Ban Wang
Ban Wang
Professor of Asian Languages and Comparative Literature
Contact:
Building 250, Room 215
Phone: 650 723 9836
banwang@stanford.edu
OVERVIEW:
Wang Ban is a Professor of Chinese Literature. He received his Ph.D. in comparative literature at UCLA. In addition to his research on Chinese and comparative literature, he has written on English and French literatures, psychoanalysis, international politics, and cinema. He has been a recipient of research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton. He taught at Beijing Foreign Studies University, SUNY-Stony Brook, Harvard University, and Rutgers University before he came to Stanford. His current project is tentatively entitled China and the World: Geopolitics, Aesthetics, and Cosmopolitanism.
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Courses
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COMPLIT123Spr2011-12
Short novels by Chinese and Western writers about Chinese experience and culture in the interconnected and conflicted world between East and West. Topics include the persistence of tradition and premodern lifestyle and morality in modern changes, reform and revolution. We will also discuss the individual, society and gender issues and take a global, comparative approach to texts.
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COMPLIT254Aut2010-11
From the May Fourth movement to the 40s. Themes include enlightenment, democracy, women's liberation, revolution, war, urban culture, and love. Prerequisite: advanced Chinese.
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COMPLIT135Win2010-11
Events, arts, films, and operas of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Analysis of political passion, aesthetics, and psychology of mass movements. Places the Cultural Revolution in the long-range context of art, social movements, and politics. Chinese language is not required.
