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Books by Dewei Wang
  | | Writing Taiwan A New Literary History (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society) by Carlos Rojas, Dewei Wang, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi, David Der-Weiwang Paperback, 424 Pages, Published 2007 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3867-3, ISBN: 0-8223-3867-X "Writing Taiwan is the first volume in English to examine the entire span of modern Taiwan literature, from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. In this collection, leading literary scholars based in Taiwan and the United States consider prominent Taiwanese authors and works in genres including poetry, travel writing, and realist, modernist, and postmodern fiction. The diversity of Taiwan literature is signaled by t ..." |
 | | The Lyrical in Epic Time Modern Chinese Intellectuals and Artists Through the 1949 Crisis by Dewei Wang, David DerâWei Wang, David Derand#8211, Wei Wang Hardcover, 496 Pages, Published 2015 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-17046-8, ISBN: 0-231-17046-7 "This book positions the lyrical as key to rethinking the dynamics of Chinese modernity and emphasizes Chinese lyricism's deep roots in its own native traditions, along with Western influences. Although the lyrical may seem like an unusual form for representing China's social and political crises in the mid-twentieth century, David Der-wei Wang contends that national cataclysm and mass movements intensified Chinese lyricism in extraordin ..." |
 | | Dynastic Crisis and Cultural Innovation From the Late Ming to the Late Qing and Beyond (Harvard East Asian Monographs) by Wei Shang, David DerâWei Wang, David Derand#8211, Wei Wang, Dewei Wang Hardcover, 620 Pages, Published 2006 by Harvard University Asia Center ISBN-13: 978-0-674-01781-8, ISBN: 0-674-01781-1 " This volume addresses cultural and literary transformation in the late Ming (1550-1644) and late Qing (1851-1911) eras. Although conventionally associated with a devastating sociopolitical crisis, each of these periods was also a time when Chinese culture was rejuvenated. Focusing on the twin themes of crisis and innovation, the seventeen chapters in this book aim to illuminate the late Ming and late Qing as eras of literary-cultural i ..." |
 | | Fin-de-Siecle Splendor(1st Edition) Repressed Modernities of Late Qing Fiction, 1849-1911 by Dewei Wang, David Der Wang Hardcover, 433 Pages, Published 1997 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-2845-4, ISBN: 0-8047-2845-3 "The reigning view of literary historians has been that the May Fourth movement of 1919 marks the division between the traditional and the modern in Chinese literature. This book argues that signs of reform and innovation can be discerned long before May Fourth, and that as China entered the arena of modern, international history in the late Qing, it was already developing its own complex matrix of incipient modernities. It demonstrates ..." |
 | | The Monster That Is History(Updated) History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China by Dewei Wang, David Derand#8211, Wei Wang, David DerâWei Wang Paperback, 409 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-23873-2, ISBN: 0-520-23873-7 "In ancient China a monster called Taowu was known for both its vicious nature and its power to see the past and the future. Over the centuries Taowu underwent many incarnations until it became identifiable with history itself. Since the seventeenth century, fictive accounts of history have accommodated themselves to the monstrous nature of Taowu. Moving effortlessly across the entire twentieth-century literary landscape, David Der-wei W ..." |
 | | The Last of the Whampoa Breed(1st Edition) Stories of the Chinese Diaspora (Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan) by Pang-Yuan Chi, Bangyuan Qi, Pan-Yuang Chi, Dewei Wang Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2003 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-13002-8, ISBN: 0-231-13002-3 "Whampoa Military Academy was China's first modern military institution. For decades the "Spirit of Whampoa" was invoked as the highest praise to all Chinese soldiers who guarded their nation heroically. But of all the battles these soldiers have fought, the most challenging one was the civil war that resulted in the "great divide" of China in the mid-twentieth century. In 1949 the Communists exiled a million soldiers and their families ..." |
 | | From May Fourth to June Fourth(1st Edition) Fiction and Film in Twentieth-Century China (Harvard Contemporary China Series) by Ellen Widmer, Dewei Wang, Andrew G. Walder, David Der Wang, Harvard University Press Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 1993 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-32502-9, ISBN: 0-674-32502-8 "What do the Chinese literature and film inspired by the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) have in common with the Chinese literature and film of the May Fourth movement (1918-1930)? This new volume in the Harvard Contemporary China Series - now under the editorial direction of Harvard University Press - demonstrates that these two periods of the highest literary and cinematic creativity in 20th-century China share several aims: to liberat ..." |
 | | Fictional Realism in 20th Century China by Dewei Wang, David Der Wang Hardcover, 367 Pages, Published 1992 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-07656-2, ISBN: 0-231-07656-8 "In other words, nostalgia might function both as means and end in Shen Congwen's native soil literature. What the reader is fascinated with is really his or her own action of reading about the lost homeland rather than the homeland itself . What might have never existed is exactly what we are looking forward to. When anticipation and nostalgia are intertwined, it is imaginary nostalgia, not nostalgia, that weaves the spell of The Bo ..." |
 | | A New Literary History of Modern China by Dewei Wang, David Derand#8211, Wei Wang, David Der Wang, David DerWei Wang Hardcover, 1,032 Pages, Published 2017 by Belknap Press: An Imprint Of Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-96791-5, ISBN: 0-674-96791-7 "Literature, from the Chinese perspective, makes manifest the cosmic patterns that shape and complete the world--a process of "worlding" that is much more than mere representation. In that spirit, A New Literary History of Modern China looks beyond state-sanctioned works and official narratives to reveal China as it has seldom been seen before, through a rich spectrum of writings covering Chinese literature from the late-seventeenth cent ..." |
 | | Running Wild New Chinese Writers by Jeanne Tai, Dewei Wang, David Derand#8211, Wei Wang, David Der-Wei Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 1994 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-09649-2, ISBN: 0-231-09649-6 "(Translated by Kristina M. Torgeson) 1 VT. t daybreak the mother fish, looking stately and solemn, was floating on its back on the surface of the water, its entire body covered with a translucent silvery sheen of extraordinary luminosity. On each ..." |
 | | Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China by Dewei Wang 220 Pages, Published 2020 ISBN-13: 978-1-68458-028-6, ISBN: 1-68458-028-5 "Beginning by examining President Xi Jinping's call in 2013 to "tell the good China story," Wang illuminates how contemporary Chinese cultural politics have taken a "fictional turn," which can trace its genealogy to early modern times." |
 | | A Cultural History of Modern Chinese Literature by Fuhui Wu, Dewei Wang Published 2020 ISBN-13: 978-1-107-70682-8, ISBN: 1-107-70682-3 "The first English translation of Wu Fuhui's cultural history of modern Chinese literature from the late nineteenth century to 1949." |
 | | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945 : History, Culture, Memory by Ping-Hui Liao, Dewei Wang 432 Pages, Published 2006 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-51081-3, ISBN: 0-231-51081-0 "History, Culture, Memory Ping-hui Liao, David Der-Wei Wang. ), and other classics were written. It is enough for a language” (Zheng). The views cited above all considered the Peking dialect to have nothing special to offer; Taiwan's common language was closely similar to it, and therefore a change was not all that necessary. In his “Letter to Luo Hequan,” Zhang Chunfu, a member of both the Taiwan Ying Society and the Star Society, ..." |
 | | The Monster That Is History History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-century China by Dewei Wang Published 2004 ISBN-13: 978-1-4175-7401-8, ISBN: 1-4175-7401-1 |
 | | The Monster That Is History History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China by David Wang, Dewei Wang Hardcover, 409 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-23140-5, ISBN: 0-520-23140-6 "In ancient China a monster called Taowu was known for both its vicious nature and its power to see the past and the future. Over the centuries Taowu underwent many incarnations until it became identifiable with history itself. Since the seventeenth century, fictive accounts of history have accommodated themselves to the monstrous nature of Taowu. Moving effortlessly across the entire twentieth-century literary landscape, David Der-wei W ..." |
 | | Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan The Last of the Whampoa Breed : Stories of Chinese Diaspora by Pang-Yuan Chi, Bangyuan Qi, Dewei Wang 288 Pages, Published 2003 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-50905-3, ISBN: 0-231-50905-7 "Pang-yuan Chi, David Der-Wei Wang. guests, ladies and gentlemen, today I am going to introduce to you . . .”32 Hey, you! Don't start staring! The little girl who is reading a novel (on the sly) under the tiny light bulb in the fifth housing unit is also very cute. She could be Zhang Xiaofeng, or Ai Ya, or Han Han, or Yuan Qiongqiong, or Feng Qing, or Su Weizhen, or Jiang Xiaoyun, or Zhu Tianwen ( listed in order of age); anyway, she ..." |
 | | Running Wild(Updated) New Chinese Writers (Translation Center Books) by Editor-Jeanne Tai, Dewei Wang Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 1994 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-09648-5, ISBN: 0-231-09648-8 "14 writers from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the United States and New Zealand. An intriguing introduction to the multitude of new voices in Chinese literature." |
 | | From May Fourth to June Fourth Fiction and Film in Twentieth-Century China (HARVARD CONTEMPORARY CHINA SERIES) by Ellen Widmer, Dewei Wang Hardcover, 464 Pages, Published 1993 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-32501-2, ISBN: 0-674-32501-X " What do the Chinese literature and film inspired by the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) have in common with the Chinese literature and film of the May Fourth movement (1918-1930)? This new book demonstrates that these two periods of the highest literary and cinematic creativity in twentieth-century China share several aims: to liberate these narrative arts from previous aesthetic orthodoxies, to draw on foreign sources for inspiration, ..." |
 | | Yi Jiu Si Jiu Yi Hou by Dewei Wang Zidong Xu and Sihe Chen 2010 Hardcover by Dewei Wang, Sihe Chen, Zidong Xu Paperback, 531 Pages, Published 2010 by Oxford University Press (China) - 牛津大學(中國) ISBN-13: 978-0-19-396127-2, ISBN: 0-19-396127-X "馮忠一、朱開軒主编《中國當代文學史論》,青島:中國海洋大學, 1994 。闆其男主编《 ... 鄧紹基、樊駿主编《中國文學通史,當代卷》,北京:華籌社, 1997 。今主編《二十世紀中國 文學史》(上下冊) ,濟南:山東文藝 52,【訓《中國當代文學概綸》,武漢大學, 1998 。" |
 | | Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895–1945 History, Culture, Memory (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University) by Ping-Hui Liao, Dewei Wang, David DerâWei Wang, Pingand#8211, Professor Ping-Hui Liao Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 2006 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-13798-0, ISBN: 0-231-13798-2 "The first study of colonial Taiwan in English, this volume brings together seventeen essays by leading scholars to construct a comprehensive cultural history of Taiwan under Japanese rule. Contributors from the United States, Japan, and Taiwan explore a number of topics through a variety of theoretical, comparative, and postcolonial perspectives, painting a complex and nuanced portrait of a pivotal time in the formation of Taiwanese nat ..." |
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