Ban Wang 王斑

William Haas Professor in Chinese Studies, Stanford University
banwang@stanford.edu

Research Area:

To be updated.

Education

University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 1993
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Ph.D. coursework, Comparative Literature, 1990
Beijing Foreign Studies University, China, M. A., English Literature, 1985
Beijing Foreign Studies University, China, B. A., English Literature, 1982

Selected publications

Authored Books:

Illuminations from the Past: Trauma, Memory, and History in Modern China .  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004.
History and Memory: A Critique of Global Modernity (in Chinese).  Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 2004.
History and Memory in the Shadows of Globalization in Chinese). New, expanded edition of History and Memory above.  Nanjing, China: Nanjing University Press, 2006.  Second print 2007
Narrative Perspective and Irony in Chinese and American Fiction.  New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
The Sublime Figure of History: Aesthetics and Politics in Twentieth-Century China. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997). 
The Chinese translation of The Sublime Figure of History. Shanghai: Sanlian Books, 2008.

Edited Volumes and Translations:
Editor, Words and Their Stories: Essays on Chinese Revolutionary Discourse. Forthcoming from Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2009.
Coeditor (with Xueping Zhong).  The Image of China in the American Classroom: Personal Reflections by Chinese Scholars in the US (in Chinese). Nanjing University Press, 2006.  Second print 2007.
Guest Editor. Literature in the Age of Cultural Studies and Globalization, a special issue of the journal Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 31. 2 (July 2005).
Coeditor with E. Ann Kaplan, Trauma and Cinema: Cross-Cultural Explorations.  Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004.
Co-Editor and Translator (with Xudong Zhang), Chinese Edition of Illuminations by Walter Benjamin.  Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
“In Search of Real-Life Images in China: Realism in the Age of Spectacle.”  The Journal of Contemporary China 17. 56 (August 2008). 496-512.
“The Tree Within the Forest: The Wonderful Culture of Rivers and Lakes.” The Jin Yong Phenomenon: Chinese Martial Arts Fiction and Modern Chinese Literary History. Ed. Ann Huss and Jianmei Liu. Youngstown, New York: Cambria Press, 2007. iv-xiii.
“Epic Narrative, Authenticity, and the Memory of Realism: Reflections on Jia Zhangke’s Platform.” Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution. Ed. Ching Kwan Lee and Guobin Yang. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 2007. 193-216.
“Discovering Enlightenment in Chinese History: Wang Hui’s Rise of Modern Chinese Thought.” Review article. Boundary. 2. 34 (2007):217-238.
 “Re-enchanting the Image in Global Culture: Reification and Nostalgia in Zhu Tianwen’s Fiction.” Writing Taiwan. Ed.  David Wang and Carlos Rojas.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. 370-388
“Reclaiming Literature as Public Forum.”  Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 31. 2 (July 2005): 3-14.
“Re-Imagining Political Community: Diaspora, Nation-State, and the Struggle for Recognition.”  Modern Drama 48. 2 (Summer 2005): 249-271.
“Documentary as Haunting of the Real: The Logic of Capital in Blind Shaft.”  Asian Cinema 16. 1 (Spring/Summer 2005): 4-15
 “To Show or Not to Show: The Use of Film in Teaching Cross-Cultural Courses.” Visual Media and the Humanities: A Pedagogy of Representation.  Ed.  Kecia Mcbride.  Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2004.  277-294.
“Tradition, Modernity, and Critical Historical Consciousness: Lu Xun’s Reflections on History.”  Interpretation and Intellectual Change.  Ed. Ching-I Tu.  New Brunswick and London: Transaction Press, 2004.  241-256.
“Trauma, Visuality, and History in Chinese Literature and Film.” In Trauma and Cinema, ed. by Ann Kaplan and Ban Wang.  Hong Kong University Press, 2004.  219-241.
“From Traumatic Paralysis to the Force Field of Modernity: An Introduction.”  Co-author with Ann Kaplan, in Trauma and Cinema, ed. by Ann Kaplan and Ban Wang.  Hong Kong University Press, 2004.  1-23.
“Black Holes of Globalization: Critique of the New Millennium in Taiwan Cinema.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 15. 1 (Spring 2003): 90-119.
 “The Banality of Violence: Globalization, Hong Kong, and Remembrance of the Past.”  Comparative Literature in Cross-Cultural Context.  Ed. by Aiming Cheng.  Nanjing: Yiling Press, 2003.  126-140.
 “History in a Mythical Key: Temporality, Memory, and Tradition in Wang Anyi’s Fiction.” Journal of Contemporary China 12. 37 (2003): 609-625.
“Revolutionary Realism and Revolutionary Romanticism."  The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature.   Ed.  Joshua Mostow.   New York: Columbia UP, 2003.  470-475.
 “The Cold War, Imperial Aesthetics, and Area Studies.” Social Text 72. 2 (2002): 45-65.
“Love at Last Sight: Nostalgia, Commodity, and Temporality in Wang Anyi’s Song of Unending Sorrow.”  positions: an east asian culture critique 10. 3 (2002): 669-694.
“Fantasy, Mythology, and History: Walter Benjamin's Critique of History and his Arcade Project” (“Menghuan, shenhua yu lishi: benyaming de lish guan”).  Shijie (horizons) 5 ( 2002): 190-200.
 “The Crisis of Literature and the Market” (“Wenxue weiji yu shichang”).  Shanghai Literature (Shanghai wenxue) 6 (2001):  70-71.
“Historical Trauma in Multinational Cinemas: Thinking History with Trauma.”  Tamkang Review 30. 4 (2001): 59-84.
“From Historical Narrative to the World of Prose: The Essayistic Mode in Contemporary Chinese Literature.”  The Modern Chinese Literary Essay: Defining the Chinese Self in the 20th Century, ed. by Martin Woesler Bochum, Germany, Bochum UP, 2000. 173-188
“Memory, Narcissism, and Sublimation: Reading Lou Andreas-Salome's Freud Journal.”  The American Imago 57. 2 (Summer 2000): 215-234
“Between Historical Memory and Mirages of the Commodity” (Zai lishi jiyi yu shangpin huangxiang jian paihuai).  Shijie (horizons) 1 (Spring 2000): 173-181.
“The Aesthetic of the Aura.” (Huhuan linyun de meixue). Shuxie Taiwan (Writing Taiwan).  Ed. Ying-Hsiung Chou and Joyce Liu. Taipei: Rye Field Press, 2000. 343-359
“Trauma and History in Chinese Film: Reading The Blue Kite against Melodrama.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (Spring 1999): 125-155.
“Memory as History: Making Sense of the Past in Contemporary Chinese Fiction.” American Journal of Chinese Studies 5 (Spring 1998): 301-319.
“Writing, Self, and Other: Chateaubriand and his Atala.”  French Forum 22.2 (1997):

133-148.  Reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 134, 2004).

“The Sublime Subject of History and Desublimation in Contemporary Chinese Narrative.” Comparative Literature 47. 4 (1995): 330-353.
“Narrating against the Grain: A Structural Ambiguity in Classical Chinese Fiction.” Journal of Asian Culture (1994): 99-126.
“Wang Guowei zhuangmei shuo de zhengzhi wu yishi” (The political unconscious of Wang Guowei's notion of the sublime).  Xueren (scholar) 2 (1994): 551-571.
“Inscribed Wilderness in Chateaubriand's Atala.” Romance Notes 33. 3 (1993) 279-287.
“ ‘I’ on the Run: Crisis of Identity in Mrs. Dalloway." Modern Fiction Studies 38.1 (1992, Special Issue on V. Woolf): 177-191.
“Allegory vs.Symbol: Reading Benjamin's Theory of Allegory through Hegel.” Prosthesis 1 (Summer 1992): 89-105.
“The Real Under Scrutiny: The Cutting Edge of Chinese Fantastic Narrative.” Tamkang Review 21. 2 (1990): 149-165.

Work in Progress and Forthcoming:
Books:
China and the World: Geopolitics, Aesthetics, and Cosmopolitanism (tentative title). 8 chapters written.

Papers in Journals and Anthologies:
 “Kang Youwei’s Datong shu (Book of the Great Community) and International Ethics and Aesthetics.”  In Ayling Wang ed. The Chinese Literati and Cross-Border Aesthetics.  Forthcoming from the Press of Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

Classes

IHUM: The Chinese Family
CHINGEN 133/233 Literature in 20th Century China.
CHINGEN Modern Chinese Literature: Tradition, Modernity, and Revolution.
CHINGEN 137/237 20th Century Chinese Literature.
CHINGEN 138. Love in Chinese Film. CHINLIT 174. Modern Chinese Short Stories.

Professional activities

Academic Membership
Modern Language Association
Association for Asian Studies
American Comparative Literature Association
American Association of Chinese Comparative Literature
Society of Cinema Studies

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