Xiaobin Yang
Curriculum vitae

Croft Associate Professor of Chinese

EDUCATION:

• Ph.D., Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University, May 1996
• M.A., Department of Oriental Languages and Literatures, University of Colorado at Boulder,August 1991
• B.A., Department of Chinese, Fudan University, Shanghai - China, July 1985

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:

Teaching Interests:

• Chinese language at all levels; modern and classical Chinese literature, Chinese film; Chinese cultural studies; literary/cultural theory and comparative literature.

Research Interests:

• Modern Chinese literature/culture and comparative literature. The themes I am especially interested in are the interplay between the culturo-aesthetic and the sociopolitical, and the relationships among the intellectual discourse, the official discourse and the popular discourse in modern China.

MOST FREQUENTLY TAUGHT CLASSES:

• Chinese 201
• Chinese 301
• Chinese 401

PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS:

• The Chinese Postmodern: Trauma and Irony in Chinese Avant-Garde Fiction. University of Michigan Press, 2002 (forthcoming).
• Lishi yu xiuci: Dangdai Zhongguo wenxue lun [History and Rhetoric: On Contemporary Chinese Literature]. Lanzhou: Dunhuang wenyi chubanshe, 1999.
• Fouding de meixue: Falankefu xuepai de wenxue lilun yu wenhua piping [Negative Aesthetics: Literary Theory and Cultural Criticism of the Frankfurt School]. Shanghai: Sanlian shudian, 1999.
• Fouding de meixue: Falankefu xuepai de wenxue lilun yu wenhua piping[Negative Aesthetics: Literary Theory and Cultural Criticism of the Frankfurt School]. Taipei: Maitian (Rye Field), 1995.
• Chuanyue yangguang didai [Across the Sunlight Zone]. Taipei: Modern Poetry Society, 1994. (Winner of the 1994 “Award for the First Collection of Poems,” Modern Poetry Society.)

ESSAYS (most recent):

• "Toward a Theory of Postmodern/Post-Mao-Deng Literature," in Charles Laughlin ed., Contested Modernities: Perspectives on 20th-Century Chinese Literature, New York: Palgrave, 2005.
• “Answering the Question: What Is Chinese Postmodernism/Post-Mao-Dengism?” in David Wang ed., Chinese Literature in the Second Half of A Modern Century: A Critical Survey, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2000.
• “Whence and Whither the Postmodern/Post-Mao-Deng: Historical Subjectivity and Literary Subjectivity in Modern China,” in Arif Dirlik and Xudong Zhang eds., Postmodernism and China, Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.
• “The Republic of Wine: An Extravaganza of Decline.” Positions: East Asian Cultures Critique, 6.1 (Spring 1998).
• “Feizhengzhi de zhengzhixing: Guanyu Gao Xingjian xiju de duanxiang” [Politics of the Apolitical: Random Thoughts on Gao Xingjian’s Drama]. Ershiyi shiji [The Twenty-First Century] 62 (December 2000).
• “Fengkuang yu huangdan: Xu Xiaohe xiaoshuo zhong de wenben zhengzhi” [Madness and Absurdity: Textual Politics in Xu Xiaohe’s Fiction. Ershiyi shiji [The Twenty-First Century] 55 (October 1999).

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GRANTS, AWARDS, APPOINTMENTS:

• 2001 Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Grant, US Dept of Education
• April 2001 Researcher/Scholar Recognition Award, University of Mississippi
• 2000 CSCC National Program for Advanced Study and Research in China
• 1999 NEH Summer Stipends
• 1995 Whiting Fellowship
• 1995 Henry Hart Rice Fellowship, Yale Center for International and Area Studies
• 1995 John F. Enders Fellowship for Dissertation Research
• 1994-95 Research Grant, Pacific Cultural Foundation
• 1994 Pre-Dissertation Research Grant, Yale Center for International and Area Studies
• 1993 Cheng-Lee Fellowship for Summer Research, Yale University
• 1992 Research Grant, Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University
• 1988 Special Achievement Award, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:

• June 21-22, 2004 - University of International Relations Lecture Series, "Psychoanalysis and Chinese Literary Studies" and "Postmodernism and China"
• October 29-30, 2003 - Nanjing University Paper presentation, "Adorno and the Chinese (Post-) Modernity," International Symposium in Commemoration of Th. W. Adorno's 100-Year Birthday
• April 14, 2003 - Peking University Lecture, "From Aria to Recitative: As If Speaking Sounded Better Than Singing"
• March 7-8, 2003 - Peking University Chair of the panels, "Economy and Environment" and "Culture and Habitation," at the Symposium "Whither the West Beijing? – Forum on Residential Culture in West Beijing"
• December 17, 2001 - Capital Normal University, Beijing Paper presentation, "Zuowei youling de houxiandai" (The Postmodern as Specter), International Conference of Poetic Theory
• July 12, 2001 - Beijing Normal Univ. Lecture, "Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and Contemporary Chinese Literature"
• June 17, 2001 - Shanghai, China Paper presentation, "Cityscape as Dreamscape: Chinese Poetry in the Post-1989 Era," Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature Biennial Conference
• October 12, 2000 - Univ. of Mississippi Lecture, "Current Intellectual Debates in China," at Croft Institute for International Studies
• June 20, 2000 - Shanghai Normal University Lecture, "Answering the Question: What Is Chinese Postmodernism?"
• June 17, 2000 - Midnight Book Club, Shanghai Lecture, "Political Discourse and Literary Discourse in Twentieth-Century China"
• June 16, 2000 - Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Lecture, "Current Development in the Studies of Modern Chinese Literature"
• June 6, 2000 - East China Normal Univ., Shanghai Lecture, "Answering the Question: What Is Chinese Postmodernism?"
• May 15, 2000 - China People's Univ., Beijing Lecture, "Answering the Question: What Is Chinese Postmodernism?"
• April 7-10, 2000 - Columbia University Paper presentation, "Chinese Postmodernity Reconsidered," international conference on "Contested Modernities: Perspectives on 20th-Century Chinese Literature"
• March 21, 2000 - Univ. of Mississippi Lecture, "What Is Chinese Postmodernism/Post-Mao-Dengism?" at the Liberal Arts Faculty Forum
• February 4, 2000 - U. of New Orleans Lecture, "Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature: Realism vs.(Post-)Modernism?"
• February 3, 2000 - Xavier Univ. of LA Lecture, "Poetics and Politics: Contemporary Chinese Writing"
• October 28, 1999 - Univ. of Mississippi Lecture, "Aesthetics and Politics: Chinese Propaganda Poster and Avant-Garde Art," at Croft Institute for International Studies
• June 27-28, 1998 - Taipei, Taiwan Paper presentation, "Postmodern Poetry in Taiwan and Mainland China," Symposium on Chinese Postmodern Literature
• Apr. 30-May 2, 1998 - Columbia University Paper presentation, "Reconstruction/Deconstruction of History in Contemporary Taiwan Fiction," Symposium on Taiwan Literature
• March 27, 1998 - Washington, DC Paper presentation, "Historical Trauma and National Subjectivity" the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies
• October 18, 1997 - Wesleyan University Paper presentation, "Irony and Allegory in Xu Xiaohe's Short Stories" New England Conference of AAS
• April 14, 1996 - Honolulu, Hawaii Paper presentation, "Tibet Fiction of Zhaxi Dawa and Ma Yuan" the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies
• March 22-24, 1996 - Brown University Organizer, International Chinese Writers' Freedom to Write Conference; Chair, session on HK and Overseas Chinese literature
• February 5, 1996 - Yale University Lecture, "Postmodern/Post-Mao-Deng Literature," forum sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University
• June 23-29, 1995 - Guiyang, China Speech, National Conference on Modern Chinese Poetry and Poetics
• July 10-27, 1993 - Taipei, Taiwan Speech, "Cultural Milieu and Historical Destiny of Taiwan," Symposium on Taiwan Experiences and the Future of China

OTHER ACTIVITIES:

• 2003 Jury member, Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage (The first global prize for reportage literature, founded in 2003, Germany)
• 2002 Co-Director, NCTA Study Tour to China and Japan
• 1994-1999 Editor-at-Large, Qingxiang [Tendency] (Chinese journal of Chinese humanities and literature based in Cambridge, Massachusetts)
• 1995-1996 Editor-in-Chief, Xiandaishi [Modern Poetry Quarterly] (the most prestigious poetry journal in Taiwan)
• 1988-1989 Secretary General, English Literature Studies Center Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences