Dun Wang
725 Kula Gulf Way, #100, Albany, CA 94706
Home Phone: (510) 526-0739
Email:
wangdun000@yahoo.com
wangdun@berkeley.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Candidate in Chinese Literature, University of California at Berkeley, CA, 2005-present.
Advisor: Andrew F. Jones
Dissertation Project: “Give Me a Day, and I Will Give You the World”: Chinese Fiction Periodicals in Global Context, 1900-1910
Committee Members: Andrew F. Jones, William Schaefer, Gautam Premnath
M.A. in Chinese Literature, University of California at Berkeley, CA, 2004.
Thesis: “Producing Modernized Children: The Pedagogical Novel in the First Decade of Twentieth Century China”
Committee Members: Stephen H. West, Andrew F. Jones, Wen-Hsin Yeh
B.A. in Chinese Literature, Beijing University (Peking University), China, 1995.
Thesis: “Lu Xun, Zhou Zuoren’s Concepts of Children and Modern Fairy Tale in China” (〈魯迅、周作人的儿童觀以及中國現代童話問題〉)
Advisor: Chen Pingyuan 陳平原
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Publications
__“Profile of A ‘Nourishing’ Mentor.” (〈學長的“營養價值”〉) Shucheng 書城 (July 2008 ).
__“The Imagination of Time-Space in the Late Qing Fiction.” (〈晚清科幻小說中的時空想象〉) Wenjing 文景 (April 2008): 72-77.
__“A Tour of China in the Late Qing.” (晚清的“支那旅行記”) Dushu 讀書 (July 2007): 107-110.
__Jolly, Margaretta ed. Encyclopedia of Life Writing. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001. s.v. “Ouyang Xiu.” (歐陽修)
__“A ‘Reading’ of Chen Pingyuan.” (〈“閱讀”陳平原〉) Biography 傳記文學 (April 1999): 69-72.
__“Biographical Literature in the Global Context.” (〈世界語境中的傳記文學〉) Guangming Daily 光明日報. 8 April 1999. (Co-authorship; with the second author Zhang Yu)
__“Six Episodes of a Floating Life: A Personal View.” (〈我看《浮生六記》〉) Auto/Biographical Inquiry 傳記文學研究叢書 (Vol. 1), 213-223. Changsha: Hunan wenyi chubanshe, 1997.
Presentations
__“’Give Me a Day, and I Will Give You the World’: Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction Periodicals as ‘Theme Parks’ of Modernity.” Western Conference of The Association for Asian Studies. Ogden, Utah, 2006.
__“Notes on Different Auto/Biographical Mentalities in China and the West.” The First International Conference on Auto/Biography. Beijing, China, 1999.
Research Assistant Projects
Fall 2006-Spring 2007
__Under Prof. Guenter Risse (Emeritus, History of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco). San Francisco’s Plague: The View from Chinatown (Forthcoming). Translating and analyzing the 1900s news from the local Chinese language newspaper Chung Sai Yat Po 中西日報.
Spring 2002-Fall 2002
__Under Prof. Leonard Nathan (Emeritus, Dept. Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley). Translating 40 poems of Wang Yangming 王陽明. Major source: Complete Works of Wang Yangming 王文成全書, in Wenyuan Pavilion copy of the Siku quanshu 文淵閣四庫全書.
Spring 2002
__Under Prof. Chris Berry (Depts. Film Studies and Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley). Compiling Chinese Names and Film Titles for the edited book, Chinese Films in Focus: 25 New Takes (London: British Film Institute Publishing, 2003).
Fall 2001
__Under Prof. Stephen H. West (Dept. East Asian Languages & Cultures, University of California, Berkeley). Identifying intextuality between Yuan Drama and Tang poetry. Major sources: Quan Tangshi 全唐詩 and Bai Pu 白樸, Tangminghuang qiuye wutongyu 唐明皇秋夜梧桐雨 (Maiwang guan 脈望館 Edition).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
__Chinese 1A and 1B (First Year Chinese, University of California, Berkeley)
I taught this course, including the modified 1AX and 1BX (designed for Chinese-heritage students) and the modified 1AY and 1BY (designed for Chinese-heritage students of other dialects) in Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Summer 2003, Summer 2004, Summer 2005, Summer 2006, and Spring 2007.
__Chinese 10A and 10B (Second Year Chinese, University of California, Berkeley)
I taught this course, including the modified 10AX and 10BX (designed for Chinese-heritage students) in Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Summer 2004, Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Summer 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006, and Summer 2006.
__Chinese 7A (Introduction to Chinese Literature and Culture: Pre-modern Period, University of California, Berkeley)
I assisted in lecturing, grading, and was in charge of exams and discussion sessions of this course in Fall 2004.
__Chinese 110B (Introduction to Classical Chinese II, University of California, Berkeley)
I assisted in lecturing, grading, and discussions of this course in Spring 2007.
