In The Making of Modernity and Modern Chinese Literature 如何現代，怎樣文學. Taipei: Rye Field Publishing Company 麥田, 1998, 77-100; 2nd edition, 2008. United Daily News “The Best Book of the Year” (Literary Criticism).
  • Hevia, James. “From Tribute System to Colonial Studies” 从朝贡体制到殖民研究. Trans. Weijie Song. Reading 读书 1998:8, 61-69.
  • Taylor, Charles. “Invoking Civil Society” 吁求市民社会. Trans. Weijie Song. In Culture and Publicity 文化与公共性, edited by Wang Hui and Chen Yangu 汪晖、陈燕谷. Beijing: Sanlian Shudian 三联书店, 1998, 2005 (2nd printing), 171-198.
  • Lee, Benjamin. “Critical Internationalism” 批判的国际主义. Trans. Weijie Song. In Culture and Publicity 文化与公共性, edited by Wang Hui and Chen Yangu 汪晖、陈燕谷. Beijing: Sanlian Shudian 三联书店, 1998, 2005 (2nd printing), 556-600.
  • Everman, Welch D. “Paper World: Science Fiction in the Postmodern Era” 纸上世界：后现代时期的科幻小说. Trans. Weijie Song. Contemporary Film 当代电影 1998:5, 15-22.
  • Eagleton, Terry. “Conclusion of Ideology” 意识形态结语. Trans. Weijie Song. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 文艺理论研究 1998:1, 94-97.
  • Dyer, Richard. “Entertainment and Utopia” 娱乐与乌托邦. Trans. Weijie Song. Contemporary Cinema 当代电影 1998:1, 68-74.
  • Dirlik, Arif. “Postcolonial or Post-revolutionary? The Problem of History in Postcolonial Criticism” 后殖民還是后革命？后殖民批評的歷史問題. Trans. Xiaojue Wang and Weijie Song. Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences 香港社會科學學報 1997:1, 129-156.
  • Owen, Stephen. “Meaning the Words” 情投“字”合. Trans. Weijie Song. Beimei Gudian Wenxue Mingjia Shinian Wenxuan 北美古典文学名家十年文选. Ed. Yue Dayiun. Nanjing: Jiangsu Renmin Press 江苏人民出版社, 1996, 170-212.
  • Yu, Anthony. “History, Fiction and the Reading of Chinese Narrative” 历史，小说，与解读中国叙事. Trans. Weijie Song. Beimei Gudian Wenxue Mingjia Shinian Wenxuan 北美古典文学名家十年文选. Ed. Yue Dayiun. Nanjing: Jiangsu Renmin Press江苏人民出版社, 1996, 348-375.
  • Plaks, Andrew. “Where the Parallel Meets” 平行线交汇何处. Trans. Huang Chenglin and Weijie Song. Beimei Gudian Wenxue Mingjia Shinian Wenxuan 北美古典文学名家十年文选. Ed. Yue Dayiun. Nanjing: Jiangsu Renmin Press江苏人民出版社, 1996, 285-310.
  • Huizinha, Johan. “Play and Poetry” 游戏与诗. Trans. Weijie Song. Homo Ludens 游戏的人. Hangzhou: Chinese Academy of Fine Arts Press 中国美术学院出版社, 1996, 1997 (2nd printing), 2000 (3rd printing), 131-150.
  • Johnson, Barbara. “Writing” 寫作. Trans. Weijie Song. Critical Terms for Literary Study 文學批評術語. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press 牛津大學出版社, 1994, 51-65.
  • Smith, Barbara Herrnstein. “Value/Evaluation” 價值/評價. Trans. Weijie Song. Critical Terms for Literary Study 文學批評術語. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press 牛津大學出版社, 1994, 239-251.
  • Peter Collier, Helga Geyer-Ryan. “Beyond Postmodernism” 超越后现代主义. Literary Theory Gazette, 1994. Reprinted in China People’s University Information Centre for Select Journal Articles: Literary and Arts Theories 中国人民大学报刊复印中心《文艺理论》, 1994:6.
  • Eagleton, Terry. “Modernism, Postmodernism and Capitalism” 现代主义，后现代主义与资本主义. Trans. Yonghu Dai and Weijie Song. Contemporary Film 当代电影 1994:2, 82-88.

Book Reviews

  • “Review:The Great Leap Backward: Forgetting and Representing the Mao Years, by Lingchei Letty Chen.” Journal of Asian Studies 80:2 (2021), 448-450.
  • “Distortion, Reflection, Illumination: Zhuangzi as the Mirror and the Lamp, and Review of Zhuangzi’s Modern Fate” 變形，鏡鑒，啓明：作為鏡與燈的莊子，兼評《莊子的現代命運》 (Traditional Chinese), Ming Pao Monthly 明報月刊, 2013, Volume 48:1, 147-149.
  • “Distortion, Reflection, Illumination: Zhuangzi as the Mirror and the Lamp, and Review of Zhuangzi’s Modern Fate” 变形，镜鉴，启明：作为镜与灯的庄子兼评《庄子的现代命运》” (Simplified Chinese), Soochow Academic 东吴学术, 2013, Volume 2, 156-157.
  • “Review: Corruption and Realism in Late Socialist China: The Return of the Political Novel, by Jeffery C. Kinkley.” Journal of Asian Studies 66:4 (2007), 1116-1117.

Work in Progress

  • Northeast China Reader 東北讀本 (with David Der-wei Wang 王德威).
  • “Trees, Forests, and Phytography in Contemporary Chinese Literature.”
  • “Chivalrous Psychogeography: Martial Arts, Avant-garde, Sinophone Cinema.”
      • “King Hu: Diasporic (Re)Location and Obsession with a Chivalrous China.”
      • “Wong Kar-wai: Ashes of Time, Traces of Subjectivity.”
      • “Ang Lee: Emotion in Motion.”
      • “Hou Hsiao-hsien: Epiphanies from the Tale, the Marvel, and the Quotidian.”
      • “Jia Zhangke: Subaltern Wanderers and Crippled Chivalry.”
  • “Ide©ology: Environmental Objects and Chinese Ecocriticism.”
      • “Smokestack Metamorphoses” 环境人文, 生态批评，烟囱物象. Reflections on Environmental Humanities, A Special Issue 环境人文反思.
      • “Trees, Phytography, Environmental Object” (Stanford-Lingnan Symposium).
      • “Picturing Plastic Pollution.”
  • “Reviving Northeast China: Contemporary Literature and Film Beyond the Great Wall.”
      • “Fortune-telling Northeast China: Shamanistic Narrative, Fragmentary Redemption” 有灵的关外，残余的救赎.
      • “The Melancholia, Aporia, and Discovery of Northeast China” 东北的忧郁、关隘与发现.
      • “Searching the Souls of Northeast China: Multimedia Representations.”
      • “Manchuria, Manchukuo, and (Post)Industrial Northeast China: Non-Place, En(x)clave, and Ex(in)clusion.”
  • “Dark Room, Solitary Lamp, Empty City, and Inner Illumination: Lu Xun, Tsurumi Yūsuke, and Beijing” 暗室孤灯，空城内曜.
  • “Usher, Pilot, and Fictional Setting” 引座，导航，小说图景.

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

  • Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange Scholar Grant.
  • Distinguished Visiting Professor, Sea-Sky Program, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dalian University of Technology.
  • Research Council Publication Subvention, Rutgers University.
  • Eurasia Foundation (from Asia) Research Grant.
  • Visiting Professor, IEP (International Excellence Program) of “The Tradition of East Asian Culture and Its Modern Transformation,” Higher Education Sprout Project, National Chengchi University.
  • Visiting Scholar, Print and Popular Culture Research Group, Wan Boo Sow Research Centre for Chinese Culture, and Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore.
  • Research Council Grant, Rutgers University.
  • Outstanding Essay Award, Hong Kong Writers’ Association and Hong Kong Arts Development Council.
  • Board of Trustees Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence, Rutgers University.
  • Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, Rutgers University.
  • Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange Research Grant.
  • Freeman Foundation Grants for Teaching Development, Rutgers University.
  • Global Initiatives, Office of International and Global Affairs, Rutgers University.
  • Research Development Incentive Grant, Purdue University.
  • Teaching Development Incentive Grant, Purdue University.
  • Liberal Arts Community Engagement Grant, Purdue University.
  • Summer Research Fellowship, Purdue University.
  • United Daily News “The Best Book of the Year” (Literary Criticism) and May Fourth Literary Prize for 被壓抑的現代性：晚清小説新論, the Chinese translation of David Der-wei Wang’s Fin-de-siècle Splendor: Repressed Modernities of Late Qing Fiction, 1849-1911 (Taipei: Rye Field).
  • Faculty Fellowship, Columbia University.
  • Weatherhead Fellowship, Columbia University.
  • President’s Fellowship, Columbia University.
  • L. C. C. and Y. F. Wu Fellowship, Columbia University.
  • L. C. Goodrich Fellowship, Columbia University.

Invited Lectures, Conference Presentations, Demonstrations

  • “How to Tell the Good Dongbei Story? A Dialogue with Ban Yu” 讲好东北故事？班宇谈小说 (A forum with Ban Yu 班宇, Cui Qiao 崔峤, Michel Hockx 贺麦晓, Huang Ping 黄平, Liang Hai 梁海, Liu Yan 刘岩, and Xuexin Zhang 张学昕). Co-organizer and co-moderator with David Der-wei Wang 王德威. 哈佛大学费正清中国研究中心 Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University; 罗格斯大学亚洲语言文化系 Rutgers University, Asian Languages and Cultures; 辽宁师范大学中国文学批评研究中心 Center for Chinese Literary Criticism, Liaoning Normal University; 北京当代艺术基金会 Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation; 蒋经国基金会 The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. December 9, 2022.
  • “Environmental Objects and Chinese Ecowriting.” Invited lecture for the University of Hawaii, November 9, 2022.
  • “(In)Visible Beijing Within and Without World Literature,” International Conference on “Beijing Writing in World Civilization.” Beijing Normal University. October 29, 2022.
  • Discussant for the Keynote Speech by Chen Pingyuan, International Conference on “Beijing Writing in World Civilization.” Beijing Normal University. October 28, 2022.
  • “‘Xiaoshuo’ and Storytelling: Keywords, Periodization, Genres.” Conference on Histories of Chinese Literature Since the 18th Century. National Taiwan University. August 26, 2022.
  • “Environmentality and Ide(c)ology: Objects, Storytelling, and Chinese Ecowriting.” Invited lecture for Zhejiang University, July 24, 2022.
  • Co-Discussant (with Zhao Xifang) for the Keynote Speeches (James Robson, Karen Thornber, Carlos Rojas, Nicole Huang, Nie Zhenzhao, Yung Sai-Shing, and Jiang Shuzhuo), Zhejiang University-Harvard University World Literature Workshop on “Global Chinese Literature and a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind: New Directions in Theoretical Construction and Critical Practice.” June 11-12, 2022.
  • “Chinese Chivalrous Psychogeography.” Invited lecture for the University of Málaga, June 3, 2022.
  • “Who Can Speak of Northeast China Alone: A Panel on New Donbei Literature” (with Ban Yu, Zhang Xuexin, and Liang Hai). Dalian University of Technology & Liaoning Normal University. June 1, 2022.
  • “Moses on the Plain: Shuang Xuetao and New Dongbei Literature” 平原上的摩西：双雪涛与新东北文学 (A bilingual forum with Shuang Xuetao 双雪涛, Jeremy Tiang 程异, Carlos Rojas 罗鹏, Xuexin Zhang 张学昕, Eric Abrahamsen 陶建, and Brian Lax). Co-organizer and co-moderator with David Der-wei Wang 王德威. 哈佛大学费正清中国研究中心 Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University; 罗格斯大学亚洲语言文化系 Rutgers University, Asian Languages and Cultures; 罗格斯大学中国研究中心 Rutgers Center for Chinese Studies; 北京当代艺术基金会 Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation; 蒋经国基金会 The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. April 13, 2022.
  • “Trees, Forests, Phytography, Ecocriticism.” Invited lecture for Burgos University. March 30, 2022.
  • “Environmental Object and Sustainable Future: Trees, Forests, Phytography.” Invited lecture for Una Europa, OpenU Research Project, and the Complutense University of Madrid. March 15, 2022.
  • “Trees, Phytography, Environmental Object.” Stanford-Lingnan Symposium on “Eco-Writing in an Age of (Un)Natural Crisis.” February 25-26, 2022.
  • “Space, Emotion, Beijing Topography.” Invited lecture at Shaanxi Normal University, Institute for Advanced Studies. Shaanxi Normal University. December 20, 2021.
  • “Environmental Objects and (Post)Industrial Sentiments.” Invited lecture at Washington University in St. Louis. November 18, 2021.
  • “Space, Emotion, Beijing Topography.” Invited Sea-Sky lecture at Dalian University of Technology. November 5, 2021.
  • “Ide©ology and Environmental Things.” Invited lecture at Peking University, October 28, 2021.
  • “Searching the Souls of Northeast China: Multimedia Representations.” Michigan State University. September 24, 2021.
  • “Ide©ology: Smokestacks, Ecocriticism, and Environmental Humanities.” Invited lecture at Shaanxi Normal University, Institute for Advanced Studies. August 23, 2021.
  • “Displaced City and Postmemory.” Invited lecture at Xinan Jiaotong University. July 13, 2021.
  • “The Melancholia, Aporia, and Discovery of Northeast China.” Virtual Conference on “The Hsia Brothers and Overseas Chinese Literary Studies,” Fudan University, May 7, 2021.
  • “Ide©ology: Ecological Ethics and Environmental Humanities.” Invited Sea-Sky lecture at Dalian University of Technology.  April 16, 2021.
  • “Ide©ology: Environmental Objects and Ecological Imagination.” Invited lecture at Sichuan University. April 9, 2021.
  • “20th Century Beijing in Mass Culture.” ClubHouse, Cineculture. April 3, 2021.
  • “Talk to the Author: Mapping Modern Beijing – Space, Emotion, Literary Topography.” Invited lecture for the “Chinese Urban Study Author Talk Series,” Chinese and Comparative Studies Association (CCSA), Webster University. January 16, 2021.
  • “Chivalrous Psychogeography: Martial Arts, Avant-Garde, Sinophone Imagination.” Invited lecture (Anthony Koo/Kwan-Wai So Lecture endowment) at the Michigan State University. December 4, 2020.
  • “Chinese Environmental Imagination.” Invited lecture at the Complutense University of Madrid. April 2, 2020 (postponed to May 3, 2021).
  • “Chinese Environmental Imagination.” Invited lecture at the University of Burgos, Spain. April 1, 2020 (postponed to April 28, 2021).
  • “Ashes of Time, Traces of History: Wong Kar-wai’s Emotional Topography of the Martial Arts World.” International conference on “On the Road: Exoticism, Foreign Lands, and World Imagination.” University of Malaya, December 28-29, 2019.
  •  “Fortune-telling Northeast China: 21-Century Literature and Film Beyond the Great Wall.” Dalian University of Technology, Liaoning Normal University, and Dalian University. November 14, 2019.
  • “Environmental Object, Eco-critical Imagination, and Smokestack Metamorphosis.” Invited lecture at Soochow University. October 28, 2019.
  • “Psychogeography, Emotionality, and Jin Yong’s Chivalrous Narrativity.” Keynote speech at International Conference on “Jin Yong and His Legacy” hosted by Soochow University and the Association of Chinese Martial Arts Literature. October 26-27, 2019.
  • “Smokestacks, Environmental Object, and Eco-critical Imagination.” Peking University. July 8-10, 2019.
  • Discussant for the Panel of “The Futures Past of Cultural Studies: China and/in the Global South” for the International Conference on “The Rise and Future of Cultural Studies in China.” Peking University. July 8, 2019
  • “Diaspora, Dislocation, and Chivalrous Imagination: King Hu and the Mind of China.” Invited speaker at the conference on “After the May Fourth Movement: C. T. Hsia, Leo Lee, Zaifu Liu, and Three Approaches to Modern Humanities.” Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. May 9-10, 2019.
  • “Shamanistic Narrative, Fragmentary Redemption: Imagining Northeast China Beyond the Great Wall.” The May 4th @100. Harvard University. April 12-13, 2019.
  • “Wong Kar-wai: Ashes of Time, Traces of History.” Rutgers University-National Taiwan University Workshop, National Taiwan University. March 26, 2019.
  • “Literary and Translation Studies.” Roundtable workshop at National Taiwan University. March 25, 2019.
  • Reading Club on the Chinese translation of Japanese scholar Maeda Ai’s Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity. Taipei, March 24, 2019.
  • “Ancient Capital, Martial Arts World, and Situationist Psychogeography.” Invited IEP (International Excellence Program) lecture at National Chengchi University, March 20, 2019.
  •  “Methods of Imagining Beijing.” Invited lecture at National Tsing Hua University, March 19. 2019.
  • “Smokestacks, Structure of Feeling, and Eco-critical Aesthetics.” Lingnan University, Hong Kong. March 16-17, 2019.
  • “Manchuria, Manchukuo, and (Post)Industrial Northeast China: Non-Place, En(x)clave, and Ex(in)clusion.” The May 4th @100. Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. December 21, 2018.
  • “Methods of Imagining Beijing.” Invited lecture at Soochow University. September 4, 2018.
  • “Methods of Imagining Beijing.” Invited lecture, Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore. August 21, 2018.
  • “(Post)Loyalists, (New)Wanderers, and Chivalric Psychogeography.” Invited lecture, Wan Boo Sow Research Centre for Chinese Culture, National University of Singapore. August 20, 2018.
  •  “Smokestacks, Structure of Feeling, and Eco-critical Aesthetics.” Rutgers University-National Taiwan University Workshop, National Taiwan University. April 12, 2017.
  • “Eileen Chang and East Asia Modernity.” Invited lecture at National Taiwan University, April 11, 2017.
  • “Food, Flowers, and Diasporic Writings.” Invited speaker at the Conference on “Crossing 1949.” National Central University, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Association of Modern Chinese Literature, Taiwan, December 26-27, 2016.
  •  “Warped Hometown, Emotional Topography.” Invited speaker at the Conference on “Qing/Emotion, Mobility and East Asian Modernity.” National Tsing Hua University and National Central University, Taiwan, December 22-23, 2016.
  • “Threshold, Epiphany, and Zhang Ailing.” Invited speaker at the International Workshop on Literary Thought in Traditional and Modern China. Rutgers University, December 3-4, 2016.
  • “Landscapes, Literati, and Thoughts: Lu Xun, Tsurumi Yūsuke, and Beijing.” International Conference on Tradition and Transformations in the Chinese Humanities in East Asian Perspective. National Taiwan University, August 24-25, 2016 (submitted paper without presence).
  •  “Reading Jin Yong from the Worlds.” Invited speaker, The 27th Hong Kong Book Fair. Hong Kong Exhibition Center, July 24, 2016.
  • “Door, (Dis)Enchantment, and (Anti-)Direction.” Invited speaker at the Conference on “Eileen Chang Studies.” Academia Sinica, July 1-2, 2016.
  • “Imaginary Memory, Chivalric Geography, and Sinophone Cartography.” Rutgers University-National Taiwan University Workshop. Rutgers University, May 5, 2016.
  •  Panel chair for the Conference on “The Teaching of Chinese Language and Culture: Theory, Practice, and Innovation.” Rutgers University, April 30-May 1, 2016.
  • “Usher, Pilot, and Fictional Setting.” Invited speaker at the Workshop on “Wang Anyi and Her Novel Art.” Duke University, April 17, 2016.
  • Invited lecture and Discussion leader for the theme “Disruption” and featured documentary Manufactured Landscapes. Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey. March 6, 2016.
  •  “Jin Yong, Lyrical Cartography, and the Method of Imagining China.” Invited speaker at the Conference on “Jin Yong’s Literary World of Mountains and Rivers,” Chinese University of Hong Kong and Macau University, November 30-December 3, 2015.
  •  “Teahouse, Warped Space, and Self-Mourning.” Invited speaker for a public lecture, Dartmouth College, May 14, 2015.
  • “The Longest Night in Shanghai.” Guest lecture in Signature Course “Global East Asia,” Rutgers University, March 26, 2015.
  • “Imagining Beijing in Sinophone Writing.” Invited speaker at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, December 12, 2014.
  •  “Methods of Imagining Beijing.” Paper presented at the faculty workshop between Rutgers University and National Taiwan University, Rutgers University–New Brunswick, April 4, 2014.
  • “Between Political Dystopia and Ecological Utopia: Yan Lianke’s Spatial Imageries.” Invited speaker at the Third Forum of Sinophone Literature. Taipei, October 15-20, 2013.
  • “Teahouse, Warped Space, and Self-Mourning.” Conference on “Various Aspects of Chinese Studies in the Global Age,” Rutgers University–New Brunswick, June 21-23, 2013.
  • “Dark Room, Solitary Lamp, Empty City, and Inner Illumination: Lu Xun, Tsurumi Yūsuke, Beijing and Beyond.” Invited speaker at the Conference on “Lu Xun and East Asia.” Harvard University, April 5-6, 2013.
  • “Affective Mapping of Modern Beijing.” Workshop of “Affective Mapping of Chinese Cities.” Rutgers University–New Brunswick, November 16, 2012.
  • “Fictional History, Historical Fiction, and Imagined Geography: Jin Yong’s Chivalric Topography.” Conference on “The Interaction of Literature, History and Thought: Revisiting the ‘Trinity’ in Chinese Scholarship.” Rutgers University–New Brunswick, November 9-11, 2012.
  •  “Affective Mapping of Wartime Beijing.” Invited speaker at the Conference “War, Violence, and Their Aftermath: Historical Memory, Literary Imagination, and Cultural Regeneration.” Washington University in St. Louis, April 6-7, 2012.
  • “Teahouse, Warped Space, and the Implosion in Urban Darkness.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Toronto, March 15-18, 2012.
  • “Emotional Topography, Food Memory, and Bittersweet Aftertaste.” Conference on “Legacies of Taste: An International Conference on Food Narratives in China.” University of Hong Kong, December 15-17, 2011.
  • “The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Performing Ide©ology.” American Comparative Literature (X) Workshop, Penn State University, September 29-October 1, 2011.
  • “Contemporary Chinese Life.” Invited speaker at China Behind the Headlines: An Interdisciplinary Summer Institute for K-12 Educators. Rutgers University–New Brunswick, July 18, 2011.
  • “Ide©ology and the Socialist Production of Space: The Metamorphosis of Dragon Beard Ditch.” Panelist and organizer of symposium “Chinese Ecocriticism,” Rutgers University–New Brunswick, April 21, 2011.
  • “Allergy, Eulogy, and Ecocritical Poetics: Lin Huiyin and Modern Beijing.” Annual Meeting of NeMLA, Rutgers University–New Brunswick, April 9, 2011.
  • “Dragon Beard Ditch, Ideological Hygiene, and the Production of Socialist Space.” Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Hawaii, March 31-April 3, 2011.
  •  “Hong Kong Fantasy, Beijing Image, and Jin Yong’s Chivalric Geography.” Invited speaker at the Conference “Hong Kong: Urban Imagination and Cultural Memory.” Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Institute of Education, December 17-18, 2010.
  •  “Rickshaw Boy, Bicycle Kids, and the Topography of Urban Desires.” Faculty Seminar, Rutgers University–New Brunswick, November 17, 2010.
  • “From Rickshaw Boy to Bicycle Kids: Chronotopic Dis/Enchantment and Cinematic Cartography of Urban Desire.” International Conference “Space and Time in Chinese Cinema.” University of California at Davis, November 5-6, 2010.
  • “Culinary Aesthetics, Idle Talk, and Liang Shiqiu’s Cottager Essays.” International Symposium on Chinese Classics and Thought. Rutgers University–New Brunswick, June 28-29, 2010.
  • Organizer and moderator of symposium “Shanghai and the World Expo 2010.” Rutgers University–New Brunswick, April 28, 2010.
  • “Man, Machine, and the Mapping of an Urban (Dis)Enchantment: Ling Zifeng, Lao She, and a Rickshaw Puller’s Dream-Waking Irony.” Invited speaker at the Symposium “China through the Modern Lens.” Smith College, March 5-6, 2010.
  • “Envisioning the Other: Mutual Imaginations in American and Chinese Films.” Conference “Evolving U.S.-China Relations: Retrospect and Prospects (A Conference in Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of Their Diplomatic Ties).” Panelist and conference co-organizer. Rutgers University – New Brunswick, November 12, 2009.
  • “Performing Pleasure: Lin Yutang and His Configuration of the Ideal-Type City.” Conference “East Asian Confucianisms: Interactions and Innovations.” Rutgers University–New Brunswick, May 1-2, 2009.
  • “Zhang Henshui, Alternative May Fourth Youth, and Beijing Romance.” Conference “The May Fourth Movement and Modern Chinese Literature.” Peking University, April 23-25, 2009.
  • “Unfolding the Forbidden City: Princess Der Ling, Victor Segalen, and the Disclosure of ‘the Within’.” Conference “Urban Life in China from the 15h to the 20th Century.” École Française d’Extrême–Orient (EFEO) in Paris, December 4-6, 2008.
  • “Re-Imaging Beijing: From Ancient Capital to Olympic City.” Conference “Beijing and the Olympics 2008: Social, Economic, Cultural, and Urban Transformations in the 21st Century.” Rutgers University–New Brunswick, May 1, 2008.
  • “Imagining Beijing in Sinophone Writing: Food, Flowers, and Diasporic Memory.” Invited speaker at Georgetown University, March 19, 2008.
  • Panel chair and discussant, “Self and Society: Perspectives on Chinese Cultural Studies.” The Seventh International Junior Scholars’ Conference on Sinology. Swarthmore College, March 7-9, 2008.
  • “Food, Flowers, and Diasporic Memory: Imagining Beijing in Sinophone Writing.” Invited speaker at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, February 21, 2008.
  • “Imagining Beijing in Sinophone Writing.” Conference “Globalizing Modern Chinese Literature: Sinophone and Diasporic Writings.” Harvard University, December 6-8, 2007.
  • “Zhang Yimou, Yu Hua, and the Film To Live.” Invited speaker at the “World Film Forum.” West Lafayette Public Library, November 7, 2007.
  • “Views from Near and Afar: Lin Yutang, Princess Der Ling, Victor Segalen, and Beijing Narratives.” Faculty Colloquium at Purdue University, April 10, 2007.
  • “Loquacious Gaps and Silences: Reconstructions of Cultural Identity during and after the War of Resistance.” Panel discussant, Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies. Boston, March 22, 2007.
  • “Lin Huiyin, a Female Writer and Architect in the Era of Transformation of Modern Beijing.” Invited speaker at Wellesley College, March 15, 2007.
  • “Globalization, Localization, and McDonald’s in Beijing.” Invited speaker at Thayer Seminar, Purdue University, March 5, 2007.
  • “Nationalist Sentiments, Chivalric Romances, and Jin Yong’s Martial Arts Fiction.” Invited speaker at Purdue University, February 11, 2007.
  • “The Image of Xi’an City in Lin Yutang’s The Vermillion Gate.” Conference “Xi’an: Historical Memory and Urban Culture.” Shaanxi Normal University, November 2-3, 2006.
  • “Stream of Consciousness, Modernist Sketch, and Urban Planning of Beijing.” Invited speaker at the University of Oregon, April 28, 2006.
  • “The Poetics and Politics of Urban Objects: Lin Huiyin and Modern Beijing.” Invited speaker at Gettysburg College, February 6, 2006.
  • “The Poetics and Politics of Urban Objects: Lin Huiyin and Modern Beijing.” Invited speaker at Purdue University, January 26, 2006.
  •  “Beijing Modern: A Literary and Cultural Topography, 1900s-1950s.” Invited speaker at the University of Oregon. November 12, 2005.
  • “The Hsia Brothers and Chinese Popular Literature.” Conference “The Hsia Brothers and Chinese Literature.” Columbia University, October 28-29, 2005.
  • “Methods of Imagining Modern China.” Invited speaker at the University of North Dakota, April 12, 2005.
  •  “The Poetics and Politics of Daily Objects: Lin Huiyin and Modern Beijing.” Invited speaker at Bryn Mawr College. February 3, 2005.
  • “Views from Near and Afar: Lin Yutang, Princess Der Ling, Victor Segalen and Beijing Narratives.” Invited speaker at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, January 25, 2005.
  •  “Literary Sensibility, Spatial Imagination, and Urban Planning of Modern Beijing.” Invited speaker at Wesleyan University, February 6, 2004.
  •  “Views from Near and Afar: Lin Yutang, Princess Der Ling, Victor Segalen and Beijing Narratives.” Conference “Beijing: Urban Imagination and Cultural Memory.” Peking University, October 22-24, 2003.
  • “Chinese Martial Arts Film.” Invited speaker at Columbia University, July 6, 2003.
  • “‘Poetic Thinking’, Literary Perception, and Urban Imagination: Lin Huiyin and Modern Beijing.” Conference “Poetic Thought and Hermeneutics in China: A Cross-Cultural Perspective.” Yale University, May 1-4, 2003.
  • “The Poetics and Politics of Daily Objects: Lin Huiyin and Modern Beijing.” Invited speaker at the University of Colorado at Boulder, February 7, 2003.
  • “Literature, Architecture, and Urban Imagination: Lin Huiyin and Modern Beijing.” Invited speaker at the University of California at Santa Barbara, January 27, 2003.
  • “Memories of Holocausts: Between Philosophical Reflections and Melodramatic Representations.” Conference “Beginning of the New Century: Comparative Literature in a Cross-Cultural Context.” Nanjing University, August 15-17, 2002.
  • “Geopolitical Imagination, Martial Arts-Medicine-Technology, and Tsui Hark’s Wong Fei-hung Series.” Conference “Chinese Popular Culture in the 20th Century.” Columbia University, March 26-28, 2001.
  • “‘Imagined Memories’, Generic Differences, and Jin Yong’s Fiction.” Conference “Jin Yong’s Fiction and Chinese Literature in the 20th Century.” Peking University, November 2-4, 2000.
  • “Body Imagination in Late Qing Chivalric and Court-Case Fiction: Reading of Three Knights-errant and Five Brothers.” Conference “Late Ming and Late Qing.” Peking University, August 14-16, 2000.
  • “Literary Modernity in the Post Mao Era,” panel moderator and discussant, Columbia Graduate Student Conference, New York, February 6, 2000.
  • “‘Gufeng’ in The Song of Poetry,” Columbia Graduate Student Conference, New York, February 5, 2000.
  • “Nation-state, Individual Identity, and Historical Memory.” Conference “Jin Yong’s Fiction and Chinese Literature in the 20th Century.” University of Colorado, Boulder, May 17-19, 1998.
  • “MaoCraze and the Question of Nostalgia in 1990s China.” Invited speaker at Tsinghua University, March 9, 1998.
  • “Local or Global: Cultural Identities in the Multicultural Contexts.” Conference “Cultural Dialogue and Misreading.” Peking University, October 9-11, 1995.
  • “Identity Crisis and the Politics of Representation in Chinese American Literature.” Conference “Cultural Studies: China and the West.” Dalian Foreign Languages University, August 6-10, 1995.

Participation in Organizing or Chairing Conferences and Workshops

  • Co-organizer (with David Der-wei Wang 王德威) of a bilingual forum “Moses on the Plain: Shuang Xuetao and New Donbei Literature” 平原上的摩西：双雪涛与新东北文学 (with Shuang Xuetao 双雪涛, Jeremy Tiang 程异, Carlos Rojas 罗鹏, Xuexin Zhang 张学昕, Eric Abrahamsen 陶建, and Brian Lax) co-sponsored by Harvard Fairbank Center, Rutgers Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers Center for Chinese Studies, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, and Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation. April 13, 2022.
  • Chair and discussant of a panel “Travel Writing” for the conference on “Exoticism, Foreign Lands, and World Imagination.” National Tsing Hua University, December 27, 2018.
  • Co-organizer (with Xiaojue Wang) of the International Workshop on “Sinoglossic Narrative in Modern Chinese and Comparative Literature.” Rutgers University– New Brunswick, November 9, 2018.
  • Co-organizer of the International Workshop on “Literary Thought in Traditional and Modern China.” Rutgers University– New Brunswick, December 3-4, 2016.
  • Discussion leader for the theme “Disruption” and featured documentary Manufactured Landscapes. Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey. March 6, 2016.
  • Organizer of a workshop on “Sinophone Urban Emotions.” Rutgers University – New Brunswick, April 10, 2015.
  • Chair of a panel “China in Focus: Women, Gender Politics and Transformation” for a conference in honor of Professor Montague Kern, Rutgers University – New Brunswick, October 30, 2013.
  • Organizer of a workshop on “Affective Mapping of Chinese Cities,” Rutgers University – New Brunswick, November 16, 2012.
  • Organizer, “The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Performing Politics in (Post) Cold War China,” Panel No. 131, at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Toronto, March 15-18, 2012.
  • Organizer of a symposium on “Chinese Ecocriticism,” Rutgers University, April 21, 2011.
  • Organizer and moderator of Symposium “Shanghai and the World Expo 2010.” Rutgers University – New Brunswick, April 28, 2010.
  • Co-organizer, “Evolving U.S.-China Relations: Retrospect and Prospects,” A Conference in Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of Their Diplomatic Ties, Rutgers University, November 12, 2009.
  • Co-organizer, “Self and Society: Perspectives on Chinese Cultural Studies,” The Seventh International Junior Scholars’ Conference on Sinology, Swarthmore College, March 7-9, 2008.
  • Assistant Organizer of international conference “Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945: History, Culture, Memory” at Columbia University (Organizers: Professors David Der-wei Wang, Ping-hui Liao, and Madeline Zelin), March 2002.
  • Co-organizer of international conference on “Chinese Popular Culture Unveiled” at Columbia University (with Professors David Der-wei Wang and Carlos Rojas), April 8-10, 2001.
  • Assistant Organizer of international conference “Woman History: New Directions” at Columbia University (Organizer: Professor Dorothy Ko), March 2001.
  • Assistant Organizer, the international conference “The Late Ming and the Late Qing: Historical Dynamics and Cultural Innovations” at Peking University (Organizers: Professors Chen Pingyuan, David Der-wei Wang, and Wei Shang) August 2000.
  • Member, the program “Modern and Contemporary Chinese Popular Cultural Studies” organized by Peking University and Duke University, sponsored by Luce Foundation in America, 1996-1998.
  • Member, National Project “Chinese Literature in World Cultural Contexts” sponsored by National Commission of Education, P. R. China, 1992-1997.

Membership on Editorial Boards

  • International Advisory Board Member, Routledge Book Series of “Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Approaches to Chinese Literature”
  • Editorial Collective, “Studies of Culture and Society” Book Series (in Chinese) published by Oxford University Press (Hong Kong) and Central Compilation and Translation Press (Beijing).
  • Editorial Board Member, Chinese Literary Classics Made Easy Book Series, published by China National Publishers, Inc.