David Der-wei Wang
David Der-wei Wang | |||||||||
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| Born | Wang Der-wei 6 November 1954 | ||||||||
| Education | National Taiwan University (BA) University of Wisconsin-Madison (MA, PhD) | ||||||||
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| Thesis | Verisimilitude in realist narrative: Mao Tun's and Lao She's early novels (1982) | ||||||||
| Doctoral advisor | Arthur E. Kunst | ||||||||
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| Discipline | Sinology | ||||||||
| Institutions | Columbia University Harvard University | ||||||||
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| Chinese | 王德威 | ||||||||
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David Der-wei Wang (Chinese: 王德威; pinyin: Wáng Déwēi; born November 6, 1954) is a Taiwanese-American literary historian and sinologist who is the Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University. He has written extensively on post-late Qing Chinese fiction, comparative literary theory, colonial and modern Taiwanese literature, diasporic literature, Chinese Malay literature, Sinophone literature, and Chinese intellectuals and artists in the 20th century. His notions such as "repressed modernities", "post-loyalism", and "modern lyrical tradition" are instrumental and widely discussed in the field of Chinese literary studies.