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Xudong Zhang

张旭东

Department of Comparative Literature

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New York University

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Department of East Asian Studies

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Born: Jan 23, 1965

Birthplace: Beijing

U.S. permanent resident

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New York, NY 10012

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Education

1990-95 PhD, Duke University (Graduate Program in Literature)

1982-86 BA, Peking University (Department of Chinese Language and Literature)

Academic Positions

2005 Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of East Asian Studies, New

York University

2001 Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Chinese, New York

University

1999 Assistant Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, New York

University

1995 Assistant Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University

Honors, Grants, and Fellowships

2015- Member, Academic Board, Berggruen Institute of Philosophy and Culture

(Santa Monica and New York)

2015- Non-residential Fellow, Chunqiu Institute of Strategic and Development Studies

(Shanghai)

2014- Member, International Academic Advisory Committee for Yenching Academy,

Peking University

2014- University Chair Professor in the Humanities (visiting), Peking University

2008-14 Chong Keung Chair Professor (Visiting/“长江学者”讲座教授), Chinese

Department, Peking University

2011-14 University Professor in the Humanities (Visiting), Honorary Dean & Chair of

Academic Advisory Committee, Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities

and Social Sciences, Chongqing University, Chongqing

2002-14 Zijiang Chair Professor in Comparative Literature (Visiting), East China

Normal University, Shanghai

2008-2012 Visiting Professor and Member of the Academic Council, Institute for Advanced

Studies in Social Science, Fudan University, Shanghai

2009 Spring, Visiting Professor, Center of Philosophy, University of Tokyo

2006 Fall, Visiting Professor, Center of Philosophy, University of Tokyo

2005 Humanities Council Grant, New York University

2004 Philip Knight Professor of Comparative Literature and Chinese, University of

Oregon (declined)

2002 Spring, Visiting Professor, Institute of Comparative Literature and Chinese

Department, Peking University

1998-99 Rockefeller Fellowship in the Humanities, International Center for Advanced

Studies (ICAS), New York University

1997-98 Faculty Fellowship, Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture

(CCACC) , Rutgers University

1996-98 Rutgers University Research Council Grants

1994-95 Duke University Dissertation Travel Fellowship

1990-95 Duke University Graduate Fellowship

Administrative Experiences and Committee Services at New York University

2009-Present Director, China House

2010-Present Director, International Center for Critical Theory, Peking University/East

China Normal University/University of Tokyo/NYU

2011-14 Honorary Director and Chair, Academic Advisory Committee, Institute for

Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Chongqing University

2006-13 Chair, Department of East Asian Studies

2007-12 Director, NYU-Beijing Summer Program

2008-09 Interim Director, NYU China House

2005- Executive Committee, NYU China House

2006-07 Co-Chair, Graduate School Task Force on Teaching and Fellowship

2005-06 Co-Chair, Faculty of Arts and Science Policy and Planning Committee

2004-05 Language Chairs Committee, College of Arts and Science

2003-08 Foundations of Contemporary Culture Steering Committee

2003-06 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of East Asian Studies

2003-06 Policy and Planning Committee, Faculty of Arts and Science

2003-06 Steering Committee, International Center for Advanced Studies

2002-05 Awards and Fellowships Committee, the Graduate School of Arts and Science

2001-02 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Comparative Literature

Publications

Authored books

-Cultural Politics and the Chinese Way (Wenhua zhengzhi yu zhongguo daolu/⽂文化政治与中国

道路), Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 2015

-Writing for Our Own Times (Women shidai de xierzuo /我们时代的写作), co-authored with

Mo Yan, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press (China), 2012

Mainland Chinese edition, Shanghai: Shanghai wenyi chubanshe, 2013

-The Age of Enlightenment: An Ongoing Dialogue（Duihua qimeng shidai 对话启蒙时代), co-

authored with Wang Anyi, Beijing: Sanlian Shudian (The Joint Publication Co.), 2008.

-Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: 1989-2001 or, the Last Decade of the Chinese Twentieth

Century, Duke University Press, 2008

Chinese translation by Zhu Yu, Beijing: Peking University Press, 2014

-Letters from New York (Niuyue shujian/纽约书简—随笔、评论与访谈), Shanghai: Shanghai

shudian chubanshe, 2006.

-Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization (Quanqiuhua shidai de wenhua rentong:

Pushizhuyi jiqi buman/全球化时代的⽂文化认同：西⽅方普遍主义理论的历史批判), Beijing:

Peking University Press, 2005.

Revised and expanded 2nd edition, 2006

-Traces of Criticism: Essays on Cultural Theory and Cultural Criticism, 1987-2002 (Piping de

zongji: Wenhua piping lilun wenxuan, 1985-2002/批评的踪迹：⽂文化理论与⽂文化批评，1985-

2002), Beijing: The Joint Publishing Co. Ltd., 2003, 2nd print, 2006.

-The Order of the Imaginary: Critical Theory and Modern Chinese Literary Discourse

(Huanxiang de zhixu: Piping lilun yu xiandai zhongguo wenxue huayu/幻想的秩序－批评理论

与现代中国⽂文学话语), Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1997.

-Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction and New

Chinese Cinema, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997

Chinese translation by Cui Wenjin, Beijing: Peking University Press, 2014

Edited volumes and translations:

-Tradition and Formal Innovation (chuangtong yu xingshi chuangyi／传统与形式创意), ed.

and introduced by Xudong Zhang, Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 2015.

-Rethinking Enlightenment in Global and Historical Contexts (UTCP Booklet No. 21/ICCT

Series 1), co-edited with Nakajima Takahiro and Hui Jiang, Tokyo: University of Tokyo Center

for Philosophy, 2011

-Qidi(Illuminations/启迪)， edited by Hannah Arendt, co-translated with Ban Wang,

introduced by Xudong Zhang, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1998

Mainland China edition: Beijing: Shanlian shudian, 2008.

-Whither China? Intellectual Politics in the 1990s, edited and with an introduction by Xudong

Zhang, Duke University Press, 2001.

-Postmodernism and China, co-edited (with Arif Dirlik), Duke University Press, 2000.

-Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism: Critical-Theoretical Essays of Fredric Jameson (Wanqi

zibenzhuyi wenhua luoji: Zhanmingxin wenxuan/晚期资本主义⽂文化逻辑－詹明逊⽂文选),

edited and with an introduction by Xudong Zhang, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Mainland Chinese edition, Beijing: Sanlian shudian., 1998; 2nd edition with a new

preface by Xudong Zhang, 2012

-Fada zibenzhuyi shidai de shuwqing shiren (Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Age of

High Capitalism/发达资本主义时代的抒情诗⼈人), by Walter Benjamin, co-translated with Wei

Wensheng and with an introduction by Xudong Zhang, Beijing: Sanlian shudian, 1989

2nd revised edition, 2006;

Taiwanese edition, Taipei: 2003

In progress

-Lu Xun and the Origin of Chinese Modernism (revision and expansion of 12 seminars on Lu

Xun taught in Spring 08), under contract with Sanlian shudian (Joint Publishing Co.Ltd.),

Beijing. Forthcoming

Tower at Crossroads: The Vernacular Essay and the Making of Modern Chinese Men of Letters,

volume 1: 1895-1919; volume 2: 1919-1945 expanded and revised doctoral thesis

Chinese translation by Xie Jun, under contract with Sanlian shudian.

Hegel’s Aesthetics and Questions Concerning Modern Criticism (Hei Ge Er meixue yu dangdai

piping de jiben wenti/⿊黑格尔《美学》与当代批评的基本问题/), transcripts of series lectures

under contract with Peking University Press, Beijing.

Selected Essays and Articles

2015 “The ‘Ethical Self-Consciousness’ Discourse in Chinese Enlightenment and Its

Implications in Contemporary Chinese Cultural Politics—Reflections on Motifs of Culture and

the State in the Early Debates of La Jeunesse(Qimeng zhuyi lunli zijue yu dangdai zhongguo

wenhua zhengzhi—fansi xinqingnian zaoqi lunshu zhong de wenhua yu guojia/ 启蒙主义“伦理

⾃自觉”与当代中国⽂文化政治——反思《新青年》早期论述中的⽂文化与国家概念”), Journal of

Modern Chinese Literature Studies (Xiandai zhongguo wenxue yanjiu congkan/现代中国⽂文学

研究丛刊), No. 7, 2015, pp.1-24.

“Violence, Freedom of Speech, and the Search for A Meaningful Life: Observations on the

Charlie Hebdo Bloodshed(Chali jingshilu: Baoli, yanlunziyou, he youyiyide shenghuo 查理警⽰示

录: 查理周刊警⽰示录| 暴⼒力、⾔言论⾃自由和有意义的⽣生活”，

http://www.guancha.cn/ZhangXuDong/2015_01_10_305868.shtml

2014 “The Becoming Self-Conscious of Zawen--Literary Modernity and Politics of Language

in Lu Xun’s Essay Production,”Frontiers of Literary Studies in China (a refereed quarterly in

English language), Volume 8 issue 3 (Fall 2014), pp.374-409, Beijing: Higher Education Press

“Deng Xiaoping the Sovereign（Zuowei zhuquanzhe de Deng Xiaoping/作为主权者的邓⼩小平

）”, Guanchazhe, August, 2014,


“What Is Camel Xiangzi? Review on the Opera Adaptation of Lao She’s Novel Camel Xiangzi,”

Chinese Culture Daily, July 3,


2013 “Narrative and Representation in the Age of Mobile Phone—A Dialogue Between

Wang Anyi and Fredric Jameson on Shanghai, Urban Experience, and Technological Conditions

of Possibility for Literature,” moderated and interpreted by Xudong Zhang, Frontier of Literary

Studies in China, Leiden, Boston & Tokyo: Brill, Volume 7 (2013), issue 3, 494–510.

“Zhongguomeng: Zhongyu dao le tan mengxiang de shike” (The Chinese Dream: What Does It

Mean to Talk About It?/中国梦：终于到了谈梦想的时刻), in The Social Observation (社会观

察), July issue, 85-97.

“Liberal Education in the Age of Globalization” (经典阅读是全球化时代的选择: 张旭东以哥

伦⽐比亚⼤大学本科⽣生的核⼼心课程为例谈⼈人⽂文教育) in Wenhuibao (⽂文汇报/⽂文汇讲堂), July 4,

Shanghai.

“NPR Interview on the Nobel Winner: Chinese Novelist Mo Yan,” Frontier of Literary Studies in

China, Leiden, Boston, Tokyo: Brill, Volume 7 (2013), issue 1, 154–157.

2012 “Zuowei lishi yiwang zhi zaiti de shengming he tudi” (Life and land as a deposit for

historical forgetting—on Mo Yan’s Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out/作为历史遗忘之载体

的⽣生命和⼟土地—解读莫⾔言的《⽣生死疲劳》), Xiandai zhongwen xuekan (Journal of Modern

Chinese Studies/现代中⽂文学刊), 4-19.

“In Light of Concreteness: Wang Anyi and the Bildungsroman of the Cultural Revolutionary

Generation,” translated from the Chinese by Jennifer Dorothy Lee, in Frontiers of Literary

Studies in China, 2-18.

“The Dialectic and the Historical Determination of Cultural Subjectivity,” Globalization and

Localization: The Chinese Perspective, edited by Deng Zhenglai, Singapore, London, and

Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific Publishing Co. Ltd., 155-65.

“Wanqi zibenzhuyi de wenhua luoji zaiban xu”(Preface to 2nd edition of Fredric Jameson’s

Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism/晚期资本主义时代的⽂文化逻辑再版序), Fredric Jameson,

Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, ed. by Xudong Zhang, Beijing: Sanlian shudian chubanshe（

三联书店出版社）, 2012, 1-8.

“Quanqiuhua shidai de xiandaixing zhengzhi” (The Politics of Modernity in the Age of

Globalization, an Interview with Fredric Jameson)/全球化时代的现代性政治——杰姆逊访谈

）, in Wenhuibao（⽂文汇报）, December 10, 2012.

“Lilun yisi, lilun hewei?” (Theory Is Dead, What Is Theory For? An Interview with Fredric

Jameson/理论已死，理论何为？杰姆逊访谈), in Zhonghuadushubao (中华读书报),

December 5, 2012.

Reissued in Journal of Hangzhou Normal University (杭州师范⼤大学学报), March 2013 issue, 1-

6.

“Zhongguo wenhua de genyuan shi jintian de zhongguoren”(The Source of Chinese Culture is

the Chinese People Living Today/中国⽂文化的根源是今天的中国⼈人), Ershiyi shiji jingji baodao

(21ST Century Economic Report/⼆二⼗〸十⼀一世纪经济报道), November 25, 2012.

“Mohuan xianshizhuyi de zhengzhi wenhua yujing gouzao” (The Cultural-Political Context of

the Magical Realism—Language Game, Natural History, and Social Allegory in Mo Yan’s

Republic of Wine/魔幻现实主义”的政治⽂文化语境构造——莫⾔言《酒国》中的语⾔言游戏、⾃自

然史与社会寓⾔言), Xueshu qianyan (Frontiers of Scholarship/学术前沿), No.11, 2012, 66-82.

“Mo Yan shi tongxiang dangdai zhongguo wenxue de menhu” (Mo Yan Is a Portal for

Understanding Contemporary Chinese Literature/莫⾔言是通向当代中国⽂文学的门户), Ershiyi

shiji jingji baodao (21ST Century Economic Report/⼆二⼗〸十⼀一世纪经济报道), October 12.

“Lu Xun huiyixing xiezuo de jiegou, xushi yu wenhua zhengzhi” (Structure, Narrative, and

Cultural Politics in Lu Xun’s Writing of Reminiscences—A Critical Analysis of Morning Flowers

Plucked at Dusk/鲁迅回忆性写作的结构、叙事与⽂文化政治 – 从《朝花⼣夕拾》谈起),

Shenghuo zai hou meiguo shidai (Living in the Post-American Age/⽣生活在后美国时代)，

edited by Sun Xiaozhong for Refeng sixiang luntan (“Hot Air” Intellectual Forum Series/热风思

想论坛), General Editor: Wang Xiaoming, Shanghai: Shanghai shudian chubanshe (Shanghai

Bookstore Publishing House/上海书店出版社), 2012, 274-354.

“Libukai zhengzhi de wenhua zijue” (Cultural Self-Consciousness As a Political Notion/“离不开

政治的⽂文化⾃自觉”, Wenhua zongheng (Beijing Cultural Review/⽂文化纵横)，No. 2, 2012，22-

26.

“Zai maodun tongyiti zhong chongjian jiazhi renting” (Identity and Value System as Unity of

Contradictions: Observations on Contemporary Chinese Cultural Politics/在⽭矛盾统⼀一体中重

建价值认同”[interview]), in Ershiyi shiji jingji baodao (21ST Century Economic Report/⼆二⼗〸十⼀一

世纪经济报道), Jan 17, A03, 2012.

“The Will to Allegory and the Origin of Chinese Modernism: Re-Reading Lu Xun’s Ah Q--The

Real Story”, in Mark Woellager ed. Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms, Oxford and New

York: Oxford University Press, 2012, 173-205.

Japanese translation by Satoru Hashimoto, China: Culture and Society, August issue,

2015.

2011 “Enlightenment and the Dialectic of Particular and Universal: Toward A Cultural-

Political Notion of Modern Identity Formation,” in Rethinking Enlightenment in Global and

Historical Contexts (UTCP Booklet No. 21/ICCT Series 1), co-edited with Nakamima Takahiro

and Hui Jiang, Tokyo: University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy, 2011, 11-28.

“Market Socialism and Its Discontent: Jia Zhangke’s Cinematic Reprepsentation of China’s

Transition in the Age of Global Capital,” in Neoliberalism and Global Cinema: Capital,

Culture, and Marxist Critique, edited by Jyotsna Kapur and Keith Wagner, Routledge, New

York: 2011, 135-156.

“Chonggui zongtixing sikao, chongjian zhongguo rentong” (Rethinking Chinese Identity through

the Notion of Totality/重归总体性思考，重建中国认同[interview]), in Shehui guancha (Social

Observations／社会观察), September issue, 2011, 7-11.

“Jinji lixing shidai de jiazhi kongdong”(Value Emptiness in the Age of Economic Rationality:

Rereading Habermas’ Legitimation Crisis/经济理性时代的价值空洞：重读哈贝马斯的《合

理性危机》), in Makesizhuyi yu xianshi (Marxism and Reality/马克思主义与现实), Part I: 2011

No. 1, 99-108; Part II: 2011 No.2, 106-115.

2010 “The Poetics of Vanishing: Jia Zhangke and the Discontent of Postsocialist Market

Economy,” New Left Review, No. 63, 71-88.

“Cong xiandai zhuyi dao wenhua zhengzhi(From modernism to cultural politics/从现代主义到

⽂文化政治[interview]),” Xiandai zhongwen xuekan（Journal of Modern Chinese Studies/现代中

⽂文学刊）, 2010 No. 3, 4-27.

“Xushi, wenhua, yu zhengdangxing” (Narrative, Culture and Legitimacy/叙事、⽂文化与正当性),

in Tianya (Frontier/天涯)，2010 No. 2, 177-88.

“Zhongguo jiazhi de shijie lishi shiming” (The World-Historical Task of Chinese Values/中国价

值的世界历史使命), Wenhua zongheng (Beijing Cultural Review/⽂文化纵横), No. 1, 42-46.

2009 “The Politics of Vernacular Aesthetic: The Invention of Modern Chinese Essay in Zhou

Zuoren’s Literary Production in the 1930s,” Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social

Sciences: A Quarterly, Vol. 2, No.3, September 2009, 60-93.

“Shitan renmin gongheguo de genji” (Preliminary thoughts on the sources of legitimacy of the

People’s Repubic/ 试谈⼈人民共和国的根基), in Ershiyi shiji jingji baodao(21st Century

Economic Report/21 世纪经济报道)，November 24, 2009, A21.

“Dangdaixing yu wenxueshi”(Modernity and Literary History/当代性与⽂文学史：关于当代⽂文

学 60 年的对话)， Xueshu yuekan (Scholarship Monthly/学术⽉月刊)， 2009 No. 10，5-16.

“Wusi yu zhongguo xiandaixing wenhua de jijin chanshixue (May Fourth and the radical

hermeneutics of Chinese culture of modernity(“五四”与中国现代性⽂文化的激进诠释学),

Xiandai zhongwen xuekan (Modern Chinese Studies/现代中⽂文学刊)，2009 No. 1, 13-19.

“Rang Lu Xun de wenben ziji shuohua” (Unpacking the text of Lu Xun—interview with Lu Xun

Museum/让鲁迅的⽂文本⾃自⼰己说话—鲁迅博物馆访谈), Wenyi yanjiu (Literature and Art

Studies/⽂文艺研究), 2009 No.4, 60-71.

“Zhengzhi wei wenyi queli zhutixing” (Politics and Artistic Subjectivity: Interview with Xudong

Zhang on the 67th Anniversary of ‘Talk on Yan’an Forum’/政治为⽂文艺确⽴立主体：在《延安

⽂文艺座谈会上的讲话》发表 67 周年访张旭东”)， Zhongguo shehui kexueyuanbao (Journal of

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences/中国社会科学院报)，June 20, 2009, Literary Edition.

“Zhongguo xiandaizhuyi de ‘mingyan zhibian’—chongdu Ah Q Zheng Zhuan’” (Allegory and

Origin of Chinese Modernism—Rereading Ah Q-The Real Story/中国现代主义的‘名⾔言之辩’—

重读《阿 Q 正传》)， Lu Xun yanjiu yuekan (Lu Xun Studies Monthly/鲁迅研究⽉月刊)，2009,

No. 1, 4-21.

Japanese translation by Satoru Hashimoto; Korean translation by Eunyeong Kim.

“Xiandai sanwen yu chuangtong de zai faming—zuowei jijin changshixue de Zhongguo

xinwenxue de yuanliu” (The Modern Essay and the Re-Invention of Chinese Literary

Tradition—Sources of Modern Chinese Literature as Radical Hermeneutics/现代散⽂文与传统

的再发明---作为激进诠释学的《中国新⽂文学的源流》), Xiandai zhongguo (Modern China/现

代中国), April 09, 2009, No. 12, 93-118.

“Sanwen yu shehui getixing de chuangzao—lun Zhou Zuoren sanshi niandai xiaopinwen xiezuo

de shenmei zhengzhi” (The Essay and the Making of Social Individuality—on Zhou Zuoren’s

Xiaopinwen in the 1930s/散⽂文与社会个体性的创造--论周作⼈人 30 年代⼩小品⽂文写作的审美政

治), Xiandai wenxue yanjiu congkan (Journal of Modern Chinese Literature Studies/现代⽂文学

研究丛刊), 2009, No 1，1-22.

“Xushi, wenhuayu zhengdangxing: Qiu Ju daguansi zhong de chongfu yu duyiwu’er xing”

(Narrative, Culture, and Legitimacy: Repetition and Singularity in Zhang Yimou’s The Story of

Qiu Ju/ 叙事、⽂文化与正当性：《秋菊打官司》中的重复与独⼀一⽆无⼆二性), in Fangfa yu ge’an

（Method and Case Studies: Selected Lectures in Cultural Studies/ ⽅方法与个案：⽂文化研究演

讲集）, edited by Sun Xiaozhong, Shanghai: Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House (上海书店

出版社), 2009: 395-416.

Reissued in Tianya (Frontier/天涯)，2010, No. 2, 177-87.

2008 “Lu Xun and East Asian Modernity: Theoretical Perspectives: Takeuchi Yoshimi,

Deleuze, and Jameson,” in Utopia Here and There, edited by Maeda Koichi and UTCP, UTCP

Booklet 4, Tokyo: University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy, 2008, 93-123.

“Zhongguo jintian shi zai chuangzao xin de pubian jiazhi” (The Necessity of the Universal—An

interview with Xudong Zhang on cultural productivity of contemporary China/中国今天是在

创造新的普遍价), Ershiyi shiji jingji baodao (21st Century Economic Report/21 世纪经济报道)

, Year’s End Special Edition, A31, December 20, 2008.

“Lu Xun yu zhongguo wenxue piping de wenti—zai Fudan daxue de yanjiang” (Lu Xun and

Questions Concerning Chinese Literary Criticism: lecture at Fudan University/鲁迅与中国⽂文学

批评的问题—在复旦⼤大学的演讲), Wenyi lilun yu piping (Journal of Literary Theory and

Criticism/⽂文艺理论与批评)，2008, No. 6, 38-49.

“Qimeng de jingshen xianxiangxue (The Phenomenology of Enlightenment: the Real and the

Nihilistic in Wang Anyi’s The Age of Enlightenment/”(启蒙的精神现象学：王安忆《启蒙时

代》中的实在与虚⽆无), Kaifang shidai (Open Times/开放时代)，2008, No. 3，152-165.

English translation by Jennifer Dorothy Lee, as “In Light of Concreteness: Wang Anyi

and the Bildungsroman of the Cultural Revolutionary Generation,” in Frontiers of Literary

Studies in China, 2-18.

“Zawen de zijue” (The becoming self-conscious of zawen—on existential struggle and cultural

politics in Lu Xun’s transitional period/杂⽂文的⾃自觉：论鲁迅过渡期写作的存在⽃斗争与⽂文化

政治), Wenyi lilun yu piping (Journal of Literary Theory and Criticism/⽂文艺理论与批评)，Part

I: 2008, No. 6， 42-52； Part II: 2009, No. 1，12-19.

Korean translation by Eunyeong Kim, in Journal of Modern Chinese Literature, Seoul,

2009, 331-353.

“Chongdu Lu Xun yu zhongguo wenxue piping de jige wenti” (Rereading Lu Xun and questions

of Chinese literary criticism/重读鲁迅与中国⽂文学批评的⼏几个问题), Wenyi lilun yu piping

(Journal of Literary Theory and Criticism/⽂文艺理论与批评)，Beijing, 2008, no. 5, 38-49.

“Wenhua yu jingsai”(Culture and Competition—Observations on the 2008 Beijing Olympia

Opening Ceremony/⽂文化与竞赛—2008 年北京奥运会观感), Wenhua zongheng (Beijing

Cultural Review/ ⽂文化纵横)，Inaugural Issue, pp.

“Shehui fengjing de yuyan ”( Allegory of Social Landscape: A Critical Account of Chen Kaige’s

King of Children/社会风景的寓⾔言：陈凯歌《孩⼦子王》再解读)， Refeng Scholarly Series (热

风学术丛刊)，No.1，Guilin: Guangxi shifan daxue chubanshe (⼴广西师范⼤大学出版社)，2008

，133-161

2007 “Chengzhang, qimeng, geming” (Becoming, Enlightenment, and Revolution—A

Dialogue with Wang Anyi on The Age of Enlightenment/成长、启蒙、⾰革命—关于《启蒙时

代》的对话), Wenyi zhengming (⽂文艺争鸣), 2007 No. 12, 40-56.

“Dakai luanshi de xinling kongjian” (Opening the Intellectual Space of a Tumultuous Age—A

dialogue on The Age of Enlightenment/打开乱世的⼼心灵空间—关于《启蒙时代的对谈》),

Book Town (书城), December issue, 5-16.

“Wenhua zhutixing de bianzhengfa yu lishi jueding”(Dialectic of and Historical Condition for

Cultural Subjectivity／⽂文化主体性的辩证法与历史决定), Reflexion（思想）, Taipei: Lianjing

chubanshe (联经出版社)， No. 5，259-271.

Mainland edition in Book Town (书城), July issue, 49-54

“Wenhua zhutixing de bianzhengfa yu lishi jueding”(Dialectic of and Historical Condition for

Cultural Subjectivity／⽂文化主体性的辩证法与历史决定), Reflexion（思想）, Taipei: Lianjing

chubanshe (联经出版社)， No. 5，259-271.

English translation in Deng Zhenglai ed., “The Dialectic and the Historical

Determination of Cultural Subjectivity,” Globalization and Localization: The Chinese

Perspective, Singapore, London, and Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte.Ltd.,

155-65.

“Mengzhong kanmeng” (The Dialectic of Dream-Images—an Interview with Xudong Zhang/梦

中看梦：从本雅明出发—专访张旭东), The Bund (外滩画报), July issue.

“Ershinian de youyu yu lixiang ”( Two decades’ of melancholy and ideal—translator’s preface to

the second edition of the Chinese translation of Walter Benjamin’s Charles Baudelaire—A Lyric

Poet in the Age of High Capitalism/⼆二⼗〸十年的忧郁与理想--《发达资本主义时代的抒情诗⼈人

》再版感⾔言), Book Town (书城), May issue, 22-23.

“Pubianxing, wenhuazhengzhi, yu zhongguoren de jiaolu” (Universality, Cultural Politics, and

the Chinese Anxiety/普遍性、⽂文化政治与中国⼈人的焦虑)，Frontier (天涯)， 2007 no. 2, 167-

77.

2006 “Cinema of Post-Socialism: Zhang Yimou’s Film Production in the 1990s,” in Haili

Kong and John Lent ed., 100 Years of Chinese Cinema, Norwalk, CT: EastBridge, 2006, 131-70.

“Wenhua, Zhengzhi, yu Zhutixing: Quanqiuhua shidai de wenhua zhengzhi di er ban houji”

(Culture, Politics, and Subjectivity: Postscript to the 2nd expanded Edition of “Cultural Identity

in the Age of Globalization”/⽂文化、政治与主体性: 《全球化时代的⽂文化认同》第⼆二版后记),

21st Century Economic Report （⼆二⼗〸十⼀一世纪经济报道）, end of year special edition.

2005 “Comparison and Political Philosophy: Identity and ‘Politics of Being’ in Modern

Bourgeois Subjectivity”, in Boundary 2 vol. 32 no.2 (Summer 05 issue), 81-108.

Chinese translation by Hui Jiang, Bijiaowenxue yu shijiewenxue (Comparative Literature

and World Literature), Beijing: Peking University Press, 2005, 536-553.

“Narrative, Culture, and Legitimacy: Repetition and Singularity in Zhang Yimou’s The Story of

Qiu Ju”, in Michael Wayne ed. Understanding Film—Marxist Perspectives, London: Pluto Press,

2005, 213-32.

Chinese translation by Han Liu, Fangfa yu ge’an (Method and Case Studies in Cultural

Studies), Shanghai: Shanghai shudian, 2009, 395-416.

“Chongdu Hei Ge Er Fazhexue” (Rereading Hegel’s Philosophy of Right/重读⿊黑格尔的《法哲

学》), in Xu Jilin ed. Liwanhepan tansixiang/ (Selected Lectures at East China Normal

University／丽娃河畔谈思想—华东师⼤大思与⽂文讲座演讲集), Shanghai: East China Normal

University Press, 2005, 40-54.

“Shi Mi Te de tiaozhan” (The Challenge of Carl Schmitt: A Critical Reading of Crisis of

Parliamentary Democracy/施⽶米特的挑战——读《议会民主制的危机》), Open Times (开放

时代), no. 2, 126-38.

“Lilun yu shijian: wenxue ruhe chengxian lishi? (Theory and Practice: How Literature Represents

History—a Dialogue between Wang Anyi and Zhang Xudong/理论与实践：⽂文学如何呈现历

史？王安忆、张旭东对话), part 1 and part 2, in Literature and Art Studies (⽂文艺研究), Beijing:

no. 1, 60-69; no. 2, 83-91.

“Wei Bo de lichang” (Max Weber’s Position-Taking/韦伯的⽴立场) in Dushu (读书), no.1.138-49.

2004 “Multiplicity or Homogeneity? The Cultural-Political Paradox of the Age of

Globalization,” Cultural Critique (Fall 04 issue), 30-55.

“Jameson and China: Modernity as Cultural Politics,” in Douglass Kellner and Sean Homer, ed.

Fredric Jameson: A Critical Reader, London: Palgrave/Mcmillan, 169-94.

“Changhege: Cong xiaoshuo dao wutai”( Changhege: From fiction to theater/《长恨歌》：从

⼩小说到舞台), in Wenhuibao (⽂文汇报)，2004.6.2

“Meiguo yu shijie” (/US and the World/美国与世界), in Shucheng (书城), no.2.

“Cong Ka’er Makesi chongxin chufa” (Marxist Problematic and Questions concerning Cultural

Politics in the Age of Globalization: A Seminar at Peking University/从卡尔·马克思重新出发

), in Qi yu ge (Six Seminars at Peking University/旗与歌——在北⼤大的六次对话), ed. by Han

Yuhai et.al., Beijing: Zhongyang bianyi chubanshe, 205-276.

2003 “On Becoming Political of the Cultural: The Crisis of Universalism in the Age of

Globalization,” in Comparative Literature in the Cross-Cultural Context, ed. by Cheng Aimin

and Yang Lixin, Nanjing: Yilin Press, 69-94.

“National Trauma, Global Allegory: Reconstruction of Collective Memory in Tian

Zhuangzhuang’s The Blue Kite”, Journal of Contemporary China, vol. 12, No.37, 623-38.

“Pubianxing, kebixing yu zuowei zhengzhi de wenhua—quanqiuhua shidai de wenhua rentong”

(Universality, Comparability and Culture as Politics—On Cultural Identity in the Age of

Globalization/普遍性、可⽐比性与作为政治的⽂文化—全球化时代的⽂文化认同), in Zhongguo

daxue jiangyanlu (Selected Academic Lectures in Chinese Colleges and Universities/中国⼤大学讲

演录), Guilin: Guangxi Normal University Press, 2003， 32-56.

“Xuezhe de shiming—Liang Rengong ‘Jinggao liuxuesheng’ bainian yougan” (The Vocation of

the Scholar—Observations on the 100 Anniversary of the publication of Liang Qichao’s “A Plea

to Overseas Chinese Students”/ 学者的使命——梁任公《敬告留学⽣生诸君》百年有感), in

Wenhuibao (⽂文汇报), October 18.

“Quanqiuhua shidai de wenhua beilun—Duoyangxing haishi danyixing” (Cultural Paradox of

the Age of Globalization—Diversity or Homogeneity?/ 全球化时代的⽂文化悖论——多样性还

是同⼀一性？), in Ershiyi shiji (21st Century/⼆二⼗〸十⼀一世纪), October (no. 79), 119-129.

“Wenhua minzhu zhuyi, cuozhegan, yu zhongguo xueren de jingshen shiming” (Cultural

Nationalism, Frustration, and the Moral Mission of Chinese Scholars/⽂文化民族主义、”挫折感

”、与中国学⼈人的精神使命), in Ershiyi shiji jingji baodao (21st Century Economic Report/⼆二⼗〸十

⼀一世纪经济报道), August 14.

Reissued in Zhongguo daxue gaige zhidao (The Way of Reforming Chinese Universities/中国⼤大

学改⾰革之道), ed. by Gan Yang and Li Meng, Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 2004, 141-

52.

“Quanqiuhua shidai de wenhua zhengzhi” (Cultural Politics in the Age of Globalization/全球

化时代的⽂文化政治), in Kuawenhua duihua (Cross-Cultural Dialogues/跨⽂文化对话), Beijing:

Peking University Press, no. 11, 51-72.

“Quanqiuhua yu zhongguo daxue de jingshen shiming” (Globalization and the Moral Mission of

Chinese Universities/全球化与中国⼤大学的精神使命), Wenhuibao (⽂文汇报), July 16.

Reissued in Zhongguo daxue gaige zhidao(The Way of Reforming Chinese Universities/中国⼤大

学改⾰革之道), ed. by Gan Yang and Li Meng, Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 2004, 135-

40.

“Zai Laxuezi gongmu” (At Pere Lachaise/在拉雪兹公墓), in Wenhuibao (⽂文汇报), August 18.

“Xixue xiangxiang yu zhongguo dangdai wenhua zhengzhi de zhankai” (Western Theory and the

Articulation of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Politics: An Interview by Prof. Xue Yi/西学想

象与中国当代⽂文化政治的展开), in Tianya (Frontier/天涯), no.2, 15-28.

“Weibo yu wenhua zhengzhi” (韦伯与⽂文化政治/Max Weber and Cultural Politics), Dushu (读

书/Reading), no.3, 2-12.

“Zai Niuyue kan Yingxiong” (Watching Zhang Yimou's Hero In New York: A Critical Review/

在纽约看《英雄》), Wenhuibao (⽂文汇报), Shanghai: Jan. 17.

Swedish translation by Stefan Jonsson, Dagen Nyheter (Kultur section), Stockholm, July

30.

“Yuyan, shige, shidai: guanyu dangdai zhongguo wenxue chuangzaoli de duitan” (Language,

Poetry, and the Age: A Conversation with Xi Chuan on the Creativity of Contemporary Chinese

Literature/语⾔言、诗歌、时代——关于当代中国⽂文学创造性的对谈), Zhonghua dushubao (

中华读书报), Jan. 20.

2002 "Shanghai Image: Critical Iconography, Minor Literature, and the Un-Making of a

Modern Chinese Mythology," New Literary History, Winter 2002, 137-169.

Chinese translation by Zhang Weiwei, Wenxue pinglun (Literary Review), 2002 no. 5, 90-

102.

“Chongdu Jie Muxun”( Re-Reading Fredric Jameson/重读杰姆逊), Dushu (Reading/读书),

no.12, 1-12.

“Shanghai gushi” (Shanghai as Narrative/上海故事), in Wenhuibao (⽂文汇报), October 4.

“Daizhe jing’e he kongbu qu guanzhao—9-11 zhounian ji” ( “ To Contemplate with Shock and

Horror’—On the First Anniversary of September 11, 2001 /带着惊愕和恐怖去观照——九⼀一⼀一

周年祭), in Wenhuibao (⽂文汇报),

“Wang Anyi, Shanghai, ‘Xiaowenxue’” (Wang Anyi, Shanghai, and Minor Literature/王安忆、

上海、⼩小⽂文学), in Shucheng (书城), no.9, 61-63.

“Quanqiuhua shidai de zhongguo wenhua fansi: women jintian zenyang zuo zhongguoren”

(Reflections on Chinese Culture in the Age of Globalization: What Does It Mean to Be a

Chinese Today? An interview with Zhang Jieyu／全球化时代的中国⽂文化反思：我们今天怎

样做中国⼈人？ — 张旭东教授访谈录), Zhonghua Dushubao(中华读书报), July 17, 2002.

“Shanghai Yixiang: Chengshi ouxiang pipan yu xiandai shenhua de xiaojie” (Shanghai Image:

Critical Iconography and the Un-making of a Modern Chinese Mythology／上海的意象：城市

偶像批判与现代神话的消解), Wenxue pinglun(Literary Review／⽂文学评论), Beijing: Chinese

Academy of Social Sciences, no. 5.

Reissued in Liwa hepan tan wenxue(丽娃河畔谈⽂文学), edited by Chen Zishan and Luo

Gang, Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 229-49.

“Kebixing de gainian: wenhua zhengzhi shiye li de pubian yu teshu” (The Concept of

Comparability: Universal and Particular from the Perspective of Cultural Politics／可⽐比性的概

念：⽂文化政治视野⾥里的普遍与特殊), Ershiyi shiji (Twentieth-First Century／⼆二⼗〸十⼀一世纪), no.

8, vol. 72, 101-110.

Reissued in Zhongguo daxue jiangyanlu (中国⼤大学学术讲演录/Selected Academic

Lectures in Chinese Colleges and Universities), 2003, A, Guilin: Guangxi Normal University

Press, 2003.

“Nicai yu wenhua zhengzhi” (Nietzsche and Cultural Politics／尼采与⽂文化政治),

Dushu(Reading／读书）, Beijing: Sanlian shudian/The Joint Publishing Co., April issue, 3-12.

2001 "The Making of the Post-Tiananmen Intellectual Field,'" East Asia: An International

Quarterly, Spring-Summer2001, Vol.19, Nos 1-2, 3-57.

"Intellectual Politics after Tiananmen: A Critical Overview," in Whither China? Intellectual

Politics in the 1990s, edited by Xudong Zhang, Duke University Press, 2001, 1-75.

2000 "Shanghai Nostalgia: Modernity, Allegory, and Mourning in Wang Anyi's Writings of

Shanghai," positions:east asia cultures critique, 8:2, Summer 2000, 1-39.

Chinese translation by Huang Zhenping, Zhonguo xueshu (Chinese Scholarship), vol.3.,

122-61.

"On Chinese Postmodernism," epilogue to Arif Dirlik and Xudong Zhang ed. Postmodernism

and China, Duke University Press, 399-442.

“Chengren de zhengzhi yu beichengren de qidai” (Politics of Recognition: Gao Xinjian and

Nobel Prize in Literature／承认的政治与被承认的期待), Ershiyi shiji (Twentieth-First Century

／⼆二⼗〸十⼀一世纪), Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, no. 12, 4-10.

Swedish translation by Stefan Jonsson, Dagen Nyheter (Kultur section), Stockholm,

December 3, 2000.

“Fuhao, quanli, yu lishi: lun Bu'er diyue de shehui zhexue” (Symbolic Power and History—On

Pierre Bourdieu’s Social Philosophy／符号权⼒力与历史：论布尔迪约的社会哲学), trans. by Ni

Wei) , Dongfang wenhua (Chinese Culture／东⽅方⽂文化), Guangzhou, Guangdong: no. 4.

“Zhishifenzi yu minzu lixiang: ping Luo Di” (Intellectuals and National Ideal: A Critical

Review of Richard Rorty’s Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth Century／知识

分⼦子与民族理想：评罗蒂的《为美国理想的实现 — ⼆二⼗〸十世纪左翼思想), Dushu (读书

/Reading), no. 10, 24-33.

Expanded Internet edition in Shiji zhongguo (世纪中国/Century China), an internet magazine

edited by the Institute of Chinese Culture at Chinese University of Hong Kong), December 22,

http://www.csdn618.com.cn/century/zhoukan/diyishijian/0012/00122200.htm

“Quanqiuhua shidai de sixiang fengbizheng: Ping Guo Jian de ‘Jiemuxun yu wenhua da

geming’” (The Closing of the Intellectual Mind in the Age of Globalization: On Guo Jian’s

"Jameson and the Chinese Cultural Revolution”/ 全球化时代的思想封闭症：评郭建的‘杰姆

逊与⽂文化⼤大⾰革命), Shiji zhongguo (Century China/世纪中国), 1st issue,

http://www.csdn.net.cn/page/china/shiye/tasan/0713accx01.htm

“Xiandaixing de yuyan: Wang Anyi yu Shanghai huaijiu” (Allegories of Modernity: Wang Anyi

and Shanghai Nostalgia/现代性的寓⾔言：王安忆与上海怀旧), trans. by Huang Zhenping,

Zhongguo xueshu (China Scholarship/中国学术), Beijing: Shangwu yinshuguan/The

Commercial Press, vol. 1, no. 3, 122-61.

1999 "Postmodernism and Postsocialist Society: Cultural Politics in China in the 1990s," New

Left Review, no. 237 (October and November, 1999), 77-105.

"Toward a Radical Hermeneutics of Chinese Literary Tradition: Zhou Zuoren's Sources of

Modern Chinese Literature," in Classics and Interpretations: The Hermeneutic Tradition in

Chinese Culture, edited by Ching-I Tu (New Brunswick, NJ: Transactions Publisher), 427-56.

“Houxiandaizhuyi yu dangdai zhongguo” (Postmodernism and Contemporary China/后现代主

义与当代中国), Dushu(Reading/读书), no. 12, 12-20.

“Dongfangxue yu biaoxiang de zhengzhi” (Orientalism and Politics of Representation/东⽅方学

与表象的政治), tran. by Ni Wei, Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences, no.13, Winter 1998, 175-

202.

1998 "Dialectics and the Historicity of Theory: An Interview with Fredric Jameson," New

Literary History, Summer 1998, 353-83.

Reissued in Michael Hardt ed. The Jameson Reader (London: Blackwell, 2000).

"Intellectual Politics in Post-Tiananmen China: An Introduction," Social Text, no. 55, (Summer

1998), 1-8.

"Nationalism, Mass Culture, and Intellectual Strategy in Post-Tiananmen China," Social Text,

no. 55 (Summer 1998), 109-40.

"Postmodernism and China: An Introduction," coauthored with Arif Dirlik, in Postmodernism

and China, a special issue of Boundary 2 (Fall 97), 1-20.

“Cong zichanjieji shiji zhong suxing” (Awaking from the Bourgeois Century - translator's

introduction to the Chinese edition of Walter Benjamin's Illuminations/从资产阶级世纪中苏

醒), Dushu(Reading/读书), no. 11, 28-38.

“Chongfang bashi niandai” (Revisiting the 1980s: Preface to The Order of the Imaginary/重访

⼋八⼗〸十年代), Dushu(Reading/读书), no. 2, 3-11.

1997 "Nationalism and Contemporary China," East Asia: An International Quarterly (Spring

and Summer 1997, 16:1/2), 130-46.

“Mingzu zhuyi yu dangdai zhongguo” (Nationalism and Contemporary China: Toward a Critical

Intellectual Discourse on Chinese Nationalism/民族主义与当代中国), Dushu (Reading/读书),

no. 6, 22-30.

Reissued in Yuandao (原道), no. 2, edited by Chen Ming, Zhu Hanmin and Zhang

Baoming, Zhengzhou: Henan, 2004, 124-31

Reissued in Zhishi fenzi lichang: minzu zhuyi yu zhongguo de zhuangxing (Intellectual

Positions: Nationalism and China in Transition/知识分⼦子⽴立场：民族主义与转型期中国的命

运), ed. by Li Shitao, Shangchun, Jilin: Shidai wenyi chubanshe (时代⽂文艺出版社), 1999, 429-40.

1996 "The Politics of Modernism: A Theoretical Proposal for the Critique of the New Era and

Its Intellectual Discourse," New Perspectives: A Comparative Literature Yearbook (Hong Kong),

131-50.

“Makesi zhuyi yu lilun de lishixing” (Marxism and the Historicity of Theory: an interview with

Fredric Jameson/马克思主义与理论的历史性), in Jintian(Today Literary Magazine/今天),

Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1996 no. 2, vol. 33, 232-52.

Reissued in Dushu (Reading/读书) 1996 no. 8, 18-26.

1995 "The Power of Rewriting: A Critical Account of the Post-Revolutionary Discourse on

Chinese Socialist Realism," in South Atlantic Quarterly (SAQ), Summer 1995, 915-946.

Reissued in Socialist Realism Without Shores, edited by Thomas Lahusen and Evgeny

Dobrenko, (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997), 282-309.

1994 "The Chinese Cultural Fever: Theory, Ideology and Social Change," in Social Text, no. 3,

129-156.

"The Political Hermeneutics of Cultural Constitution: Reflections on the Chinese Cultural

Discussions (1985-1989), Working Paper, no. 94-01, the Asia-Pacific Studies Institute, Duke

University, Durham, North Carolina, 1-40.

“Diyu, wenhua, zibenzhuyi yu houzhiminzhuyi” (Locality, Culture, Capitalism, and

Postcolonialism/地域、⽂文化、资本主义与后殖民主义), a panel discussion with Li Tuo, Lydia

Liu and Meng Yue, in Jintian (Today Literary Magazine/今天), 1994, no. 2, 1-15.

“Wenxue piping: Yuyan yu xiezuo kongjian” (Literary Criticism: Language and the Space of

Writing/⽂文学批评－语⾔言与写作空间), a panel discussion on avant-garde literature and

criticism, with Huang Ziping,Li Tuo, Lydia Liu, Meng Yue, Tang Xiaobing and Zou Yu, in

Jintian(Today Literary Magazine/今天), 1994, no. 2, 169-189.

1991 “Dangdai zhongguo wenxue piping de zhuti neirong yu zhenli neirong” (The Subject-

matter and the Truth-content of Contemporary Chinese Literary Criticism: Narrating the

History of Consciousness of Contemporary Chinese Literature from “Misty Poetry” to “New

Fiction”/ 当代中国⽂文学批评的主题内容与真理内容), Jintian (今天/Today Literary

Magazine), Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, special issue on literary criticism, no. 2, 2-12.

Reissued under the title “Cong Menglong shi dao Xinxiaoshuo” (From “Misty Poetry” to “New

Fiction”/ 从”朦胧诗”到”新⼩小说), China Avant-garde, edited by Jochen Noth, Wolfger

Pohlmann and Kai Reschke, Hong Kong: The Oxford University Press, 1994, 69-76.

1990 “Ziwo yishi de tonghua: Ge Fei yu dangdai yuyan zhuti de jige wenti” (Fables of Self-

consciousness: Ge Fei and Some Motifs in Contemporary Chinese Literary Subjectivity/⾃自我意

识的童话－格⾮非与当代语⾔言主体的⼏几个问题), Bafang Literary and Art Series(⼋八⽅方), Hong

Kong: vol. 12, 308-330.

Reissued in abbreviated form in Jintian (Today Literary Magazine), no. 2, 1991, 110 -

122.

1989 “Yiwang de xipu: Chongdu Lu Xun” (The Genealogy of Forgetting: A Re-reading of Lu

Xun/遗忘的系谱), in Wenhua: Zhongguo yu shijie (Culture: China and the World/⽂文化中国与

世界), vol. 7, edited by Gan Yang, Beijing: Sanlian shudian (The Joint Publishing Co. Ltd/三联

书店/).

“Zongti yu xushi: Lukaqi de xiandaixing” (Totality and Narrative: the Modernism of Lukacs/总

体与叙事), in Dangdai xifang wenyililun jiaocheng (Course on Contemporary Western Literary

Theory/当代西⽅方⽂文学理论教程), ed. by Hu Jingzhi and Wang Yuechuan, Beijing: Peking

University Press, Beijing, 332-356.

“Huanxiang de zhixu: Zuowei piping lilun de Lakang” (The Order of the Imaginary: Lacanism

as Critical Theory/幻想的秩序), in Wenxue pinglun(Literary Review/⽂文学评论), Beijing:

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, no. 4, 70-91.

“Yinmu shang de fuhao zhiwu yu lishi zhiwu” (The Semiotic and the Historic on the Screen: A

Preliminary Interpretation of the “New Chinese Cinema”/ 银幕上的符号之物与历史之物),

Dianying yishu(电影艺术/Film Art) Beijing: Chinese Association of Film Artists, no. 5, 35-46.

“Zhengjiu shi wo ziji de zhanxian” (Redemption Is My Private Show: Proust and Philosophy of

History/拯救是我⾃自⼰己的展现), Dushu(Reading/读书), no. 7-8, 132-38.

“Xingge yu mingyun: Benyaming yu Kafuka” (Fate and Character: Benjamin and Kafka/命运与

性格——本雅明与他的卡夫卡), Dushu(Reading/读书), no. 2, 77-84.

1988 “Tiyan yu yuyan: Benyaming de yiyi” (Erlebnis and Allegory: The Meaning of Walter

Benjamin/体验与寓⾔言：本雅明的意义), Wenhua: Zhongguo yu shijie (Culture: China and the

World/⽂文化：中国与世界), Beijing: Sanlian shudian(The Joint Publishing Co. Ltd./ 三联书店),

no. 5, 333-58.

Reissued in Dangdai zhongguo wenhua yishi (Cultural Consciousness of Contemporary China/

当代中国⽂文化意识), edited by Gan Yang, Hong Kong: Sanlian shudian (The Joint Publishing

Co. Ltd/三联书店)., 1990, 390-414.

“Yuyan piping: Benyaming lun Bodelai'er zhong de jige muti” (Allegorical Criticism: On Some

Motifs in Benjamin's Charles Baudelaire/寓⾔言批评), Wenxue pinglun(Literary Review/⽂文学评

论), no. 4, 89-112.

Reissued in Dangdai xifang wenyi lilun jiaocheng (Course on Contemporary Western Literary

Theory/当代西⽅方⽂文学理论教程), Beijing, 1990, 402-427.

“Xiandai wenren: Benyaming bixia de Bodelai'er” (Modern Homme de Lettres: The Baudelaire

in Benjamin/现代⽂文⼈人), Dushu(Reading/读书)，no. 11, 81-88.

“Shufang yu geming: Zuowei shoucangjia de Benyaming” (Library and Revolution: Benjamin, or

Historian as Collector/书房与⾰革命), Dushu(Reading/读书)， no. 12, 83-89.

1987 “Wenhua de shixue yu shi de wenhuaxue” (The Poetics of Culture and the Culturology of

the Poetic: Modes and Transformations in Hemingway, Wittgenstein and Heidegger/⽂文化的诗

学与诗的⽂文化学), Wenyi meixue congkan (Aesthetics and Studies in Literature and Arts/⽂文艺

美学丛刊), Hohhot, Neimenggu: Neimenggu renmin chubanshe, vol. 2, 119-139.

Conference Organization and other Coordinated Research Projects

Organizer:

--International Center for Critical Theory conferences, workshops, and seminars:

----Symposium on Literature, co-organized with University of Tokyo Interdisciplinary

Humanities Program, Tokyo, June 27-28, 2014

----Symposium on Literary Representation on Shanghai, co-organized with International Center

for Critical Theory, East China Normal University, Shanghai, July 13, 2014

----ICCT Summer Institute, East China Normal University, Shanghai, July 7-11, 2014

----ICCT Summer Forum on “Postmodernism and China”, co-organized with Himalaya Museum

of Art, Shanghai, July 12, 2014.

“Modernity and Literary History: Workshop on Rethinking Contemporary Chinese Literature,”

co-organized with Cai Xiang and Luo Gang, International Center for Critical Theory & Center

for Research on Contemporary Chinese Literature, Shanghai University, Chongqing, August 13-

16, 2013

“ICCT Summer Institute on Critical Theory and Modern Chinese Literature,” Peking University,

July 29-August 3, 2013

“Tradition and Formal Innovation,” a one-day forum as part of the inaugural ceremony of the

Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, June 11, 2013

“Rethinking Yan’an: Culture, Society, and Politics,” co-organized with Cai Xiang and Luo

Gang, co-sponsored by New York University, Shanghai University, and Chongqing University,

Chongqing, December 26-28, 2012.

Director, International Center for Critical Theory conference and seminar/symposium series on

Fredric Jameson’s theoretical discourse, co-sponsored by New York University, Peking

University, and East China Normal University, December 12-13, Peking University; December

14, Institute of Literary Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; December 20, East China

Normal University; December 21, Wenhuibao Headquarters, 2012.

“Classics and Interpretations: Annual Summer Workshop on “Core Courses” of Liberal

Education,” co-organized with Gan Yang, co-sponsored by Sun Yat-Sen University, Chongqing

University, and Peking University, July 29-August 3, 2012.

“Fiction and Social Change,” Symposium on Yu Hua’s Brother s(Xiong di, 2005/06), NYU,

December 1, 2011, New York; organizer.

“The Politics of the Essay: Rethinking Lu Xun and Modern Chinese Literature”, a bilateral

faculty-graduate student symposium, Peking University and New York University, New York,

November 4-6, 2011; organizer.

“Demolition and Construction: Academic Forum of 4th Guangzhou Triennial,” September 22-

24, 2011, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou; co-organizer (with Gan Yang).

“Classics and Interpretations: 5th Summer Institute on Core Courses of Liberal Education,”

Peking University, Beijing, August 2-9, 2011; co-organizer (with Gan Yang)

“Re-Reading the 1980s: Situation and Context”, a research workshop organized by Xudong

Zhang and Cai Xiang, co-sponsored by NYU and Shanghai University, December 18-20, 2009

“Lu Xun’s Essay Production and Critique of Shanghai Modernity,” a research conference

organized by Xudong Zhang cosponsored by NYU and ECNU, Shanghai, August 13-15, 2009

“PRC Literature in International Perspectives: 1949-2009,” a research conference organized by

Xudong Zhang and Cai Xiang, cosponsored by NYU and Shanghai University, June 12-15, 2009

“The Age of ‘Zawen’,” a symposium on Lu Xun’s essay production organized by Xudong Zhang,

cosponsored by NYU, Peking University, and East China Normal University, Beijing, August 9-

10, 2008

NYU-Univ. of Tokyo Joint Workshop on “Rethinking East Asian Modernity: Lu Xun and

Takeuchi Yoshimi,” March 2008

Director, NYU-China Summer Research Institute, 2005-08 (Shanghai); 2007-08 (Beijing), with

changing annual themes on theories of modernity; urban culture; Walter Benjamin; and Lu Xun,

co-organized with the Chinese Department, Institute of Modern Chinese Thought and Culture,

East China Normal University; and with Chinese Department of Peking University, and Peking

University Press.

Organizer, Sino-U.S. Bilateral Symposia on Comparative Literature and Cultural Politics,

August 10-24, 2005, with panel discussions, workshops, conferences, and colloqua at University

of Hong Kong, Chinese Comparative Literature Association Bi-Annual Conference in Shenzhen,

East China Normal University in Shanghai, and Tsinghua University, Peking University, and

Dushu Editorial Office in Beijing.

Director, Advanced Summer Institute on Urban Culture Theory, co-sponsored by New York

University, University of Hong Kong, and East China Normal University, June 12-20, 2004,

Shanghai.

An International Series Conference on Shanghai Urban Culture, Society, and Politics (co-

organized with Elizabeth Perry): New York University, April 20-22, 2001; Harvard University,

November 2-4, 2001; and University of Hong Kong, June 10-12, 2002 (co-organized with

Elizabeth Sinn).

"Intellectuals and Reconfiguration of Social Power in 1990s China," an international workshop,

co-organized with Timothy Cheek and Jiang Hong, Colorado College, October 26-28, 2001.

"The Hermeneutic Tradition of Chinese Culture," Rutgers University, October 10-12, 1996, co-

organized with Ching-I Tu, Chun-fang Yu, and Peter Li.

"Benjamin for the Jetztzeit: 1892-1992," Duke University, February 21-23, 1992, co-organized

with Craig A. Phillips.

Professional Activities

Member of Modern Language Association (MLA)

Member of Association of Asian Studies (AAS)

Editorial Activities

Editor, Frontier of Literary Studies in China, a refereed English-language quarterly published by

Brill, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Editor, “Critical Theory and Literary Studies” book series, Peking University Press

Editorial Board, Journal of Modern Chinese Studies (现代中⽂文学刊), Shanghai.

Guest Editor, Boundary 2 special issue on "Postmodernism and China" (coedited with Arif

Dirlik), Fall 1997

Guest Editor, Social Text special issue on "Intellectual Politics after Tiananmen," Summer,

1998.

Editorial Board, "Dongxifang wenhua pinglun" (East-West Culture Review/东西⽅方⽂文化评论),

Peking University Press, Beijing (1988-93).

Contributing Editor, "Shijie shixue da cidian" (Encyclopedia of World Poetics/世界诗学词典),

Yue Daiyun and Ni Peigeng, General Editors, Peking University Press, 1989.

Invited Talks, Public Lectures, and Conference Papers

2016 A mini lecture series on Minor Literature and National Allegory; Sovereignty and the

State of Exception; and on Contradiction and Overdetermination, the International Center for

Critical Theory(ICCT) PKU-UT Winter Institute, University of Tokyo, Jan 6-15.

2015 “The Origins of Shanghai Culture,” public speech along with Wang Anyi, 50th

Anniversary Memorial Lecture Series, Shanghai University of International Studies, Shanghai,

December 25.

“A Defense of Theory in the Age of Global Capital: Rethinking the Political in the Aesthetic,

and Vice Versa,” invited presentation at “Critical Transactions: Engaging the Humanities East

& West, the University of Hong Kong, December 17-18.

“Let the City Talk—On Silence and Omissions in Jin Yucheng’s Fanhua(Blooming),” keynote

speech at the Shanghai Project “Nihao, Shanghai” International Conference, Himalayas

Museum, Shanghai, December 12.

“Challenges of Liberal Education in the People’s Republic,” invited round-table discussion on

“Symposium on Liberal Education in the Age of Globalization”, Yale-NUS College, Singapore,

October, 10.

“The Ya(Refined)/Su Distinction in the New Culture Movement,” keynote speech at the

Centennial Memorial Symposium on Chinese New Culture Movement, Peking University,

September 15.

“The East Asian Approach to Global Liberal Education Core Courses in the Humanities,”

invited presentation at the workshop convened by the Chancellor of Ritsumeikan University,

Kyoto, July 10.

“The Ya(Refined)/Su(Vulgar) Distinction in Zhou Zuoren’s Theory of the Vernacular Essay, ”

invited speech at Yenching Academy, Peking University, July 7; keynote speech at Himalayas

Culture Forum, Shanghai, July 18.

“Liu Zhenyun and the Countryside of Literature,” keynote speech on “The Poetics of

Convolution and the Structural Motivation of Literature,” in the morning symposium and

moderator/discussant in the afternoon workshop, Peking University, June 11.

“Is Theory Critical? ” invited presentation at the University of California, Irvine, conference

sponsored by the Critical Theory Institute to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Johns

Hopkins conference on structuralism, Irvine, May 23-25.

“Literary Studies and Interpretation of Canon” conference keynote speech on “Of Human,

Animal, and Machine: Rereading Camel Xiangzi,” Tamkang University, Taiwan, May 13-14

“Rereading Jeunesse—The first 100 Years,” annual Chinese Cultural Forum symposium , East

China Normal University, May 4-5

“Critical Theory and Political Philosophy,” a series of inter-connected lectures on Hobbes,

Schmitt, Lenin, Mao, Benjamin, and Agamben, Spring 2015, International Center for Critical

Theory-PKU, Peking University, Beijing, March-May.

2014 “Critique of Violence and Critique of Power in Benjamin, Mao, and Carl Schmitt,” an

invited presentation at Cornell University Critical Theory Institute, Ithaca, NY, December 6.

“Theory and Liberal Education: Comparative Observations on German, American, and Chinese

Concepts of the Research University,” invited paper presentation at the Sino-German Forum in

Advanced Studies, Free University of Berlin, October 12.

“When Shanghai Speaks--Literary Representation and Politics of Language-- keynote speech on

Fanhua (Blooming),” Sinan Reading Club lecture series sponsored by Shanghai Municipal

Culture Bureau, Shanghai, April 19.

“The Concept of Method in Fredric Jameson’s ‘Brecht and Method,” keynote speech at Fudan

University Chinese Forum, Shanghai, May 19.

“Animal, Machine, Man: Rereading Lao She’s Camel Xiangzi from the Perspectives of High

Modernism and Political Philosophy,” keynote speech at Zhejiang University Oriental Forum,

Hangzhou, May 27.

2013 “Slaying the Cultural Leviathan: Reconsiderations on Chinese Enlightenment Discourse

on Cannibalism,” keynote speech at the conference on “Cannibalistic Modernisms,” King’s

College London, November 6-7; invited public lecture, Minzu University of China, Beijing,

December 20.

“The Architectonics of the Romantic Novel: Rereading Notre Dame de Paris,” Inaugural

lecture for Boya College, Chongqing University, October 10.

“"The 'Magic' as 'Real' in Mo Yan's Fictional Representation of Contemporary China: Reading

The Republic of Wine and Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out"” & “The Conundrum of

Chinese Identity in the Age of Globalization”, a mini lecture series for the “Core Course

Workshop” organized by Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP) directed by East-West

Center, University of Hawaii funded by U.S. Department of Education, University of North

Carolina at Ashville, Sep 16; University of Texas at El Paso, Oct. 7; Portland State University,

Oct.21.

“Formal Autonomy and Its Historicization: Language and Structure in Liu Zhenyun’s Literary

Production,” Peking University, Aug 1.

“What Is A Method? Critical Approaches in Fredric Jameson’s Brecht and Method”, Peking

University, July 30; East China Normal University, Shanghai, June 7.

“Liberal Education in the Age of Globalization,” Wenhui Jiangtang Lecture Series, Wenhuipao,

Shanghai, June 30.

“What Does It Mean to Talk About the ‘Chinese Dream’,” an invited lecture at Social

Observation headquarters, Shanghai, June 14.

“The Poetics of Convolutedness (Rao): Reading Liu Zhenyun’s Yiju ding yiwanju and Wobushi

Pan Jinlian”, East China Normal University, Shanghai, June 13; Henan University, Kaifeng,

June 5.

“Dialectic, Contradiction, Structure: Critical Conceptual Constructions in the Age of Global

Capital in Fredric Jameson’s Valences of the Dialectic,” East China Normal University, June 9.

“Monad and Formal Expansion: Perspectives on Fredric Jameson’s Studies on Modernism,”

East China Normal University, June 8.

“Lu Xun as Method,” a paper presented at “Lu Xun and East Asia–an International

Conference,” Harvard University, April 5.

2012 “Literature as Political Machine—Rereading Mao’s Yan’an Talk,” paper delivered at

“Rethinking Yan’an: Culture, Society, and Politics” conference, co-organized by Cai Xiang and

Zhang Xudong, Chongqing University, December 26-28, 2012.

“‘Cultural Self-Consciousness’ as A Political Notion,” New China Publication and Distribution

Group, Shanghai, July 28, 2012.

“Other Peoples, Other Places, and Totality—the Comparative Approaches in Hegel’s

Philosophy of Art,” Sichuan University of Foreign Languages, Chongqing, June 27, 2012.

“Literature and the Inner Contradictions of the ‘Modern Subject’—from the Viewpoint of

Hegel’s Aesthetics,” Shanghai University, June 18, 2012.

“The Divine and the Collective as Content: Labor and Hegel’s Phenomenology of Art,” East

China Normal University, Shaghai, June 16, 2012.

“Externalization, Interiority, and ‘Mittelpunkt’—the Subjective Movement in Hegel’s Aesthetic

Categories,” East China Normal University, Shanghai, June15, 2012.

“The Limits of Idea and of Its Sensual Appearance: On Hegel’s Rejection of the Notion of

Natural Beauty,” East China Normal University, Shanghai, June 14, 2012.

“The World of Prose” and “the End of Art: Studies in Hegel’s Aesthetics,” Peking University,

June 4, 2012.

Hegel’s Aesthetics: An Art-Philosophical Interpretation, Peking University, May28, 2012.

“What Is Comparative Literature? Toward a Political-Philosophical Understanding,” keynote

speech at the End-of-Project Conference, Center of Philosophy, University of Tokyo (Komaba),

Kyoto, Jan 14, 2012.

“Rereading Mao’s ‘On Contradiction’,” a graduate seminar at the International Center for

Critical Theory, East China Normal University, Shanghai, Jan 6, 2012.

“Rereading Mao’s ‘On New Democracy’,” a graduate seminar at the International Center for

Critical Theory, East China Normal University, Shanghai, Jan 6, 2012.

“Toward a Political Ontology of New Chinese Culture: Rereading Mao’s ‘Talk at the Yan’an

Forum of Literature and Art,’” International Center for Critical Theory, East China Normal

University, Shanghai, Jan 5, 2012.

2011 “Toward a Political Ontology of New Chinese Culture: Rereading Mao’s ‘Talk at the

Yan’an Forum of Literature and Art,’” International Center for Critical Theory, Peking

University, Beijing, December 23, 2011.

“On Yu Hua’s Brothers”, a talk at International Center for Critical Theory, Peking University,

Beijing, December 20, 2011.

“Contemporary Chinese Intellectual Politics Revisited,” keynote speech at the conference on

“The Chinese Road”, organized by Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo

(Honggo), December 17, 2011.

“What Is Comparative Literature? Toward a Political-Philosophical Understanding,” invited

talk in the Department of Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley,

November 3, 2011.

“Rereading ‘The Biography of Duke Huaiyin’ in Grand Record of History,” ,” a two-part public

lecture given at Peking University 5th Summer Institute on “Classics and Interpretations: Core

Courses in Liberal Education” series, Beijing, August 3-4, 2011.

“Enlightenment and Political Philosophy: Rethinking the Notion of ‘Republic’ Among Early

May Fourth Intellectuals,” paper presented at the 100th Anniversary of the Republic of China

Memorial Conference, University of Hawaii, Honululu, March 29, 2011.

2010 “Toward the Essay: The Aesthetic and Political Intensity of Lu Xun’s Literary

Production, 1925-1936,” invited talk at School for Literary Studies, Nankai University, Tianjin,

China, December 1, 2010.

“Chinese Modernism and Its Limits,” Keynote speech at the Annual Conference of International

Committee on Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAN), Shanghai, November 9, 2010.

“Cultural Passion and Political Awareness in the Dialectic of the Particular and the Universal,”

invited presentation at “Forum on Political Philosophy: Universalism and Particularism,”

College of Philosophy, Renmin University, Beijing, October 31, 2010.

“Keywords in Contemporary Chinese Literature in the Age of Globalization,” keynote speech at

Boya International Literary Forum on “Global Implications of Contemporary Chinese

Literature,” Peking University, Beijing, October 29-30, 2010.

“Theory Today: Challenges and Opportunities Facing Critical Discourse,” a joint seminar with

Susan Buck-Morss (Cornell-CUNY Graduate Center), The Institute of Advanced Studies in

Social Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, November 7, 2010.

“The Politics of the Universal: Enlightenment and Modern Identity Crisis,” a paper presented at

“Rethinking Enlightenment in Global/Historical Contexts,” organized by Xudong Zhang and

Takahiro Nakajima, International Center for Critical Theory, Peking University, August 25-27,

2010.

“Is the ‘Post’ in Postsocialism the Same as the ‘Post’ in ‘Postmodernism’?,” an invited talk at

Center for Intellectual History, Fudan University, Shanghai, August 21, 2010.

“Allegorical Criticism: Theory and Practice,” and “Lyricism and Modern Experience,” a two-part

seminar series on Walter Benjamin’s Das Passengen-Werk, co-organized by Simian School for

Advanced Studies in the Humanities, East China Normal University & NYU-Shanghai Summer

Research Institute, Shanghai, August 20-21, 2010.

“Market Socialism and Its Discontent: On Jia Zhangke’s Filmmaking, from Xiaowu to 24 City”,

invited lecture at Joint Coursework in Cultural Studies Project co-organized by East China

Normal University, Shanghai University, Shanghai Normal University, Fudan University, and

Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Jan 2; also delivered at “Modernity’s Cultural Politics”

conference organized by Courtauld Institute of Art, London, October 23-24, 2010.

“Rethinking Enlightenment: On Max Horkeheimer and T.W. Adorno’s ‘The Dialectic of

Enlightenment’,” a two-part public lecture given at Peking University 4th Summer Institute on

“Classics and Interpretations: Core Courses in Liberal Education” series, Beijing, August 11-12,

2010.

“Universalism and Cultural Identity in Contemporary China,” invited talk at “In-Depth Chinese

Studies Seminar,” Institute of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Fudan University, June 21,

2010.

“Walter Benjamin and Urban Experience,” a two-part lecture given at “Metropolitan Studies

and Chinese Experience: International Summer Doctoral Research Symposium”, co-organized

by Jin Jiang of East China Normal University; Elizabeth Perry of Harvard University; Helen Siu

of Yale University, and Xudong Zhang of New York University, June 15-25, Minhang Campus,

East China Normal University, June 16, 2010.

“Metropolis and Cultural Practice: Shanghai and Shanghai Studies as Theory and Allegory,”

inaugural lecture for “Metropolitan Studies and Chinese Experience: International Summer

Doctoral Research Symposium”, co-organized by Jin Jiang of East China Normal University;

Elizabeth Perry of Harvard University; Helen Siu of Yale University, and Xudong Zhang of New

York University, June 15-25, Minhang Campus, East China Normal University, June 16, 2010.

“Imagined ‘Western Scholarship’ and Internal Contradictions of Contemporary Chinese

Cultural Intellectual Space,” keynote speech at “Kulturen im Kontakt: Herstellung, Struktur und

Wirkung europaeisch-chinesischer Interaktionsraeume,” April 15-20, organized by der Abteilung

fuer Interkulturelle Germanistik im Seminar fuer Deutsche Philologie, University of Goettingen,

Goettingen, Germany, April 15, 2010.

“Dismantling Red Legacy and the Battle Over the Concept of ‘the Human’: Rereading Xie Jin’s

Hibiscus Town,” paper presented at Red Legacy: An International Conference, Harvard

University, April 2-3, 2010.

2009 “Politics of De-politicization: Re-Reading Xie Jin’s Hibiscus Town”, invited lecture at

the School of Performing Arts, Beijing Normal University, December 29; also delivered at the

“Reading the Chinese 1980s: Situation and Context” conference organized by NYU and

Shanghai University, Shanghai, December 16-17, 2009,

“Market Socialism and Its Discontent: On Jia Zhangke’s Filmmaking from Xiaowu to 24 City,”

invited lecture at Joint Coursework in Cultural Studies Project, co-organized by East China

Normal University, Shanghai University, Shanghai Normal University, Fudan University, and

Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, January 2; also delivered at “Modernity and Cultural

Politics,” an international conference organized by Courtauld Institute of Art, London, October

23-24, 2009.

“Lu Xun’s Late Essays and Critique of Shanghai Modernity”, a public lecture at Sun Yat-Sen

University, Zhuangzhou, December 16; also delivered at the workshop co-organized by NYU

and ECNU, Shanghai, August 15-17, 2009.

“Globalization and Chinese Cultural Production”, Inaugural lectures series, Confucius Institute,

University of Texas at Dallas, November 18, 2009.

“The Concept of the “the Religious” in the Imaginations of Modern China—The Case of Lu Xun

and Zhang Taiyan”, presented at Sino-Indian Philosophical Dialogue on Culture, Wisdom, and

Spirituality, organized by Tu Weiming, Peking University, Beijing, November 11-12, 2009.

“Politics of Tradition and the Legitimacy of Modern Nation-State”, a talk delivered at Beijing

Forum 2009, organized by Peking University, Beijing, November 6-8, 2009.

“Market Socialism and Its Discontent: Jia Zhangke’s Film Production,” a paper delivered at

“Modernity’s Cultural Politics: China in Context”, organized by the Courtauld Institute of Art,

London, Oct 23-24, 2009.

“Hegel’s Philosophy of Law contra Classical Liberalism,” a seminar at Fudan Institute of

Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Shanghai, June 30, 2009.

"The Politics of the Universal", keynote speech at “The Plural Present of Historical Life”

conference at Center of Philosophy, University of Tokyo, May 15, 2009.

“Ah Q and the Spectral name of Modern China: Toward A Semiotics of Political Philosophy,”

Center of Philosophy, University of Tokyo-Komaba, May 12, 2009.

“The Politics of the Universal”, invited public lecture at Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford

University, March 6, 2009.

"Ah Q and the Spectral Name of Modern China: Toward A Semiotics of Political Philosophy",

Center of Philosophy, University of Tokyo, May 12, 2009.

"Forgetting As Memory: The Politics of Time and Experience in Lu Xun's Personal

Recollections", Center of Philosophy, University of Tokyo, April 28, 2009.

“The Cultural Politics of ‘the New’”, invited talk at the conference to commemorate the 90th

anniversary of May Fourth Movement, Peking University, April 23-25, 2009.

“The Will to Allegory and the Origin of Chinese Modernism,” an invited lecture at Connecticut

College, March 26, 2009.

2008 “Allegory and Critical Urban Iconography: Benjamin’s Passagenwerk and Critique of

Shanghai Modernity in Lu Xun’s Late Essays”, a paper delivered at Modernism Studies

Associate Annual Convention, Nashville, November 14, 2008.

“Rereading Ah Q-The Real Story,” invited talk at University of California, San Diego, October

3, 2008.

“The Age of Zawen,” research symposium organized by Xudong Zhang in collaboration with

Peking University and East China Normal University, Beijing, July 4-7, 2008.

“Nietzsche, Benjamin, Deleuze—Three Critical Paradigms in ‘Minor Literature’,” a talk at

Beijing University of Foreign Studies, Beijing, June 30, 2008.

“Rereading Lu Xun and Questions of Literary Criticism and Theory,” a talk at Fudan University,

Chinese Department, Shanghai, June 16 (afternoon), 2008.

“Formal Analysis and Narrative Strategy: Reading Lu Xun’s ‘A Madman’s Diary’, ‘Hometown’,

and ‘Morning the Dead’ ”, Tongji University, Shanghai, June 16 (morning), 2008.

“Name and Language in the Crisis of Meaning in Modern Chinese Culture: Reading The True

Story of Ah Q”, East China Normal University, Shanghai, May 29; Peking University, June 9,

2008.

“Politics of Forgetting and Memory: Reading Morning Blossom Plucked at Dusk”, Shanghai

University, May 30; Beijing Normal University, June 6, 2008.

“Modernism and Prose Poetry: Reading Lu Xun’s Wild Grass”, East China Normal University,

Shanghai, May 25; Renmin University, Beijing, June 3, 2008.

“Self-Consciousness and National Allegory: Reading ‘Preface to Call for Arms’ and ‘A

Madman’s Diary’”, East China Normal University, Shanghai, May 27, 2008.

“Power and Truth: Reading Lu Xun’s Early Essays”, East China Normal University, Shanghai,

May 23, 2008.

2007 “The Idea of the University: Political-Philosophical Considerations,” invited paper

presented at the “Politics of Academic Knowledge”, co-organized by NYU International Center

for Advanced Studies and the Hungarian Academy of Science, July 16, 2007.

“Reading Mo Yan’s The Republic of Wine,” a graduate seminar at the Center for Modern

Chinese Thought and Culture, East China Normal University, July 4, 2007.

“Reading Wang Anyi’s The Age of Enlightenment,” a graduate seminar at the Department of

Chinese, East China Normal University, July 2, 2007.

“Benjamin’s Study on Baudelaire,” a seminar co-taught with Richard Sieburth, “Metropolis and

Cultural Theory” conference/institute, Shanghai, June 27, 2007.

“The Historico-Materialst Approach in Walter Benjamin’s Study of High Modernism,” seminar

at the “Metropolis and Cultural Theory” conference/summer institute, Shanghai, June 25, 2007.

“The Politico-Economic Conditions of Cultural Theory: Benjaming reading Marx in Convolute

X of the Arcades Project,” keynote speech at the “Metropolis and Cultural Theory” conference,

co-organized by NYU and East China Normal University, Shanghai, June 24, 2007.

“Benjamin Reading Marx: Examining Convolute X of the Arcades Project”, keynote lecture on

“Metropolis and Culture Theory,” NYU-Shanghai Summer Research Institute, June 23, 2007.

“Intellectuals, Secularism, and Politics as Religion ”, Religion and Secularism Conference,

organized by Gayatri Spivak, Columbia University, February 28, 2007.

“Secularism and Cultural Politics: Value-Plurality and the Dialectic of the Universal and

Particular,” paper delivered at “Religion and Secularism” conference, organized by the Center

for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University, Feb 16, 2007.

“Demonic Realism: Allegories of Socialist Market Economy in Mo Yan’s The Republic of

Wine”, New School University, February 12, 2007.

2006 A lecture series on Rethinking Modernity and Chinese Modernism delivered at the

Center of Philosophy, University of Tokyo, December 4-19, 2006:

1) Rethinking the Maxims of Modernism through Chinese Modernist Movements:

Theoretical Terms and Their Historicization

2) The Political-Philosophical Genealogies of the Christian-Bourgeois “Sitte”: Continuities

and Discontinuities from Kant to Carl Schmitt

3) Lu Xun as Modernist: The Case of Prose Poetry

4) The Nietzschean Turn in Reaffirming the Western Self from the Ebbing of High

Modernism to the Age of Globalization

5) Cinematic Modernism in 20th Century China: The Making and Unmaking of

Modernistic Cinematic Language in the 1980s and Early 1990s

6) Imperial Residue and the Multiplicity of Global Sovereignty: Beyond “Clashes of

Civilization” and “the End of History”

7) Modernist Poetry in Modern and Contemporary China: Critical Reexaminations

8) Is the “Post” in Post-Socialism the “Post” in Postmodernism?: Rereading Contemporary

Chinese State, Society, and Culture

“Cinematic Language and Chinese Modernity”, lecture at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto,

December 8, 2006.

Narrative Repetition and Cultural Legitimacy in Zhang Yimou’s “The Story of Qiu Ju”, lecture

at Rykkio Univeristy, Tokyo, December 7, 2006.

“The Relationship between Hegel’s Phenomenology and Aesthetics,” a talk in the Literature

Program, Duke University, November 21, 2006.

“The Concepts of ‘Production’ and ‘Commodity’ in Marx and Benjamin,” keynote speech,

conference on “Cultural Production in the Age of Globalization”, organized by East China

Normal University and Shanghai University, June 28, 2006.

“’After Theory’ and ‘Death of A Discipline’: Notes on the Current State of Critical Theory and

Comparative Literature,” public lecture at Nanjing University, Nanjing, June 27, 2006.

“Critique of Knowledge and Critique of Historicism in Walter Benjamin’s Paris manuscript,”

public lecture at the School of Humanities, Tsinghua University, Beijing, June 21, 2006.

ECNU University Lecture series, "Prostitution, Gambling, and Flaneurie in Walter Benjamin's

Representation of Paris," Shanghai, June 11, 2006.

ECNU University Lecture series, "Natural History and Allegory in Walter Benjamin," Shanghai,

June 9, 2006.

East China Normal University (ECNU) University Lecture series, "Author as Producer: Labor

and Commodity Fetishism in Marx and Benjamin," Shanghai, June 8, 2006.

2005 “Rethinking the Concept of Literary History in Modern China”, paper presented at

“Regarding Modern Chinese Literature: Methods and Meanings”, organized by Xiaobing Tang,

University of Chicago, May 6-7, 2006.

“Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism: Overlap and Symbiosis”, paper presented at “Fetishizing

the Free Market: The Cultural Politics of Meoliberalism”, organized by Karen Kelsky, Michael

Rothberg and Gary Xu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 29-30, 2006.

“‘Civil Society’ and Bourgeois Legal Right: A Political Rethinking”, a general response to the

conference “International Civil Society, World Governance, and the State”, organized by Gyatri

Spivak, the Center for Comparative Literature and Society, March 31-April 1, 2006.

2004 “Personal Essay and the Invention of Modern Everyday Life: Aesthetics and Politics of

Zhou Zuoren’s Literary Production in the 11930s”, a talk at Haverford College, March 19, 2006.

“Narrative, Culture, and Legitimacy: Repetition and Singularity in Zhang Yimou’s The Story of

Qiu Ju,” a talk at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 17, 2006.

“Death of a Discipline: Gyattri Spivak/Judith Butler Symposium on Comparative Literature”,

co-organized by Emily Apter and Mary Pratt, panelist, New York University, February 27, 2006.

2003 “Experimental Art and Revolutionary Legacy: Reading Xu Bing,” a paper read at the

symposium, “Still Standing after the Fall: Cultural Politics in China, North Korea, Vietnam,

and Cuba”, organized by Marilyn Young, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York

University, December 5, 2005.

“Reading ‘The Book from the Sky: Notes on Xu Bing,” a panel discussion in “Disappearance”

Symposium, organized by Yu Yeon Kim, Weatherhead Institute of East Asian Studies, Columbia

University, November 5, 2005.

“Listening to the Growth of Time: Space, Everyday Life, and History in Edward Yang’s Yi Yi ”,

a paper delivered at “Taiwanese Cinema: Here and There”, organized by Dudley Andrew, Yale

University, October 30-November 1, 2005.

“The Essay Production of Xu Zhimo,” a public lecture given at “Symposium on Xu Zhimo”,

organized by Hou Yong, the China Institute, New York, September 26, 2005.

“The Internet and Contemporary Chinese Intellectual Debate: Four Case Studies,” a paper

delivered at the Freeman conference on “From Book to the Internet: East Asian Intellectual

Production”, organized by Arif Dirlik, University of Oregon, October 15-10, 2005.

“Modernity as Cultural Politics: Jameson and Utopian Thinking in Contemporary China,” a

paper delivered at the conference “The Future of Utopia,” organized by Alberto Moreiras, Duke

University, March 19-21,2005.

2002 “Minor Literature and Modern Chinese Literary Culture,” an invited talk given in the

Department of Comparative Literature, University of Oregon, October 19, 2005.

“Chinese Literature: The Threshold between the Classical and the Modern,” a public lecture at

the American Museum of Natural History, co-sponsored by the China Institute, New York,

October 12, 2005.

“Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization”, keynote speech at the Biannual Convention of

Chinese Comparative Literature Associate, Nanjing, August 14-18, 2005.

“History and Subjectivity in the Age of Multiculturalism,” the Cai Yuanpei Lecture, Peking

University, June 28, 2005.

“Postcolonialism and the Historicity of Culture,” the Tsinghua-Harvard Forum on

Postcolonialism, June 20, 2005.

“Universality, Comparability, and Culture as Politics,” “Comparability /Possibility of

Comparison” workshop organized by Harry Harootunian, Department of East Asian Studies,

New York University, March 1-3, 2005.

“Know Your Enemy: Political Philosophy and Mao’s Cold War Strategy,” the symposium on

“Cold War as Global Conflict”, organized by Marilyn Young, International Center for Advanced

Studies, New York University, February 8, 2005.

“Zhang Yimou and the Cinema of Postsocialism,” “Postsocialist China” organized by Leo Ching,

Duke University, Feb 1-3, 2005.

2001 “Contemporary Chinese Popular Culture,” China Institute, December 12, 2001.

“Contemporary Chinese Urban Life,” China Institute, December 5, 2001.

“On Becoming Political of the Cultural: Globalization and Postmodernism after September 11,”

keynote address at “Globalization and Mass Culture: Production, Consumption, and Identity,”

co-organized by Tina Chen and Adam Muller, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada,

October 19-21, 2001.

“Toward a Radical Hermeneutics of Chinese Literary Tradition: Reading Zhou Zuoren’s

Sources of New Chinese Literature,” “How China’s Twentieth-First Century Speaks to Its Past,”

co-organized by Tani Barlow and Angela Zito, New York University, October 13-14, 2001.

“Reflections on the Cultural-Political Framing of Hermeneutic Thinking,” “Hermeneutics and

Interpretations of Chinese Cultural Tradition,” organized by Ching-i Tu and Dietrich Tchanz,

Rutgers University, October 4-7, 2001.

“Shanghai Image: Iconography, Minor Literature, and the Unmaking of a Modern Chinese

Mythology,” the 3rd Sino-U.S. Bilateral Symposium on Comparative Literature, co-organized by

Tsinghua and Yale Universities, Beijing, China, August 10-13, 2001.

“Empire: A Political-Philosophical Perspective,” “Literature, Culture, and Humanity in the Age

of Globalization,” organized by Wang Yichuan, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, August 4-7,

2001.

“Old Shanghai: Memory, Imagination, Nostalgia,” China Institute, New York, April 23, 2001.

“Shanghai Image: Iconography, Minor Literature, and the Unmaking of a Modern Chinese

Mythology,” “Shanghai Urban Culture: Comparative Perspectives,” co-organized by Xudong

Zhang and Elizabeth Perry, New York University, April 20-22, 2001.

“Shanghai Nostalgia: Allegories of Modernity,” “Chinese Culture: Past, Present, and Future,”

Stanford University, March 31-April 1, 2001.

“Seventeen Years and the Politics of the Urban Generation of Chinese Filmmakers,” “Urban

Generation Films,” organized by Zhen Zhang, New York University, March 11-12, 2001.

2000 "Paradox of Chinese Liberalism," Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard

University, November 13, 2000.

"Cinema of Postsocialism: On Zhang Yimou’s film productions in the 1990s," Chinese film

conference at Swarthmore College, organized by Haili Kong, Oct. 7, 2000.

"Vernacular Literature and Modern Everyday Life: On Zhou Zuoren’s Strategy of Writing,"

"Material Culture and Modernity" coorganized by Professors Madeleine Y. Dong and Joshua

Goldstein, University of Washington (Seattle), September 30 - Oct. 1, 2000.

"The Vernacular Essay and the Reinvention of Chinese Literary Tradition: The case of Zhou

Zuoren," Fudan University, Shanghai, June 14, 2000.

"Shanghai Nostalgia: Allegories of Modernity," "Shanghai-Hong Kong Comparative Urban

Cultural Studies" conference, organized by Shanghai Normal University and Wenhuibao,

Shanghai, June 10-13, 2000.

"Shanghai Nostalgia: Allegories of Modernity," Center of Asian Studies, University of Hong

Kong, June 5, 2000.

"China and WTO," a radio talk with Peter Kwang and Lingchi Wang at "Asia-Pacific Forum,"

WBAI (New York City), May 30, 2000.

"Ah Cheng and ‘King of Children,’ the Literary Text," East Asian Languages and Cultures

Department, Columbia University, April 16, 2000.

" ‘End of History’ or the Endless Modernity: Rethinking Modern Chinese Intellectual History,"

"Chinese Humanities" conference, organized by Theodore Huters, Center for Chinese Sudies,

University of California, Los Angeles, January 22, 2000.

1999 "Shanghai Nostalgia," Chicago Humanities Festival, Nov. 12-14, 2000.

"Chinese Intellectual Politics in the 1990s," a discussion with the graduate student workshop on

modern Chinese literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University

of Chicago, Nov. 11, 1999.

"On Zhou Zuoren's Sources of New Chinese Literature," "Modern Interpretations of Chinese

Cultural-Philosophical Traditions," Stanford University, August 20-22, 1999.

"Aesthetics of the Vernacular: The Idea and Politics of Modern Chinese Essay in Zhou Zuoren,"

China Studies Program, the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington,

May 27, 1999.

"On 'Production'," a discussion on Wang Jianwei's "Production" (1998) ," Music of Change:

Visual Representation of Cities," organized by Leo Rubenfien and Barbara Abrash, New York

University, April 1, 1999.

"Nostalgic Utopia: Bourgeois Modernity, Post-Revolutionary Melancholy, and the City of

Shanghai in Zhang Ailing and Wang Anyi," International Center for Advanced Studies, New

York University, Jan. 22, 1999.

Discussions on Tian Zhuangzhuang's Horse Thief and Cinematic Modernism from PRC at

CUNY TV (New York City, Channel 75) "City Cinemathesque" with program host Jerry Carlson

recorded on Jan.6, first broadcast on Jan. 24, 1999.

1998 "Modernism and Modern Chinese Historical Writing," Mellon-Sawyer Symposium on

"Modernism and National Culture," New York University, Nov.20, 1998.

"Utopia against Utopia: Cultural Production and Intellectual Politics in China after 1989,"

Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies and the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies,

Harvard University, Nov. 5, 1998.

"Taiwanese Nationalism," "Writing Taiwan: Strategies of Representation," Columbia University,

April 29 - May 1, 1998.

"Modernism as an International Language: Strategies of Globalization in Contemporary

Chinese Literature and Film," Colorado College, April 13, 1998.

1997 "Personal Trauma, Global Allegory: Cinematic Construction of National History in

Tian Zhuangzhuang's The Blue Kite," Humanities Institute at Stony Brook, State University of

New York, Oct. 9, 1997.

"An Introduction to Contemporary Theories of Nationalism," Research Institute of

Comparative Literature and Culture, Peking University, June 30, 1997.

"China Without Deng: Mass Culture and Intellectual Discourse, " Symposium on Post-Deng

China, Rutgers University, March 12, 1997.

"Specters and Spectacles: History, Melodrama, and Politics in Recent Chinese Award-winning

Films," College of Wooster, February 10, 1997.

1996 "Anti-Intellectualism and the Reproduction of Social Space: Wang Shuo as Cultural

Politics, " Swarthmore College, November 27, 1996.

"Toward a Radical Hermeneutics of Chinese Literary Tradition: Reading Zhou Zuoren's Sources

of Modern Chinese Literature," "The Hermeneutic Tradition of Chinese Culture," organized by

Ching-I Tu et. al., Rutgers University, October 10-12, 1996.

"The Chinese 1980s as a Cultural Historical Period," Research Institute of Comparative

Literature and Culture, Peking University, May 15, 1996.

"The Politics of Representation: Rethinking Orientalism," Research Institute of Comparative

Literature and Culture, Peking University, May 18, 1996.

"The Field of Cultural Production: An Introduction to Pierre Bourdieu's Social Philosophy,"

Peking University, May 20, 1996.

"What is 'National Allegory'?" East China Normal University, Shanghai, May 25, 1996.

1995 "A Memory of the 'Future': Experience of Soviet Culture in the Early Years of the

People's Republic," annual conference of the American Association of Advancement of Slavic

Studies, Washington, DC, October 21-23, 1995.

"The Rise and Fall of the "Fifth Generation Film," Asian Film Festival of the Triangle Area,

hosted by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, February 28, 1995.

1994 "Allegories of the Social Landscape: Reading Chen Kaige's King of the Children,"

"Image, Desire, Ideology in Chinese Cinema," organized by Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu, University

of Pittsburgh, September 23-25, 1994.

"Utopia, Ideology and the Aesthetic Modernity of the Chinese 1980s," "Idealism and Modern

China," organized by the Institute of Chinese Culture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong,

June 27 July 1, 1994.

"The Space of Temporality: Notes on the Representation of the Urban in the Context of Third

World Culture," "New Metropolis Forms," organized by Jonathan Beller and Neferti Tadiar,

Duke University, April 7, 1994.

1993 "The Relevance of Postcoloniality in the Chinese Cultural Discussion," Critical-

Theoretical Alternatives: a workshop (organized by Arif Dirlik and Maurice Meisner), University

of Wisconsin, Madison, April 23-25, 1993.

1992 "Reflections on the Chinese 'Cultural Discussion' in the Late 1980s," "Rethinking of

Chinese Literature and Critical Theory," organized by the American Association of Chinese

Comparative Literature), UCLA, March 20, 1992.

"Naturgeschichte, Subjectivity and Questions Concerning Narrative" "Benjamin for the Jetztzeit:

1892-1992," Duke University, February 21-23, 1992.

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