Welcome to
A.Prof. Jing Wang, Colgate University, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, China
Research Area: Comparative culture
Research Experience:
Comparative
studies have been my main academic concern. I have published three books. They
are:
When “I” Was Born: Women’s
Autobiography in Modern China.
Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press, 2008.
Jumping through
Hoops: Autobiographical Stories by Modern Chinese Women
Writers.
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2003.
英诗入门 [How to Read English Poetry], co-edited
with Ding Wangdao. Shanghai: Shanghai
Translations Publishing House, 1989.
Reprints 1994, 1999.
In the past ten
years, after living for nearly thirty years in the US, teaching for nearly
twenty years at Colgate University, I have come to the realization that the
predominance of Western bias and suppression of Chinese worldview and value
system make it very hard for the world to really understand China. To do my bit
as a scholar, I started re-educating myself after tenure by studying both
Western and Chinese intellectual history, which is why I have not published
much since my last book in 2008. I wanted to reinvent my scholarship and my
teaching, to help my students better appreciate China in today’s world. Currently
I am writing a book with the working title “Middle as Synthesis: Understanding
Chinese Worldview.” If I have the honor to serve as one of the keynote speakers
for the conference, I would like to present my paper in Chinese. If needed I am
happy to use English, that is not a problem at all; but I am sure that there are
many Chinese scholars in the audience. I feel that there should be keynote
speakers in Chinese as well as English, and it would be my great pleasure to
contribute in that capacity.